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		<title>The Futility of Appeasement</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/the-futility-of-appeasement.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Atheism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick! Somebody call the accommodationists!

Several men who went to a suburban mosque to perform morning prayers Wednesday were shocked to discover two bloodied wild boar heads wrapped in plastic bags in the mosque compound, said Zulkifli Mohamad, the top official at the Sri Sentosa Mosque on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city.

This unpleasant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Secularism?</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/what-is-secularism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/what-is-secularism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, I want to write about some words important to the atheist movement that are frequently misused and abused by religious apologists. The first of these words is secularism.
In the rhetoric of spokespeople for the religious right, secularism is often assumed to be the desire to ban all forms of religious expression from public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Sunday: Pharaoh Lake Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/photo-sunday-xiii.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/photo-sunday-xiii.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week's guest contributor says:
"This is why it pays to rise with the sun. Very few people are blessed with the experience of a wilderness sunrise such as this gem. After a morning like this, the world cannot help but seem a miraculous place."



Sunrise, Pharaoh Lake, Adirondack State Park. Photo credit: Jim Sabiston, Essential Light [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Movie Review: Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/creation.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/creation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Loft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


Last night I had a chance to see Creation, the independent film by British director Jon Amiel that presents an account of the life of Charles Darwin and his struggle to write his great work, On the Origin of Species, while mourning the death of his beloved daughter Annie. The movie is based on Annie's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for a Creator: The Poker Player&#039;s Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/cfac-the-poker-players-fallacy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/cfac-the-poker-players-fallacy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Case for a Creator, Chapter 8
In my review of Darwin's Black Box, I listed three ways that an irreducibly complex system can evolve:

The first can be summed up as scaffolding: extra parts which support a partially functional system until it is completely assembled, at which point the extra parts become unnecessary and are pruned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book Review: The Quantum Mechanic</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/the-quantum-mechanic.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/the-quantum-mechanic.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary: A compelling atheist thought experiment, wrapped inside a cleverly plotted and fast-paced tale of transhumanist fiction.
This isn't the first time I've reviewed a book written by a fellow blogger, but it's always a pleasure for me to do, and this one was particularly pleasurable to read. The Quantum Mechanic is a novel written by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Which I Am Not Filled With Optimism</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/in-which-i-am-not-filled-with-optimism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/in-which-i-am-not-filled-with-optimism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Site Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Atheism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Ophelia Benson, this unwelcome news: the Center for Inquiry's podcast Point of Inquiry, which I listened to regularly until now, is seeing a change in hosts. D.J. Grothe, who formerly conducted the interviews, is leaving to serve as the president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He'll be replaced by a rotating series of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Strange and Curious Sects: Chabad Messianism</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/strange-and-curious-sects-viii.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/02/strange-and-curious-sects-viii.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sects and Cults]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You get all kinds of weird and amusing religious literature on the New York subways, and here's the latest proof:





Click to enlarge. Also see interior and back cover.


If you've attended a college with a significant Jewish population, you're probably familiar with Chabad House, an organization that runs community centers and programs for observant Jews. What [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>From the Mailbag: Atheists in the Closet</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/from-the-mailbag-3.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/from-the-mailbag-3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Correspondence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much effort as we freethinkers put into making atheism a viable and socially accepted option, it's important to remember that it's still a difficult feat to extricate oneself from religion when one's family and social life are bound up with church attendance. Consider this e-mail I received a few days ago, whose author's personal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>For Your Reading Pleasure</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/for-your-reading-pleasure.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/for-your-reading-pleasure.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foyer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


The 49th edition of the Humanist Symposium has been posted at The Purloined Letter, with a distinctly Edgar Allan Poe theme. As for what the master of the macabre has to do with positive atheism and humanism, you'll just have to go check it out and let the carnival host explain...
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		<title>Weekly Link Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/weekly-link-roundup-6.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/weekly-link-roundup-6.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Foyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secularism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm happy to report that there's quite a lot of good news this week:
&#8226; The U.K. government recommends that primary school religious education classes should teach about "secular beliefs such as humanism and atheism", in addition to learning about major world religions like Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. This is just one more symptom of how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Case for a Creator: Complexity Is Scary!</title>
		<link>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/cfac-complexity-is-scary.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.daylightatheism.org/2010/01/cfac-complexity-is-scary.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebonmuse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=1510</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Case for a Creator, Chapter 8
In the previous installment, I discussed how creationists steer well clear of doing any real science. We can see another example of this in, ironically, the way Strobel falls all over himself lauding Michael Behe as a Real Scientist:

He has authored forty articles for such scientific journals as DNA [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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