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		<title>Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last issue of The Record (22nd October 2008) there were two rebuttals to my article &#8220;Religion the World&#8217;s Biggest Argument&#8221; (29th of October 2008) while I was happy to see that my article provoked a response I was disappointed with the quality of the argument.
First, I am going to deal with Matthew Berkeley&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=72&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/response/</link>
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		<title>Is it Time to Teach Creation in Schools?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got to thinking about the argument for teaching creationism in schools and how perhaps it might be useful. First, I should make clear that I am completely convinced that there is no scientific merit in creation &#8217;science&#8217; or so called intelligent design and consequently there is no room for it to be thought as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=69&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/is-it-time-to-teach-creation-in-schools/</link>
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		<title>I Wish There Was an Afterlife So Theists Would Know They&#8217;re Wrong.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about how some people are so convinced that there is a god that the are unwilling to even entertain the idea that there probably isn&#8217;t a god. For them there is no question in their mind. You are unable to reason with them; you can try to talk to them and explain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=66&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/i-wish-there-was-an-afterlife-so-theists-would-know-theyre-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Funniest Bible Verse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The stupidest verse of the bible is a hard competition to win considering all the very capable contenders but, I think I may have a winner. In the book of numbers the author says &#8220;Now Moses was very humble—more humble than any other person on earth.&#8221; Numbers 12:3. Fine, this Moses chap may have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=63&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/funniest-bible-verse/</link>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor of Irish Times re Civil Partnership Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my letter is response to a letter to the Editor of the Irish Times about the Civil Partnership Bill. First, the letter I am responding to.
Madam, &#8211; Leo O&#8217;Shaughnessy (July 4th) appears to take grave offence at the suggestion that the Government&#8217;s proposed legislation for same-sex unions could undermine marriage. He argues that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=62&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/letter-to-the-editor-of-irish-times-re-civil-partnership-bill/</link>
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		<title>&quot;There Are No Gays in Iran&quot;: But, Ireland&#8217;s Sending One Back!</title>
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It was reported in the Irish press that Ireland plan to deport an Iranian national back to Iran despite his life being in danger because he is gay. It is reported that &#8220;the deputy Iranian Foreign Minister said [in the Irish Parliament] last week that they will &#8216;not do it from a crane on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=60&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/there-are-gays-in-iran-but-irelands-sending-one-back/</link>
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		<title>Waterboarding: &quot;Believe Me, It&#8217;s Torture&quot;</title>
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That was a video of Christopher Hitchens being tortured. Last year in an article in Slate magazine where he said in effect that waterboarding was not torture. Following on from this he was asked to undergo waterboarding to experience it and to then make a judgement about whether or not it is torture.
You may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=55&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/water-boarding-believe-me-its-torture/</link>
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		<title>god doesn&#8217;t give us morals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ How do we know what is moral and what is not? It is the view of religious advocates that religion defines morality and virtue. They say that without religion society would breakdown and immorality would become systemic. But if religion contains so much stuff that we regard as immoral—how can it define our morality? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=52&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/god-doesnt-give-us-morals/</link>
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		<title>Pascal&#8217;s Wager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Share:&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160; 

 The mathematician, Blaise Pascal, had a theory on belief in god—he supposed that one was far better to wager on god’s existence than not. His theory is not a wager as to if god exists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=49&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/pascals-wager/</link>
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		<title>Flying Teapot v. God: The Negative Proof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Share:&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160;   &#124;&#160; 
The worst argument that‘a believer in god can use is the negative proof i.e. when she says &#8220;can you prove god doesn’t exist?”- the answer to this is that the onus is on the one asserting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com&blog=2558362&post=46&subd=thisiswhatiwoulddo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thisiswhatiwoulddo.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/flying-teapot-v-god-the-negative-proof/</link>
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