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Creationist smackdown the final draft

Below is the completed letter that I sent to the Advocate.  After much agonising on what to cut out and what to leave in I settled on something that I hope is not too dry or wordy.

I write in response to Name withheld (NW) and Amee Glass (AG) the Advocate Jan. [...]

"Neo-atheists"

I have begun to hear this term thrown around in discussions chiefly from apologists that seem to want to use it pejoratively.

Let’s break it down.

Neo= New

Atheists= those that do not accept the existence of divine beings.

Chiefly this moniker is aimed at the Four Horsemen -Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchen’s and Harris but there are others.

So [...]

The Honey Trap

Could be the title of a bond-esque spy thriller or perhaps another Austin Powers movie.  A honey trap is a

trap using good-looking person as bait: a situation in which somebody is led to reveal information or do something wrong by a good-looking person, usually a young woman, selected for this purpose [source]

Normally the fare  [...]

The Honey Trap

Could be the title of a bond-esque spy thriller or perhaps another Austin Powers movie.  A honey trap is a

trap using good-looking person as bait: a situation in which somebody is led to reveal information or do something wrong by a good-looking person, usually a young woman, selected for this purpose [source]

Normally the fare  [...]

Mercy playing the Wikipedia game

I  have been reading The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen.  Mr Keen’s not a big fan of the Web 2.0 environment, bloggers, the blurring of the line between audience and author,  he  posits that it has dire economic and cultural consequences.

He’s understandably not a fan of wikipedia and the way in which it [...]