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Oy! I’m on the Radio in Israel, hopefully getting the Atheists there to speak up a bit louder. Listen on-line at www.IsraelNationalRadio.com at 10:30 am tomorrow (Tuesday).

I was reading The God Delusion today (finally) and I came on a passage which, well, disappointed me. Dr. Dawkins wrote:”…reason alone could not propel one to a total conviction that soemthing definitely does not exist. (snip) I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about faries at the bottom of the garden”Dawkins is not a man of cowardice, so I assume his argument is not based on pussyfooting around the issue, rather is the result of the logical genius for which he is famous. However, I disagree with his statement.Somewhere, we have to define zero. Most of my readers are familiar with the Matrix, where the entire universe as we know it was an illusion that was implanted in our brains by extraterrestrials. Good (though not too original) fiction – but nobody can PROVE with 100% certainty that it’s not true. This goes for everything in the universe.How can we say that ANYTHING is definite? If we are to assert that ANYTHING in our lives is 100% true, then by Dr. Dawkins’ standards, we are wrong.I can’t live like that, and I can’t abide by that logic. Some things MUST be given a 100% probability, beyond the fiction on the movie screen or behind the pulpit. We are alive. Life is not a dream. Matter and energy exist — gods do not.Is this a “personal zero” or an absolute? Am I rounding for comfort (or ego, or any other reason), or is Dr. Dawkins employing philosophical methodology for a scientific argument?

Kansas Repeals Anti-Evolution GuidelinesBy JOHN HANNAAPTOPEKA, Kan. (Feb. 13) – The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule. The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of “intelligent design,” who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.

Now, the Kids of Kansas will not have a disadvantage when they apply to college. They will actually know what everyone else knows — that the idea of a “designer” is scientifically ludicrous.

RIPON, Calif. (Feb. 12) – For nearly a decade, members of Ripon’s First Congregational Church bared their souls to Pastor Randall Radic. But clearly it didn’t work both ways. There were certain things he wasn’t telling them.That became obvious a year ago, when Radic pleaded guilty to betraying his flock and secretly selling the church and its rectory out from under them. He used the money to buy himself a brand-new black BMW and a laptop – exploits he later chronicled in a cheeky, almost gleeful blog about his double life as a sinner. “We didn’t know anything until we got a call from the bank that he had bought a BMW,” said David Prater, who led the church board during Radic’s tenure. “He drove that car right down Main Street.”

Once again, I make my case that most preachers are actually mean-spirited Atheists trying to take money from a flock of gullible fools. There is no way a person who feared Hell would sell a church and keep the money.Yes, there are bad Christians, and there are bad Atheists. Bad Christians will lie and cheat to push their hateful mythology. Bad Atheists, well, it’s a pretty good scam to claim to be a preacher just to steal money.