http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-1861 gee bobg » Blog Archive » August 5th, 1977 Fri, 25 May 2007 19:14:19 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-1861 [...] praise with skepticism. I knew David was also heavy into “hard SF,” to which I, a confirmed Trekkie, had not yet graduated. He had never been able to interest me in his sci-fi novelettes or his [...] [...] praise with skepticism. I knew David was also heavy into “hard SF,” to which I, a confirmed Trekkie, had not yet graduated. He had never been able to interest me in his sci-fi novelettes or his [...]

]]> http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-169 gee bobg » Blog Archive » Atheism, the final frontier Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:35:07 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-169 [...] As a champion of romantic rationality and a lifelong Star Trek fan I am encouraged by the selection of Dawkins as BBC’s Person of the Year. Atheism has always been the belief-that-dares-not-speak-its-name. Even at the height of the Age of Reason, Thomas Jefferson, whom we might recognize as an atheist, called himself a Deist. But this news about Dawkins, and other harbingers (here, here, and here), suggest that atheism is coming out of the closet in a big way, which can only happen in an environment favorable to rationality. Can it be that the recent wave of anti-intellectualism in the Western world finally crested, crashed on the jagged rocks of the reality-based community, and is now receding? [...] [...] As a champion of romantic rationality and a lifelong Star Trek fan I am encouraged by the selection of Dawkins as BBC’s Person of the Year. Atheism has always been the belief-that-dares-not-speak-its-name. Even at the height of the Age of Reason, Thomas Jefferson, whom we might recognize as an atheist, called himself a Deist. But this news about Dawkins, and other harbingers (here, here, and here), suggest that atheism is coming out of the closet in a big way, which can only happen in an environment favorable to rationality. Can it be that the recent wave of anti-intellectualism in the Western world finally crested, crashed on the jagged rocks of the reality-based community, and is now receding? [...]

]]> http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-29 dkuznick Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:52:05 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/09/08/happy-birthday-star-trek/#comment-29 I should find that cassette tape of one of our Star Trek meetings and podcast it! I should find that cassette tape of one of our Star Trek meetings and podcast it!

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