What's New Archive ● 1998 ● December
The following is an itemized list of new items available on the Secular Web.
- December 31, 1998
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Added the January web.scan column to mathew's popular web.scan section
As we continue the countdown to Armageddon, when the Antichrist emerges and we infidels finally get our deserved comeuppance (just as Nostradamus predicted), mathew reminds us to party like it's 1999! -
Added The January issue of ii, the monthly newsletter of the Internet Infidels
Our newsletter has a whole new look! This month's focus is on the reproductive rights of women as it relates to the ongoing pro-life and pro-choice debate.
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- December 30, 1998
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Added The International Society for Islamic Secularization [ Index ] (Off Site) to the Islam: Related Sites page
The International Society for Islamic Secularization (ISIS) was formed "to take the debate concerning Islam a step further and to move Islamic society and culture a little closer to the ideals of rationalism, secularism, democracy and human rights, with particular emphasis on the freedom of expression, the freedom of intellectual and scientific inquiry, the freedom of belief, freedom of thought, freedom of conscience and religion -- including the freedom to change one’s religion or belief, and the freedom from religion, the freedom not to believe in any deity. After the failure of Political Islam in Iran, Sudan, and Pakistan, and the massacres, slaughters, and continuous killings in Algeria, we believe that secularizing Islamic societies by complete separation of mosque and state is the only humanistic alternative. -
Added a Islam: Related Sites page
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- December 21, 1998
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Added New Jersey Atheist Fellowship to the Local Organizations
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Added Fellowship of Atheist Americans to the Student Organizations page
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- December 20, 1998
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Added Pascal's Wager (1998) [Â 46KÂ ] (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) to the Pascal's Wager page
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- December 19, 1998
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Could We Survive Our Own Deaths? (1998) [Â 26KÂ ] by Antony Flew
Flew argues that we do not survive our own deaths. -
Hume on Miracles, Frequencies, and Prior Probabilities (1998) [Â 47KÂ ] by Victor Reppert
"Both apologetics and anti-apologetics should be engaged in persuasion, not coercion, and the attempt to ground irrationality charges against one's opponents is a misguided enterprise."
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- December 17, 1998
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Added The Synoptic Problem and "Bias": A Rejoinder to Glenn Miller to the James Still author section of the Modern Library
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- December 15, 1998
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Added November Feedback to the 1998 Feedback Section
Your letters telling us to burn in hell, keep up the good fight (and everything in between) along with our irreverent off-the-cuff replies!
- December 6, 1998
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins is the January 1999 II Book of the Month
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Totally revamped the Richard Dawkins books page
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Totally revamped the Richard Dawkins author page
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- December 5, 1998
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Added Santa Barbara Humanist Society to the local organizations page
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Why I Don't Buy the Resurrection Story (1998) (Off Site) by Richard Carrier
Carrier outlines three decisive objections to the Resurrection story: 1) the event is not proportionate to the theory, 2) the evidence casts suspicion on the event being a true Resurrection, and 3) the New Testament casts suspicion on Jesus actually appearing after his death.
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- December 1, 1998
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Taking Darwin Seriously; A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy by Michael Ruse is the December 1998 II Book of the Month
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Added the December Issue of the Internet Infidels Newsletter
Special Christmas Issue! The Origins of Santa Claus. Focus on the healing power of prayer. What to do at Christmas? and much, much more . . . -
Added the December column for the Internet Infidels web.scan
mathew tells us how he became a Saint in the Church of Elvis and looks at Elvis worship in fact and fiction. Also, the Raelians are back to clone your pets, and they'll be returning later for your children. Plus cloning Jesus and dedicating your meal to Satan . . . -
Added the December column for the Happy Heretic
Judith Hayes argues, "In trying to imagine a world without religion, we have to imagine, for a start, a world that never engaged in any of the above mentioned religious wars and inquisitions. Think of it. All that killing and torture would never have happened."
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See "What's New?" for past months.