- To the idea that “atheist” means we have certainty that there is no god, I say that to the general concept of a god, I’m agnostic, but regarding your god (ie one that you know about through claimed revelation), I’m an atheist.

- To the idea that believing evolution led to where we are must make us somehow either accept social Darwinism, or have to wriggle out of it, here’s an analogy. Do you accept that people need food to survive, and that if they have enough to eat, their bodies can keep working, and produce the energy to keep organs going, keep the brain running, etc? If so, do you accept that if somebody does not have enough food for long enough, they will either get very ill, or will die? If someone accepts that, what is their necessary political position when it comes to foreign aid for starving people? (In other words, of course the two things have nothing to do with each other, except for an understanding that hunger is something that needs to be fought.)

Keep up the great podcasts!

Jane Bixler

Here’s an example of them rapping the knuckles of a station that stopped broadcasting (for several weeks in this case):

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/radio-ops/breaches/Westside_FM_breach_finding.pdf

Dogs are better than cats…

And I think there were a few of us who realized the early April episode was all BS by the end but let it go as we all know you are a little odd anyway; for me it was when you didn’t challenge the listeners to figure out what stores were lies and which were true, so I guessed the thole thing must be false. I am so trusting generally that I don’t believe anything said in the first week of April just to be sure.