Skepticus
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Good news everyone! I've discovered how to make you read my words with the voice of Professor Farnsworth.
No but seriously, I really do have good news if you live in Australia, there is an atheist convention set for march 2010. You are still reading me in the Farnsworth voice aren't you? We'll soon see about that.
"The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realize that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand."
Those of course, are the words of the inspirational Professor Richard Dawkins, former occupant of the Charles Simonyi Chair, for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, and author of many popular science titles from 'The Selfish Gene' to The God Delusion' . He is the worlds most popular and public atheist, as well as the top billing speaker touted to appear at the three day convention 'The Rise Of Atheism', along with Philip Adams, Cathrine Devney, Peter Singer and PZ Myers.
For more info see The Atheist Convention