Atheist Christmas

Well - Christmas is over for another year. I got a digital SLR to replace the camera I lost in the river last summer, so when I work out how to get pictures onto the blog you should be seeing some illustrations here.
In the meantime, I was intrigued by this reference to the atheists "rational celebration of Christmas". Never heard of such a silly idea in my life! (Well I have, actually, and hope to bring these ideas to your attention in the future!)
http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/12/08/3mt-nine-lessons-and-eight-year-olds/

Stuff is really nothing

Interesting find of the week - according to New Scientist, physicists have now proved mathematically that material stuff (i.e. everything around us) is really no more than "fluctuations in the quantum vacuum". In other words, stuff is really nothing. So if scientists can take what everybody knows to be true and prove the complete opposite, how much easier should it be for them to "prove" the existence of God - something that the majority of the world's people believe to be true anyway? And if they did, would Professor Dawkins and his cronies then change their attitude? Hmmm ..... interesting concept. Professor Dawkins bases his atheism on the lack of scientific evidence for the existence of God. But if his fellow scientists provided a scientific proof (which, it appears, they are now quite capable of doing), would he then believe it?