1. Is Prince Philip an island god?

Comment #49228 by kieron on June 11, 2007 at 4:28 am

I find this really rather sad.

May be there is no harm in letting these people believe in Prince Philip, but they should be told... he really doesn't exist.

Ahem. I think Prince Philip should at least make an attempt to tell these people of his (ever so obvious, even being a human) non-deity status. It can only come from him. Maybe he has, but I can't imagine sending them photographs, etc., helps.

I think Prince Philip has (as always) been rather irresponsible in letting the lie go on as long as it has. He should have cut it off as soon as he heard about it. I believe that to be the most responsible thing to do.

Of course, there is the question, if these are fundermental beliefs, which do no harm (I guess?), could it be harmful to these people to try to make them understand? Would they need something else in its place?

What a horrible man to choose as your deity... Hey, I see a pattern emerging!

2. Ministers bow to hybrid pressure

Comment #45689 by kieron on May 29, 2007 at 1:35 am

This is fantastic news. If you are feeling any fear about this, please read up on the subject. I'd like to say somethig simple about it, but I am not sure it will come off in the way that justifies the importance of this research.

Think of this though, if an animal is shown never to get Alzheimer's, and we can identify the, perhaps one gene responsible for preventing it, we can use this to help find out how that develops, which will help in turn to discover what causes Alzheimer's, and then hopefully prevent it with conventional medicine.

A lot of hopefully's and but's I know. Without being able to do this research we will never know.

3. Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter

Comment #37736 by kieron on May 5, 2007 at 2:53 pm

devolved: Nice try. Richard Dawkins addresses exactly that in his Devil's Chaplain book.

4. Militant atheists: too clever for their own good

Comment #30102 by kieron on April 7, 2007 at 1:09 am

You can download the audio of the event here:
http://www.intelligencesquared.com/event_past.php?d=20070327
(Podcast link)