1. Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

Comment #193884 by Alkal on June 16, 2008 at 7:33 am

I will watch this film, if only for this... But I am sure it will be a disappointment like the DVC... yet just because it is being banned i will watch it

2. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #189050 by Alkal on June 5, 2008 at 9:33 am

yes, lets also have the strengths( none) and weaknesses( not healing amputees, prayer not working, genocide, discrimnation, women being inferior, slavery, 6 days too short etc etc etc etc etc) of the ID/creationist point of view..

Evolution, you know it happens. not teaching it is not going to make it any less true. I am so hopping mad right now.


I will send my kids when I have em to public school and give em The Selfish Gene to read- no better way to show em what kind of bull crap( excuse the strong language)a perverted belief in a Bronze Age bigot leads you to. Actually it is something that they need a lesson in early enough...

Not believe in evolution Hah....

I mean what is the other side"Goddit" that doe s not have "gaps".....


Let us begin an underground "Teach Science" ... it has been done in oppressed nations before...

3. A Tribute to Douglas Adams: Towel Day May 25th

Comment #184378 by Alkal on May 24, 2008 at 10:38 pm

...and I just bought a new towel... super! Will also read the Trilogy.(out loud to my poor husband)
I am so carrying it today- its just turned May 25th here.

4. Five Things Humans No Longer Need

Comment #184007 by Alkal on May 23, 2008 at 11:48 am

Hurray I am evolved.. no wisdom teeth here- the rest cost buckets in root canals and fillings though :(

The "hillocks of Hiss" sound so cool though, don't they?

5. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #180054 by Alkal on May 14, 2008 at 6:36 am

Now I am terribly confused... if Evolution is ok, then why the whole ID crap?
Or is what the Vatican believes divergently different from the Protestants? I mean its the same invisible guy in the sky isn't it?

6. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #179732 by Alkal on May 13, 2008 at 3:28 pm

How many more weeks till they say "Evolution is ok"?????
It happened
:D

7. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179468 by Alkal on May 13, 2008 at 9:48 am

for some reason I kept reading the headline as "Americans pray at dump"

8. British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus

Comment #178422 by Alkal on May 11, 2008 at 11:44 am

In India I never got to eat any beef. Was in one of the northern states. I started eating it here in the US and now wild horses cannot drive me away from it.

One of my friends said "How can you eat beef, the cow is like our mother" I replied with a "Maybe like yours, mine is very human".

9. An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee

Comment #176527 by Alkal on May 7, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Its an amazing read

he is so absolutely right about how it is with the compliance of everyone in it that this kind of nonsense is what goes on.

10. Mental Disorders In Parents Linked To Autism In Children, Study Shows

Comment #175949 by Alkal on May 6, 2008 at 9:14 am

Well it could be mental disorders, like religion, in parents linked to atheism in children.......

11. The detail in the Devil

Comment #175947 by Alkal on May 6, 2008 at 9:11 am

Now will demon-busting be taught in psychiatry courses, you know to teach the controversy?

12. Truly Bizarre : Indians Throw Babies 50ft From Roof To Thank God.

Comment #175058 by Alkal on May 4, 2008 at 9:54 am

Lets nto forget, this is the same country where they have a"rat temple"
http://www.karnimata.com/

Actually if any "harm" came, it would be quietly hushed up.
The government is never going to say anything it forever tries to pander to religious feelings.
And in case the "its their culture" argument comes up, let me mention I am from India and I find all this batshit crazy

13. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #172156 by Alkal on April 29, 2008 at 9:21 am

As far as I know, all the communist struggles were class struggles. They were anti-religion because the religious had amassed vast wealth by duping the ordinary folk. It was oppressed against the elite. Of course Stalin and Mao later made huge personality cults of their own- not unlike religions. Had people been atheist pre-the class struggle maybe the inequity would not have existed as much as it did,and the killing avoided.

14. Science leads to killing people

Comment #171006 by Alkal on April 28, 2008 at 8:24 am

He is so irritating to hear... rasping voice, know it all attitude.
I AM not watching it
The you tube video can no longer be accessed.

15. Interviews with Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer

Comment #164399 by Alkal on April 20, 2008 at 7:54 am

And "Big Audience" gives Expelled a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes... will it be "Big Tomatoes"????

16. Evolution fray attracts top scientist

Comment #162230 by Alkal on April 16, 2008 at 12:08 pm

"You may not like it, but it is not my fault"... is the best thing I have ever heard.. I am so going to use it.

17. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #160854 by Alkal on April 14, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Human Rights are universal regardless of culture.
Oppressing women, children and minorities in the name of Culture and tradition is always carried out. The evil of "tolerating other cultures" keeps the canker alive. What is this about "judging" another culture, is it agreeing that "they" are different, somehow less human. That attitude far from being assimilationist is more than divisive.
This is a travesty a shame...
If selling a 13 year old is "culture" to hell with that culture( and before anyone says anything let me tell you I am from India- I married on my own, do not believe in any bs about preserving tradition....)

18. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160533 by Alkal on April 14, 2008 at 7:27 am

Doesn't the "Secular Army" sound suspiciously like "Dumbledore's Army"?

19. The books that inspire me

Comment #157841 by Alkal on April 9, 2008 at 3:40 pm

I share the Love for Wodehouse with RD...
Also Douglas Adams

20. The Atheist Next Door

Comment #156910 by Alkal on April 8, 2008 at 11:40 am

Whom do you trust...?

Myself, who is far more real than an invisible sky fairy...

21. Dawkins warns of human extinction

Comment #155295 by Alkal on April 4, 2008 at 10:01 am

Dr Dawkins the devil's speaker.... that is a seriously cool title...
more so if the devil is like ROwan Atkinson( remeer the you tube video)

22. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154769 by Alkal on April 3, 2008 at 5:24 pm

So it proves he is a failure at everything...
*drumroll*

23. Supreme Court to consider Ten Commandments vs. 'Seven Aphorisms'

Comment #153415 by Alkal on April 1, 2008 at 1:02 pm

If I were to form a religion that includes only myself would I b allowed an engraving of "Allytude is great" on the stone monument there, that is the "commandment" of my faith...

24. Expelled Overview

Comment #150624 by Alkal on March 27, 2008 at 7:31 am

Are they going to teach the "controversy" that Earth is in fact standing on a giant invisible tortoise which is on a giant tortoise which is on a tortoise.. and it is tortoises all the way down.. I mean given a sufficient amount of creativity that can be a very good explanation for why the earth does not fall off... Tortoise balance and Gravity, big science and the conspiracy to teach gravity in public school.... then we could have the conspiracy to brush your teeth in the morning...( Big toothpaste vs the benevolent stinky mouth germs or some thing...) and there could be other consipracies too..

Please may I swear loudly and vileley.

25. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150339 by Alkal on March 26, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Happy Birthday Prof... I just bought a copy of your book for my Professor

26. EXPELLED!

Comment #147803 by Alkal on March 21, 2008 at 9:43 am

There has to be a limit to irony. Did they know
or was RD in disguise?

27. Jesus saves

Comment #146513 by Alkal on March 19, 2008 at 6:48 am

.... and I thought it was a promo for MS word.. "Jesus Saves, so his work is always current"

28. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146100 by Alkal on March 18, 2008 at 3:51 pm

..which explains why the more religious are such kill joys, do not eat this, do not watch that..they are afraid of being too happy.

29. Oklahoma: One Step from Doom

Comment #141286 by Alkal on March 10, 2008 at 8:34 am

Considering that it is the same state where representatives make remarks like
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4711

I am not surprised...

30. The Passion of 'Anonymous'

Comment #128178 by Alkal on February 16, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Considering the nonsense Scientology spouts and the other nonsense other religious spout, I wonder how anyone can believe ANY of that crap...
:D
you know all religious stories are total hogwash.

31. The New Atheist Movement

Comment #123217 by Alkal on February 6, 2008 at 4:07 pm

Dan Brown= Richard Dawkins,, aah the intelligent well-informed theists...

and Faith is getting unravelled..
"young people learn it in college, it is badd" they are sooo scared aren't they?

32. Loneliness Breeds Belief in Supernatural

Comment #116314 by Alkal on January 26, 2008 at 8:35 am

Probably that is why I never became a religious nut-case... I was an only kid, with a very strong reading habit- which has pretty much kept me through long periods of being forced to be alone- when I was doing my masters and alter on when I was working .... Yes the reading kept me away from groups to join and stuff like that.. and I never was "lonely" only alone... never saw the need to conform..

Now for I believe in dog, yup I need a dog to believe in, also a cat.

33. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115977 by Alkal on January 25, 2008 at 7:22 am

Well, Hell does seem to have a working Internet connection. OS it cannot be all that bad. When we toast on that lake of fire( I do not want to hear that crap again) we can all log into this website and get the news...
For this site and the science news, not too bad a sacrifice those flames. And hell is certainly better connected than heaven is- no emails from there- Hell for me anytime.

34. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial

Comment #115588 by Alkal on January 24, 2008 at 11:21 am

btw what on earth is a fag-enabler?? And why are the WBC folk so concerned. Cant they chant their hymns and not watch brokeback?( they miss out on a lovely film, but then they dont deserve it) Why do they have SO much time. What "honest" work do they do?

35. Pacific Islanders' Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study

Comment #113740 by Alkal on January 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm

but isn't the world 6000 years old, in which case.... blessed by the FSM who has falsified the genetic record!

"Real Science" like this is why I haunt this site.

36. Mandrake: Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'

Comment #113739 by Alkal on January 20, 2008 at 12:22 pm

"Comment #113662 by Animavore on January 20, 2008 at 10:03 am
avatar: Worship technology? I've never heard of someone going to war over an i-pod. "

you obviously have NOT seen how MAC vs PC users react in a discussion....

37. Honour Killings

Comment #113729 by Alkal on January 20, 2008 at 12:07 pm

this is a joke, right?

I mean, they are basically saying "give us the right to abuse our women in our schools, you will not hear a peep from them"

Cannot people be imprisoned for such de-humanizing views... freedom of speech notwithstanding, and if they cannot then in the interests of freedom of speech apostates and heretics and those horrible "atheists" need to be heard as well. Well this kind of talk is hatem-ongering is it not?

38. The New Theology

Comment #113328 by Alkal on January 19, 2008 at 9:47 am

Must say it is creative, you know just invent God...
:D

39. Gigantic fossil rodent discovered

Comment #112657 by Alkal on January 17, 2008 at 5:02 pm

A mouse that size....
how big was the cat???


Wow

40. Huckabee Wants A 'Faith-based' Constitution

Comment #112495 by Alkal on January 17, 2008 at 10:43 am

Why is he standing for President then? WOuld "God's rule" not invole divine right or some such thing?

41. It was a bad year for God.

Comment #109562 by Alkal on January 9, 2008 at 7:21 am

I don't mind worshiping Dawkins. he has an Oxford Degree and a wonderful sense of humor, writes well and speaks wonderfully.

God... naaah

Anyhows I would say it was a good year for god... atleast people payed attention to him( :D)

42. Priest who committed suicide for rebirth cremated

Comment #103434 by Alkal on December 25, 2007 at 3:42 pm

ohh and Hindustan refers to the land beyond the Indus....

A penis God no, but Siva is worshipped in the form of a phallus... and Shakti as the female version, the "yoni"

And Atheism or "Carvaka" is a consistent school of Hindu philosophy.....

More to the confusing melange :D

But seriously more priests should follow suit... more so because a good life results in freedom from the cycle of rebirth( another Hindu belief) so I guess the priest was not so well-read either....

43. 2 fleas for the Christmas week

Comment #103432 by Alkal on December 25, 2007 at 3:34 pm

The only convincing rebuttal to The "atheist books" would be one written by Gawd Almighty him/herself....

THat would be a rebuttal..

44. God rest you merry atheist

Comment #100115 by Alkal on December 18, 2007 at 9:00 am

Well, about carpols, they sound fun, whee does religion come into them? I listen to them all the time, along with Handel and the Nutcracker, they make me happy...
and I was nto evern raised in this tradition...

I also practice cultural Hinduim, I was married the Hindu way... a civil ceremony was soooo drab... and I am a ranting Atheist...
why do these religious nuts have a problem..?

45. Jumbo shrimp, creationist astronomy

Comment #98799 by Alkal on December 14, 2007 at 11:13 am

...Where do they get such nonsense from?

And where on earth ( universe) is it not known that elements can change because of nuclear reactions( I would think....) but anyhow, why need people waste so much time over such crap..
and who is the "great scientist"?

46. Voyager 2 probe reaches solar system boundary

Comment #98246 by Alkal on December 13, 2007 at 10:50 am

Thank you gcdavis.. I like your avatar.

I also feel terribly proud to be human when see space craft crossing the final frontiers.... Gives me something to live for :D

47. Voyager 2 probe reaches solar system boundary

Comment #98171 by Alkal on December 13, 2007 at 7:20 am

I wrote a poem ..
on my blog
http://virtualityforreal.blogspot.com

48. Is Infant Male Circumcision An Abuse Of The Rights Of The Child?

Comment #96220 by Alkal on December 10, 2007 at 7:23 am

Did Moses ask:"The Arabs will get the oil and we will chop of the end of our WHAAAAT?"

49. Secret Swami - About Sai Baba

Comment #96022 by Alkal on December 9, 2007 at 7:02 pm

Oh the Sai Baba is a pathetic person... accompanied by Sri Sri Ravishakar, Srimataji Nirmala Devi, Maharishi Mahesh yogi et al et al.. not to count the 3.3 million gods and goddesses in the Indian pantheon...

What is pathetic is the way people, ratonal, normal people get swayed by this nonsense....

50. Fear of censure deflects The Golden Compas

Comment #93762 by Alkal on December 4, 2007 at 6:56 am

Maybe the negative publicity will just make people watch the film, then read the books...like with the da Vinci, the book was good, but the film....