1. The US map of faith

Comment #56452 by ZeusInventedTeapots on July 15, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Just to stick up for FL a little, it's split nearly down the middle as far as the religious crazies and thinkers go. The only reason it went red was the Gov and (in my opinion) some crooked counting at the polls.

2. Richard Dawkins: Atheist

Comment #53985 by ZeusInventedTeapots on July 4, 2007 at 4:17 pm

Jesus H,

As usual a post like yours doesn't actually say anything productive (or at all). It's the usual impulsive reaction of someone who is on one "side" and is therefore against the "other side".

I love the fact that the religious are constantly proclaming science arrogant. In fact the most arrogant statement you can make is simply that you know the truth with no evidence and are right because you imagine it to be so. Science is at its heart open minded and willing to change. That sounds like the opposite of arrogance to me.

3. Inferior Design: Richard Dawkins reviews Behe's lastest book

Comment #53979 by ZeusInventedTeapots on July 4, 2007 at 3:20 pm

Thanks to "the great teapot" with his reply to the calls for an answer to the morality issue. I was about to spend a lot of time saying precisely the same thing.

Everyone out there, please stop fixating on oftentimes a single question that has no real meaning. I have heard this over and over again in conversations on this matter and the end is usually reached when a meaningless question is asked in a deep way and the questioner sagely shakes his or her head with a smile and has once again convinced themselves of their position (many times desperately)reguardless of what is said and often factually proven to the contrary. I find that fixation on a single fact or sometimes just an implication of a possible fact or facts (ie there are holes!) is the only way to really keep oneself convinced of their side and is really a symptom of competition and not an ernest attempt to reach a logical conclusion to the matter.