1. Research Volunteers Needed

Comment #176009 by kintaro_crab on May 6, 2008 at 10:48 am

All four surveys filled out, hope the experiment goes well, best of luck.

2. Regulating Evolution: How Gene Switches Make Life

Comment #175981 by kintaro_crab on May 6, 2008 at 10:10 am

@ #2, yes I too do not understand why there is such a wide range in definitions of what a gene is. It makes total sense to me to include the regulation factors as a part of a gene. Not to mention why does their definition of a gene not include non-coding regions of the DNA?

Perhaps someone knows a good answer to these questions. Is it just out of convenience?

Would love to know.

3. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #164985 by kintaro_crab on April 20, 2008 at 11:00 pm

I have a feeling the backlash from this movie is going to hit me in the upcoming weeks. Well, I suggest to everyone here to read up on the false accounts of the so-called scientists 'persecuted' for their IDiot beliefs at http://expelledexposed.com/ so as to be better prepared when the general duped public begins spewing this shit out at you.

4. A Conversation with Expelled's Associate Producer Mark Mathis

Comment #164876 by kintaro_crab on April 20, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Wow, how revealing. This has to be the best interview I have heard dealing with expelled. I think the editors at Scientific American really put Mathis to the task. What a sleazy lying scumbag.

I especially liked them calling him out on that age old creationist saying, "I am not a scientist but..." then present false facts to back up their false conclusions.

5. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #162876 by kintaro_crab on April 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Prof. Dawkins, Sex Maniac eh, love the cool shades.

hahaha, this was great.

6. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #162409 by kintaro_crab on April 16, 2008 at 10:17 pm

That program was hard to watch, the outright ignorance and stupidity of the crowd was truly disturbing. Does the devil exist? Come on, this is the 21st century not the dark ages.

ASMarques, holocaust denial? Let me exercise my freedom of speech and say, you sir are one stupid fucker.

7. Victims: Pope Benedict Protects Accused Pedophile Bishops

Comment #161522 by kintaro_crab on April 15, 2008 at 11:16 am

According to the group, of the 19 bishops "credibly accused of abusing children," none has lost his title, been publicly censured by the Vatican or referred for criminal prosecutions.

History repeats itself, this time I guess being a sexual predator is better in the eyes of the catholic church then marrying a divorced protestant.

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

Comment #161150 by kintaro_crab on April 15, 2008 at 12:37 am

I found it interesting that the author stated that as a child he had a 'passionate interest in the church'.

Years back, as a child I was forced to attend Sunday morning and night services, I can only remember excruciating boredom, hunger "food wasn't allowed inside", and the glaring eyes of disapproving church members, who would talk behind my back while I would draw pictures all over the sermon program I was given.

Now as an adult I have an unquenchable anger at my wasted Sundays, sitting in a church where hate and bigotry was taught every week, and is still being spewed forth from that same pulpit. I cringe when my father tells me that he wishes that Huckabee had been the Republican candidate.

9. Science Debate 2008

Comment #161143 by kintaro_crab on April 14, 2008 at 11:30 pm

I support the science debate.

We've heard the statements many times over the past few years: In less than five years something like 90% of all scientists and engineers will reside in Asia, American workers will not be able to compete with the best in a global economy, and the United States has begun to implode.

^_^Fixed Thankyou

But I don't agree with this statement made above^. I agree with Neil deGrasse Tyson when he said that Asia has a larger amount of science graduates but that doesn't make them good scientists. Not to mention, Asian countries don't allow for as much study abroad or foreign researchers as most western countries do. China, Japan, Korea, India, they still have relatively closed boarders to foreign scientists. For the most part foreign scientists still go to western countries not the opposite.

This may sound racist, but I have also personally witnessed the worst unethical behavior coming out of scientists from China and Korea. Blatant disregard for properly disposing of harmful reagents to 'save time'. Performing research for Dupont, cigarette companies, various others. A Chinese researcher at my own school is being charged for taking advantage of women from China, first giving them jobs then taking advantage of them under threat of deportation. And I probably don't have to even explain Han and Warda's Mitochondria Review.

BTW: Not that it should matter, but this view point is coming from an Asian.

10. Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement

Comment #157989 by kintaro_crab on April 9, 2008 at 11:58 pm

Just deserts anyone?

11. I always aim to misbehave

Comment #151810 by kintaro_crab on March 29, 2008 at 12:53 pm

hahahaha, PZ Myers strikes again.

12. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150035 by kintaro_crab on March 26, 2008 at 12:09 pm

Happy birthday prof. Dawkins,

Some men get sexier as they get older, you're one of them. 'wink'

13. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #148090 by kintaro_crab on March 22, 2008 at 2:49 am

Oh my, I can just imagine the hypocrisy that would probably ensue if Harvard were to decide to sue the creators of Expelled.

"Headline: Big Science Tries to Sue Creators of Expelled!

Ben Stein staring in 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed', while questioned on the matter was quoted as saying "Those big meanies, they won't let us use their film illegally. Waa! Waa! We thought we had changed it enough from the original, by dubbing over all the audio with creationist propaganda. Darwinists blah blah, Devil worshipers blah blah, Nazi Germany blah blah, Holocaust blah blah."

14. EXPELLED!

Comment #147536 by kintaro_crab on March 20, 2008 at 9:27 pm

I read some posts on PZ's page saying Prof. Dawkins was treated very badly at the screening. Would anyone who was there like to comment on this.

15. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146246 by kintaro_crab on March 18, 2008 at 8:12 pm

hah, I hate these stupid nonsense studies (Social Scientists lol). I would go so far as to say that Christians, who most likely made up the largest percentage of those surveyed, are mostly lairs.( e.g. Discovery Institute). So they definitely would lie on a survey asking them if they are "happy".

quote: "our analysis suggested that religious people suffered less psychological harm from unemployment than the non-religious."

My conclusion on this is that, Religious people don't fully understand the position they are in. They are so self deluded that they are happy to leech off their governments and the people around them.

16. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144630 by kintaro_crab on March 16, 2008 at 1:26 pm

That is actually pretty scary. I wouldn't trust some crazy black magician with a knife. What if he went nuts and slit his throat, then went around claimed that black magic killed him?

17. What's the Point of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

Comment #138847 by kintaro_crab on March 4, 2008 at 10:06 pm

I think another important question to ask is; "What is the point of the British Monarchy?"

Waving?
"Queen Elizabeth II Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving" The onion.com
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=24219050

18. Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai

Comment #138473 by kintaro_crab on March 4, 2008 at 12:15 pm

This statement is false "The acacia tree also has psychedelic properties, Shanon says." Not all Acacia species have psychedelic properties, neither is there just one type of acacia tree.

I think it is much more highly likely that the Israelites never roamed the desert and Moses never existed, considering there are no records from Egypt of any type of mass Exodus.

19. Ayaan Hirsi Ali to get EU protection

Comment #135969 by kintaro_crab on February 29, 2008 at 11:38 am

This is good news, hopefully they pay the cost no matter where she is.

20. Bill Moyers Interviews Susan Jacoby

Comment #129095 by kintaro_crab on February 18, 2008 at 4:00 pm

I'm going to have to disagree, as it was an ad hominem.

Internet grammar bashing comments are ad hominem. Perhaps you grammar bashers could go over to PZ Myers blog and let him know of all the grammar/spelling mistakes there.

The original topic was to show a difference between troops vs soldiers, and not against misspelling soldiers or using the word soldiers in a complete sentence. Sorry, but my grammar and spelling are not reflective of the views I put forth. It's up to the reader whether or not he/she wants to take my comments seriously. You can say I have bad manners, but I stand by my statements made about internet comments.

As for some of the people who would share the good womens views that only reading books and talking to people solves the problem. I would like to say that I know a lot of Christians who only read the bible and only talk to other Christians. Why do you think that the Mormon church and the church of Scientology forbid their members from viewing certain internet websites. I remember listening to an interview with a former prominent member of the Mormon church "I think it was on Point of Inquiry". During which he stated that one of the biggest reasons for the decline in membership within the Mormon church was that the young people were finding real information about the church over the internet.

There is a lot of misinformation in books, misinformation in people, and hell misinformation on the internet. i was just defending against the absolutist statement that we can't learn things from the internet. We need more sources of information, not less.

21. Bill Moyers Interviews Susan Jacoby

Comment #129012 by kintaro_crab on February 18, 2008 at 1:40 pm

To: BicycleRepairMan

sorry but using a plural word like troops to describe soldiers still is not a big deal. Why don't you explain why it is such a big deal instead of making a random incoherent reference to George Orwell.

To Big city,

If this was an important document and not an internet comment i would have proof read it and cared about my grammar and spelling. Ever heard of Ad hominem.

22. Bill Moyers Interviews Susan Jacoby

Comment #128998 by kintaro_crab on February 18, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Ya I'll second that Mitchell Gilks.

What was the point in talking about language? Troops vs. Soldiers, and that thing about folks. Is this really a problem? Sounds more like a conspiracy theory

And her mentioning kids with short attention spans due to not being read as a child, I would definitely argue against this forget about TV do kids really watch so much TV now days? I guess you could have made this argument for children born in the 70's and 80's but what about all of the kids that spend their time in front of computers on the internet learning things. I would be a complete country idiot without the internet and computers. What does she think parents would read to there children bible stories , humpty dumpty...

And lastly she said

"We can't learn the things that we need to know from a quick hit on the Internet to see the latest person making a fool of themself on YouTube. We can only learn the things we need to know from talking to each other, from books. And we all need to do a lot more of that."

Really so all of the podcasts, debates, science articles, talk origins, this site richard dawkins, The science network's beyond belief, great videos on you tube showing the irrationality of religious people around the world, and all the online lectures are quick hits on the internet that we can't learn anything from! Don't get me wrong I'm not saying books and talking to people are obsolete, they definitely are not. But to dismiss the internet like that as a source of information I call Bull Shit.

Well I'll end the rant part there, now on to the positive.

She has a point the general American populace is irrational but I don't think she proposed any methods to fixing this problem.

23. The argument from oranges

Comment #128394 by kintaro_crab on February 16, 2008 at 10:52 pm

you forgot this part where god decided to create an alternate universe where man comes before the beasts and fowl.

"
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Gen 2:18 And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof."

24. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology

Comment #128313 by kintaro_crab on February 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm

hmmmm since were on the question lets ask these three also

"Is the nuclear reaction that occurs at the center of a nuclear warhead morally acceptable?"

how about

"Is the Carbon-Carbon Sp^2 hybridized orbitals in a carbon nanotube morally acceptable?"

and lastly

"Are chemical reactions morally acceptable?"

sorry for being cynical I just couldn't resist, perhaps someone could explain to me what the meaning of morally acceptable is, because i don't understand what it is supposed to mean?

25. The argument from oranges

Comment #128303 by kintaro_crab on February 16, 2008 at 6:00 pm

hmmmmmmmm...

oranges
bananas
peanut butter
The face of the virgin Mary on a grill cheese sandwich
frozen waterfalls split into three parts
A dog getting run over by a car
Crying statues
Near death experiences
Faith healers
Sai Baba?!

when atheists say there just isn't enough evidence to show that god exists we really aren't kidding.

26. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127058 by kintaro_crab on February 14, 2008 at 9:21 pm

I was amazed at such a poor hypothesis about where religious fundamentalism comes from

"its not religion that causes fundamentalism, fundamentalism is the traumatic experience of Globalization on country's which are deeply poor very very unequal politically humiliated and powerless"

So basically what this says is that being poor and being powerless leads to fundamentalism. If that were true then why are so many affluent westerns fundamentalists.

I really don't agree with her use of the word globalization. It seemed more like some sort of political move to demonize globalization as if it were something to be afraid of.

27. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #126294 by kintaro_crab on February 12, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Today was a great Darwin Day.

At the lab this morning my fellow co-worker/lab assistant who is an avid Christian. Whilst in a conversation with me brought up evolution (what a coincidence too, she had no idea that today was Darwin Day) but to my dismay she made the usual claims such as: there are no transitional fossils, Scientists can't be certain of anything, you can't trust science..... etc. etc. Mind you this was actually coming from a foreign "Korean" undergraduate studying biology I just always assumed that she was like Francis Collins/split brain but I was totally wrong pretty depressing huh.

I told her about the transition from land animals to whales, Tiktaalik, the numerous hominid fossils, the genetic evidence such as lactose intolerances in populations without domesticated cattle or herd animals, bacterial evolution and resistance to antibiotics, speciation in plants and micro organisms, and gave a pretty good defense of the scientific method telling her about how science is self correcting through an example that I am currently working on experiments to figure out whether or not a proposed autoecious life cycle for the fungus puccinia psidii in a Brazilian journal is actually correct by reproducing their experiments.

I think that I made a really good impression on her and perhaps she might use some critical thinking and go home and look up some of the things I told her to check up on. But I'm not so sure about that, she did also tell me that the bible was written at the creation of the earth to which I replied "aaaaa 4.6 billion years ago!?" and that I should read the bible to learn about dinosaurs. meh...

On another note I paraded around the university campus in my Richard Dawkins Atheist out t-shirt as a celebration of Darwin Day and to my victory over Christian Pseudo-Science.

It seemed so fitting for a Darwin day

28. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125735 by kintaro_crab on February 12, 2008 at 12:24 am

Oh man i can't read anymore of these posts about how modern medicine doesn't cure diseases.

Have you people who believe this gone nuts.

Where's your critical thinking, your so skeptical about shit your brains have fallen out, pick that shit up and come back to reality.

29. Dawkins is third most prolific internet Briton

Comment #117666 by kintaro_crab on January 29, 2008 at 10:41 am

Congratulations Prof. Dawkins, now might be the time to run for Prime Minister. You've got Blair and Brown beat in internet popularity.

30. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?

Comment #117216 by kintaro_crab on January 28, 2008 at 12:23 pm

I agreed with everything except the last paragraph. I do not see why religion and dogmatic faith are two separate entities.
I can see though that the author most likely has a different definition of religion from my own and this goes into a type of semantics problem

from Webster online dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/netdict?Religion

1 a: the state of a religious b (1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
2: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
3 archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness
4: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

the way a dictionary is set up is that #1 is the original meaning of the word where clearly religion has to do with a deity, #2 also has to do with a deity. numbers 3 and 4 have to do with faith and get rid of the deity part but also are similar but not the original meaning of the word religion.

I think we need to stick to the original meanings of words get rid of numbers 3, and 4 and stop generalizing the meanings of words or this problem with semantics will continue to flourish while people are actually referring to the same things and arguing over nothing.

31. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115875 by kintaro_crab on January 25, 2008 at 1:01 am

wow a compelling story I laughed, I was Angry, then i laughed again.

That boy should have been sending that letter straight to god instead of his buddy. If that prick of a Christian god actually did exist he'd be the one deserving of such a letter.

BTW: Loved the poem Dr. Sues on Jesus Crack.

32. Sam Harris debate with Rabbi David Wolpe

Comment #107428 by kintaro_crab on January 4, 2008 at 1:37 pm

I thought that the debate was excellent. The only thing that i would have changed is that when the rabbi made the statement that societies based on irreligious ideas are failures, i would have automatically countered with the first amendment of the the American constitution and compared it to the ten commandments in particular the first. Then force him into a corner to answering the question as to whether or not America is a failed society.

33. For the Love of Christ

Comment #101754 by kintaro_crab on December 20, 2007 at 10:18 pm

hmmmmmm im seeing a bad trend here. I think this guy might be a ticking time bomb.

Doesn't masturbate, catholic, deals with children....

I'll make a prediction, 10 years down the line the fondling and molestation charges begin to surface.

34. U.S. Congress Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

Comment #98503 by kintaro_crab on December 13, 2007 at 7:43 pm

This is a F-ing outrage what the hell are they thinking where's the ACLU when you need them.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,"

Congress just took a shat on our constitution WTF!!

35. Girl, 16, dies after hijab dispute with father

Comment #97322 by kintaro_crab on December 11, 2007 at 10:02 pm

I don't know what to say, I guess its just more proof that religion poisons everything.

36. 'Boycott Worked': Compass Flops - Opening Weekend $26 Million; Narnia $63 Million

Comment #96829 by kintaro_crab on December 11, 2007 at 1:46 am

hmmmm i didn't like it, i thought the continuity could have been much better meh

37. Chimps beat humans in memory test

Comment #93696 by kintaro_crab on December 3, 2007 at 11:42 pm

Don't name that ape Caesar..... You MANIACS, YOU BLEW IT UP!! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL..

sry couldn't resist

38. The Out Campaign

Comment #59855 by kintaro_crab on July 30, 2007 at 10:44 pm

i think my post i just wrote didn't make it through a well.

Anyway I came out about my atheism to my brother two days ago. My family and brother are fundamental Christians. I was very surprised that he listened to what i had to say compared to my mothers reaction of crying and telling me i was going to go to hell when i told her i no longer believed in Christianity four years ago after which she and i stoped talking to each other "wonder how she would have reacted if i told her i was an atheist now lol<- reference to the joke by Julia Sweeney"

I will wear my shirt proudly. I believe that it is time to come out of hiding in the shadows. I will promote reason and science in my community and show other atheists that they are not alone.

I live in honolulu Hawaii, msg me about groups in my area as i know of none :(.