1. Immune system differences found

Comment #145631 by aporeticus on March 17, 2008 at 8:35 pm

I once shared an office with a Caucasian graduate student. He was from Georgia, and he had moved all the way to Georgia. He wanted to open a Georgian Caucasian restaurant just to see the reaction.

2. Selling science to the masses

Comment #144169 by aporeticus on March 15, 2008 at 8:38 am

It's hard to read past the word "paradigm". Marketspeak for marketing science. And marketing doesn't give a damn about honesty and reality.

Hurricanes don't come out of smokestacks. A hurricane isn't caused entirely by climate change. Climate change might make them bigger or more frequent, but they could certainly hit US cities without our help. Or you could easily still have a season with few hurricanes, leaving people wondering if scientists really are dishonest about this climate change thing.

3. The business of natural selection

Comment #144159 by aporeticus on March 15, 2008 at 8:23 am

I'm skeptical, too. External factors affect businesses tremendously, but I don't know of those are inputs.

4. Richard Dawkins' US Tour begins this week

Comment #138040 by aporeticus on March 3, 2008 at 7:44 pm

I'll be at UC Berkeley 3/6 but not 3/8. :(

5. Putting Candidates' Religion to the Test

Comment #122154 by aporeticus on February 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm

How about:

"Do you believe that believers of religions different from yours as well as nonbelievers will be condemned by your God to eternal torment, and if so, do you believe God is right to do this?"

Because, if you think about it, this is an absolutely appalling thing for the potential leader of the USA to believe.

6. Documents detail church coverup

Comment #120722 by aporeticus on February 2, 2008 at 11:39 am

There is a gospel of forgiveness and redemption

7. What should a scientist think about religion?

Comment #118701 by aporeticus on January 30, 2008 at 9:24 pm

mmurray:

Ah yes solved a few problems in the shower myself. I bet a lot of these people tune out of the sermon at Church and think about work!

8. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115868 by aporeticus on January 25, 2008 at 12:52 am

How many unsaved-go-to-hell believers out there really believe what they profess? If you truly believe this as much as I believe I'm sitting at a computer and typing, then you'd have to be insane. Such is your reality that God lets people who happened to not hear enough about Jesus to take him seriously go to hell and suffer infinite torment. If this was reality to me, I'd be so mortified they would have to carry me to an asylum. What doublethink you have to wring your mind through to both believe this and yet ignore it enough to live your life reasonably normally.

What happened to people before Jesus, anyway? Everybody went to hell back then? They'd have to. Otherwise, what use is a Savior?