1. Sharia law 'could have UK role'

Comment #204714 by Koreman on July 5, 2008 at 3:17 pm

@Comment #204150 by marv78rpm on July 4, 2008 at 8:39 am

I was glad this was clarified. Our Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has been accused of blasphemy by a Jordan court. Right now there is a little fight in our government. Wilders should shut up because his public comments about it -theoretically he could be arrested by Interpol and delivered in Jordan- are not helping him in his case. I guess sharia is already in effect in the Netherlands for Dutch lawmakers.

2. Jesus and Mo on Militant Atheists

Comment #203337 by Koreman on July 2, 2008 at 4:25 pm

@#201997 by bentleyd on June 30, 2008 at 2:52 pm

No, that is Rebel, hiding.

3. Evangelical Christians sign up to a 'Church within a Church'

Comment #203118 by Koreman on July 2, 2008 at 11:35 am

Good. These people openly tell they don't like priests who do... oh wait.

These are probably deluded closet gay people who openly confess that they are ashamed of their own secret urges.

4. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203107 by Koreman on July 2, 2008 at 11:26 am

Nuts. We're seeing the same over-apologizing in the Netherlands. It's pathetic.

5. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #200598 by Koreman on June 28, 2008 at 1:04 am

The popular Dutch weblog Geenstijl.nl was ordered to contact the police last week to make a statement about 15 anonymous comments in 2006. 15 comments out of millions. Other blogs/sites faced similar 'invitations'.

It is pure intimidation.

6. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200377 by Koreman on June 27, 2008 at 12:27 pm

Voters or not, that Louisiana bill has been signed. Fairytales in science class is now OK.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/06/27/louisiana-well-thats-it-then/

7. Stop distorting young minds!

Comment #200371 by Koreman on June 27, 2008 at 12:24 pm

In Holland the government makes plans to introduce Islam teaching in public schools.

8. Astronomers find batch of 'super-Earths'

Comment #194205 by Koreman on June 16, 2008 at 2:27 pm

@Comment #194013 by mesomodel on June 16, 2008 at 9:30 am

Not quite. Planets in rapid orbits are close to their host star. Tidal locks will be fairly common with such planets, like the moons' spin is locked to its orbit around earth. In respect to the planets detected it's rather safe to say their spins have slowed down.

9. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190657 by Koreman on June 9, 2008 at 10:41 am

Ah, a spam rant.

10. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #190349 by Koreman on June 8, 2008 at 11:19 pm

What does this have to do with evolution, except that this ritual mutilation does not render the subjects impotent before the age of reproduction most of the times? And even then it would only be about cultural evolution. Not human biology. It's not that babies in some cultures are born without a foreskin.

Ritual circumcision of juveniles is a severe violation of human rights. Period. If some people suddenly decided to chop off parts of ears because they are convinced van Gogh is their saviour they would be put in jail or sent to a mental hospital. That this mutilation has been done for centuries is irrelevant. There are many unacceptable violent things that have been done for centuries.

Get rid of traumatizing bloody stone age amputation rituals that only exist to surpress sexuality. Modern governments (like in the Netherlands) should not defend or fund it. In our country dogs have more rights than children.

11. Random Acts of Evolution

Comment #188886 by Koreman on June 4, 2008 at 11:18 pm

@Comment #187159 by epeeist on June 1, 2008 at 11:45 am

Thankfully it's open source so we can engineer patches and service packs ourselves. Well documented as well. Too bad that some of this documentation conflicts with some of the manuals that were written by people in the bronze age, so now I am in doubt.

12. 'Uncontacted tribe' sighted in Amazon

Comment #186877 by Koreman on May 31, 2008 at 2:51 pm

This would be impossible in the Netherlands. Our government would send tax collectors immediately.

13. That's it. Texas really is doomed.

Comment #186587 by Koreman on May 30, 2008 at 6:08 pm

No thanks.

14. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'

Comment #184406 by Koreman on May 25, 2008 at 2:57 am

It's minitruth. After all, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.

15. On Fitna, the Movie

Comment #178682 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 11:08 pm

@Comment #178623 by Szkeptik

It's not about religion in general even, the UN resolutions are about Islam. Muslim countries now form a majority in the UN.

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1203758480544

16. On Fitna, the Movie

Comment #178681 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Stopped reading at 'it is an anti-immigrant film'. It's not. Immigrants are welcome in Holland as long as Dutch society is not condemned, rejected or even attacked. We have a problem with people doing those things because of their religion.

For a majority of Dutch politicians religion seems to be a good and holy thing that should be praised. Not criticized. Fitna was also an answer towards that attitude.

17. 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Comment #178594 by Koreman on May 11, 2008 at 5:02 pm

Pavlov monkey. And gay too.

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

Comment #174892 by Koreman on May 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Of course these people are not true believers. The true -whatever religion- is peaceful and loving and sharing and true.

19. Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

Comment #169617 by Koreman on April 26, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Unbelievable.

20. Gunk in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage

Comment #169579 by Koreman on April 26, 2008 at 10:38 am

This explains why T Rex ate grain.

21. Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Comment #168127 by Koreman on April 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm

It's a nice world. Reports of witch hunts and torture in India:

http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl2211/stories/20050603002504100.htm

22. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #166162 by Koreman on April 22, 2008 at 10:47 pm

Santa did it.

23. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163483 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 11:58 am

The title in RSS said "No intercourse allowed by richarddawkins.net"

This is going too far.

24. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163428 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 10:45 am

No entity, made of whatever, can not have created itself nor its own habitat. Any assumption of a godlike creature is false.

25. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163404 by Koreman on April 18, 2008 at 9:56 am

Reminds me of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzman_brain

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html

26. School bars same-sex partners at formals

Comment #161759 by Koreman on April 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm

@#161451 by ordeneus on April 15, 2008 at 10:01 am

Because goddidit designed man and wife!!

Well, first he designed man and no wife. She came later when man was nagging and filing complaints. Man did not have genitals probably, so goddidit invented them while intelligently designing a woman. He took a rib and made a rod, although that is not certain. Mating was not necessary in paradise, so goddidit probably did not design those filthy body parts, except if he knew that he had to throw his Sims out of Level 7. Maybe the big wizard already knew much more and had man designed as a sexe with genitals in the first place.

This makes the story very complex since it implicates that man is suffering for a sin he had no choice in. It gets even more complex when considering man was nagging about a wife because he saw males and females in nature. Somehow he knew what males and females were, he knew he was male, and animals must have had genitals already too. The mating part is uncertain as well whether eggs, cubs, placenta, care for offspring, milk, honey, flowers etc. existed, or that all these things were invented while throwing these people out.

Probably the pope has an answer. He might even explain when after the Big Bang -accepted nowadays- these people came on stage, or if the story is fantasy. And if it is fantasy, why the rest of the stories aren't fantasies. Sure it has something to do with money and power. And priests and bishops with boys.

Hmm. The answer to the question might be jealousy.

27. Science Debate 2008

Comment #160843 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 1:11 pm

Science is not interesting. You want to win hearts if you want to get elected. The only way to do so is having faith. Have faith in goddidit and have faith in the wise people in the wise country that make wise decisions, led by goddidit. Science is too complex and demands a lot of money. That part is understood by many.

Politics is superstition.

28. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #160838 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 1:05 pm

@6. Comment #160718 by liddlefeesh

In the West it might look like 2008, but in some parts of the world it's still the 19th century. Or earlier.

29. Religious education as a part of literary culture

Comment #160826 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Religion might be gaining some ground because of internet.

30. British schools are falling for the pseudoscience of Brain Gym. Why fill kids' heads with nonsense?

Comment #160820 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm

@4. Comment #160469 by Sally Luxmoore

I'd prefer Brian Gym. Serious astronomy combined with some fine guitar.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/14/gimme-the-prize/

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

Comment #160323 by Koreman on April 14, 2008 at 12:19 am

Santaclaus is inspiring too. Many grew up with a few years believing. Fond memories. Nice art has been produced.

32. Ancient serpent shows its leg

Comment #159727 by Koreman on April 13, 2008 at 2:09 am

@ #159705 by Last Neandertal on April 12, 2008 at 10:46 pm

And what about those 8000 year old trees that have been discovered?

http://www.thelocal.se/11054.html

33. Inadequate, private and late apology with grotesquely inadequate excuse

Comment #159420 by Koreman on April 12, 2008 at 6:59 am

The Biblebelt is expanding.

34. 'Expelled' ripped off Harvard's 'Inner Life of the Cell' animation

Comment #159364 by Koreman on April 12, 2008 at 3:01 am

35. The List: The World's Worst Religious Leaders

Comment #159281 by Koreman on April 11, 2008 at 9:02 pm

Fine examples of Pavlov's operant conditioning in reality.

It is amazing what people are capable of, only to be rewarded by an invisible wizard from nowhere and never, who made up the entire universe -except himself and his habitat-, to satisfy his own primitive human instincts.

36. 'Expelled' ripped off Harvard's 'Inner Life of the Cell' animation

Comment #159085 by Koreman on April 11, 2008 at 12:28 pm

I feel pity those people don't understand the basics of quantum mechanics. Far more devastating to deluded bronze age ideas with an early 20th century flavor than evolutionary biology ever can be. I guess god is showing off in ignorance too.

37. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158382 by Koreman on April 10, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Worse. It seems that Stein & co quietly admit evolution must exist. By pointing at Nazis.

Of course they are wrong. First, what already has been said more or less in the article: although some Nazis saw themselves as a new human species and embraced 19th century political interpretations of 'Darwinism' it had nothing to do with evolution. Trying to breed a human race like -indeed- what farmers do for ages. According to Nazi propaganda this was exactly what the Fuhrer had in mind: bread a pure Aryan race.

Second, Nazi doctors and pseudo scientists were involved in the most awful weird cruel experiments that had nothing to do with even the bare teachings in evolutionary biology. Some even tried to create Frankenstein by transplanting tissue and organs from and to living people. One might say Nazi efforts were an attempt to intelligent design.

For the arguments sake, the claim that Nazis were atheists is not true. Besides its ties with the roman catholic church and being a pseudo religious movement on its own the ideology borrowed many ideas from ancient mythologies. Symbols, rituals. Astrology was an accepted practice. Hitler personally believed in Nostradamus. The supernatural was everywhere.

On topic, there are a lot of straw men involved. Stein must be a scarecrow collector. Maybe he is one himself, trying to make a living with utter nonsense.

38. Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement

Comment #158057 by Koreman on April 10, 2008 at 3:11 am

It's a conspiracy. It's not a coincidence cells look the same. Portraits of people look the same too. Hah!

And even if it was xeroxed, the lord holds every copyright in the world eventually. He is the soul owner, so to speak. As young earth scientists represent the lord all copyright basically belongs to them. They might even sue Harvard for making animations of copyrighted material without divine permission.

Serious young earth scientists of course know there is no such thing as cells. Flesh and blood is all there is and it's a punishment. What you see through a microscope is a test of faith. Nobody can see a cell directly so it cannot be proven and so godditit. It seems that Stein is winning over and over.

39. It looks like Man crucified

Comment #148440 by Koreman on March 23, 2008 at 4:53 am

"Their arguments tend to diminish the scope of human achievement, emphasizing our smallness in the Universe, that we are prisoners of our biology, and that we are all going to Hell in a plastic carrier bag with no prospect of salvation."

It seems the author is not talking about atheism but about 'post humans'. People who believe they are going to be godlike in the next four decades with highly advanced technology, augmented intelligence, implants, uploaded brains, eternal life and so on. Amongst those people there are a few who match the description.

40. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #148271 by Koreman on March 22, 2008 at 1:59 pm

@66. Comment #146348 by Bonzai

Bonzai, I don't mind about people who see their religion as something not-so-important that just brings some happiness. I do have a problem with lunatics who actually believe in a Stalin-like universe with an eternal Hitler as Big Boss. Exactly how it has been written in those holy scriptures from the bronze age, exactly how these scriptures were meant. Suppression and obedience. And yes, there are quite some people believing this. Thats has nothing to do with straw men. Those people are perfectly clear by themselves.

41. EXPELLED!

Comment #147647 by Koreman on March 21, 2008 at 4:01 am

This is dangerous. Dawkins might leave the theater as a reborn Christian.

42. The Secular Conscience

Comment #147442 by Koreman on March 20, 2008 at 12:28 pm

@ 50. Comment #147403 by jeepyjay
We might as well introduce Voodoo, Witchcraft, Alchemy and Astrology. There still are plenty of job opportunities.

43. God's cure for gays lost in sin

Comment #147052 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:59 pm

@202. Comment #147026 by Bonzai

Well yes. The convenient thing about the bible (and other religious scriptures) is that you can come up with anything you like and prove it has been written.

Respect, you recognized 'Lot'.

44. Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites

Comment #147049 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:50 pm

C:> ping god
no route to host
destination unreachable
C:> ipconfig /flushdns
succesfully flushed the DNS resolver cache
C:> ping God
no route to host
destination unreachable
C:> ipconfig /flushlogic
Succesfully flushed the logic resolver cache.
C:> ping God
Pinging God (256.256.256.256) with 777 bytes of data:
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
Reply from 256.256.256.256: bytes=777 time=0ms TTL=ETERNAL
C:> net send God Iluvyou!
Sending files to God is no longer supported.
C:> tracert God [127.0.0.1]
Tracing route to God over a maximum of 0 hobs:
1 15 ms <10 ms <10 ms god.brain [0.0.0.256]
2 0 ms <10 ms <10 ms fantasy.brain [256.256.256.256]
Trace complete.
C:>help?
'help?' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, batch file or something spooky. Get real.
C:>format brain: /u /s

45. God's cure for gays lost in sin

Comment #147017 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 5:18 pm

@ Comment #146527 by hungarianelephant

Yes. Homosexuality is not mentioned in the bible. The lines used by all these clever people are taken way out of context. To the absurd actually.

For instance, Big Wizard was talking about disobedience and vanity in common and the political weakness related. There was something rotten in the air and he did not want to intervene for the thousandth time. The actual text is very clear. He then talked about women as an example. Yes, he was a stereotyper. He warned men not to do behave like women 'lay down with them and do nothing' but to take action. Just read these stories, and I suggest you take an old print because these stories have conveniently been rewritten every time.

Bottom line is that it's completely illogical that this invisible guy decided to invoke homosexuality all the sudden, right in the middle of something pure political, extremely important for a moment for whatever non-divine reason.

Something similar happened to a story about a guy named Onan. He was told to have babies with the woman of his brother in order to preserve a bloodline (again, how non-ad-hoc divine is that?), but apparently he refused to obey the convincing endless thunderbolt that addressed him personally. Well that is, he had lots of sex though, but always pulled out his forces before the cavalry was invoked, spilling his precious ammunition on the ground (the bed was not intelligently designed yet). The text about this deed of divine disobedience (why mention it otherwise in a scripture) was used as proof that masturbation is a sin. As if someone had been masturbating over his sister in law. Something (the masturbating part of course) BB was not very happy with. Hell no. BB watched the peepshow time after the time in full detail. He wanted more since pregnancies without sexual intercourse had not been intelligently designed yet either. Obviously.

46. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146340 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:18 am

Maybe the study shows that people who are more willing to ignore suffering are more easily willing to believe in an invisible terror wizard who came out of nowhere and never.

@50. Comment #146238 by the_ultimate_samurai
I've seen parents on TV who lost their child, telling it's not really a problem since godditit. In my opinion you must be suffering from a tremendous Stockholm Syndrome at least.

47. The Atheist Apocalypse

Comment #146335 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:10 am

Great comic, but it is not based on real future events. Horseman Equality talks about genital mutilation of girls only.

48. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #146332 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:03 am

That's weird. I was told that Stalin was a typical fundamentalist atheist who deliberately wiped away religion completely.

49. First 'Rule' Of Evolution Suggests That Life Is Destined To Become More Complex

Comment #146327 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 12:50 am

@ 8. Comment #146030 by EnlightenedBlasphemy
" *my apologies if i have broken some forum taboo by mentioning religion under a purely scientific article. "

No problem. Mentioning religion in online discussions regarding scientific topics is called Godlose's Law.

50. They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Comment #145539 by Koreman on March 17, 2008 at 5:31 pm

/D'Souze mode on/

Please remember that only 25 people were executed during the Salem witch trials. And atheists perform exorcism too. They ban the Lord from their hearts, which is much more serious than anything else.

/mode off/