1. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202468 by kraut on July 1, 2008 at 2:16 pm

What I have never understood: a scientist who introduces a hypothetical entity with no evidence at all to explain the universe. I call this perverse, unscientific, idiotic etc.

2. Faith schools undermined by 'Government witch hunt'

Comment #201731 by kraut on June 30, 2008 at 7:47 am

"Faith based schools are assured a secure future in the state system under this government,"

why should the majority of taxpayer pay for the religious education of the few?
If they want "faith based schools" - a socially divisive idea if there ever was one - then let the parents, and the churches or mosques, fund those, kept up to standards by stringent curriculum guidelines and supervised testing of the pupils.

3. Charles Darwin was not the father of atheism

Comment #201726 by kraut on June 30, 2008 at 7:41 am

And what is the aim of this useless bit of drivel?

4. The $10,000-a-Month Psychic

Comment #200768 by kraut on June 28, 2008 at 8:13 am

What a fawning, spitlicking, arse crawling uncritical und superfluous article. Another paper down the drain.
Religion and any and all unsubstantiated beliefs have twisted the mind of the majority of americans into accepting any foolishnes - a tendency, which this article proofs (and that is his only redeeming value), that includes even those one expects more critical thinking of.

5. How Darwin won the evolution race

Comment #198119 by kraut on June 23, 2008 at 8:42 am

So what is wrong with natural selection? It's all lies, they say. It beats me, frankly.'

It is the fear to have to accept that we humans are a product not of divine intervention but of purely natural selection and chance mutation.
Which takes away any "special" status any adherents of religious cults (and all religions are cults, no exceptions) claim for our species, and the protection and guidance of our species by a divine entity.

An idiotic belief in the face of about 2000 years written history if there ever was one.

6. George W Bush meets Pope amid claims he might convert to Catholicism

Comment #193460 by kraut on June 15, 2008 at 4:22 pm

What a pleasure for the RCC - another war criminal joins its ranks. How proud must the benedict be.

7. Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

Comment #188323 by kraut on June 3, 2008 at 10:47 pm

"Not being a physicist, I am failing to understand why "cold fusion" will be beneficial over normal fusion as claimed."

Eve tried to contain a hot fusion?

8. A New Step In Evolution

Comment #188158 by kraut on June 3, 2008 at 9:32 am

I remember a video shown in PBS where one "ID" advocate said that is was never shown over generations of bacteria that they develop new traits.

Another one down.

9. Lizards make adaptive change

Comment #187260 by kraut on June 1, 2008 at 5:06 pm

You guys all got it wrong: godditit.
He couldn't see the poor lizard starving, so he changed 'em. Gawd, are you folks stupid.

10. Darwin's Joyful Journey of Discovery

Comment #186969 by kraut on June 1, 2008 at 1:49 am

@bugaboo

are you pretending or do you really not understand what jones is saying with "the world becoming a less interesting place?"
"Context" seems to be a foreign concept for you.

11. Darwin's Joyful Journey of Discovery

Comment #186949 by kraut on May 31, 2008 at 11:48 pm

[quote]I disagree. In a few hundred thousand years, or a few million, man will be extinct [/quote]

A little optimistic, aren't you.

I disagree - the Origin is a book to understand easily.
It makes it points very clearly and unambigous.
Anybody who has a problem to understand this book is either lazy, braindead or a fundamentalist of any religion.

12. Scientists rally against creationist 'superstition'

Comment #186948 by kraut on May 31, 2008 at 11:36 pm

The Father of evolution - what idiocy is that?

Sounds like Darwin is god - he , Darwin, created evolution.

Are all nwespaper editors and reporters braindead?

13. 'Uncontacted tribe' sighted in Amazon

Comment #186623 by kraut on May 30, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Is it arrogance by us to "protect them" from us?
Does not every human tribe have the right - if they so wish - to get in contact with the "outside?"

By leaving them "alone", do we not invite the unscrupoulus - from religious missionaries to land robbers - to rake advatage or eliminate them - without having them forewarned.

If protection means to prevent the above from contacting first, I can agree. But contact should be, has to be and will be made. The question is: How?

14. Mark Steyn vs. the 'Sock Puppets'

Comment #185642 by kraut on May 28, 2008 at 8:56 am

The Canadian Human Right Crooks are nothing but a tool to stifle free speech, and are in my opinion an utterly unconstitutional part of the "justice system".

But, they are a tool for politicians to maintain social "peace" by surpressing the airing of important issues and debating highly controversial topics. Only allowing them to eventually blow up in their stupid faces.

15. Jamy Ian Swiss - Skepticism and the Art and Philosophy of Magic

Comment #185637 by kraut on May 28, 2008 at 8:43 am

[quote]Using a standard that merely superficially draws a line at supernatural and natural.[/quote]

considering there is nothing "supernatural" out there, not a hard line to draw. Everything is explainable rationally, but for some (quite a few) phenomena we just haven't found the correct explanation yet.

16. Atheism and Violence

Comment #118743 by kraut on January 30, 2008 at 10:31 pm

Is it really possible, that an unmitigated arsehole like this unholiness is permitted to spout about violence and atheism unrestrictedley, whenn the mos vilolent deathcult that existed - the catholic church, still to this day commits it in many parishes?
A member of a church who with utter bloody mindedness destroyed the catherers, man women and child, who invented the unholy inqusition who, by destroying the body, sanctimoniously tried to save the soul, whose hordes of unwashed believers destroyed Constantinople, raped and pillaged and killed in palestine, whose priests helped to kill off the natives of south america, whose adherents fought in the up to then bloodiest of wars, the thirty year destruction of what was then not yet germany, who made a concordat with hitler that allowed their priests to go unmolested by the SS while the pope kept his mouth shut, who worked with all the tyrants in southamerica, whose priests helped killing in Rwanda, and the final insult, because no good dictator worthy his name wants to engage the services of this rotten corpse anymore, they turned to the rape of children, and keeping it a secret for years, blaming the victims and shuffling their whoring priests from diocese to diocese.
Any member of this institution of utter malfeasance, fraud and deception, torture and killing in the name of a nonexistent god should be treated in his utterances as any Nazi, should he dare open his mouth. Shove their filthy words right back into their mouths so they suffocate on them.

Lets get rid of this institution of utter misery fast.

17. The Repeater

Comment #118505 by kraut on January 30, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Excellent article, but you know what the ID crowd will say: Twentythousand years and none of them have tried to develop leglike appendages to start crawling out of the water.....

18. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116424 by kraut on January 26, 2008 at 1:06 pm

"As far as I am concerned they are all the same."

a bank is a bank is a bank is there to make money, no matter if the shareholders each own 0.0000001% or each ten%.
They might decide to spent the profits differently, but I remember the examples of the Union owned savings institutions in germany - as voracious as any other bank.
And as I said - two crooked organizations hand in hand, a picture to cherish.

19. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116316 by kraut on January 26, 2008 at 8:38 am

Thus they engage in deceptive and dishonest banking practises."



I thought "deceptive and dishonest" was the premise of any religion.
So two deceptive and dishonest practitioners join hands - money marketeers and the priests. A beautiful combination to behold. I just wonder - when will we see the first "sharia" based banker dangling from a bridge?

20. Florida in the process of approving new science standards

Comment #114302 by kraut on January 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm

"Intelligent Design is just as valid a theory as Evolution is"

In the name of the zombie - it ain't a "theory" it ain't even a hypothesis, it is solely based on writings of several books written at a time when scientific investigation was not even on the horizon. It presumes a non falsifiable entity so it ain't science.

Man, where did you crawl from?

21. Violence fear over Islam film

Comment #113641 by kraut on January 20, 2008 at 8:59 am

"reveal the Koran as 'source of inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror'."

and what about the bible? Remember the crusades, the thirty year war, the inquisition, the concordate between rome and berlin etc. etc. ad infinitum (almost)
Those guys of the "freedom party" - and I have read some of their statements - are just a bunch of christian hypocrits and white supremacists.

Be careful who you support.

22. The New Theology

Comment #113198 by kraut on January 18, 2008 at 9:14 pm

"how God is really the Ultimate Minimalist who demonstrates his infinite power by being totally invisible and doing absolutely nothing. Now what could be more awesome than that?"

That church has already been invented by Kurt Vonnegut

23. The New Theology

Comment #113161 by kraut on January 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm

In summa - god is whatever you define it to be.

24. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish

Comment #111094 by kraut on January 13, 2008 at 2:49 pm

"What they found makes total sense, once we know our history. They were able to simulate parts of a human mitochondrial disease in a bacterium, with virtually the same change in metabolism. This is putting a many-billion-year part of our history to work for us."

This is why the denial of so called "ID scientist" of the fact of evolutionary mechanisms makes them utterly incapable of performing any task in biological research - except sweeping the floors and keeping the labtable clean.

25. Why people believe weird things about money

Comment #111060 by kraut on January 13, 2008 at 12:12 pm

"the explanation is always an evolutionary one?"

That is not surprising and amazing when considering the weirdest of all beliefs - that evolution does have absolutely no role in development of either species or behaviours but everything was presented on a platter (even if it is a globe called earth, although the believers in non evolution also defended the platter earth at one time to the detriment of the live of the unbeliever)by a very hypothetical whatever you might call it.

I guess a reflexive response.

26. Why people believe weird things about money

Comment #111048 by kraut on January 13, 2008 at 11:58 am

"Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000? Assume for the moment that prices of goods and services will stay the same."

I guess the attitude is ingrained in a society based on greed and money as status symbol and the sole measure of success.
Rather earn than twice the average than less than halve what the biggest earners make, even if the latter gives you more freedom from monetary concerns.

I had to learn - due to age and health constraints - to live with 30% less then before. The astonishing thing - I go further with my money now, by cutting a lot of unnecessary crap, than before.

27. Did mozzies, not a meteor, do for the dinosaurs?

Comment #108906 by kraut on January 7, 2008 at 11:38 pm

I never knew dinosaurs had vanished. I thought they all had become members of the republican party.
That is not an elephant in their logo - look closely. Its a triceratops in disguise.

28. Six Reasons to be an Atheist

Comment #108041 by kraut on January 5, 2008 at 10:08 pm

"5. The mediocrity of mankind."

what do you expect of a god that was created in mankinds own image?

29. The OUT Campaign has its own Flea!

Comment #106347 by kraut on January 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm

That campaign is about the equivalent of a "communist out" campaign in east germany before the fall of the wall.

In the face of mitt romneys preferred denial of access to non christians to government office, this out campaign would be laughable, were it not so despiccable.

30. Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan

Comment #104842 by kraut on December 29, 2007 at 4:27 pm

He really believes his own crap! What an idiot.

31. 'Gospel of wealth' facing scrutiny

Comment #104242 by kraut on December 28, 2007 at 7:43 am

I find it astonishing that "real" churchleaders do not speak out against this nonsense, that actually pulls their valued "christianity" down to the level of voodoo.

The belief in christ (as I understood it as a former cahtholic) is the adherence to a set in moral and ethical principles, the transcendendance of human life and the eventual everlasting community with god.
What those buggers make of religion (actually good for making atheist converts) is a "wish delivery" system on par with santa clause, or any other religion that promise success by following a certain set of rituals. It is a paganisation of christianity - and I love it, as the idiocy of the majority of the "believers" and the utter callousness of the "priests" gets nicely exposed.

32. Priest who committed suicide for rebirth cremated

Comment #103260 by kraut on December 24, 2007 at 6:31 pm

I think you all misundertsand the man - an experiment done in the spirit of true scientific inquiry.

Hypothesis fasified, testobject expired. Theorie confirmed - there ain't no coming back...

33. Religious Freedom in Military Questioned

Comment #100989 by kraut on December 19, 2007 at 6:11 pm

"With that in mind I think I personally can forgive him for being on the pro-life side of the abortion issue."

I do not give a hoot if someone dislikes abortion or not, if he sees it as a non issue or likes to dicourage it. Where the shit starts stinking is the implementation of criminal law against women who abort - towards idiots who advocate that I have no mercy, they do not belong into office, having absolutely nothing learned from history.

As to the religious army - only befitting a christian empire...After all, what do you expect from a Commander in chief who has gods approval for his wars he started after 9/11.

It also makes it easier for any islamist to see the devil in those misguided fools...better for target practice.

34. Do the laws of God trump those of man?

Comment #99502 by kraut on December 16, 2007 at 10:20 pm

"But so is freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and many others."

"It *is* about freedom of conscience, not acting illegally."

And I do not argue against your statement.
But any of those freedoms is NOT limitless.
If they lead to conflict with either the law or infringes on life. liberty or the equal rights of others, then this conflict has to be resolved utilizing the codified law.

Anybody can act as if a "god given law" supercedes a criminal or civil law - all he/she has to do is suffer the consequences of this conflict.

Since there are more gods around then there are codes of laws (just look up the hindu pantheon) the legal system has to be secular, as any law based on one religious belief would violate the law of any other religious belief.

Even from a religious perspective it is preferable to have a law that is not based on any god based commandments pertaining to any particular religion.

35. Do the laws of God trump those of man?

Comment #99485 by kraut on December 16, 2007 at 7:03 pm

"I'm not sure that having gender equality superseding freedom of conscience is such a good idea."


It is not freedom of conscience, it is acting illegaly. You can express your mysoginism verbally, but that doesn't give you the freedom to slap your wife or daughter around.
Freedom to exercise you religion is limited strictly by adherence to the legal code and the rights of others. There simply is no point of discussion here.

36. Creation college seeks state's OK to train teachers

Comment #99134 by kraut on December 15, 2007 at 5:41 pm

"All human beings descended from Adam and Eve."

And the rest sprung from incest. Nice bible, nice...

37. Jail for creationist row killer

Comment #98590 by kraut on December 13, 2007 at 11:02 pm

One could argue that the creationist disproves his own statements..after all, he is left to spread his genes....
Which doesn't bode well for the sceptics.
Another kind of struggle for survival.

38. Controversial Anti-Muslim Dutch Film Adds to Already Simmering Tensions

Comment #97843 by kraut on December 12, 2007 at 5:42 pm

One of the MP's main themes is safety and he said anyone convicted of three violent offences should be jailed for life. He also called for rehabilitation camps, expansion of random search areas to the entire country and a large increase in the number of police officers.

He called for billions of euros in cuts to the overseas development budget — retaining only emergency aid — abolition of the Education and Economic Affairs ministries and reducing the public service by 50 percent. Child allowance payments should also be reduced.

Wilders claimed that scrapping minimum wage laws and liberalising redundancy legislation would lead to greater employment, news service NOS reported on Monday.

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=17983


Your run off the mill neocon, nothing to get exited about. I think the US had just about enough of their sucessful policies. But if the Durch want to try? At least, they aren't able to invade anybody...maybe Belgium?

Just because somebody is against islam doesn't make him either an atheist or somebody who doesn't espouse an unreasonable ideology.

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

Comment #96535 by kraut on December 10, 2007 at 5:21 pm

"And ease up on demonizing Catholicism-no other religion has done more to promote human rights, science and goodwill.""

How ignorant can one person be? ignorant of the bloody history starting from instigating hatred against jews during the council of nicea through the violence against the catherers, the church supported actions against the slavic people by the "Kreuz Ritter", the fights and bloody mindedness of the Knights Templar in palestine, the bloody conversions of the native south american tribes supported by the jesuits, the church supported 30 year war, the witch hunts in europe, the actions of the inquisition, the fights against reason and knowledge, from giardono bruno to galilei, and last but not least the concordat with the Nazi Party in germany and their proclamations towards sex, hiv and homosexuality, their actions of covering up thousands of cases of child abuse by their priests world wide - all very supportive of human rights, science and goodwill.

Is he ignorant, stupid, a liar or all of the above? I CONCLUDE HE MUST BE AN UTTER IDIOT TO SPOUT SUCH FALSEHOODS DESPITE A WEEL DOCUMENTED SORDID AND VIOLENT HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

40. Atheists' sign sparks controversy

Comment #96250 by kraut on December 10, 2007 at 8:29 am

"We ultimately believe that Christians have been persecuted throughout history," said Houser, "so this is nothing new.""

Too much believe here...the facts are that christians has been both: persecuted and being very effective persecutors.

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

Comment #96087 by kraut on December 10, 2007 at 12:26 am

wow, you must know very little about women.

ok wise guy - you go ahead and point out to me the anatomical and functional importance of a clit.

But why do some folks fall into this trap again of comparing two evils? It is like - who was worse, adolph or josef(ph). Both circumcisions are just an outrage, and to belittle one in order to stress the claimed worse instance is just wrong.

Keep in mind that female circumcision usually happens shortly before puberty, while male circumcision happens in the newborn stage.
Just hear the scream of prepubescent boys being circumcised under the same circumstances.

What makes me cackle with delight that, in the jewish persuasion the foreskin removal is sort of
handshake between the jewish idol and its deluded followers to agree to their "sacred" covenant. What a riot...

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

Comment #96079 by kraut on December 10, 2007 at 12:06 am

"chop off the entire head of the penis"


excuse me - what does the clitoris have to do with an actually functioning part of a womans anatomy? The foreskin clearly protects the tip of your penis, has some role during intercourse and cutting it off removes that protection. What does the clitoris protect? It is just a penis leftover, completely non functional - except good for stimulation.

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

Comment #96073 by kraut on December 9, 2007 at 11:41 pm

"But Kirsten Patrick of the BMJ argues that, if competently performed, circumcision carries little risk and cannot be compared with female circumcision."

What the fuck does she know? Just let a male make such a stupid assumption about their clit and the feminazis are all over him - ready for castration.

My pecker stays intact. And my son's too. I have gotten enough parts cut off already...

44. Biologist fired for beliefs, suit says

Comment #95836 by kraut on December 9, 2007 at 10:14 am

Evolution is not a matter of believe, but the underpinning of biology.
The bible on the other hand has no scientific value at all as evidence.

If you as a so called "scientist" believe that the bible supercedes the collected works of scientific work on evolution since the middle 1800's, then you are simply incapable in performing your job and should not have gotten ths position in the first place, as it makes you unsuitable as a teacher of science and an intelligent participant in any discussion.

"But on Nov. 17, Hahn asked him to resign, pointing out in the letter that Abraham should have known of evolution's centrality to the project because it was evident from the job advertisement and grant proposal."

Simply a case of fraudulently applying for a position you are not suited for. Case closed.

45. Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

Comment #95245 by kraut on December 7, 2007 at 5:38 pm

"Many people just call it the universe."

I thought this was self evident. The universe, as opposed to god, exists, is observable and apparently created itself from a state of uncertainty.

I have no trouble to call a self creating universe a creator.

46. Atheism's Wrong Turn

Comment #93640 by kraut on December 3, 2007 at 7:33 pm

"I think that Freud has taught us that children wrestle oedipally with their parents' values, and after wrestling with them, either embrace them or overcome them"

Another freu...fraud perpetrated on mankind.
Another "authority" hopefully being flushed down the drain of history.
Freud, Jung and all the so called "psychologists", a bunsh of hogw(art)shian nonsense on the same level as the hogwart school of magic.
The products of some fertile and inventive minds, trying to explain the workings of the human mind based on stories, either made up or dragged from the dust of history. Another religion with a secular name. May they rest in turmoil.

47. Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin

Comment #92535 by kraut on November 30, 2007 at 5:57 pm

could the dismissal of Darwin lead to a selection pressure on the subspecies homo sapiens americanensis leading to its final demise?

48. Papal encyclical attacks atheism, lauds hope

Comment #92533 by kraut on November 30, 2007 at 5:51 pm

"Wonder why he singled out Marxism ahead of Nazism?"

wonder why? Because they had a nice little deal with the Nazis, called a concordat. And remember - adolph is still a - now deceased, but not ex - member of the catholic church.

The idiocy of equating an ideology that incorporates atheism as one part of a political ideology, with an atheism that is as well sceptical of politics and ideologies who place themselves in a "godly"= totalitarian position, is the refuge of the papal scoundrel.

And others looking for the spar in someone elses eyes and overlooking the beam of genocide, fratricide, ethnic cleansing, witchhunts, slavery (afaik slavery was almost universally condoned in countries with a strong religious influence, be it muslim, christian or whatever - the gods seemed to prefer this concept)in their own brains.

49. Golden Compass author hits back

Comment #91640 by kraut on November 28, 2007 at 7:31 pm

Having read the books over the weekend, I find them very entertaining and thoughtprovoking - for children up to about teenagers.
Very much action oriented, with excursion into "thanatology".:-), witchcraft etc. Very spellbinding even for an adult with strong ties to his own childhood.
But - from a christian standpoint, those books definetely promote independent thinking, question the value of any religion, critisize the power of organized religion and advocate to some extend atheism.
They portray "the authority" as an ursurper, a cheat and a liar, now old, and to be replaced by a younger and stronger regent, who plans on a final solution for the "unfaithfulness" of mankind.
Definetely a good read, highly recommended but dangerous for any believers.

50. 'Muhammad' teddy teacher arrested

Comment #91000 by kraut on November 26, 2007 at 11:08 pm

"'m sorry but I really feel like I have to defend this religion (I think I'm blinded by love, noooooo...)
I wouldnt blame anyone for being a islamophobia"

No, do not defend this religion, do not defend any religion. They are the enemy of reason and humanity, a scourge on human dignity for thousands of years.
There can be only one solution - destroy all religions. It is a fight for survival and it is a fight against those who use religion as a means to keep in power, to keep in power by any means possible.