1. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189300 by kaiser on June 6, 2008 at 1:50 am

religion-friendly theory of human origins known as intelligent design

I never really got that straight.
Can intelligent design be described as a scientific theory (I know they didn`t use the word scientific in the artice, but they also don`t use it when they talk about evolution).

I thought a scientific theory has to be backed up by a lot of data and must be falsifiable? That`s clearly not the case with ID as it makes no statements about the creator.

So isn`t there a way to stop it beeing called a theory?

2. Darwin still causing waves after 150 years

Comment #188699 by kaiser on June 4, 2008 at 11:57 am

It`s really important that we stop using the word "BELIEVE" in evolution and change it to "ACCEPT" evolution.

3. You can't be moral without God!

Comment #187595 by kaiser on June 2, 2008 at 10:45 am

Christians are only as morally as the culture they are living in but like to use their book as a reference to that.

Then they pick verses from the bible and say: Look, here it says such and such- the bible knew it, only the people in the centuries before us didn`t realize it. But thats their fault because they weren`t able to read the bible.

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So in the end, the bible is like a treasure map- but you are only able to understand the map AFTER you have found the treasure (=one moral objective).

So what good is such a map, if it doesn`t help you find the treasure and you can only backwards rationalize and understand the different clues after you have found it anyways?

4. Reviews of Expelled

Comment #158027 by kaiser on April 10, 2008 at 2:23 am

Enter Richard Dawkins. Dawkins, a prominent evolutionist, outspoken atheist and the bestselling author of The God Delusion, is featured throughout the film. In one segment, he sits down with Stein for a heart-to-heart. After dancing around several pointed questions about how life began, Dawkins finds himself at a logical impasse with no surplus of sci-fi rhetoric. He's finally forced to concede that, indeed, an intelligent being may have created life on earth. However, that being could not have been "God," but rather, it must have been some organic, alien life form. Of course, that alien life form has to have been a product of "Darwinian evolution."

Through tears of wild laughter, audience members watch as Dawkins â€" apparently grasping the dizzying nature of his own circular argument â€" turns three shades of red and becomes purply tight-lipped.

Dawkins? ... Dawkins? ...

But apart from space aliens, the general consensus among the evolutionary scientists interviewed was that all life, including human life, likely began when lightening struck a mud puddle (you know, like Frankenstein but without all the prefab body parts). This was then followed by a series of unexplainable, unprovable and totally random events which occurred over umpteen million years, eventually resulting in ... you.

From http://www.cwfa.org/articles/14984/CFI/family/index.htm

5. The Atheist Next Door

Comment #156933 by kaiser on April 8, 2008 at 12:07 pm

The Bishop looks like George Carlin

6. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144562 by kaiser on March 16, 2008 at 10:38 am

This could also have ended bad.

Don`t get me wrong, I don`t believe that there are any ghosts or demons who could kill you.

But there is also the complexity of the brain and altered states. For example hypnosis (and I don`t mean stage hypnosis). Only thanks to India the "skill of hypnosis" survived, after it was banned in europe.
And the hypnosis skills in India are much higher than in the western world. Some of these guys have serious hynosis skills (much better than the american tv evangelicals) and they could have harmed him (but I guess not really kill him).

But if one of these hypnotists harmed him, people would think it was because of his "black magic". Thank fsm that nothing happened and the charlatan is now exposed- although still many millions will continue to believe in his magic powers.

7. Turkey probes atheist's 'God' book

Comment #91381 by kaiser on November 28, 2007 at 7:36 am

This could give good publicity to the book (of course I hope that nothing happens to the translator).

My guess is, that muslims wont read it but probably protest it (like they did with S. Rushdies book).

It was the founder of Turkey (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) who said:
"Through the abusive interpretation of ignorant and filthy priests ... Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk

8. Frequently Asked Questions about the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust

Comment #89484 by kaiser on November 20, 2007 at 11:22 pm

11. Comment #89473 by kaiser on November 20, 2007 at 10:22 pm
I would strongly suggest that you have a paypal option so a lot more people can donate (sending in checks will turn a lot of people off).

There is a paypal option.

I meant on the first site, not after clicking (there are always some people who get turned off giving their email adress)

I would put a "paypal button" on the first page

9. Frequently Asked Questions about the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust

Comment #89473 by kaiser on November 20, 2007 at 10:22 pm

I would strongly suggest that you have a paypal option so a lot more people can donate (sending in checks will turn a lot of people off).

Also I think a lot people will donate the moment they are in "the mood" and perhaps won`t do it 2 days later by sending a check.

10. A new website addition: Debate Points

Comment #82645 by kaiser on October 27, 2007 at 4:29 am

How about we collect money here, to buy 2 sites of e.g. the new york times, to post these counterarguments when this is finished?