1. Science is not philosophy

Comment #199025 by movingshadow on June 25, 2008 at 5:08 am

this movie just came out in Canada so I don't think it's that bad that Mister Moore has taken the time to contest it in a Canadian newspaper

2. Carlin on Religion

Comment #198274 by movingshadow on June 23, 2008 at 1:17 pm

graduated from old fuck, to dead fuck

3. Court Claim: Chimps Are People, Too

Comment #191065 by movingshadow on June 10, 2008 at 7:02 am

"human" implies h. sapien to me. but personhood? i'm all for it.

it makes the most sense to go with science fiction naming conventions, i think. a klingon is a person, so is a chimp. but neither is human.

4. Mark Steyn vs. the 'Sock Puppets'

Comment #185667 by movingshadow on May 28, 2008 at 9:33 am

These "human rights" tribunals are a national embarrassment.

5. Five Things Humans No Longer Need

Comment #183996 by movingshadow on May 23, 2008 at 11:25 am

"And let's not forget the old favourite, the Appendix! "


Check that first paragraph ;)

6. 'Reverse Evolution' Discovered in Seattle Fish

Comment #183475 by movingshadow on May 22, 2008 at 7:00 am

"There aren't many documented examples of reverse evolution in nature,"


No? Thousands of flightless birds aren't good enough for you? Maybe its that "Reverse evolution" is kind of dumb idea since it implies direction?

7. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #180978 by movingshadow on May 16, 2008 at 8:23 am

The pig farmer was from BC, the Vancouver area.

8. A natural selection

Comment #180086 by movingshadow on May 14, 2008 at 7:48 am

I feel much better about printing those UC newsletters, now

9. Gene map proves platypus is part bird, mammal and reptile

Comment #177012 by movingshadow on May 8, 2008 at 1:09 pm

AP articles on evolution always just get me mad, all that awesome research on the 'pus, then these schmucks misrepresent it as some sort of frankensteinian chimera. Bleh!

10. Gene map proves platypus is part bird, mammal and reptile

Comment #176969 by movingshadow on May 8, 2008 at 12:01 pm

"How could bird genes end up in a platypus whose lineage diverged from the other mammals only 165 mya? "

Maybe I just have a headache, but this is a poorly written article. It's got bird-like features, and similar genes. Convergent evolution. They share an ancestor, and retained some reptilian features including some which we now think of as avian.

11. Religion a figment of human imagination

Comment #171494 by movingshadow on April 28, 2008 at 2:21 pm

"I'm pretty sure my dog thinks of me as a god. "

I'm not a gambling man, but I'd be willing to wager your dog thinks you're the alpha male of it's pack.

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

Comment #169584 by movingshadow on April 26, 2008 at 11:05 am

I've always been int he birds-as-extant-therapods camp, it awesome to have genetic proof!

13. Tyrannosaurus rex protein proves dinosaurs evolved into birds

Comment #168929 by movingshadow on April 25, 2008 at 1:09 pm

When I first read that, I couldn't help thinking that no creationist should ever see such a statement. I can vividly imagine what they'd do with it out of context.

14. Tyrannosaurus rex protein proves dinosaurs evolved into birds

Comment #168491 by movingshadow on April 25, 2008 at 7:08 am

it'd be more accurate to say a chicken is a runt trex rather than calling the trex an overgrown chicken

15. Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways

Comment #166749 by movingshadow on April 23, 2008 at 12:09 pm

the superficial association with row v wade might stir up the fundy hives

16. Flea of the week

Comment #163434 by movingshadow on April 18, 2008 at 10:56 am

Who is William R. Dawkins?

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

Comment #159103 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 12:42 pm

It has nothing to do with bush's war, (i think that) I said "like bush", it was a hypothetical question, I phrased that poorly. Would you argue that charges of perjury go against the right to free speech? Do you yell fire in movie theaters?

They can go on making their creationists arguments but they do not deserve to hold their jobs if they insist on telling my children lies. The right to freedom of speech is not the right to keep your job when your views are in direct conflict with the role demanded of you by that job.

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

Comment #159089 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm

"I think calling for Ms Davis' resignation for expressing an opinion is a punishment and a type of ban, as well as a form of censorship."

So we should go on letting teachers tell kids that the world is 6000 years old? It's their freedom of speech. We should let someone like Bush make up shit about a country as a pretext to invasion? Its his freedom of speech.

Those aren't even good examples for the problem in question, but you're so fond of blindly following your idea of free speech, I want to see where you'll take it.

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

Comment #159071 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Who wants to punish her? What do you mean, I want "them banned"? I don't want to kill her, she just has no place in the government of what is supposed to be a secular free country, as her statements revealed.

Can you really not see the difference between "She has bad ideas, and probably shouldn't hold her public office seeing as how those ideas are contrary to the spirit of that office" and "death to the infidels" ?

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

Comment #159065 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 11:56 am

"So where does accepting responsibility for what you say fit with the calls to kill Salman Rushdie or the Danish cartoonists?"

I didn't call upon atheists to kill her, nor did I call for a lynch mob to oust her from office. She made her private thoughts public, she needs to grow a metaphorical pair and stand behind her convictions. She can't expect people to ignore her unconstitutional ideas come election time.

edit: And there should be a mechanism for when someone blows their top like this and reveals their idiocy.

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

Comment #159048 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 11:26 am

"I think the calls for Ms. Davis to resign are thoroughly misguided. Isn't this exactly what freedom of speech is? The freedom to be as forthright and even rude if you want without having to fear reprisal?"


Should she be allowed to say blacks are dangerous and shouldn't be allowed in government? Of course. Keep her job after such statements? Hell no.

Part of free speech is accepting responsibility for what you say.

22. Scientists take drugs to boost brain power: study

Comment #159044 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 11:18 am

big deal, "everybody" uses drugs to improve concentration. the legality of coffee and tea makes little difference to me

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

Comment #159009 by movingshadow on April 11, 2008 at 10:36 am

Amazing how the death of a student could suddenly implant bigoted thoughts in her head

24. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149934 by movingshadow on March 26, 2008 at 10:40 am

leonard nimoy's birthday too!

25. Flipping particle could explain missing antimatter

Comment #146533 by movingshadow on March 19, 2008 at 7:12 am

commoooonnnnn warp drive

26. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #146019 by movingshadow on March 18, 2008 at 1:42 pm

they still make south park? christ

27. The Atheist Apocalypse

Comment #146008 by movingshadow on March 18, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[quote]I like how the man wanting equality is white and male[/quote]

so?

28. The Atheist Apocalypse

Comment #146006 by movingshadow on March 18, 2008 at 1:20 pm

take THAT, jack chick

29. Deadly Sins 101

Comment #143046 by movingshadow on March 13, 2008 at 11:43 am

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

-Robert Heinlein

30. Ban anti-Catholic books in schools, says bishop

Comment #143041 by movingshadow on March 13, 2008 at 11:40 am

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anythingâ€"you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

-Robert Heinlein

31. Fleabytes

Comment #129658 by movingshadow on February 19, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Absolutely wonderful, I'm sending this to every neo-con I know. Ok, it's just the one, but she's sure gonna get it!

32. New meat-eating dinos identified

Comment #126885 by movingshadow on February 14, 2008 at 12:26 pm

from fundies say the darndest things:

Dinosaurs didn't eat meat. They ate plants the Creator provided for them, no doubt in a form, texture and consistency befitting their tooth structure.

I reject your claim that the dinosaurs went extinct before mankind appeared.

This is mythology with no basis in fact, and assumes veracity of highly flawed dating methods.

For as many evolution-mongers as you say support the dating methods as accurate, there are as many evolution-mongers who say they are not.

The conclusion is that they cancel each other out (as usual) and we are back to interpretation of rocks and bones that cannot speak for themselves.

Ever seen a dinosaur eat meat? (I don't think so)

Lots of animals have "menacing teeth" but are not carnivores - carnivory is the exception in the animal kingdom..


http://fstdt.com/fundies/Default.aspx?archive=1

33. New meat-eating dinos identified

Comment #126872 by movingshadow on February 14, 2008 at 11:38 am

would it have been so hard to say "therapod" instead of meat eating dino?

34. A Tyrannical Romance

Comment #126474 by movingshadow on February 13, 2008 at 10:20 am

happy valentine's day

35. 'Irrational Atheist' trounces God-deniers

Comment #117410 by movingshadow on January 28, 2008 at 6:48 pm

I still have trouble believing worldnetdaily is not a landover style parody

36. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?

Comment #117051 by movingshadow on January 28, 2008 at 6:51 am

to slightly paraphrase or possibly quote dawkter dawkins in another context: or? why not and?

37. Top 10 Reasons to Believe Logic Over Religion

Comment #114550 by movingshadow on January 22, 2008 at 11:55 am

I've come to the conclusion that the author is a bit of a dipshit.

38. The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief

Comment #109659 by movingshadow on January 9, 2008 at 12:28 pm

$145, thats about a dollar a scholar

not bad if you ask me