1. The Republican War on Science Rages On

Comment #55993 by gsrns on July 13, 2007 at 6:05 am

'Patriotism is the virute of the vicous' - Oscar Wilde

'Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel' - Dr S. Johnson

2. Panel discussion on atheism where no atheists are included

Comment #21395 by gsrns on February 9, 2007 at 2:52 am

e mail I wrote to the panelists:

Dear Debbie/Professor Hunter,


I was embarrassed and saddened by your display on CNN the other night. I am from Europe, an area of the world which you seem to think is falling into moral decay; but we think is blessed with enlightened thought and secularity.

Professor Hunter, can you imagine the outcry caused if you had asked the Jewish Community 'to just shut up' about their beliefs?

Debbie, anyone who claims their nation has a religious bent as you do 'This is a Christian country' is oppressive. 'Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion', do you really believe that? Do you really believe people should be forced to believe in something for which there is no concrete evidence against their wishes? Children should not be forced to pledge allegiance to a God they can have no understanding or concept of just because their parents tell them to. Your views, especially your glib references to Islam are bordering on the fascist. I cannot believe that you are allowed to be a voicepiece on television.

Or perhaps you are both endemic reflections of the blind unquestioning and backward population of the United States who fail to question their beliefs or gain wider knowledge of science and the natural world.

I await any response but am fairly sure I will receive none,

Regards,

Rohan Stewart

P.S. I missed last night, but I dearly hope that Richard Dawkins made you look as foolish as you are.

3. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #12518 by gsrns on December 12, 2006 at 10:55 am

One more thing Shaun (I'm afraid I'm assuming that is you name as i haven't trawled through all your comments, although they do look interesting.)

At one point you mention what your children would think if you brought them up in a certain manner, but you must be aware that if you allow them to follow the example of the God of the Old Testament, they will become: (and forgive me the obvious lift from a man far more erudite than I): jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomashochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

As Kingasauras has pointed out, how can you worship this idol? even if it didn't defy all logic to put your store in stories so ridiculous and irrational. (Noah, Lot, Jesus, Moses, Lazarus) The creature you believe invented the world provides a worse role model for your children than Hitler.

If you reject creationism (as well you should)and plump for Intelligent Design are you not concerned that you are landing in a half way zone? a kind of pseudo-science where you haven't entirely embraced enlightenement, but you don't have the courage to entirely reject the God that provides you with so much comfort in the bleak face of the fact that we only get one shot at this life.

If so, there is only question:

Who designed your 'Designer'?

4. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #12513 by gsrns on December 12, 2006 at 10:27 am

Shaunyboy,

Why do you think faith should be admired?

What should be admired is reason and evidence.

Just because there are certain questions in the universe that cannot be explained yet, does not mean that we should assign irrational and superstitious ideals about a 'supreme being' or 'intelligent designer' in order to keep us comforted in our ignorance.


All it would take, as evolutionists have noted, is one fossil in the wrong place in the the sequence and the whole theory would be blown out of the water. Science when proved wrong, unlike religion, does not stick to its doctrine like a man on a sinking ship, but abandons it and starts again.

Richard, 'I know nothing of evolution and I don't really care' is pretty much the most laughably embarrassing comment I have ever heard anyone utter. If you don't know what the options are how can you be sure you have the right one?

Only a lighter note, can I just say how fantastic it is to be on a blog with intelligent, evolved humans