1. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196396 by GBart on June 19, 2008 at 9:28 pm

Apparently the UN Human Rights Council doesn't give a shit about human rights. Ironic that they should be so named...


Time for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to start appointing official religous scholars or priests. Anyone who declares himself/herself a religious scholar now is within his/her rights to criticize any religion or cult.

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

Comment #191812 by GBart on June 11, 2008 at 9:30 pm

I'm going to have a discussion over the phone with this guy tomorrw. Hopefully I can educate him in the more recent (since 1860) developments in biology and cosmology.

3. Teacher tortures, kills boy

Comment #186885 by GBart on May 31, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Oh surely it must be political or economic. It can't be religion, because faith is a virtue!

Barbaric slime. Why is it so hard to rid the world of gods?

4. Shaw TV Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #175085 by GBart on May 4, 2008 at 11:15 am

Bonobos have language too... sort of.

They at least have some simple spoken language in the wild.

5. Austin Dacey - The Secular Conscience

Comment #150286 by GBart on March 26, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Link is dead

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xSlqpsdBQx4

6. Richard Dawkins on The Alan Colmes Show

Comment #143919 by GBart on March 14, 2008 at 3:54 pm

How does he stand that douchebag Hannity?

7. Richard Dawkins on five of his favorite books

Comment #132269 by GBart on February 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Why can't British people pronounce "controversey" GAWD

8. A Bunch of Monkeys

Comment #126209 by GBart on February 12, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Is that Teller at 1:20

9. Ayaan Hirsi Ali versus Timothy Garton Ash

Comment #126010 by GBart on February 12, 2008 at 11:27 am

Anyone else hear something like muffled music in the background? Either there's a party going on in the next room or there's a microphone picking up someone's... somewhat irregular... heartbeat.

10. Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues?

Comment #120684 by GBart on February 2, 2008 at 10:15 am

OK, we're waaaaayyy past showing evolution to be well-established fact. We even have really good evidence for several forms of abiogenesis now.

"Debating" evoultion is like beating a dead horse, except the horse has decomposed and been absorbed by the roots of some grass, which was then eaten by other horses, which have since died.

11. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #117986 by GBart on January 30, 2008 at 6:32 am

Uhh, I live in the US and I'm pretty sure the drinking age is a ubiquitous 21. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, the death penalty is on its way out, and there is no law against gay marriage. There are people lobbying for an amendment against it, but no such amendment exists, nor will it ever (I hope). It's up to the state governments.

Anyway, these debates are really frustrating. It's the 21st century - why the hell does anyone still believe in God? Someone needs to point out to these people that religion is nothing but fairy tales and nonsense to begin with!

Also, I'm embarrassed by the whole Clinton/Lewinski thing. The press has absolutely no right to ask the president about his personal life. It is NONE of their business, and he did the right thing by lying. I can't believe a bj almost earned him impeachment but Bush was elected to a second term. I live in a backwards country :-/

12. Interview with Richard Dawkins: On Christmas

Comment #112548 by GBart on January 17, 2008 at 12:53 pm

I think the best response to the part about atheists entering a church and having "an experience which will lead them to faith", would have been "well, if you entered a church of Sherlock Holmes, can you imagine having an experience which would lead you to faith in him?"

I find making this kind of comparison particularly useful. I use Peter Pan mostly, because you have a lot of parallels - Neverland = heaven, Capt. Hook = Satan, lost boys = angels etc etc.