1. Carlin on Religion

Comment #199226 by TruthByEvidence on June 25, 2008 at 10:54 am

I'm sad now.

I'm glad that his words and wit remain here with us.

2. Stephen Hawking: ministers' £80m error puts science at risk

Comment #193439 by TruthByEvidence on June 15, 2008 at 3:45 pm

I agree that those bloody politicians are ruining science if they think that it doesn't deserve more than adequate funding!

I believe that Stephen Hawking and Mr. Turok should leave if they must, yet I do not wish for them to simply GIVE UP!

Highly regarded scientists in the United Kingdom should urge for change through means that can also garner public support in some way.

If this goes unabated, this shall be a tremendous disaster! This issue must be addressed immediately, without delay!

-_- Articles about this asinine behaviour and its dire consequences makes my blood boil. I feel like there isn't enough support for these brilliant minds, for the average person needn't care.

People whom understand such implications need to do something before science is shoved down further on the spectrum of importance!

Richard Dawkins titled his TED talk "An Atheist's Call to Arms" and I completely agree with him, and I believe that it should also imply a subtext for all those in all religious views to be a

"Scientist's Call to Arms".

I can't believe that a government would destroy such an important part of humanity's contributions.

Sickening, truly. Something must be done! If rationalists simply allow such desecrations to progress only upset us, we are allowing to be tread upon.

As a single individual whom knows that ideas of increased progress by spreading knowledge is extremely prudent, I also know that I am not alone in believing such.

I believe that these recent books and outlets are very important because they start a more keen awareness of how things CAN be better, yet not just if we slide along with everything.

If anyone should help start a civil, action-oriented movement to change these misdeeds, it should be founded by Richard Dawkins himself. (Personal selection)

I am sincerely frightened by the direction some of these events lead my mind to, and the conclusion that it may hinder.

If there are groups that have even made a dent in the overall political/societal system, let me know by sending me a message.

I know of the 'Rational Response' peoples, yet I'm looking for someone that most everyone can stand by without feeling like these ideas are scary. No yelling, just a very large dose of strong emotion that can make someone see the misdeeds of the religious and the ignorant leaders of countries leading this world into a dark dwelling.

In the 1950's, progress was seemed imminent, positivity about the future was much more present(so I'm told and can see;The World's Fair etcetera)... and now we have so much convenience, many people seem to be too comfortable with their isolated lives, secluding themselves from actual problems that can hurt us all.

I'm sure that my feelings are not alone here, and I do not advocate violence or radical implementation by utilising negativity in its many forms.

I feel like the world is teetering and I read these articles, perhaps a bit sensationalised, yet nonetheless unsettling.

HELP!

Thank you to anyone who has actually read all of this rant. I sincerely would like to know if there is such a 'campaign' to make this world better composed of atheists and logical thinkers. We need more of those and they are being made by open communication like the internet, yet can some of these problems be fixed in time?

I say yes. Let me know.



(This should probably be on the message boards or something...I apologise for the length)

3. From Big Bang to Us - Made Easy

Comment #192683 by TruthByEvidence on June 13, 2008 at 10:58 pm

I'm surprised this hasn't been featured earlier. I've enjoyed these videos since their genesis.

WONDERFUL! ^_^

4. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188686 by TruthByEvidence on June 4, 2008 at 11:39 am

The strengths and weaknesses?

So.... what does that mean?

"This section totally makes sense, class! However, this bit, not so much...unless you actually read it to a point that involves maintained comprehension of complex ideas that are backed by evidences that are so abundant that only someone not educated about such concepts would question it seriously, for all his inquiries and questions have already been answered decades ago by top notch scientists and biologists."

..."So, yeah class, you're 16, you're ALL intelligent enough to be capable of understanding these ideas enough to make your own assertions, for obviously, us professors and teachers have no place to classify these things as factual! What kind of absurdity would that be? You might actually learn something in science class, and we just simply can't have that!"

P.S.

Why is it that many high school science teachers in the US are usually rather unenthusiastic about the subject? Is it their wages and the apathy of the students, or do they just not like science? It makes me sad...

5. The Faith of Flanders

Comment #184494 by TruthByEvidence on May 25, 2008 at 1:36 pm

My favourite bit is when Homer gets his crayon out of his brain (literally) and becomes intelligent....

Ned is on his way to church and Homer, with a sheet of paper in his hands says, "Hey Flanders, mind if I save you some time?"

"Well, okely dokely, neighboreno!"

then he says

"I was just calculating my flat taxes and I happened to have proven that there is no god."

Ned snatches Homer's paper and says, "Well, maybe he made a mistake...erhm...no...
It's air-tight. *looks around coyly* Welp, better not let this doosey get out there." *Burns it with a lighter*
.
.
.
To reveal Homer distributing copies on everyone's car wind shield!


BRILLIANT!

Oh, and this writer is a wanker. Am I allowed to say that? Yeah, he is a waste of space. Ugh.

6. Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?

Comment #184254 by TruthByEvidence on May 24, 2008 at 7:30 am

It's interesting to think of time as a tangible force as opposed to a simple perception of biological life.

I personally believe that time is a perception of gradual change in the cosmos... yet since we are constructs of that same cosmos, why do we only see time one way?

When you think of time as being different based upon the gravitational fields in the area of space, it becomes a more fascinating force than a simple Earth clock.

It becomes something that CAN be altered and manipulated...based upon gravity that has an effect on dimensions that has an effect on our perception of four of those spatial dimensions.

(The fourth is spacetime, if I am not incorrect.)

This sort of science inspires me so! I wish I knew Michio Kaku, Paul Davies, Steven Weinberg and Stephen Hawking personally...

*tear*

I suppose these articles show that Richard Dawkins still has a passion for these physics as well! How fun is that!

7. Tribute to a Beloved Mentor

Comment #183990 by TruthByEvidence on May 23, 2008 at 11:16 am

If there is science, there too is beauty.

Richard Dawkins writes like a micro-organism. With millions of them together, you can see a tremendous mass of extraordinary living matter.

When you dive deep into the structure of the cells, even the atoms that make up all this brilliant culmination of beauty, you see the humble elegance that keeps the tremendous organism living.

From afar, his writings appear high-brow and complex, yet they are riddled with art and splendour that many do not see in simple fact-inducing text books. He drives me to love science. That is what makes him most extraordinary to me.

Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding [and PASSION-inducement] of SCIENCE.

Brilliant!

8. Richard Dawkins Responds to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #181293 by TruthByEvidence on May 16, 2008 at 9:07 pm

I find Richard Dawkins' need to respond to a storm in a teapot very similar to my own, as well as many other peoples I'm sure can relate.

It is nice to see that he can still pay attention to the lesser important details of life whilst also being a type of rock star socially.

With this Rabbi, however, it seems that some people cannot admit any fault about themselves...ever. Why is he so upset? Can't he just see that he yells and howls like a lunatic? The most popularized lunatic in recent history that is not fictional is Adolf Hitler.(Well, one of them.)


Steps.
1. Yells like Hitler
2. Is criticized about his Hitler yelling.
3. Yells even more like Hitler.
4. Explained that he is not Hitler,but yells similarly.
5. Becomes Hitler.

9. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179174 by TruthByEvidence on May 12, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Truly pathetic.

Prayer: How to do absolutely nothing with sincere intentions of making a situation better.

Are these people the result of a two thousand year old text? Idiots praying to change something that is well within HUMAN hands?

It's not like it's the weather. Kooks.

10. Justice In The Brain: Equity And Efficiency Are Encoded Differently

Comment #178028 by TruthByEvidence on May 10, 2008 at 9:44 am

I suppose that has a good amount of logic, although somewhat sad logic at that.

It is much easier to see the pain and suffering of an individual. You can talk to a single person, hear their story, know of their past and look into their eyes to create a sense of attachment.

However, if there are many, many people/children whom are starving or in need, unless you get to know all of them, it is easy to dismiss them as being 'less important' because you feel detached.

I've met people that think like, "Oh, someone else will do it" or "So? I don't know them!". These attitudes thoroughly make me cringe, yet I also understand their essential nature because I feel the same way at times. Who hasn't shifted the responsibility to someone else when you know you could help?

It would be beneficial if helping others was implanted into the minds of more children and adults.

A good example is walking, driving, or going on a train/bus.

Each and every person has a place to sleep. A place to stay. Objects in a flat/house. A family and close friends. A spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend. Each of them has a job of some sort(if of a certain age.) Each wants to be happy.

It is so easy to simply say, "Oh, well, I don't know them, so I don't care."

That is sad. It is because of travel that we've outgrown the evolutionary technique of helping those in our 'tribe' or general vicinity. (Imagine a small town where everyone knows each other)

It seems to me that the less attached you are to a person/group, the less likely you truly empathize or wish to offer consolation.

So...communication is always a beneficial thing.

Fascinating article.

11. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks

Comment #177495 by TruthByEvidence on May 9, 2008 at 7:27 am

There's always something out there that wants to suppress ideas that claim that ideas are to be shared with everyone, yet ones that involve killing others if they disagree are not as respected, as they shouldn't be.

These countries dominated by islam need a speaker to tell them these things.

Show the muslims new ideas. What they truly need is a leader whom masquerades like a radical and eventually rises to power and changes something drastically.

The muslims need to open their minds first, because fighting this frightening mentality all at once is far too expansive to be efficiently successful. It might take so much time that we (freedom allowing) may lose footing.

What can simpletons such as I do to help aid this cause WITH OUT threats of my murder, which are, unfortunately, all too realistic.

12. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #177316 by TruthByEvidence on May 8, 2008 at 10:59 pm

Aww... I suppose that means there will be no rebuttal from this rabbi..

It is highly probably that our rabbit suffered a heart attack after reading this letter.

Good show Richard!

13. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163039 by TruthByEvidence on April 17, 2008 at 9:44 pm

WHICH VIDEO SOURCE HAS RICHARD DAWKINS in the SUNGLASSES?!?!?

That was brilliant and I must have missed that interview. Extremely funny! Thank goodness for humour!

14. Yoko Ono, Filmmakers Caught in 'Expelled' Flap

Comment #162407 by TruthByEvidence on April 16, 2008 at 10:13 pm

If Yoko Ono supports Lennon being involved in this...

I shall be very disappointed.

15. Scientists take drugs to boost brain power: study

Comment #159583 by TruthByEvidence on April 12, 2008 at 3:07 pm

So, does that mean that I should be taking these drugs as well?

I was prescribed medication when I was younger, yet stopped due to a personal desire to not become dependent upon such substances...

Reading things like this makes me think twice about such things...


Some people take pills to feel cool, some take them to perform well in school. ~ L

16. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156482 by TruthByEvidence on April 7, 2008 at 4:00 pm

A new generation of fools?


Damn.

17. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #156481 by TruthByEvidence on April 7, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I thought I said it once before on page 3... oh well..


I(and WE all) LOVE YOU RICHARD DAWKINS!

Your elegantly sewn words are part of the fabric that inspires me to be the best I can be.

I hope you don't feel any older, because your brain seems to becoming younger!

I always wish that I had a father like you, and you seem like the absolutely best type of father figure that one could wish for. (I don't mean to offend with the

^_^

18. Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights

Comment #153008 by TruthByEvidence on March 31, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Sooooo...

Now what?


This has an ominous ring of evil surrounding it...

19. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153004 by TruthByEvidence on March 31, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Good to know that the Christians are milder in their contempt for bible-bashing.

My goodness, why is there such a fuss at any criticism?

And why are there so many violent Muslims on the internet? Cleansing the web from anti-Islam? Honestly!

20. I always aim to misbehave

Comment #152193 by TruthByEvidence on March 30, 2008 at 11:59 am

So....

They deceive the creation of the film by setting false ways of interviewing...

Then they kick you out of the film's free showing...

...and lie about the reasons why, act as if there are no true reviews (of which I myself have read several) and then they ask you to 'hang up'....'honourably'

Oh, dear.

I think they sound like bags of douche.

Keep it up, Paul (Do you not like that name?) Myers!

21. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149006 by TruthByEvidence on March 24, 2008 at 10:58 pm

This film has sounded dreadful from the beginning...yet your depiction of its hellish length and horrid lies fascinates me.

Is it wrong to wish to attempt to understand what these creationists falsely believe? I see it as a way to reassure stupidity of such claims.
(YouTube is infamous for the many debates of both arguments...and on that forum, anyway....ATHEISM WINS.)


So, I've decided I shall download a shoddy version of the film (if it can possibly be any worse, that is) and view it as long as I can bear. (I'm predicting that the box will be eliminated before the film reaches 10 minutes)

Ben Stein:

A petty man whom uses his manipulative, egotistical nature to produce unsatisfying writings for American presidents, create dull one-dimensional 'acting' and boast about his excessive wealth attributed to him by being a brown-nosing bag of douche. (Ouch, how undignified of language! Yet, I think it only fitting for someone as petty and useless as he truly is.)

Note:

If you have the misfortune of actually watching his 'comedy' sketches in films, you'll find that he is ALWAYS boring..like it's a joke! The joke is on the viewer, because he is not pretending to be devoid of charisma, he simply cannot prevent such hollow emotion. To think; his initial career was to be a SPEECH-WRITER! American politicians decided to hire a drone to write speeches. I'm beginning to think this man's life is an unfortunate joke that's lacking the punch-line!



Thank you Mr. Dawkins for your thorough and rightfully vitriolic critique on this 'movie' .

[In casual speaking of films and movies, it is loosely said that films are filled with ideas, integrity of the creators and leave the viewer entranced by the artwork that is the film, whereas a 'movie' is a piece of rubbish that is created for the less refined masses to consume without any intellectual merit to redeem said 'movie'.

As far as direction of the film actually goes, even if the several cheap cut-aways were removed, the movie would still be lacking heavily in all departments of information and entertainment.

"If you have a scoop of ice cream in one hand in one hand and a piece of shit in the other, and you mix the two together, your hands are ultimately covered in shit."

22. Biology prof expelled from screening of 'Expelled'

Comment #147952 by TruthByEvidence on March 21, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Once more, showing the silliness of the propaganda the people behind it.

Dishonestly established interviews and unkind alleged ties to factual information that does not promote the violence that has previously incurred.

Hitler, the Roman Catholic...using the societally established terminology 'Darwinism' does not make science responsible for those events.

I didn't see Paul McCartney arrested for writing 'Helter Skelter' which allegedly inspired the greatly disturbed Charles Manson...

The parallels are silly! Just hearing about this nonsense makes me want to do something about it! There needs to be more emphasis on a banding of rational, capable atheists that can help prevent this ridicule and contempt.

P.S.

Ben Stein as a narrator... is that supposed to be a joke? I don't know about you, but his voice is not stimulating, nor are his ideas in this film very worthy of attention.

23. Bishop accuses gays of 'conspiracy' against the Catholic Church

Comment #143054 by TruthByEvidence on March 13, 2008 at 11:52 am

So... just because homosexual people want to be treated as equals and not considered outcasts by bigoted, out-dated religions and their corrupted leaders makes them even more horrible, because it is an attack on an inherently prejudiced society's lack of complete acceptance toward their lifestyles....

Wow, it makes absolute perfect sense now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

24. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #141932 by TruthByEvidence on March 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

If the Bible was so wonderful, why does it need so much defending?

The reason that all these fleas sprout is due to the insufficient to answer modern questions and lack credibility to be seen as reality.

Richard Dawkins, in my estimation, is merely stating the blatantly obvious truth of the matter.

After reading his latest book for the third time, as well as his other books(the most recent editions), I can see that his ideas are not at all new to himself nor to the world.

These 'fleas' are the very telling evidence of greatly brain-washed individuals whom feel a need to defend a book that cannot stand on its own any longer.

I earnestly believe that Richard Dawkins has created a wonderful movement, and his 'followers', more appropriately called admirers, shall not falter, for I cannot believe an atheist whom has truly understood the great magnitude of information contained in his book would ever convert to a religious lifestyle of servitude and the inability to question beliefs.

Comfort in feeling is one thing, yet to blindly give into silly nonsense is quite another.

P.S.

Also, take note: NONE of these books are receiving great accolades for their content nor their writing style.

I've had the misfortune of actually reading a few of these books, grimacing in the bookstore at the mere idea that they exist.

-I DID NOT PURCHASE ANY OF THEM-...because I don't believe that being a youth and wasting my money on bigoted, intelligence reducing dribble would be beneficial to myself nor any one else in all the world.

I personally can only hope to see these books fail the publishing standard and become the recycled paper for future books that actually have purpose. 'Holy' books most certainly not included.

"I do NOT love my enemies..." - C.E.H.

...And I, just as all atheists should, shall not be kind and submissive to the beliefs that cripple our planet and our progress.

-L

25. 10 cc of atheism

Comment #125698 by TruthByEvidence on February 11, 2008 at 9:26 pm

It is most refreshing to see a widely popular television show express stern (yet light hearted) criticism upon religion.

I wonder if this stirred up any controversy? I did not see the full episode, so I could not truly know.

Hmm.

26. Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science

Comment #125694 by TruthByEvidence on February 11, 2008 at 9:18 pm

This is a most disconcerting state of events that you are informing us of, Dr Dawkins.

The most worrisome idea of all is how shall there be a sufficient replacement for your undeniable genius?

Knowledge, provocative thoughts and radical ideas are present in many academic peoples, yet I feel your successor shall be lacking ever so slightly, for your charm and presence is simply irreplaceable.

Help change the world a little bit more each of your days, and no admirer of yours shall ever feel disappointed in your absence as a professor.

You have already made a place for yourself throughout this reality, but just remember, you can always do a little bit more.

^_^

27. The New Atheist Movement

Comment #124660 by TruthByEvidence on February 10, 2008 at 1:47 am

Oh my!!

Christians showing irritation by a movement that is gaining propulsion via the media and is showing ideas to influence the many masses!

It almost reminds me of something else...

Hmm...

[Truly, ironic. To think that theists are unhappy that similar tactics and resentment is being placed upon them NOW...Silly.]