1. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204073 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 5:02 am

OK, you disagree with my point about staunchly religious schools by talking about vaguely religious (staunch CofE probably teaches evolution as being correct) schools and saying it don't work that way.......

At least I'm right :P

It matters not. I'll take my 6 terhovinds (that's 6000 gigahovinds, or 6 x 10 ^ 12 hovinds).

Night all. Sweet dream, don't let baby Jesus bite.....

2. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204071 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:55 am

How many terahovinds did my last post rate?

3. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204070 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:54 am

Bonzai. You are correct. My point, if you can call it that, was the blanket assertion of Fanusi that only Islam seeks to undermine or overthrow secular democracy. If this generation christians can get state funded woo, then next generation they may get the state to back the woo. This is possible here in Australia as we have no codified rights of free speech or freedom. It's implied by the constitution and up to the high court to administer. There is no problem with the high court saying that all children are to be religiously educated. Though it is highly unlikely at this point. The only part of our constitution that references religion is the clause that states that one cannot be refused a job on the basis of religion.....

4. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204066 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:48 am

Goldy, I saw Once were Warriors and being easily influenced. I'll stay here. :)

5. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204061 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:41 am

Come to greensborough in Melbourne. You're only in danger of catching the cold or having a dog sniff you as you walk past it on the way home from the pub.....

Of course there are possums.....

6. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204060 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:40 am

Fanusi, there are schools now operating, at tax payer expense, here in Australia that are Ken Ham's wet dream. They didn't exist a decade ago. If a child has it hammered into him from day nought that the Bible (or Quran) is the unadulterated truth. Then I see that as a danger to secular society.

EDIT. I do agree with your point about equivocation. I was only arguing with your universal statement. :)

7. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204052 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:30 am

And where exactly are these Christians, Jews, and Hindus who want to demolish the secular state?

8. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204051 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:28 am

Goldy, I couldn't think of the bloody term. So I drunkufactured. You don't like spiral of reinforcement? Then don't use it and you won't have to pay royalties.

9. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204048 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:22 am

Islam is the patriachal tripe....

How many gigahovinds did that peak at?

10. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204046 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:17 am

Oh, you're talking about a spiral of reinforcement? Cool. That sort of was why I made the point about hating the disease (religion) not the sufferers (believers). Anyway, it really wasn't much of a point. I like to make profound sounding points that don't stand up to inspection. :)

11. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204043 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:14 am

I should point out that I was talking about gaseous outflow. The more material outflow has been known to peak in the gigahovinds. :)

12. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204041 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:12 am

My butt's outflow hovers around several millihovinds.....

13. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204039 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 4:09 am

Analysis please:

Brian, they might only do me harm because of what they have been told which has been reinforced by what I have heard and made me feel that way about them which has made them feel that way about me.

14. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #204030 by Brian English on July 4, 2008 at 3:52 am

Goldy, simple rule. Hate the disease, not the sufferers. Even though the sufferers might do you harm. :)

15. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203910 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Clearthinker, maybe it's another opportunity to remind people here how stupid/evil Islam is and therefore all religion is? Maybe you could ask Josh why he posted the article instead of assuming...

I wonder, would you have any arguments that support your belief in God. Obviously arguments that have a natural explanation are not convincing. But maybe you have some logical explanation or evidence of phenomena that are not private to you that cannot be explained naturally?

16. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203903 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Was that the one you were having in my honour? Was it good?

17. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #203898 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:50 pm

Clearmind. If it's not too much trouble. How can you claim that the universe is designed if you've never seen a universe being designed or the designs?

18. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203894 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:46 pm

4 beers. That should take about 40 minutes if you're going slow Goldy. :)

19. Crack annoyance squad wanted

Comment #203893 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:44 pm

That was creepy, flying in the bones of some guy.

20. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #203889 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Clearmind, have you seen the universe being designed or the designer of the universe? I ask because you claim the that universe is designed. To know this you must have seen designs or a designer. Please provide some evidence.

21. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #203884 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Clearmind. How are you today? Can you explain how you know the universe has a designer? Have you seen a universe being designed or built? Have you seen the designer of the universe or his designs?

22. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203881 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 10:11 pm

txpiper, are you a young Earth creationist, or an old Earth creationist or something else?

You say you're biased in favor of a written account in a book that is authenticated by prophecies. I take it you mean the Quran, which as any muslim will tell you fits that description. Would this be correct.

23. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203874 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Have a good one. :)

24. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203872 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm

Have a beer for me Goldy. :)

25. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #203871 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm

Hi txpiper. Do you have an explanation for varied life from the Brocolli to Blue Whale?

26. Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail

Comment #203850 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 8:36 pm

Nasty comments there. :)

27. Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail

Comment #203846 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 8:14 pm

ID was an attempt to get creationism past the law of separation of church and state in the US. Under that law, religion cannot be supported by the state and it's the state that provides education. So, creationism, being a religiously inspired doctrine would violate the law. The strategy with ID was to pose ID as an scientific theory, on equal footing with theory of Evolution (ToE). ID says that some parts, if not all of life is to complex to have developed naturally and points to, or requires a designer to explain the complexity. ID has no scientific merit because it proposes no testable hypotheses or predictive power.
The idea was to get ID allowed into schools as science, then of course, the designer would be the particular deity of the creationists. This is why it was struck down because it's not a scientific theory and was obviously a front to get religion into the classroom....

28. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203785 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Hi Clearthinker, how do you know that Josh posted the article to a) stigmatise all muslims? b) stigmtize all religious people? Atheism doesn't need justification, it's the default position. You don't need to teach a child that there are no gods. You need to teach them repetitively that there is only this or that god. As far as I can see the article was posted to ridicule Islam, and religion by association.

29. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203512 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 3:50 am

It's good that we agree that our friend Robert is entertaining. :0

30. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203504 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 3:23 am

Now, now Robert has been good value. :)

31. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #203501 by Brian English on July 3, 2008 at 3:15 am

Ian spoketh:

Plato proposed it in the Republic. It is based upon animal breeding, which was Darwin's model for Natural Selection.

32. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #203433 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 11:17 pm

That's cause the Vipers couldn't hack the walk from Noah's Ark to Australia. Even the Koalas without any Eucalypt leaves could do that!

33. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #203428 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Hi allabaster. You seem to reject theory of Evolution. Thus, how do you explain the life in its varied forms? If you believe in God, could you please present some arguments to support God's existence? Thanks. :)

34. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203371 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 6:05 pm

If you've ever had a squiz at the Alhambra in Granada or some of the Moorish architecture in Seville or Cordoba I don't think you'd say that Islam and beauty are necessarily at odds.....

35. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203359 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 5:39 pm

I never fight. I suck at it and don't see it solving much in most situations. So you needn't be concerned. That and the fact that I'm in OZ ;)

Night Gary.

36. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203355 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Don't worry ggab7768. Al is probably just getting your home address. He'll be around to kick your arse shortly. :P

37. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203350 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Goldy, I believe Richard will soon be releasing his range of fine wines and spirits soon. They have that crisp, clear taste that one would expect from Richard, with a bite that leaves you under no assumptions that his spirits are real, not the imaginary variety. :)

38. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203333 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 4:21 pm

Goldy, I recommend a few stiff drinks to cure ya. :)

39. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203309 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:50 pm

8teist, no we can't. :P

40. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #203302 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Clearmind. Thank you for your verbose answer. Perhaps in putting so much effort into writing, you didn't quite see the flaw in your analogy.

A house is something that we see designed every day. We see people designing them all the time. We see them being built all the time. Therefore when one sees a house, one rightly thinks it was designed by a people and built by people. Correct?

Now, we only have experience of one small part of the universe. We have never seen a universe designed. We have never seen the designer of the universe or any plans for the design of a universe. We've never seen the manufacture of the universe. Correct?

Please explain how you know the universe was designed.

41. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202853 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 4:05 am

Well it's good night from me. :)

42. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202851 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 4:04 am

Steve, I think your conversations with theists are leading you down the path of the supernatural. I fear for you. :)

43. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202850 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 4:03 am

It is Steve, the magic of muscles, ribs and flexible spine. :)

44. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202847 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:58 am

But spiders are arthropods. That is, articulated foot animals. Like lobsters, crabs, yabbies, and all those delicious little buggers. Why do you hate the lobster Tyler?

45. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #202846 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:56 am

Epeeist, that cartoon confuses me. Unless the Archibishop is gay, it turns on an equivocation. That of 'faggot' meaning a bundle of straw or twigs, or the pejorative term for homosexual.....

Hang on. I think I get it. It's about the schism in the CofE between the catholic leaning types and the liberal, gay friendly types. The ArchB must be of the latter band.

46. Can't Darwin and God get along?

Comment #202842 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:49 am

The Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), also known as the Small Scaled Snake and Fierce Snake, is native to Australia and is the most venomous land snake in the world...A single bite from the Inland Taipan contains enough venom to kill as many as 100 human adults, or 250,000 mice

47. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #202835 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:42 am

Now you're getting it Steve! When talking to the sheep, remind them that the Wolf is out to get them. When talking to the sheepdogs, remind them that everybody shares in the heritage of the wolves. :)

48. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #202827 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:36 am

Steve, I'm closed minded to anything your materialistic mindset vomits forth. In fact, I hold that scripture, that is my personal interpretation of scripture, is primary to all knowledge. Science is only true when it concurs with my scripture. This demonstrates my open mindedness and your dogmatic adherence to the false doctrine of empirically valid, logically sound 'knowledge'. You're a dogmatist! If only you'd notice the truth I speak and agree with me like a good sheep. By the way, God bless you and save you from the hell you deserve for not following my doctrine. After all, it's your fault for not agreeing with me. Peace!

49. Faith schools undermined by 'Government witch hunt'

Comment #202821 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:21 am

Is there anything wrong with this approach?

50. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #202813 by Brian English on July 2, 2008 at 3:06 am

Epeeist. I bow to your authority. Also, it's quite difficult to pursue an argument sometimes. But lately I've found that theists are the gift that keeps giving. :)

I did notice that Robert went quiet when I mentioned that I was quoting Hawking. Who may be just a tad knowledgeable of on QM. Not just some guy who sounds knowledgeable. :)