1. How to bend a spoon with just your mind

Comment #314804 by cam9976 on January 7, 2009 at 2:42 pm

I have a theory: I believe that the steel bar was already bent, and he was just turning it in his fingers so that it was angled upwards (and therefore visable) instead of towards the camera, which would have made it appear flat. Ya think I'm right?

2. What Will Change Everything?

Comment #310746 by cam9976 on January 1, 2009 at 11:03 pm

The induction of extreme longevity / heathiness in humans through genetic engineering...

3. Anti-terror law requires God be acknowledged

Comment #293370 by cam9976 on November 28, 2008 at 8:50 pm

Judging by the rise in terrorism-related deaths in recent years it's clear god is lousy at preventing terrorism.

4. Letter to the European Parliament on Turkey's banning of RichardDawkins.net

Comment #289933 by cam9976 on November 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm

If there's one thing that the Turks want more than anything else it's admittance into the EU... Hopefully the desire to join the EU will trigger an immediate response from Ankara and the website will be un-censored.

5. SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

Comment #284614 by cam9976 on November 15, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Hello? IRS? Revoke their tax exempt status already!!!

6. Leukaemia case raises hopes of possible AIDS cure

Comment #284611 by cam9976 on November 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm

If I had HIV and was lucky enough to locate a person with resistant genes who was a match to me I'd most certainly pay them for a marrow transplant.

7. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #276701 by cam9976 on November 2, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I have a question which is not at all related to this article (sorry... I just didn't know where else to post it). I've been worrying about the religiosity in my high school (I live in supposedly secular and liberal San Ramon CA) and I was wondering if there was any law banning the establishment of school clubs which promote a particular religion?

The members of this club actually posted a video on facebook:(http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=28308929284&oid=77956925542)
and it really disgusted me. Is there any way in which I can get this club removed?

8. Why Children Like to Share

Comment #276698 by cam9976 on November 2, 2008 at 12:44 pm

The argument presented by this article is entirely false. The author is presenting the same information as Dawkins and others who study human behaior do but drawing completly the wrong conclusion. Yes, altruism is real, but it is ultimatly shaped by natural selection to benefit our selfish genes... why else would altruism exist? Has anyone ever come up with a better explanation for altruism that is consistant with logic and evidence?

Also: just because altruism is rooted in selfishness does not--in my opinion--devalue altruism. Supermodels are made from dust and flowers from maneur, but that doesn't make them any less beautiful. What people think Dawkins and other scientists are doing is 'unweaving the rainbow' where in fact they are just discovering rational explanations for interesting natural phenomenon.

This sort of rejection of scientific explanation because it conflicts with one's sense of 'beauty' is--in my opinion--more dangerous to the development of science than any kind of superstition. [Sorry for rambling, just had to get that off my chest].

9. Teaching hate in UK schools

Comment #275718 by cam9976 on October 31, 2008 at 12:55 pm

I think that if Islam wants to become a part of western society they'll have to get better at hiding their racism and intolerance like the christians and jews have already done.

10. Cartoons from Turkey

Comment #255565 by cam9976 on September 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

I have a question which is not at all related to this article (sorry... I just didn't know where else to post it). I've been worrying about the religiosity in my high school (I live in supposedly secular and liberal San Ramon CA) and was wondering if there was any law banning the establishment of school clubs which promote a particular religion?

The members of this club actually posted a video on facebook:(http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=28308929284&oid=77956925542)
and it really disgusted me. Is there any way in which I can get this club removed?

11. God Only SEEMS Nonexistent!

Comment #240347 by cam9976 on August 31, 2008 at 11:30 am

LOL! Brilliant satire right here!

12. Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions

Comment #233404 by cam9976 on August 19, 2008 at 9:52 pm

Although it's true that the supposed Templar heirs probably aren't heirs I really wouldn't mind seeing the church loosing $150 billion.

13. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #222518 by cam9976 on July 31, 2008 at 1:47 pm

"Making fun of Jesus Christ, whom I love more than my wife, in a film is going to offend me."

That really is sad.

Btw: has anyone noticed the underlying homosexual themes inherant in christianity? For a people who hate gays they act pretty gay themselves.

14. Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights

Comment #222514 by cam9976 on July 31, 2008 at 1:43 pm

If I am a doctor who is also a Jehova's Witess and believe that blood transfusions are evil can I refuse to give one to a patient and watch him bleed to death?

15. Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give business a leg-up

Comment #218954 by cam9976 on July 25, 2008 at 9:38 pm

I wonder if there will also be a surge in the number of vulnerable young catholics molested during the pope's trip.

16. Texas Fiction Science

Comment #218953 by cam9976 on July 25, 2008 at 9:34 pm

Give them back to Mexico. We could eliminate about forty red electoral votes that way.

17. An Original Confession

Comment #207469 by cam9976 on July 9, 2008 at 10:47 pm

I read On the Origin of Species after I'd already read all of Dawkins books, so I really wasn't shocked at the brilliance of his idea... it was old news to me by that time. I feel as though I'd be biased to say it was a bad book, I really didn't like reading it that much.

18. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204784 by cam9976 on July 5, 2008 at 6:31 pm

I truly envy those who have the balls required to spend a lifetime studying fairytales.

19. PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

Comment #200957 by cam9976 on June 28, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Why are we obsessing over this story...? yes it was funny, yes it illustrated the hypocrisy and stupidity of the creationists... but isn't enough enough already!?!

20. Hints of 'time before Big Bang'

Comment #189941 by cam9976 on June 7, 2008 at 8:34 pm

It's a good idea to be agnostic about things like "the arrow of time" or "time before the BB," as the evidence supporting these theories is flimsy.

21. Louisiana's latest creationism bill moves to House floor

Comment #185422 by cam9976 on May 27, 2008 at 7:07 pm

This sort of thing makes me sad to be an American.

22. Mail-boat record 'proves Darwin stole his original ideas from a Welsh scientist'

Comment #185261 by cam9976 on May 27, 2008 at 9:44 am

Who gives a damn. Science is science; it doesn't matter who is credited with the formulation of a particular theory, only that the theory is scientifically sound.

23. 'Reverse Evolution' Discovered in Seattle Fish

Comment #183777 by cam9976 on May 22, 2008 at 7:41 pm

Using the term 'reverse evolution' only proves that the author doesn't have a proper understanding of the evolutionary process. Evolution only works in one way, creating creatures that are better suited for their niches... evolving traits which were similar to ancient ancestors is not reverse evolution, it is simply evolving structures similar to those of an ancestor.

24. Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'

Comment #182665 by cam9976 on May 20, 2008 at 7:59 pm

This is how freedom begins to die.

25. The Dissent Of Darwin - The World Of Richard Dawkins

Comment #180381 by cam9976 on May 14, 2008 at 6:08 pm

I was particularily intrigued about their exchange of evolution as a positive vs. negative force.

26. The Neural Buddhists

Comment #179799 by cam9976 on May 13, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I hate this new age garbage of trying to muddle science with religion. People such as this author are trained in science, and are therefore able to sneak snip-bits of religious bullshit into their ideas and make them seem legitimate, even scientifically accepted. These people are even worse than the fundamentalists because they do not shun science but instead try to pervert it to their own ends.

27. What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider

Comment #175670 by cam9976 on May 5, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Brilliant!

28. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #172506 by cam9976 on April 29, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Hopefully Ben Stein will be Expelled from the Jewish community.

29. Pat Condell: Anthology DVD available now!

Comment #172503 by cam9976 on April 29, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Carlin and Lewis Black are good, but Condell is a bit more intellectual about denouncing religion [as he is not doing stand-up].

30. Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Comment #171446 by cam9976 on April 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm

But wait, Islam is a religion of peace!

31. Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear

Comment #171065 by cam9976 on April 28, 2008 at 9:35 am

Isn't is obvious that god made that Orangutan mimic human behavior to test our faith in Jesus?

32. Sex for diploma offer caught on tape

Comment #164168 by cam9976 on April 19, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Well, I think we should look at the bright side: at least it wasn't an alterboy.

33. Teacher Expelled Over Religion

Comment #161651 by cam9976 on April 15, 2008 at 1:25 pm

Wasn't this settled in Pennsylvania?

34. British schools are falling for the pseudoscience of Brain Gym. Why fill kids' heads with nonsense?

Comment #160898 by cam9976 on April 14, 2008 at 2:26 pm

I think I pulled a transistor in my pre-frontal cortex while reading this load of bull-crap.

35. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #160897 by cam9976 on April 14, 2008 at 2:25 pm

I think I'm gonna hurl...

36. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160289 by cam9976 on April 13, 2008 at 10:31 pm

It't not a very convincing argument is it? that we should ignore all the bad stuff religion does to the world because of its benefits to art...

37. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #159306 by cam9976 on April 11, 2008 at 11:27 pm

It's always wonderful to see atheists teaming up like this: Maher brings his popularity and comedic sense to the table while Dawkins espouses his massive intellect.

38. Scientists take drugs to boost brain power: study

Comment #159221 by cam9976 on April 11, 2008 at 5:16 pm

Just as atheletes, to whom their physique is important, take steroids, scientists, who value brain power, are going to try and get something to make themselves smarter; it's human nature, right?

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

Comment #159220 by cam9976 on April 11, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Hmmmmmm.... doesn't sound like her apology was all that sincere, does it?

40. The List: The World's Worst Religious Leaders

Comment #159219 by cam9976 on April 11, 2008 at 5:11 pm

The author forgot that Stalin and Mao's brand of communism was highly religious in nature and that Hitler established a quasi state religion of Catholic mysticism and occultism in Germany.

41. Expelled producers accused of copyright infringement

Comment #158447 by cam9976 on April 10, 2008 at 2:26 pm

They apparantly know even less about U.S. copyright laws than they do about science.

42. Commentary: Democrats finally getting religion on religion

Comment #157890 by cam9976 on April 9, 2008 at 5:21 pm

Unfortunatly it is difficult to win an election in America without appealing to religion and absolutly impossible to win if you're an atheist or an agnostic.

43. The books that inspire me

Comment #157879 by cam9976 on April 9, 2008 at 4:51 pm

I've only read the Demon Haunted World and Black Cloud... guess I have some work to do.

44. Protests no concern for outspoken atheist

Comment #155498 by cam9976 on April 4, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Ya got me there Bonzai...

45. Protests no concern for outspoken atheist

Comment #155263 by cam9976 on April 4, 2008 at 9:36 am

I believe that the Evolution vs. Creation debate is 'unbalanced' in the same way as the helio-centric vs. geo-centric solar system theries are unbalanced.

46. Anti-gay Okla. lawmaker attracts 1,000 backers

Comment #154548 by cam9976 on April 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm

She's right you know: the bible specifically denounces homosexuality as sin... but then again, the bible also condones slavery and rape.

47. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #154184 by cam9976 on April 2, 2008 at 8:09 pm

Happy Birthday!!!

48. BBC 'too scared to allow jokes about Islam'

Comment #154183 by cam9976 on April 2, 2008 at 8:08 pm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1905780729741629328&q=dutch islam&total=1295&start=50&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

I'd be afraid of Islam too... This is the reason Theo Van Gogh was killed.

49. Darwin told us so: Researcher shows natural selection speeds up speciation

Comment #154181 by cam9976 on April 2, 2008 at 8:02 pm

errrr.... duh?