1. Richard Dawkins discusses Einstein's new letters

Comment #179769 by Friggertool on May 13, 2008 at 5:29 pm

God does not play dice - Einstein

But he plays a mean game of chess!

2. Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools

Comment #175153 by Friggertool on May 4, 2008 at 4:29 pm

I grieves me sorely to see this mess befall Uncle Sam. He may not be the world's most popular guy at the moment, but he's certainly shown how the free world depended on him in the last century. It is said that America won the space race (and ultimately the cold war) because they had better Germans; those who fled Nazi persecution or emmigrated after WW2. Perhaps in the future freedom will depend on who's got the best Americans.

3. A New Jack Chick Tract: Moving On Up!

Comment #174891 by Friggertool on May 3, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Homer simpson and his neighbour...

4. Gods and earthlings

Comment #168168 by Friggertool on April 24, 2008 at 4:45 pm

"Yes, we're here today, but being that evolution is a continuous process, there is no reason to think that we are the endpoint. Organisms everywhere are still evolving today, including us. So if we are not an endpoint, then what reason is there to believe that we were explicitly created any more than any of the other organisms surrounding us?"...

Or indeed after us!

And as was said...
Arthur C. Clarke, who died last month, said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

But..."Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - Terry Pratchett.

5. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #167149 by Friggertool on April 23, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Winston Says...

'Religion is built into human consciousness and there is plentiful evidence of it being a cohesive force. Apart from the survival of our prehistoric ancestors, in recent times there are powerful examples of how a notion of the transcendental has spurred humans on in desperate situations. Viktor Frankl, in the midst of the extreme deprivation, dehumanisation and despair of Auschwitz observes how, in his assessment, only those with some spirituality - not necessarily a belief in God - survived the depravity of the camp.'

Every single word of this is wrong. How is human conciousness built Winston? There's a huge volume of evidence for religion being a dividing force. In the distant past there may have been communities with their own religious views which helped the rulers exercise power over their subjects. Isolated from other groups with different beliefs this was a relatively stable situation. But when contact is made with tribes of a different persuation, we all know too well what happens.

And I'm shocked how a Jew can write this shit about Death Camps. There's plenty other records from that time that the ones who survived were those who were most useful to the Nazis. Were the little children too small to reach the bar they had to be able to touch with their heads 'Lacking in spirituality?' and so herded into the gas chambers. Were the the women who wouldn't be raped also lacking in moral fibre? Were the old and the sick who died on the trains before they even got there all atheists? And how come all the prayers never did much good?

6. Iowa county board gives initial OK for ghost hunters to investigate asylum

Comment #152247 by Friggertool on March 30, 2008 at 2:30 pm

And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for them darn kids!

7. Honest Mistakes or Willful Mendacity

Comment #68566 by Friggertool on September 7, 2007 at 3:57 pm

Heard the interview driving to work. Thought Richard did well to hold his ground so well in the light of what seemed to me (who has read TGD) against someone I could only help think had read a second or third-hand synopsis by a godist. To one who has read and absorbed TGD the [entirely false] accusations about religion being, in Richard's view, worse than buggering a child, were frankly staggering. If not libelous. I was brought up as a catholic and never buggered. Well, not in the physical sense.

8. Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on Mother Teresa

Comment #68025 by Friggertool on September 5, 2007 at 5:03 pm

My Father & Mother are Irish, I was born in England. I find it very difficult to tell the difference between Donahue and a fundamentalist, racist bigot who doesn't realise that violence is the last resort of the intellectually bankrupt. No, make that 'impossible to tell'.

9. In the name of the Father

Comment #52677 by Friggertool on June 27, 2007 at 5:37 pm

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin & Einstein. Which one needed religion to do his work? Which needed to struggle against religion to do his work? Which would we be better off without if religion had had its way?

There could not possibly have been any enlightenment if courageous people had not used the power of lucid thought against religion. In the past the 'light' was as that of a candle.

There is a real danger that the candle may now be snuffed out unless we are very careful. We are at a crossroads; if we go the wrong way there will be dark times ahead.

But religion can be fought on every front and when it is finally defeated, the light will burn for all time.

10. Look Forward to Anger

Comment #52667 by Friggertool on June 27, 2007 at 5:01 pm

If one takes the time to follow the first link in this article, one finds this...

A Kashmiri protester shouts pro-freedom and pro-Pakistan slogans during the joint funeral procession of Bilal Ahmed Dar and two rebels in the village of Narwara, some 40 Kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Thousands of people marched in Indian-controlled Kashmir Tuesday protesting the killing of 17-year-old Bilal Ahmed Dar by government forces, who locals claim had no ties to militant groups. The teen was killed along with two rebels Monday in a gun battle between police and suspected Kashmiri rebels in the village of Chewdara. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

...So, a 17-year-old boy is caught in the crossfire between 'rebels' and government forces. And nobody should protest?

11. TB and the Question of Evolution

Comment #47006 by Friggertool on June 2, 2007 at 5:03 pm

I was taught in my first year while training as a dental surgeon that antibiotic resistance was a real threat and that prescriptions for a/bs should only be issued when absolutely necessary. That was in the late 70's.

12. [Warning: Graphic] Children's foreheads slashed in Muslim saint's name

Comment #20162 by Friggertool on January 31, 2007 at 4:40 pm

This is just circumcision for dickheads.

13. Send The God Delusion to your MP

Comment #19076 by Friggertool on January 24, 2007 at 4:48 pm

another shoulder to wheel here

14. Hybrid embryo work 'under threat'

Comment #18534 by Friggertool on January 21, 2007 at 3:52 pm

The very idea of human and animal DNA being mixed is utterly repulsive. What's that...Chimpanzees have 98% of their DNA in common with humans? Well who the ding dong ding dang diggity went and did that?
Burn 'em for withcraft! That's what I say!

Signed GWB

15. Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia

Comment #18532 by Friggertool on January 21, 2007 at 3:35 pm

It is important that such views are heard, for then everyone can see the vile and repulsive motives of these adherents of militant islam. However, this is by no means an extremist position; every other page of the koran exhorts muslims to kill infidels, or subjugate or convert them. It insists that it the true and unquestionable word of god. It promises those who die 'defending' islam -ie attacking non-believers, instant entry to paradise, with 74 virgins at the martyr's disposal. If you can persuade people to believe this then they will willingly blow themselves up.

16. Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history

Comment #17547 by Friggertool on January 14, 2007 at 4:47 pm

If only we didn't waste all that sperm.