1. The God Delusion

Comment #229393 by rydrum2112 on August 13, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Can we get some bigfoot debunkers out there:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/bigfoot-found

Apparently the AP press reported that bigfoot body has been found.
http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=BIGFOOT-NEWS-CONFERENCE-bagm-

2. Surgeon General Nominee Dismisses Homosexuality Paper

Comment #215229 by rydrum2112 on July 21, 2008 at 2:06 pm

This article is like a year old, got a different guy in there now anyway.

3. Anti-Darwinists turned away by Israeli academia

Comment #212211 by rydrum2112 on July 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm

Someone tell me they watched the daily show tonight, and saw Deepak get killed.

4. Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?

Comment #204592 by rydrum2112 on July 5, 2008 at 10:02 am

Milgram is awesome, this is probably best experiment on human behavior ever, with Solomon Asch's Line Study, and Zimbardo's Prison Study coming close and they all have to do with conformity.

5. When too much Rapture is barely enough

Comment #204589 by rydrum2112 on July 5, 2008 at 9:59 am

Anyone else think its funny he said "unfortunately" other people will be allowed into heaven that weren't raptured? Guess he doesn't like people sharing his reward of heaven with him.

6. Tribute to a Beloved Mentor

Comment #184547 by rydrum2112 on May 25, 2008 at 5:00 pm

I hope Dr. Dawkins writes a semi-technical book about mathematical modeling in biology, and dedicates it to his mentor.

7. Supreme Court to consider Ten Commandments vs. 'Seven Aphorisms'

Comment #153634 by rydrum2112 on April 1, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Some one needs to get to get the FSM's list up (or written in stone and displayed).

8. Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science

Comment #125288 by rydrum2112 on February 11, 2008 at 7:37 am

Matt Ridley

http://www.mattridley.co.uk/

9. Gay Jesus play blasted by bishop

Comment #114242 by rydrum2112 on January 21, 2008 at 3:56 pm

I was in borders today, saw a "Christian Fiction" section. I thought to myself 'is there a christian non-fiction section?'

10. Why people believe weird things about money

Comment #111036 by rydrum2112 on January 13, 2008 at 11:17 am

I need to get his new book.

11. Priest who committed suicide for rebirth cremated

Comment #103178 by rydrum2112 on December 24, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Just submitted it to the darwin awards.

12. Review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion

Comment #67088 by rydrum2112 on September 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm

"...and is ... into the bargin" -She should at least use sentances that make sense.

13. Scarlet Letter Campaign Update: A Victory

Comment #62378 by rydrum2112 on August 9, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Isn't the group forcing the blog site to put the A in the corner, eerily similiar to a gold star the Nazi's made a certain group wear?

14. I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period

Comment #46305 by rydrum2112 on May 30, 2007 at 9:51 pm

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

15. Christians and Atheists to Debate Existence of God in First-Ever 'NIGHTLINE FACE OFF'

Comment #37114 by rydrum2112 on May 3, 2007 at 12:04 pm

Spinoza-You should ask Richard, he spent an afternoon with them. If they handle themselves appropriately I dont think there is any need to say it will make atheists look stupid.

16. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #34872 by rydrum2112 on April 25, 2007 at 1:37 pm

not to mention the size of the sample, being that large its easy to get statistical significance i wonder what the actual correlation was and the adjusted Rsquared was.

17. Atheists Take On Religion

Comment #24293 by rydrum2112 on March 5, 2007 at 5:50 pm

CruciFiction

What I am trying to say is there is no certainty. And you cannot just add those numbers and assume that range is correct. There are many factors that lead to this. What if they used a 68% confidence interval or one even smaller? Then that range would only be accurate a smaller and smaller amount of the time. And this is only one of the problems if you want to email me I can explain further.

18. Atheists Take On Religion

Comment #24238 by rydrum2112 on March 5, 2007 at 1:12 pm

CruciFiction

Actually, the reduction of error is caused by an increase in the sample size- so a small margin of error (like 3%) means that there were quite a few people sampled. Also you can not have -1%, the margin of error was decided before the actual polling was done which means that they did not know what the number of atheists would be. Let me see if I can explain this without too much math(lets just assume they chose a 95% confidence interval):
In fact the link you posted agrees with me. It does not say that you add the +/- 3% to your observed value(x). It means that 95% of the time the x you find will fall within the range of x+/- 3%.
What you are saying by adding the +/- 3% is that the population parameter falls within this x +/- 3% range. We do not know this for certain, because what they are reporting is a confidence interval. In reality the population parameter is either in this interval or not.
What the margin of error is saying is that 95% of the time you conduct this poll, the value you will find will be within the x +/- 3% range.

19. Atheists Take On Religion

Comment #24216 by rydrum2112 on March 5, 2007 at 10:28 am

CruciFiction,

Not to be an ass, but polling error like that does NOT mean that you can add the reported erorr percentage to the reported number and the true value is in that range. Being a statistician I had to state this. With the confusion that this causes people who report the number should explain it much better, or not report it. Here is a pretty good link to explain it-
http://www.answers.com/topic/margin-of-error-1

20. A Middle Ground for Stem Cells

Comment #18343 by rydrum2112 on January 19, 2007 at 11:11 pm

" It is a simple and uncontroversial biological fact that a human life begins when an embryo is created." "But the biological fact that a human life begins at conception does not by itself settle the ethical debate."

Are the 2 sex cells that come together not living or not human? Is every living cell a human then? Guess its illegal for me to scratch my arm inwhich case I would kill a bunch of cells, or in the authors case humans.

21. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #16021 by rydrum2112 on January 4, 2007 at 7:07 am

Anyone else ask him if god was the one who enabled him to lie about how much weight he could press?

22. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #16018 by rydrum2112 on January 4, 2007 at 7:05 am

Shaunyboy

You want a paper on the evolution of the eye- read Climbing Mount Improbable. Even better why don't you watch the talk that Ken Miller made that was posted on this site, he goes through how the blood clotting process evolved as well ass the flagellum.

How is it that the vast majority of the scientific world finds evolution of those things "convincing" but you do not, are you a biologist with some superiour expertise that no one else has?

23. Orr on Dawkins

Comment #14718 by rydrum2112 on December 24, 2006 at 5:44 pm

The thing about stalin is tiring.

Stalin killed people because they didn't follow his views, which had nothing to do with his being atheist- it had to do with how he thought a country should be run. He killed, so people would obey him and his political views not atheism.