Comments by bluecastle

1. 'Probably' the best atheist bus campaign ever

Comment #270269 by bluecastle on October 24, 2008 at 12:24 am

My proposal:
"in the beginning men created god"

Comment #269869 by bluecastle on October 23, 2008 at 11:59 am

I would propose:
"in the beginning man created god"
as the slogan with the famous michelangelo picture of adam and god in the background.

3. Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution

Comment #262598 by bluecastle on October 9, 2008 at 1:15 am

Maybe these sequences are good at beeing copied, have a good error correction machanism. Just like religion: good at beeing copied, error protection by fear of the carrier.

4. Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

Comment #245499 by bluecastle on September 11, 2008 at 1:43 am

lol mahmood: A Christian who accepts evolution is only nominally a Christian, as far as I can tell.

The pope accepts evolution. But I wonder what's going on inside his mind anyhow.

5. Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

Comment #245486 by bluecastle on September 11, 2008 at 12:02 am

jonjermy

"My conclusion is that Creationism has been chosen because a) it's more likely to come up in normal conversation and thereby identify the speaker as a card-carrying Christian; and b) because it doesn't commit the believer to actually DO anything."

I tink there is another more improtant reason why they did choose evoultion/creationism as a main topic (and not e.g. the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics): If evolution would be true, their religion would be rediculous. Imagine 250.000 years of homo sapiens, 248.000 years everybody went to hell after death, how could god wait so long to send us Jesus?

6. Central Texas Man's Death Sentence Upheld Despite Bible In Jury Room

Comment #234213 by bluecastle on August 21, 2008 at 2:10 am

Maybe you find this source helpful:
http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-07/capital-punishment.html it is not too long and rather objective

7. Central Texas Man's Death Sentence Upheld Despite Bible In Jury Room

Comment #234200 by bluecastle on August 21, 2008 at 1:26 am

Death penalty is not deterring. Countries with death penalty have a higher murder rate than countries without death penalty. Maybe it is because having death penalty lowers the barrier of killing in the mind of its citizens.
I wonder where the 5 to 6 innocent people argument is comming from, can you refer to a source?

8. Central Texas Man's Death Sentence Upheld Despite Bible In Jury Room

Comment #234169 by bluecastle on August 20, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Death penalty is more expensive than keeping in prison.
Death penalty is not deterring.
Death penalty is immoral.

9. More reviews of 'The Genius of Charles Darwin'

Comment #224916 by bluecastle on August 6, 2008 at 2:41 am

Times Online got it right:
"What we still need, however, is a six-part series on evolution that combines wildlife footage with computer animation. Dawkins has produced this work on paper in his beautifully illustrated book The Ancestor's Tale. If Channel 4 can't film it, and the BBC won't, Spielberg will need to step up." [how do I quote???]
I would prefer the BBC version. And although I agree with each word in "The God Delusion" I am sure omitting the contradiction between religion and evolution would make the show much better. I also wouldn't expect mentioning the contradiction to the bible in a program on the solar system.

10. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224419 by bluecastle on August 4, 2008 at 11:57 pm

No these people are wrong, actually we live inside a hollow sphere. Everything the scientists tell you is geometrically wrong. They just make a geometric inversion on the sphere which is the surface of the hollw sphere we live in. If you can read german there is a good introduction into this theory:
http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/artikel/939667
But don't tell me that the scientific and the hollow sphere systems are isomorph and my hollow sphere theory makes the natural laws awfully complicated. I have an evidence that we live inside the sphere: look at your shoes: the sole is always bend upwards. This is because we are walking inside the hollow sphere.

11. Losing Sight of Progress

Comment #215473 by bluecastle on July 22, 2008 at 1:39 am

And what about the appendix (blind gut). What is it good for? Does anybody know of some benefits?
And the intervertebral disc is really a weak point, doesn't look like intelligent design. Hope this will evolve in the next million years to something more reliable