Comments by belacaleb

1. Bill Heine interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #267687 by belacaleb on October 21, 2008 at 1:48 am

No death threats?...After-death threats abound I'm sure...;-)

Comment #215424 by belacaleb on July 21, 2008 at 9:20 pm

I wonder here why we would consider vestigialism to be a "backwards progression"? Seems to me that it's another case of selection according to environmental change...When an organism doesn't need to see, it's energy can be used better elsewhere in the organism so those using less energy to support an unnecessary eye mechanism thrive a little better and so evolve that way. Trying to rely on eye-sight in a dark environment could be a bane as well etc...ciao

3. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #210069 by belacaleb on July 13, 2008 at 9:32 pm

If the cracker actually deserves our attention then let us consider it seriously for a moment. Just for kicks let's cave on the point and say that transubstantiation is a fact and because of certain incantations and incense smoke that the cracker actually does become the "body" of Jesus. Because Jesus was a man (seemingly one of the main points of the christian tradition) therefore I presume was a member of homo-sapiens...a "human". So then, the cracker has been 'trans'-formed into "human" flesh. I'm no legal scholar, but I do believe that consumption of human flesh is technically cannibalism. I also have a hunch that there may be an American law or two concerning cannibalism. There may be a biblical law or two concerning the same (chapter and verse zombies can no doubt confirm AND deny this according to their personal taste). So, I propose that some Sunday, we get a few busses together and lie in wait outside the local cathedral and as mass lets out, assuming they have just openly and knowingly eaten the body of Jesus, we make a citizens arrest of each worshipper and charge them with cannibalism, and deliver them to the local constabulary.

That aughtta make a headline or two.
Here's to the wattle! Ciao.