1. We need to stop being such cowards about Islam

Comment #230043 by mikesherwod53 on August 14, 2008 at 7:30 am

Yes most Muslims are sane decent people but they believe in a lunitic creed (festooned as the Bible is with good bits among the crazy crap).
It is for us too tell them how to deal with this (we aint their daddy) but tolerance stops when you put a fist in my face.

2. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #201148 by mikesherwod53 on June 29, 2008 at 7:16 am

DARKINS ON DARWIN
The hyperlink won't work

3. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #200681 by mikesherwod53 on June 28, 2008 at 5:05 am

Uh-oh! At the end of the interview Prof. Dawkins accidentally misspoke...

I'm willing to bet anywhere up to seven dollars that some creationist or another (or several) will use that clip in some rubbish film they cobble together in their ongoing war against reason.

Tut tut don't you realise that logic fairness and even good manners are ciobwebs when one is dealing with our salvation in Christ.
Who was the Jesuit who said a valid arguement is one that convinces people of what is true.

4. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #200678 by mikesherwod53 on June 28, 2008 at 5:01 am

re transublegation
The $5 note in my wallet is REALLY a $20 bill. Yes I know it LOOKS like a 5 buck and passes all the Bank tests for a $5-00 bill and even tastes like one but that's SO SO besides the point. Besides I'/ve got a bunch of guys who'll beat the cra\p out of you if you don't give me change for a 20 & by the way your kid sister is included in that deal

5. The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science

Comment #200676 by mikesherwod53 on June 28, 2008 at 4:55 am

re :Comment #200603 by Mokusatsu on June 28, 2008 at 1:19 am

What about the possibility that this isn't natural selection at all, instead it is artificial selection?

i.e. many religions have at one time or another taught that non-believers should be sacrificed or executed.

A few thousand generations of systematically exterminating infidels may well have a significant impact on the breeding of religious minds.

Interesting isea diffcult to prove.
Off-the-cuff I find it plausible that religiosity is built into the genes but not aderance to one particular creed.

Putting on my Elitist cap and looking around me it seems blindingly obvious that most people have been culled to exterminate the Skeptic Gene. Maybe we should start our own sperm bank?

6. The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science

Comment #200674 by mikesherwod53 on June 28, 2008 at 4:47 am

re emnet commet /200668
Supporting Dawkins
There is just so much you can do in one Lecture and maybe D. just hasn't got anything interesting to say about Buddhism.
Ideally every Lecture about God would start with 20 minutes in which you pinned down WHICH concept of God you are talking about.
Anyway
THe "fedeist anthropomorphic theism" is a non-consentual reality a real pain-in-the-ass and getting worse. When the Hindus start getting in liberal rationalist faces we'll give them shit too. Meanwhile don't interupt me while I'm eating