1. The God of the Bible is No Delusion!

Comment #16093 by Tuiliq on January 4, 2007 at 3:21 pm

If a Powershot A85 digital camera is designed by Canon, how can your eye not be designed, which works of the same principles and yet possesses far more advanced "technology"???

This shows very poor knowledge of both eyes and cameras. Contrary to common opinion, the human eye is sort of an engineering mess. Given the same set of parts, a first-year university engineering student could make all kinds of improvements: lenses immune to carnosine deficiency, a pressure-relief valve to prevent glaucoma, putting the light receptors on the "first surface" (like Canon does) to improve sensitivity and resolution (instead of behind all manner of gunk, as it is in the eye), re-routing of the optic nerve to prevent the blind spot, a filtration system to get rid of "floaters", a compensating mechanism to allow lens-adjustment for close work as the materials age, a re-focus mechanism to prevent myopia (sort of like Hubble), a regenerative routine to eliminate astigmatism ... and on and on and on.

Read up before you comment.

2. Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism

Comment #15918 by Tuiliq on January 3, 2007 at 8:44 pm

Prof. Dawkins asserts we have wasted an information resource. Without debating the merits of that opinion, I'd like to point out that, waste or not, we now have a measurement opportunity.

If we were to track the beliefs of people directly involved in the prosecution, trial and execution of Saddam, the proportion of theists would likely be very high.

The proportion of theists involved in EVERY execution is probably very high.

This might be a research project we could undertake collectively. It would certainly help buttress the argument that a mind filled with theism is a very poor breeding ground for practical morality.