1. Is Yahweh a Moral Monster?

Comment #304712 by quantum_flux on December 21, 2008 at 9:24 pm

If God is all knowing, then how come the religious are so stupid and how come the Dark Ages saw no scientific progress?

If Jesus was an all-knowing creator/carpentor, then how come he didn't invent a vaccine for cancer or design the first airplane, or was he just not into the science and technology thing, even the as the creator he is said to be?

If religious people in modern times have a personal relation with an all knowing creator god, then how come the bulk of these religious people don't know how to cure AIDS or solve all the mysteries of the Universe yet?

If the Bible is divinely inspired truth, then where are all the Math Equations that accurately model the forces that govern our Universe and why does Genesis gloss over the Big Bang and Evolution?

The only answer is that the Bible reflects the imperfect minds of human intelligence, that there is no divine inspiration but smoke and mirrors.

2. 'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous

Comment #303262 by quantum_flux on December 18, 2008 at 1:30 pm

That's okay, Christains can have their holiday, they're always willing to share with us too, but I'd argue that Christmas is a secular holiday by it's own right. If you deem it necessary, go celebrate the Winter Solcetice or Festivus. As for me, I typically just say Happy Holidays.

3. 'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous

Comment #303253 by quantum_flux on December 18, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Whatever you say, Richard Grinch-Scroodge Dawkins (not cool though!). Here is an example of an atheist who doesn't mind sharing a little Merry Christmas spirit or even saying "God Bless You", a true nonchalant by any means:

The Adam Coralla Show

4. If you want to know why our public schools are screwed up, here's one reason

Comment #298470 by quantum_flux on December 7, 2008 at 10:52 pm

The public schools are screwed up. Kids learn more with 5 straight hours of wikipedia searching than they do with 13 years of schooling. It's simply a bearocratic fact.

5. Bush set to relax endangered species rules

Comment #288949 by quantum_flux on November 22, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Good! There is no sense in bailing out endangered species.

6. Atheism, a positive pillar

Comment #285865 by quantum_flux on November 17, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Honesty is good. Integrity is good. Why? There is always an explanation for this. Honesty and integrity bring good fortune in many ways that don't violate causality. Unfortunately for them, it is the religious who are not being truthful and honest when they say they have a legitimate reason to believe in God, or else they were lied to by their religious ponzi-swindling peers with bad logic. There is no integrity in being fooled by or using bad logic.

7. Obama will move to veto Bush laws

Comment #281734 by quantum_flux on November 10, 2008 at 7:32 pm

Good on the stem-cell research, however....

Gosh, why is everybody against drilling for oil when it is a proven safe technology? There is not going to be a drunken captain Kendric tanker spill in Utah, duh! This anti-drilling attitude is one of pure anti-technology-ism. People don't have enough faith in the things that work, such as drill rigs, wells, and pumping oil out of a reservoir. People have been pumping oil for 100 years, even had their pumping technology hit by hurricanes many times over and still going strong without an accident.

8. President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Comment #279972 by quantum_flux on November 6, 2008 at 5:36 pm

I'm no prophet, that's just what most economists are saying, so I'm saying it too.

9. President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Comment #279952 by quantum_flux on November 6, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Obama's Corn Ethanol funding is an example of the BS that you can expect from, well, Obama. Say, the subsidies are helping his home state and are causing economic/environmental disaster. You can expect repercussions from all of his "yes we can" or "change" programs.

10. President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Comment #279945 by quantum_flux on November 6, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Maybe you are sick of hearing about it because you simply do not understand it, that Capitalism is our main life-source in the USA. People do need to take care of themselves and be less reliant on Big Government. Mark my words that the stock market will plunge even further with Obama's tax policies, loss of jobs will ensue because of his socialism. Just to rub your face in it, look at what just a few government run programs have done recently and what we can surely expect more of with an Obama/Biden presidency.... Stock Market


How about this brilliant idea of mine where the small business person is helped by industry instead of being overrun by the Big Government:

The Redistribute the Wealth Investor Charity

11. President Obama: Bad News For the New Atheists and Other Fundamentalists

Comment #279320 by quantum_flux on November 5, 2008 at 11:30 pm

Obama is the worst kind of Christian.... he is a Christian Socialist, read Acts dammit! Obama believes in economic perpetual motion because he can't do math. He will make the economy crash, and crash it will with his policies. That is far worse for America than Palin dropping the A-Bomb on Iran!

12. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278384 by quantum_flux on November 4, 2008 at 5:36 pm

You're a Mordacious1!

13. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278381 by quantum_flux on November 4, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Bonzai, my vote actually counts multiple times because I registered with ACORN.

14. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278375 by quantum_flux on November 4, 2008 at 5:25 pm

I rode my bike over and then I voted. There was a nice Jewish couple in front of me, 10 minute wait tops. Go McCain (go taxcuts)! Go gay marriage and abortion too (less Big Government is always a good thing)!

When I got back, I stuck my "I voted today" sticker onto the dog door to remind people that dogs are citizens too.

15. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277443 by quantum_flux on November 3, 2008 at 8:05 pm

I hope that we Never Find Out what happens if Obama gets into office.

16. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276984 by quantum_flux on November 2, 2008 at 11:03 pm

If Obama wins, then that will be a loss for America.

17. Sarah Palin's War on Science

Comment #273912 by quantum_flux on October 29, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Obama supports the teacher's union. The teachers suck here in the USA, they don't need to be a protected species. McCain wants teachers to be rewarded on performance, not based on seniority and tenure (union protection is a socialist ideal).

18. Sarah Palin's War on Science

Comment #273560 by quantum_flux on October 28, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Contrary to unpopular belief, Al Gore had nothing to do with the dot.com boom of the 1990's.

19. Sarah Palin's War on Science

Comment #273554 by quantum_flux on October 28, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Okay then, give me some government grants so I can research how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop and, for good measure, I'm going to need an electron microscope or two. Also, I would like to research how many ant licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop, just curious for no real reason. After I publish that research, then I'm going to need some rockets and I want to see if being in orbit changes those numbers at all.

20. Sarah Palin's War on Science

Comment #273491 by quantum_flux on October 28, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Seeing as there is no real stated goals for this research, why should Big Government pay for it? Same with supercolliders and the mission to the moon, there was no real reason for those projects besides peer research. Interested parties should fund things when they can make a profit, but they shouldn't be reliant on government grants to do so.

21. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272934 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 11:01 pm

okay, back....the thing that stops magical beings from raping each other is the billions of years of evolution that preceded it and the rapists being killed off by the rest of the mammals in the comunititty. I think Dawkins is becoming lackluster in his scientific explanations in his atheism crusade. Reason beacons, hear her calling, she's a hot babe, go back to reason and all yer arguments will win big time!

22. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272907 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 10:22 pm

Whoa! How'd you get such a huge avatar!?

23. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272898 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 10:18 pm

Look, our Univese just needs to wipe out so it can paddle back and catch the next wave. You can do this by having everybody on stadium Earth do the wave 3x fast and thereby counteracting the fabric of the cosmos. (I'm usually high and drunk when I post here, but that doesn't preclude me from having my religious epiphanies about surfboards and spherical spacetime waves)

24. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272890 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 10:12 pm

In my model, the absolute state of entropy is the shoreline, the outer reaches that spacetime will push the universe we live in.

25. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272880 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 10:06 pm

The Universe is a surfboard, as spacetime is the wave....I call it my "catch a wave theory". The Universe is not expanding, it is actually surfing, that surf is induced by the minor universe that crashed into ours and caused the tidal wave we know as the "Big Bang" :)

Boris Ogelman it is then.

26. Premier debates with Dawkins

Comment #272795 by quantum_flux on October 27, 2008 at 8:21 pm

Michelle_Gilks, your hot lesbian avatar has opened up my heart to voting yes for gay marriage. Kudos and kisses (and can I call you misses?)

27. Recommended Reading: Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

Comment #269066 by quantum_flux on October 22, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Well, I beg to differ. China is not what I would call a healthy country, there is far too much pollution from cheap coal. Plus, half of the country works their asses off for pennies a day, while the other half is enjoying karioke from too much communism. Those ratios should be more like 95% working their asses off for a decent wage and 5% enjoying karioke.

28. Volcanic lightning may have sparked life on Earth

Comment #266187 by quantum_flux on October 18, 2008 at 9:19 am

Why am I the only one thinking:

"By all means, repeat the experiment! It can't cost that much for the interested parties."

29. Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds

Comment #263894 by quantum_flux on October 13, 2008 at 9:21 am

I've got the solution to the problem of girls not liking math or nerdy behavior being considered unattractive:

The Fourier Vibrator (Warning: don't click link at work or in the library, contains sexual content)

30. Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds

Comment #263258 by quantum_flux on October 10, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I'll flip burgers in my own backyard and wear my baseball cap backwards, and vote republican.... thank you! Oh what I wouldn't do for a soda right about now. By the way, whenever a girl says "I'm completely ignorant about math" I take it as the perfect time to introduce myself to her.

31. Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds

Comment #263145 by quantum_flux on October 10, 2008 at 10:07 am

Feel free to blaim religion for this one Dawkins. People don't understand math and logic because they are taught that miracles happen at an early age. What good are statistics when God helps people win the lottory or God decides who dies from cancer? Or how about the adding of 2 loaves and 2 fish and getting 5000 baskets left over? Christianity has been anti-intellectual from the start, and therefore it is still anti-intellectual.

32. Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth

Comment #262589 by quantum_flux on October 8, 2008 at 11:57 pm

"The heavens declare the glory of nature; the skies proclaim the work of brownian motion."

"Computers counteth the number of the stars, systematically nameth them all by sequence, and classify them according to age, size, luminosity, mass, color, and chemical signature."

33. Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth

Comment #261869 by quantum_flux on October 7, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Quantum loop gravity must be a succession of curl fields. Interesting that it might explain the origins of the Universe!

Also, I think that the bulk of "dark matter" and perhaps "dark energy" could be mostly unaccounted for electromagnetic forces. Gravity can not explain galaxy formation alone, but plasma currents resulting from voltage potentials between stellar bodies must play a significant role too.

34. 'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit

Comment #259794 by quantum_flux on October 4, 2008 at 12:53 am

(1/3-1/4 the needed strength) - Perhaps that cable is already strong enough for a space elevator on the moon or mars then, but perhaps a 10% safety factor is in order too.

35. Earliest reference describes Christ as 'magician'

Comment #259068 by quantum_flux on October 2, 2008 at 8:21 pm

I like the thought of a magician traveling around performing magic tricks and getting large crowds to follow him around. Perhaps that really does explain it! People would be outraged if an entertainer were to be executed for blasphemy or would be overjoyed if an entertainer were to pull off a magic trick of faking his own death. Of course there are many gullable people in that time who believed the magic tricks were real, and then perhaps it was a Jewish magician, a Jewish Rabbi magician. (Why does that thought bring me happiness, the kind one can only get from putting the last piece of the puzzle in place!? I got to say, I love this explanation Richard Dawkins!)

36. The God Delusion's cameo in season premiere of 'Family Guy'

Comment #256798 by quantum_flux on September 29, 2008 at 2:16 pm

A bigger step for Atheism was that Bender charater on Futuramma.

37. Why There Almost Certainly Is a God, By Keith Ward

Comment #255809 by quantum_flux on September 28, 2008 at 9:32 am

We don't know what matter is so we shouldn't be materialists? Well pluck out your ears so you can go to heaven because that's crazy talk coming from a guy who is made up of matter. Furthermore, to assume that God exists just because the composition of matter is not fully understood. I don't see how that is an intellectual challenge at all. I can tell you that at least we know that matter exists.

By the way, these "fleas" are no better than crack dealers.... they keep on pushing their bogus memes on people. (oh, you don't understand this - well then, I've got a meme for you to upload into your brain called "don't think just believe". Want to try it? There are a lot of people who do it and are satisfied with being deluded, come on, just believe without thinking about it, without any proof whatsoever, go ahead.)

38. Diamonds May Be Life's Birthstone

Comment #255787 by quantum_flux on September 28, 2008 at 8:12 am

Please can someone give me a damn good reason why we should continue with pure research so that I can jump back onto the side that makes me feel good?

39. Mathematics and faith explain altruism

Comment #255392 by quantum_flux on September 27, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Math will make you a good "Rational Objectivist" too.

40. Mathematics and faith explain altruism

Comment #255318 by quantum_flux on September 27, 2008 at 9:56 am

People are altruistic for the same reason why fish swim in schools, birds flock together, ants walk in formation, bees swarm in hives, bacteria form colonies.... i.e they are altruistic because there is survival in groups. However, there is a degree of territoriality for each different species, such as living in smaller groups, hey trees can only hold so many monkeys in them before they become crowded and competition for resources begins. All of this behavior can be modeled with differential equations I believe.

41. Diamonds May Be Life's Birthstone

Comment #254935 by quantum_flux on September 26, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Like a diamondoid in Abiotic Oil.... exactly! Keep researching this subject, I'm sure you'll discover the connection between Abiotic Oil and life! By the way, Wikipedia is a fallable entity because just about anybody can edit those articles (in good faith, for the most part it can be trusted, but sometimes it's wrong).

42. More atheists are sharing their views

Comment #254311 by quantum_flux on September 25, 2008 at 2:35 pm

One can be an atheist and still believe in mind over matter, angels, lady luck, and (sic.) leprochauns.

Atheism = lack of belief in God, period!

Obviously atheism isn't a sufficient term to self-apply. Perhaps "Rational Objectivist" or one that adheres to the objective data, the mathematical or logical formulation, and the intellect as the best path to truth is the best term to apply. Rational Objectivism is perhaps the most admireable goal for scientists to be, not just atheists.

43. Russian woman put on trial in Dubai for drinking juice in public

Comment #254157 by quantum_flux on September 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Hahahaha! At least it wasn't fermented juice, or they may have gotten their heads chopped off for that.

44. Christian review of the Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #253877 by quantum_flux on September 25, 2008 at 1:56 am

Didn't make it through that crap again, however I can say that Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, and Richard Dawkins all wrote great pieces of literature that I highly recommend reading. (well, I've read literature from Richard Feynman as well as the 3 volume series of his Lectures on Physics, and I've read Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.... I've yet to read Dawkin's "The God Delusion" but I'll bet it's worth it)

In addition, there is a book/piece of science literature that I listened to on audio CD entitled "Your Inner Fish" which is a beautiful piece of science literature that explains how human body is descended from fish.

Oh, and from "The Meaning of It All" by Feynman, he discusses the idea that there is no such thing as a perfect analogy since there is always room for missinterpretation. By that reasoning, Jesus can't be God since he supposedly talked in parables, which is unfortunately what theologians try to imitate and thereby they dumb themselves down with their constant need for analogies instead of saying things as they really are.

45. Christian review of the Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #253551 by quantum_flux on September 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm

I don't have the attention span to read such a long article on such a dumb subject. Scientists are pragmatic intellectuals, that's all there is to it! (cause => action)

Curiosity => pursuit of knowledge

Desire for life => Pursuit of wealth

Desire to be heard => Advertising/Publishing

Richard Dawkins has all three, and has acted consistantly with his rational self-interest on all three. This is why he is successful in his pursuits and is reaping the benefits.

The people in religious institutions, on the other hand, just don't have it in them to have original thoughts due to their indoctrination and that is why they don't have these desires or goals in their life.

Ultimately, you snooze you lose, that's evolution and capitalism for you.

46. When Atheists Attack

Comment #252899 by quantum_flux on September 23, 2008 at 7:45 pm

"Palin has the proper training to be president!" You can't dispute it, it's in red letters because it's a fact!

Palin is actually better qualified than Obama

"Now give me 10% of all of your earned income and eat the dung that cometh out of man as your reward!" Shitbulls 311:69:420

47. 'All Terrorists are Darwinists': An Interview with Harun Yahya

Comment #252895 by quantum_flux on September 23, 2008 at 7:32 pm

What is so hard for Christians to understand?

(premise 1) "Thou shall not lie"

(premise 2) "Creationism is a lie"

Conclusion: "Thou shall not teach creationism in schools"

See the red? That means their God said it, so it must be true!

48. Cathedral seminar to equip clerics to deal with Dawkins

Comment #252863 by quantum_flux on September 23, 2008 at 5:50 pm

Oh great, I smell a witch hunt brewing.

49. Interstellar Space Molecules That Help Form Basic Life Structures Identified

Comment #251693 by quantum_flux on September 22, 2008 at 12:18 am

I'm willing to bet that life came from hydrocarbons and not the other way around.

Also, does anybody know who this dipshit is!? What he says made me laugh so hard I almost pissed myself:
Dr. David Berlinski

What a liar that guy is! Evolutionary theory doesn't say anything close to "cows evolving into whales". That guy also needs to learn something about probabilities which is in the framework of mathematics, supposedly his own field by the way! But of course my comment is being blocked by that YouTube video.

50. Art teacher made student pray to Jesus for forgiveness

Comment #250966 by quantum_flux on September 20, 2008 at 11:54 pm

This poor art teacher just gave Rob Zombie's band and the ACLU a huge promotion, and she'll probably be fired for it too. Oh if she could only just have looked the other way on this one instead of being so self-righteous. It's just too bad that her tough luck is bound to create a public backlash.