1. Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

Comment #240357 by spaghettifier on August 31, 2008 at 11:40 am

people like that are a danger to society and the sane world, if a millitant secular uit ever arises, it would be for defense from these nutjobs, we should make a society like in wanted, just without magical cloth, just logic.

2. Petrol pump pilgrims keep faith

Comment #239607 by spaghettifier on August 30, 2008 at 2:43 am

sounds like a weight loss pill with these instructions:
this pill is to be taken daily and is to be followed with two miles of running for proper digestion

and it 'surprisingly' works just as well as exercise

3. Unintelligent Design

Comment #239603 by spaghettifier on August 30, 2008 at 2:19 am

@#231983
[quote]I find a definite need for this article to be written, although to most readers and posters here it falls into the "DUH, we knew that" category. Anything that makes common sense and the varied branches of science more accessible to the deluded masses is important enough to print. Remember, Jindal is a front-runner for the Republican VP candidacy.
As for further examples of poor design in humans... one would think the existence of the appendix, who's sole function appears to be to cause life threatening infection, would be a solid enough example for ID proponents. I'm sure the response to that would be something along the lines of "God works in mysterious ways", or a question as to how evolution explains its presence. [/quote]

isn't it described as what was once a second stomach for grass, herbs, leaves, etc. that shriveled after disuse because a larger one would use up more nutrients that are needed to live.

4. Catholic leaders block contraceptive advice for 30,000 Scots girls

Comment #239599 by spaghettifier on August 30, 2008 at 2:01 am

RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEE

5. The rise of Miliband brings at last the prospect of an atheist prime minister

Comment #239592 by spaghettifier on August 30, 2008 at 1:28 am

nobody is saying here that an atheist prime minister would be affected by his atheism, he would just be unaffected by religion.

6. Black holes 'dodge middle ground'

Comment #239421 by spaghettifier on August 29, 2008 at 2:35 pm

it could have something to do with a critical mass at which they start sucking stars in relatively fast, or maybe it has something to do with time, if large black holes were made with collapses of high density regions early in the life of the universe, then maybe there has not been any time for a small black hole to grow into a larger one.

also, to any creationist/religious, etc.

this is what happens when a scientist finds facts that are in contradiction of theories; they change the theory to accommodate the fact or might drop it altogether. not cling to their ideas that have just been proven wrong...

it takes infinite evidence to prove something as "right" (but right is not an absolute, more evidence makes it more right) but only one piece to prove something as wrong.

7. Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2008

Comment #239285 by spaghettifier on August 29, 2008 at 11:37 am

my biggest regrets is that the people i look up to the most (Douglas Adams, Richard Feynman) have died long before i may get a chance to meet them (am currently in senior year of high school). How lucky Dawkins must have been to know at least Douglas Adams. By the way, Richard Feynman's books contain a story of how his father raised him that is truly inspiring to any logical and rational mind. His father raised him to look for what is at the root of everything, to observe, and to try to get his own findings instead of just follow authority.