1. Tropical fish can live for months out of water

Comment #88375 by don malvado on November 16, 2007 at 9:28 am

Do amphibians have testes and ovaries?

2. Another view

Comment #66262 by don malvado on August 29, 2007 at 1:43 pm

"In his demonstration Randi kept on opening packet after packet, and swallowing pill after pill after pill..."

I bet he could have palmed those if he wanted to.

3. Anger over 'blasphemous' balls

Comment #65954 by don malvado on August 27, 2007 at 2:45 pm

I wonder if they were the pigskin sort.

4. The Stupidity of Fox News is Truly Beyond Belief

Comment #52604 by don malvado on June 27, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Does anyone else find it ironic that as soon as he goes off on one about how the believers agree the background picture changes to show some Muslims?

5. Tome truths

Comment #49320 by don malvado on June 11, 2007 at 1:32 pm

I'm going to buy his book right now!

6. Beggars belief: Robin McKie on The God Delusion

Comment #47145 by don malvado on June 3, 2007 at 6:19 am

hey look, there are 8 Patron Saints of resisting sexual temptation and only one against slavery. I can see they got their priorities right.

Wow, Cornwall (The peninsular in sw england) has 3 on it's case!

7. A Look at Regent University

Comment #46165 by don malvado on May 30, 2007 at 12:33 pm

CARLY GAMMILL: I intend to help further the administration of justice and to do justice. And I believe in absolute truth, and I believe in absolutes. Not grey, you know, not relative truth but absolute truth. And that's what God's word is.

My jaw dropped at this point. The idea that she can be a competent lawyer and come out with something like that is mind blowing.

8. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #45140 by don malvado on May 26, 2007 at 2:12 pm

I did a quick google search and have found devolved been quoting from http://madidahoman.blog-city.com/stalactites_stalagmites_and_the_age_of_the_earth.htm

Not exactly peer reviewed. I have a funny feeling these idiots are looking at gypsum (or some evaporite) stalagmites and thinking they're the much slower forming calcium carbonate type.

If you'd found a respected source that had published about fast growing true stalagmites I'd have been interested.

In any case I still don't see how this proves the earth is 6000 years old.

9. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #44906 by don malvado on May 25, 2007 at 2:34 pm

And from Talkorigins for devolveds benefit:


Creationists sometimes point to some very rapid accumulations which superficially resemble the calcium carbonate formations in caves.

For example, on the mortared brickwork of old forts and places of that sort, formations which look to the naked eye like stalactites and stalagmites sometimes form in less than one hundred years. However, those formations are composed of gypsum, which is a salt of calcium sulfate. Unlike calcium carbonate, gypsum is moderately soluble in water, which means that transport and recrystallization can take place much more rapidly (White, 1976, p.304). There is a whole class of cave deposits called evaporite minerals which consist of those minerals which dissolve readily in water. As might be expected, these formations are ephemeral when compared to the carbonates which form all the really large and impressive cave formations. The chemistry of all this is not particularly complex and is very well understood.

(Loftin, 1988, p.23)

Here's some more information. This point is particularly important since creationists love to point out such examples.

Many people have found that stalactites forming on concrete or mortar outdoors may grow several centimeters each year. Stalactite growth in these environments, however, bears little relation to that in caves, because it does not proceed by the same chemical reaction. Although cement and mortar are made from limestone, the same rock in which the caves form, the carbon dioxide has been driven off by heating. When water is added to these materials, one product is calcium hydroxide, which is about 100 times as soluble in water as calcite is. A calcium hydroxide solution absorbs carbon dioxide rapidly from the atmosphere to reconstitute calcium carbonate, and produce stalactites. This is why stalactites formed by solution from cement and mortar grow much faster than those in caves. To illustrate, in 1925, a concrete bridge was constructed inside Postojna Cave, Yugoslavia, and adjacent to it an artificial tunnel was opened. By 1956, tubular stalactites 45 centimeters long were growing from the bridge, while stalactites of the same age in the tunnel were less than 1 centimeter long.

Apologies for the cut and paste job.

10. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #44798 by don malvado on May 25, 2007 at 9:55 am

I see someone claiming to be james randi has left a comment on the georgetown times page.

11. The Art of Handling Thetans

Comment #44676 by don malvado on May 25, 2007 at 7:07 am

Easily led?

Phf!

12. Atheist offers to send letters post-Rapture

Comment #38863 by don malvado on May 9, 2007 at 10:51 am

Damn! You came up with that before me!

Wouldn't that be great, you'd have idiots send you money every month and you'd never have to do anything but provide comforting re-assurances.

13. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #38489 by don malvado on May 8, 2007 at 10:23 am

Would you vote for a theist that was anti-war or an atheist that was pro-war?

I'd go for the former.

14. Richard Dawkins on Canada AM

Comment #38297 by don malvado on May 7, 2007 at 12:51 pm

nothing here.

15. A Bunch of Monkeys

Comment #38287 by don malvado on May 7, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Banana. Now.

16. Why the Gods Are Not Winning

Comment #36506 by don malvado on May 1, 2007 at 11:12 am

Is there any point to following that link?

It just seems to advertise a book rather than give a counter-argument

17. Why the Gods Are Not Winning

Comment #36483 by don malvado on May 1, 2007 at 10:06 am

17. Comment #36366 by Peacebeuponme on May 1, 2007 at 2:01 am
Scottishgeologist: I live near a mosque and see competely the opposite. The congregation seems to be 100% male. Can't understand why.....

The answer is very simple. Most mosques won't let women in, they have to pray at home.

18. Believe in God Spray

Comment #36194 by don malvado on April 30, 2007 at 1:08 pm

I was expecting to see the words Peter Popoffs on it somewhere.

19. Convention ends with Satan and immigrants

Comment #36191 by don malvado on April 30, 2007 at 12:56 pm

No wonder the republicans have such a bad reputation. Damn that liberal media!

20. Flea Circus!

Comment #33111 by don malvado on April 19, 2007 at 8:09 am

Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech murderer himself says in the manifesto he sent to MSNBC:

"…thanks to you I died like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people…" source: Video labeled "Cho's Manifesto" on MSNBC's website
~wrong link~


Ehhhh, hang on. I'll try and find it agian. Ahhhh, he hates religion yet sees himself as some sort sort of biblical saviour. I don't really see how this guy is meant to be a representative of atheist non-belief. The guy's who killed the christians on the other hand were representing a fraction of islam.

Hang on....

21. Study Finds Shark Overfishing May Lower Scallop Population

Comment #28699 by don malvado on March 30, 2007 at 12:26 pm

The solution is simple.

Eat whatever the sharks were eating!

And if the scallops get out of hand because of the lack of Cownose Rays, eat them as well!

I call it the Fat Bastard theory of Ecological Dynamics.

22. John Paul Sainthood Nun 'Gentle, Simple'

Comment #28691 by don malvado on March 30, 2007 at 12:05 pm

I just clocked $1000 in solitaire, considering how much I usually loose this is a miracle to be attributed to Ozzie Osborne.

I demand instant beatification!!

23. Dawkins says religion is 'like sucking a dummy'

Comment #28418 by don malvado on March 29, 2007 at 6:12 am

@ AnotherClinton, You'd say pacifier.

24. GM mosquito 'could fight malaria'

Comment #27678 by don malvado on March 26, 2007 at 5:25 am

Hmmmm, I'd like to know if the researchers foresee any problems arising from the spread of other mosquitoes transmitted diseases by the new, more abundant mosquitoes.

25. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam

Comment #23355 by don malvado on February 28, 2007 at 5:12 am

On a related note:
http://towelianism.wordpress.com/

26. Memo: Stop teaching evolution

Comment #22649 by don malvado on February 20, 2007 at 7:13 am

bloody hell!

I thought that fixedearth.com was a joke!

27. Britons unconvinced on evolution

Comment #18873 by don malvado on January 23, 2007 at 11:05 am

Padster1976, If you look they were allowed to pick multiple answers, which while it makes it a poor question will allow a total of 154%

28. Lil' Markie live, part 2

Comment #17686 by don malvado on January 15, 2007 at 1:53 pm

Ohhh god that's bad!

I've seen about half of it and it feels like my brain needs a good scrub.

I bet that black he harassed halfway though has left christ after that experience.