Comments by the great teapot

1. Science can't explain the big bang - there is still scope for a creator

Comment #314908 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 5:03 pm

That is why the bits we cannot xplain aren't taught in schools.
For crying out loud evolution is only given half an hour in a 3 year course where the hell do they think the time would be found to teach the rest.
Religion is compulsory for 3 years- should we teach platetectonics in the religion class.

2. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314902 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Is it just coincidence cartomancer but what you just typed seems to be arranged in groups of 4 lines and the last syllable of each line in the majority of cases has the same "sound"- although occasionally this happens on alternate lines.
Does this arrangement add to a point you wish to prove?

3. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions - 28th Dec 2008

Comment #314894 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Ethics
The philosophy of sticking your nose in to other peoples business.
Long live day time tv.
Most soften with a :-)

4. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314884 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 4:18 pm

Of course it is confusing (the concept of soul)but so is the fact that an ant community functions, that we see it as a quirky product of a simple physical world does not impoverish our understanding of the world.
The fact that we can contemplate this can happen without "magical souls" requires more thought than the world has some sort of soul. That explains nothing.

5. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314877 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 4:05 pm

"Reality is both more and less than we can easily imagine.

I find what is revealed to us by science and reason to be far more wonderful and aesthetically pleasing and satisfying than the shallow conceits of souls and gods"

My instinct tells me this is far closer to the truth than anything else I have read tonight.

6. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314869 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Is metaphor ok so long as it conforms with the norm.
Suppose I had my own set of nonsense metaphors, would they be taken as seriously, or would they lack the essential appeal to conformed authority that intellectualism requires?
Plato believed all sorts of shite but I guess that is ok because he was plato.

7. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314862 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 3:34 pm

Oh fuck it it you are all korrekt.
Metaphor is a perfectly acceptable way of viewing reality.
Not going the whole hog is a refusal to accept the metaphor as fact laurie, how does that differ from saying it is horseshit.
(Cooly pretends not to notice I've nicked the 620 slot- eat my shorts)

8. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314844 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 3:22 pm

I hate you to Frankus.

9. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314833 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 3:11 pm

metaphors can be useful but is religion responsible for them, religion came along a long time after the human being but has tried to usurp its thought processes which existed long before religion, you are assisting it in its delusion of grandeur.

10. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314822 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm

f off the pair of you.

11. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314816 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Santi,Why appeal to authority, what short cut to wisdom has larkin et al. pure snobbery. To be fair Richard Dawkins and his cronies do the same. Shocking.

12. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314788 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 2:31 pm

Why is language considered so important to explain consciousness.
Could it be our constant struggle to view ourselves apart from the rest of the natural world.
Without conciousness language could never exist.
But why let the obvious spoil a supremecy dream.
But to believe consciousness is present in an unsentient being is also a little bizarre.

13. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314775 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 2:12 pm

JMills- Don't highlight mis-spelling, even in jest.
It is not very nice on the receiving end, as an Engineer I know only to well. Epeeist did it to me 2 years ago and I have hated the bastard since. (only joking epeeist- grrr)

14. Science can't explain the big bang - there is still scope for a creator

Comment #314754 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 1:46 pm

Post 83
I trust the literary irony is not lost on Santi.

15. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314735 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 1:29 pm

Doubts are fine, but only when reasonable and not an attempt to appear more intellectual for its own sake.

16. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314711 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm

Your preference to style has no bearing on truth Santi.
Hitchens is in love with himself and a pompous windbag, repetitous in the extreme.
He is in his element showing off in Hogwarts dining room. Richard is more interested in the protection of his specialised subject.
Existential?- pseuds corner is beckoning Santi.

17. Science can't explain the big bang - there is still scope for a creator

Comment #314698 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Perhaps it could be taught in a special Gapology course.
All the stuff we have no evidence for all collected together in one place.
Perhaps Tony Blair would champion that course.
Imagine the Job interview, So Mr T Pot, I see you studied Divinity, Gapology and Lady Di studies.

18. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #314693 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Probably worked for Carlsberg.
Perhaps overemphasizing the probably would have worked better. Then people would have realised it was false modesty.
A bit after the horse has bolted I know.

19. Science can't explain the big bang - there is still scope for a creator

Comment #314647 by the great teapot on January 7, 2009 at 11:43 am

Science education is about teaching what we know.
Not mere speculation.
End of.

20. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313949 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Gang rape is the least of the Mallard ducks worries.

21. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313936 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 3:46 pm

For the mere cost of repairing the brakes on my Vauxhall vectra an open ended camapaign can be secured.
Not a soul between Wadhurst and Bexhill will be saved.I promise.

22. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313916 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 3:26 pm

I've lost count of the beauty I have seen in a woman until she canged her hairstyle or clothes.
Not what I would call the soundest basis for a world philosophy.

23. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313895 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 3:12 pm

I prefered Richard before he was retired, He watched us less closely back then.:)
These old folk have too much time on their hands.

24. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313886 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Dvophoto, If you do not use belief solely as proof, what is your "other" proof?
Surely it is a contradiction to say you have other proof and then to say you can not prove it in the same post.
English is not my strong suite, so I could be wrong.

25. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313868 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Some bookmaker you are steve,
Still waiting for the tees- wear derby odds,
you'll go bust only laying odds on racing certainties.

26. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313850 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:48 pm

I see what you're trying to do there Quetz, the "looks aren't important to me technique".Good luck, it pays off now and again.

27. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313833 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:40 pm

or has he only limited power - of caring.
(she's not bad mdowe i must admit)

28. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313831 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Let me ask you,dvophoto, why does god listen to prayer, rather than attend to all those in need.
Is it his ego?

29. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313801 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm

Stave Zara
What are your odds on the Tees - Wear derby.
what will you give me for a Boro win with Alves to score first.

30. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313770 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 2:07 pm

dvophoto
Wtf you still doing here?
Why do you "believe" faith cannot be faked.
Do you claim to know the mind of god? or is it just a guess. We know you have no proof, you have already admitted it.

31. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313729 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 1:48 pm

If no proof is required for anything then you can not sensibly discuss anything. Goodbye dvophoto.

32. Atheists launch bus ad campaign

Comment #313722 by the great teapot on January 6, 2009 at 1:44 pm

dvophoto

Once again - Prove that zeus doesn't exist.

I am waiting for your irrefutable proof.

33. Beyond Belief: Darwinism and religion

Comment #312786 by the great teapot on January 5, 2009 at 2:53 pm

And still not learn a bloody thing.

34. Beyond Belief: Darwinism and religion

Comment #312784 by the great teapot on January 5, 2009 at 2:52 pm

I could listen to mcGrath for hours.

35. Atheists have moral reflections too

Comment #312569 by the great teapot on January 5, 2009 at 6:30 am

Probably,
It is a distant memory.

36. Atheists have moral reflections too

Comment #312556 by the great teapot on January 5, 2009 at 6:17 am

I thought Richard Dawkins had already spoken on thought for the day, about 5 years ago.
I remember someone at the beeb saying they wouldn't persevere with it because all humanist/atheists did during the slot was criticise religion.
Isn't that a bit like or Lord Jesus when.....

37. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309881 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 5:22 pm

No kidding decius.

38. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309869 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Bloody hell Cartomancer you've scared him off.You
unfeeling bastard.

39. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309862 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:59 pm

It is testament.(not testiment)

Yes, Oystein it is new years eve, aren't you drunk?

40. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309858 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Is that literal streets of gold.
Wow, just think of how many playstations you could buy.

41. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309854 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Iamachristian never said he hasn't sinned, but jesus died on cross to absolve him of all his sins, are you guys fricking deaf?
Which part of stranger died on a cross to save you don't you understand?

42. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309830 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Is it possible that if I am not dogmatic I will also be left thinking, "So what, what have I actually learnt that was worth the time"
I ask this question with genuine skeptecism and curiosity, for my bullshit detector, call it moral intuition, has its doubts.

43. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309820 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Would that help me understand that ethics is a non subjective topic worthy of discussion.
To me it sounds like the courtiers reply.
Also bear in mind I left University 22 years ago.

44. Irreligion & Scandinavian Society - An interview with Phil Zuckerman

Comment #309812 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Iamachristian
Nice thought but on reflexion...
as a grownup...

45. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309810 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Ethics?
What has that got to do with Philosophy.
I am afraid I am Bonzai's alter ego.I understand philosophy and its invovlement in logic and science,but ethics?
Having said that, happy new year.
I would have said it before 12 -here at least. (but I couldn't find it in my deutsch direkt text book)

46. Dawkins Delusion (3rd article, Same Stupid Title)

Comment #309803 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Thanks Corylus,
many greetings to my favourite dormouse.

47. Dawkins Delusion (3rd article, Same Stupid Title)

Comment #309801 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Which Ghost is with you now , newyear past or present skb?

48. Dawkins Delusion (3rd article, Same Stupid Title)

Comment #309793 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Happy New Year Corylus.
Here's hoping the earth crawls around again someday soon.

49. God: Philosophers Weigh In

Comment #309791 by the great teapot on December 31, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Mphil.
It can never be an acceptable term for the same reason Einsteins "God does not play dice" is unacceptable.