1. It's no wonder evangelical atheists need to shout so loud

Comment #237954 by PrimeNumbers on August 27, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Barry Cooper, the idiot who has not read Dawkin's books, but instead shouts at a straw man parody - perhaps he shouts so much because his argument stinks.

2. Why Dawkins is right and his critics are wrong

Comment #234966 by PrimeNumbers on August 22, 2008 at 10:05 am

I'd really like to see Richard doing a "proof of evolution" programme.

As a computer programmer, I've proven to myself the power of evolutionary algorithms, producing useful results by means of:

a population,
an environment that defines my goal,
a test to see how well the population fits the environment,
breading of those that fit the environment the best,
and most important, a level of mutation

The results are superb, and prove that the precepts of evolution work.

I know Richard has done this kind of work on both TV and books, but I'd really like to see it done again, with modern production values.

I'd like to see more discussion and showing of how the human body is badly "designed", the "design" links between humans and animals both in form and in DNA.

3. Pastor Michael Guglielmucci spun gospel of lies

Comment #234934 by PrimeNumbers on August 22, 2008 at 9:15 am

Liars for Jesus!

4. Bill Maher on Religion

Comment #233665 by PrimeNumbers on August 20, 2008 at 7:47 am

Bill Maher makes me laugh, but he also comes across very well. Can't wait to see this movie!

5. Last Night's TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin, Channel 4

Comment #233608 by PrimeNumbers on August 20, 2008 at 5:16 am

Dawkins v Rowan Williams was superb. Well done Richard. You surely made Rowan look the fool with his watered down religion.

6. 'The Genius of Charles Darwin' DVD (PAL Region 2) Available Now

Comment #233607 by PrimeNumbers on August 20, 2008 at 5:13 am

Region coding is such a pain. I'm happy you're doing a proper release though.

7. Saudi Marriage Officiant : 'It Is Allowed To Marry A Girl At The Age Of One'.

Comment #198660 by PrimeNumbers on June 24, 2008 at 10:52 am

So Muhammed is a paedophile and a child molester. Lovely. And here now, we've had a Saudi official confirm it. So, when can we start buying the Muhammed is paedophile T-Shirts?

8. 'I despise Islamism': Ian McEwan faces backlash over press interview

Comment #197646 by PrimeNumbers on June 22, 2008 at 12:25 pm

It is not wrong to dislike a religion. It is not wrong to absolutely detest a religion. It is not wrong to poke fun at followers of religion.

Religion is a choice, and members of religions choose to be members.

To detest a religion is not "hate crime", and not racist.

9. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196610 by PrimeNumbers on June 20, 2008 at 8:19 am

Religion poisons everything - here's more evidence, and more proof. Religions cannot be trusted. They are so dishonest, they can't even stand up to reasonable criticism of them, so they have to hide away. Or put it the other way, religions are on the run....

10. Darwinmania!

Comment #195353 by PrimeNumbers on June 18, 2008 at 5:37 am

I just had to do some heavy math to optimize a matrix of 9 numbers. So I tried a genetic algorithm, starting with a random population, and breeding the fittest pair of parents each time, with some random mutation thrown in. In no time at all I had the code working producing superb results, much better than I was getting using a more traditional, intelligently designed approach.

So I think evolution wins over intelligent design once again! There's no proof of the power of evolution like proving it to yourself.

11. John McCain: America a Christian nation, needs Christian president

Comment #190138 by PrimeNumbers on June 8, 2008 at 12:43 pm

McCain is a grade 1, class A MORON! He doesn't know his own country's history and he doesn't realize that the founding fathers of his country were NOT christian and many despised christianity.

12. Teacher tortures, kills boy

Comment #186893 by PrimeNumbers on May 31, 2008 at 4:44 pm

"Without god, all is permitted".

The obvious corollary is "With god, anything is justified."

13. Mark Steyn vs. the 'Sock Puppets'

Comment #185811 by PrimeNumbers on May 28, 2008 at 4:31 pm

I really don't care what Steyn says, or his own religious or political beliefs. Same goes for Ezra Levant. I don't care what they have to say or print, but I don't want some stupid HRC deciding for me and censoring them.

I find the whole concept of "hate crime" obnoxious. Especially as the HRC go after "hate thought crime", making 1984 look "nice".

The fact is nobody deserves to be protected from being disliked.

14. Mark Steyn vs. the 'Sock Puppets'

Comment #185695 by PrimeNumbers on May 28, 2008 at 10:10 am

http://ezralevant.com/ is great to read more on this story.

The reason why the HRCs win 100% of the time is that they're only concerned with people feeling offended, and they win because the complainant was obviously offended. It's self-fullfilling prophecy of the worst kind.

15. That's it. Texas really is doomed.

Comment #184946 by PrimeNumbers on May 26, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Surely this is natural selection in action. Those without brains destroy education. The more education is destroyed, those with brains will leave Texas, or else do something about it. Or not, and they're all doomed.

16. The Dissent Of Darwin - The World Of Richard Dawkins

Comment #180557 by PrimeNumbers on May 15, 2008 at 7:48 am

Evolution will find solutions. But it can only ever get a locally optimium solution, and not a maximally optimum solution. It's obvious that the testicals are a locally optimum solution, but yes, not a maximally optimum one. The testicals are a solution, just not the best one. There's countless examples of this that prove evolution, not disprove it. And consequently disprove intelligent design. So, let's say bollocks to the argument from design!

17. Investigating Atheism

Comment #168263 by PrimeNumbers on April 24, 2008 at 8:21 pm

The whole site is a straw man. As pointed out many times above, it reads like a case of "lying for jesus".

18. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156228 by PrimeNumbers on April 7, 2008 at 6:27 am

I used to live near a Vardy school. I'd meet a friend on the bus comming home from work. He worked at the Vardy school. He was a Christian, but a good one in the sense that his morals were better than his God's, a genuine nice person. I think his opinion of the "Christian" school was that it was very un-Christian, other than at face value, but the morals and ethics behind the scenes were suspect.

19. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152329 by PrimeNumbers on March 30, 2008 at 5:41 pm

So, according to Arab News, Muslims don't want to be insulted. Let me give them some advice - don't be so insulting. And stop insulting our intelligence.

When they say "They don’t understand how much Muslims love and respect their Prophet", they don't understand that freedom and free speech are more important.

When they say "But Islam does not teach that, it advocates peace and co-existence", I say, tell your preachers, your leaders to act by example. Learn to stop crying "insult" at every opportunity, to grow up, to become big and adult.

When they say "I am afraid that the Western world has failed to understand the severity of the problem,", I say the problem of Muslims feeling insulted is entirely of their own making. Their religion is their choice. Their feelings of insult are their choice.

When I feel insulted, I know it is my choice to feel so. And right now, they have insulted me. WHen they say “I have my own reservations. Muslims are serious but the other parties are not. They are not committed. They want to hold dialogue, just for the sake of it and for Muslims’ consumption.� they insult me by ignoring the vast numbers of people on this planet with no religion who they have yet to make peace with and have shown no signs or intentions of doing so.

20. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152281 by PrimeNumbers on March 30, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I watched the movie as soon as I'd heard it was online. I was disappointed that the point of the movie was not made more clearly, in that so called "moderate" Muslims need to rise up and be counted as moral human beings, who despise violence done in the name of their chosen religion, and excise passages from their holy book that promote or are used to promote such violence. I am however, happy, that the message of the movie was, when you watched it carefully, a reasonable one.

One of the reasons why the Catholics have such large numbers, is that even those who no longer believe in the tenants of that faith, don't leave the Catholic church. The problem with Islam is worse, in that there is a death sentence for any that want to leave or do leave.

So the first step is to change that. We need Muslims the world over to denounce the killing of those that leave their religion, and to enforce the basic human right of freedom of choice. It is totally morally unacceptable to intimidate or kill someone for their own freedom of choice over religion.

After that all religion needs to be put in it's place - personal beliefs to stay with the person, at home, in private.

21. Saudi Arabia Leader Calls for Interfaith Dialogue

Comment #149889 by PrimeNumbers on March 26, 2008 at 10:17 am

"deploring "the disintegration of the family and the rise of atheism in the world â€" a frightening phenomenon that all religions must confront and vanquish." "

So much for the religion of peace.

Religion has tried to confront us - and they keep losing. Why? Because they lie, they cheat, and they're just plain wrong. Man's moral sense is so much better than their awful gods'.

Man does not think eternal torment is a good thing. God does.
Man does not believe in killing children. God does.

22. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149882 by PrimeNumbers on March 26, 2008 at 10:13 am

Happy birthday Richard!

Please come and visit Canada once you're through with the USA tour. There are a lot of people up here who need your kind of enlightenment.

23. Pakistan blocks YouTube over blasphemous video

Comment #133333 by PrimeNumbers on February 26, 2008 at 4:39 am

Remember, the very existence of us Atheists offends muslims. As I've said before, muslims need to learn that they're not special, and their crazy belief system is just that - it doesn't give them any special rights or privilidges.

24. Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'

Comment #123627 by PrimeNumbers on February 7, 2008 at 12:14 pm

The ABC once again shows he doesn't know what he's talking about and manages to annoy both his flock and us by his ill chosen, ill thought, treacherous and traitorous words.

25. Admitting that you have no religion is not politically correct

Comment #122095 by PrimeNumbers on February 4, 2008 at 5:03 pm

This is utterly ridiculous. I do like the idea of infiltrating the Christian Group.

This is one to fight all the way....

26. Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'

Comment #121784 by PrimeNumbers on February 4, 2008 at 6:47 am

Is it just me, or do Muslims come across as spoiled little children?

27. Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'

Comment #121464 by PrimeNumbers on February 3, 2008 at 12:55 pm

vertigo25, I don't think this is a race or racist issue. Religion is a matter of personal choice, and therefore not something your born with, and therefore not racist. It may be religist, if there's such a word, but it isn't racist. Muslims like to play the race card, and in doing so undermine true discrimination against people for what they're born with and have no choice over, like colour of skin, sex, sexuality and ability/disability.

28. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #118858 by PrimeNumbers on January 31, 2008 at 4:47 am

It makes me mad that we've wasted lives kicking out the Taliban only for the "government" that takes it's place do something like this.

Why don't the Canadian troops over there take the moral high ground and go in and rescue this guy and bring him to Canada with his family to live? Then at least I'd feel that the Canadian troops there are doing something worthwhile.

But again, this an another example of intolerant Islam, the Islam that can dish out whatever criticism it feels like, but dare to criticize Islam, it's prophet, the prophet's under-age wife, the prophet's hair-do or whatever and it's "death sentence" time.

I'm sorry, but killing people is just wrong. There are cases say, where you as an individual must kill in self defense, but that is not the case here. This is a case where those in religious power cannot stand knowledge or criticism so they kill to terrify and control the people of that country.

29. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116360 by PrimeNumbers on January 26, 2008 at 10:08 am

Weel, there are many examples in society where we don't give people what they want just because they want it.

However the difference is here that if I and a few friends went to the bank and demanded atheist bank accounts I'd be laughed out the door....

30. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116308 by PrimeNumbers on January 26, 2008 at 8:28 am

They might be fast growing, but unless they keep their private beliefs private, which is where all bad habits belong, they're going to become even more unpopular. Canadians are too tolerant by far, and Muslims about the least tolerant religion their is = culture clash.

31. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116303 by PrimeNumbers on January 26, 2008 at 8:14 am

I fail to see the need to bend over backwards to Muslims, of which this is yet another example of.

32. Ore. Court: Boy Has Say in Circumcision

Comment #116301 by PrimeNumbers on January 26, 2008 at 8:10 am

Simplest thing is to ban this barbaric procedure for good and be done with it (proper medical reasons excepted.) It's at best cosmetic surgery and at worst child abuse. Time for it to stop.

33. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115955 by PrimeNumbers on January 25, 2008 at 6:03 am

I thought that in hell, you had to watch videos like this all day, but surely that's not bad enough, so now we have to watch them while we're alive too.

Videos like this just show what a pile of rubbish Christian Theology is - God is good, but he sends you to hell, forever. What a load of tosh.

34. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

Comment #115009 by PrimeNumbers on January 23, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Everyone everywhere just needs to learn to stop being offended. To develop thicker skins. At the moment it's very one sided, but when you get Muslims complaining at being offended at the drop of a hat, that's the directions things go in.

35. Islam in Europe

Comment #114502 by PrimeNumbers on January 22, 2008 at 10:33 am

Pat is so right, so true that he's ceasing to be funny :-) He's very funny, but his words are so serious he needs to be listened to.

We all know that if EU governments don't act now, they'll be replaced with right-wing nutters who won't solve the problem gently.

36. Can Atheists Be Parents?

Comment #107332 by PrimeNumbers on January 4, 2008 at 11:59 am

Completely disgusting.

The quality of your parenting relies totally on the quality of your parenting.

37. It is possible to be moral without God

Comment #104988 by PrimeNumbers on December 30, 2007 at 9:28 am

The simple answer is that if morals come from a higher authority, god is in trouble because there's no higher authority for him to receive morals from.

By any reasonable definition the god of the bible is amoral. He kills, is unjust, promotes hatred and is just plain nasty.

38. 'Gospel of wealth' facing scrutiny

Comment #104223 by PrimeNumbers on December 28, 2007 at 6:36 am

These money grabbing tax exempt televangelists are just sick. They're preying on the weak of society, promising them what they cannot promising and blaming their prey if the prey doesn't succeed. It's just another Amway.

1) no tax breaks for churches. They're private clubs and should be treated as such

2) no asking for money on TV for churches

3) faith healing properly investigated and those who promise what they cannot deliver to be charged of fraud.

These televangelists are fraudsters hiding behind religion. And it's fraudsters that they should be treated as.

39. Disquiet over schools' moment of silence

Comment #103240 by PrimeNumbers on December 24, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Not least are Christians dis-honest about what they're doing. They want Christianity in schools, know it's not allowed, and they know why. But never-the-less, they demand moments of silence (prayer), intelligent design (creationism) etc. Liars for Jesus is just it!

40. Disquiet over schools' moment of silence

Comment #103142 by PrimeNumbers on December 24, 2007 at 11:03 am

What's wrong with it? It's the thin end of the wedge! Just because it's called "silence" the teachers know what it means, and the children know what it means, and it means "prayer".

And we all know what peer pressure is like at that age.... We very well know that this is Christian prayer in schools by the back door, and yes, we all know that prayers before council meetings are un-constitutional as well.

Religion, as we know, is a dirty habit and should be kept in private. The practice of religion has no place in our halls of government, no place in our schools.

As for the notion of "saving strength" for the "big battles" - how on earth do you hope to get people to fight the big ones, if you can't at least win a few border skirmishes to get some practice in? Through the means of mass communication, we can show the world that their morals don't come from religion, that life has a greater beauty and meaning because there is not a god. We can point out the absurdities of the fruitcake religious nutters. We will get no where letting Christian bullies walk all over our rights, walk all over our humanity.

41. 'Christian God is not to blame'

Comment #102676 by PrimeNumbers on December 23, 2007 at 11:48 am

They're on the run, let's keep attacking their nonsense.

42. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102378 by PrimeNumbers on December 22, 2007 at 2:34 pm

The hypocrisy of it all is so amusing. I don't think there's an Atheist out there that if God payed a personal visit to, and explained it all, did a few miracles and gave them a tour of Heaven, that the Atheist wouldn't then say, oops, I was wrong, I'm now a believer. That's not fundamentalism, but reason. Now put it the other way.... For 2000 or so years Christians have been presented with the facts, and that the facts say their religion makes no sense, is amoral, that their fictitious god character is amoral, evil and just plain nasty, and for 2000 years they've not changed their minds. If that's not fundamentalism, I don't know what is....

43. 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears

Comment #102336 by PrimeNumbers on December 22, 2007 at 11:54 am

I'm fundamentally opposed to slavery and torture. Does that make me dangerous?

Now it's wonderful that the shoe is on the other foot. Christian beliefs are now openly attacked as being nonsense. And they don't like it. They don't like it one bit because it reminds them that their beliefs are nonsense, and that they have no rational basis. Oh dear.

44. Sorry to disappoint, but it's nonsense to suggest we want to ban Christmas

Comment #101920 by PrimeNumbers on December 21, 2007 at 6:59 am

But surely it's those Christians who stole Christmas in the first place.... Let's kick Christ out of Winter Solstice and teach the Christians some of their own history.

45. Three wise men just legend: archbishop

Comment #101331 by PrimeNumbers on December 20, 2007 at 8:39 am

So the Archbishop is no longer a Christian, but he respects religion - let's make him leader of the Liberal party!

Seriously though, what a blithering idiot and hypocrite!

46. Clegg 'does not believe in God'

Comment #101089 by PrimeNumbers on December 19, 2007 at 7:45 pm

You don't have to insulate your kids from religion, but you sure as hell don't want to put them in a situation where people teach them Catholicism.

47. Clegg 'does not believe in God'

Comment #100847 by PrimeNumbers on December 19, 2007 at 12:49 pm

I don't see it as a good thing to be an Atheist and raise your children Catholic. I mean, if you don't have the courage of your convictions..... He's either not Atheistic enough to please Atheists, and he's certainly not Catholic enough to please them, so what does he end up being - somewhat middle of the road. I guess that's why he's leading the Liberals....

48. The art of the soluble

Comment #95735 by PrimeNumbers on December 9, 2007 at 4:14 am

Science, the process, can investigate any phenomena we can perceive. Are there things science can't tell us - yes. But does it matter? No, because religion and faith can't tell us anything at all useful. Religion mixes truth, if it has any, with human desires, in such a way that one cannot tell one from the other.

Any religious answer to a problem basically boils down to "godditit", and that is not an answer, but merely begs the question of "god?", and that is not answered by "godditit" unless you're postulating an infinite regress of gods.

49. Bah, Hanukkah

Comment #94069 by PrimeNumbers on December 4, 2007 at 5:22 pm

I laugh so much at the Christians putting up trees and the like, something that is expressly prohibited in their Bible as a pagan thing they should not do! It's hilarious how Christians don't even know their own religion and that those of us who don't believe in their silly canabilism cult know more about their history and holy book than they do!

50. Nurses Told to Turn Muslims' Beds to Mecca

Comment #94067 by PrimeNumbers on December 4, 2007 at 5:20 pm

Carefully placed magnets will throw off Muslim Mecca pointing compasses so that they think their beds are already pointing in the "right" direction. I think placing said magnets outside Mosques after they've been built so that they're now in the wrong direction would be equally amusing.

Quite frankly though, if they want that kind of special treatment, teddy bears and all, they should damn well pay for it themselves in a private hospital or go for medical treatment elsewhere.