1. Creationists plan British theme park

Comment #99321 by robzrob on December 16, 2007 at 10:04 am

Good old Wigan Council! Bless 'em.

2. Face to faith

Comment #82854 by robzrob on October 28, 2007 at 3:27 am

He assumes that when I look up at a sunset and see orange, blue, green...etc that I'm thinking about wavelengths of light, atmospheric distortions, etc. I'm not. I'm just enjoying the sunset.

3. What do these atheists understand of religion?

Comment #67437 by robzrob on September 3, 2007 at 12:28 pm

I used to think this woman was sensible.

Shame about 'Heaven And Earth' ending - it was always good for a laugh.

4. Review of Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion

Comment #66952 by robzrob on September 1, 2007 at 5:03 am

Website and email

http://www.salleyvickers.co.uk/

reception@salleyvickers.com

5. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61708 by robzrob on August 6, 2007 at 1:06 pm

I've emailed this to the site, but just in case it doesn't get through:

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=530

6. Kenya: The Death of Religion And Rise of Atheism in the West

Comment #56716 by robzrob on July 17, 2007 at 3:24 am

It would be nice to think that this is a joke - I wasn't sure as I read, but I suppose it isn't. :(

7. The fundamentalist delusion

Comment #56266 by robzrob on July 14, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Stryker,

I don't see any vacuum. A lot of people here have replaced going to church with walking the dog, going to car boot sales, garden centres and other harmless things. I don't see patriotism/nationalism or anything nasty taking over.

8. The fundamentalist delusion

Comment #56254 by robzrob on July 14, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Again and again these critics do it: state things which they say authors have said, felt, might have felt, thought, seem to be saying, seem to imply, etc, etc and not specifically referring to them. Why don't they refer? Because the things they say are not there!

Barny Zwartz? More like Barney Rubble.

9. Borehamwood eruv granted planning permission

Comment #56200 by robzrob on July 14, 2007 at 12:22 pm

'I really thought Douglas Adams' light switch on a saturday joke was just a satirical exaggeration!'

No, I can vouch for it. I was coming home and just about to go in through the garden gate one Friday night (Stamford Hill, N London) and a neighbour a couple of doors down called me and asked me to switch one light off and another on.

10. Borehamwood eruv granted planning permission

Comment #56198 by robzrob on July 14, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Their god's invisible, why can't they just have invisible poles and wires?!

11. In the know

Comment #50308 by robzrob on June 16, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Haven't read all the comments, so maybe repeating:

Straw man, straw man, straw man!

None of the current popular questioners of religion has ever stated that they are certain god doesn't exist. And what on earth is scientific dogma?

12. Do stop behaving as if you are God, Professor Dawkins

Comment #21084 by robzrob on February 7, 2007 at 2:19 pm

'For instance, Dawkins often compares belief in God to an infantile belief in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, saying it is something we should all outgrow. But the analogy is flawed. How many people do you know who started to believe in Santa Claus in adulthood?'

And your criticism of the analogy is flawed. If there was as much Santa Claus/Tooth Fairy literature, history, 'visions', religious rites around as there are of Christianity, you can bet there would be plenty of adults convinced of their existence.

13. Believing In Things Unseen Is Not Delusion

Comment #20772 by robzrob on February 6, 2007 at 11:54 am

Yaaaaaawn

14. Ancient religion may face extinction

Comment #16506 by robzrob on January 7, 2007 at 2:59 am

Didn't the Jews get the monotheism idea from this lot in Babylon? If so, good riddance!

15. Oh, we Brits of little faith

Comment #14713 by robzrob on December 24, 2006 at 4:57 pm

I really can't be doing with this sort of piece now. So full of opinions stated as facts, nothing given to back anything up, bare-faced lies. It's just tosh and can't be taken seriously. Makes me sick.

Proposal: Nobody should be let on any course (science or humanities) in any place of higher education of any kind without having maths and at least one science 'A' level.

16. Revealed: rise of creationism in UK schools

Comment #10557 by robzrob on November 28, 2006 at 11:21 am

TimeLord

HIV is evolving. Try reading 'Almost Like A Whale' by Steve Jones and follow his references.

17. Our Teapot, which art in heaven

Comment #10188 by robzrob on November 27, 2006 at 11:27 am

Haven't read the comments yet, I'll go back to them, so might be repeating things here, but this peson is an A1, 20/20, 100% wanker. (Sorry about the language!)

18. Creation vs. Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey

Comment #9627 by robzrob on November 25, 2006 at 9:49 am

Might have known the 'other lot' would have been up to this creationism/ID nonsense sooner or later.

19. Take a leaf out of their books/Books of the Year 2006/Guardian UK

Comment #9625 by robzrob on November 25, 2006 at 9:44 am

All I meant was that I wasn't enraged by TGD at all, that it all made sense. I was thrilled by it.

20. Take a leaf out of their books/Books of the Year 2006/Guardian UK

Comment #9532 by robzrob on November 25, 2006 at 3:29 am

I'm dead then.

21. Future generations will hear far more about God and politics

Comment #7869 by robzrob on November 19, 2006 at 5:45 pm

'Whereas bureaucratised welfare is invariably decoupled from altruism, and manages to demoralise and infantilise its "clients", by their nature, religious charities encourage self-reflection and responsibility, provided the mission is not neutered in return for local or government funding.'

I object to this. I'm in welfare and in our office we are NOT decoupled from altruism at all. We know our claimants, their histories and how to treat them. Our attitude is, above all, that we must get the money to those who need it.

God doesn't come into it at all.

22. Dawkins's version of the deity does not exist

Comment #7672 by robzrob on November 19, 2006 at 2:47 am

I'm like you, M, I'm thrilled when I see something new at the top of the list on the homepage (I check every day!)

But why am I always let down by the Catholics? So, so lame.

23. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7275 by robzrob on November 18, 2006 at 2:59 am

I don't understand this 'what are we going to replace religion with' thing. Millions of us in Europe are not religious and we're getting on perfectly well without it already.

24. The rise of the 'New Atheists'

Comment #5670 by robzrob on November 10, 2006 at 12:48 pm

Didn't know where to put this really. So here it is here. It's not so much the main article, but the conclusion in the last paragraph which is so nutty.

http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1372

25. THANK GOODNESS!

Comment #4633 by robzrob on November 5, 2006 at 1:45 am

Wonderful!

26. Atheist Evangelist

Comment #4552 by robzrob on November 4, 2006 at 1:01 pm

But Louis Perry is now free!

27. The Fact of Evolution

Comment #3101 by robzrob on October 25, 2006 at 2:22 pm

Billy

Hmm. Not really. I still think it would be misleading to someone trying to understand genes: what they are, the fact that some are switched on in some organisms and others aren't, some used to be switched on in some ancient animals but are off now, in their descendants, etc.

A fossil is something other than the animal, a so-called 'fossil gene' isn't something other than a gene, it's still a gene, it's just off and, as you say, can come back on again sometimes.

Is 'fossil gene' a recognised term, commonly used by biologists? If so, I think they should stop!

28. The Fact of Evolution

Comment #3079 by robzrob on October 25, 2006 at 11:42 am

Am I right in thinking that a fossil is a kind of pattern, in minerals, not bones, of the original animal, ie that it's not the actual remains of the animal?

And are 'fossil' genes real live genes, actually there, which are inactive?

If so, isn't calling them 'fossil' genes misleading and confusing?

29. Battle of the New Atheism

Comment #2774 by robzrob on October 23, 2006 at 11:23 am

'Myself, I've decided to refuse the call. The irony of the New Atheism -- this prophetic attack on prophecy, this extremism in opposition to extremism -- is too much for me.' etc.

Oh dear, oh dear, this is no good, no good at all. Mr Wolf is hopeless. He's just going to keep being polite to the nutters - which is exactly what we don't need.

30. Atheists' delusions about God

Comment #2528 by robzrob on October 21, 2006 at 5:22 pm

'I am what I am.'

'Ok then, God. If you won't define yourself, what am I supposed to DO about you? What am I supposed to do WITH you? What are you FOR? What do you MEAN? How can I know? I can't.'

31. Danger ahead - there are good reasons why God created atheists

Comment #2411 by robzrob on October 21, 2006 at 7:10 am

'That is when God sends us atheists to remind us that what passes for religion is not always religion.'

It really is astonishing to see such things written down by an adult. How pathetic, how childish. No answer at all.

32. University of Kansas Speech

Comment #2176 by robzrob on October 19, 2006 at 12:49 pm

I stood up and cheered! Let's hope some of this gets through to the unconverted.