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Comments by Tridhos


1. Are Darwin's Theories Fact or Faith Issues?

Comment #121673 by Tridhos on February 4, 2008 at 12:51 am

This guy Simmons credibility went with his opening statement when he said that "it was only a theory" and then that Darwin had said we descended from monkeys and he is writing books criticising The Theory of Evolution.

2. Sam Harris debate with Rabbi David Wolpe

Comment #107612 by Tridhos on January 4, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Great debate and well worth watching. I don't agree with Rabbi David Wolpe but the quality of his input compared to the garbage that comes from the likes of Dinesh D'Souza could not have been greater.

3. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #96552 by Tridhos on December 10, 2007 at 5:45 pm

Tridhos:
It wouldn't have done him any harm to mention that the priest's present boss went off to fight for Hitler, no becoming a martyr for Herr Ratzinger.


Stephen Maxwell:
"That's not really true though is it? :).



I am not quite sure what you think isn't true about that statement.
Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth in Bavaria, and was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the Nazi army. It was "mandatory" but that doesn't absolve people of responsibility for their lives, after all a lot of people did perish in the camps rather than serve the Nazi cause.

4. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #96230 by Tridhos on December 10, 2007 at 7:53 am

I think Professor Dawkins did miss one golden opportunity with the Catholic priest who kept banging on about Stalin and Hitler. It wouldn't have done him any harm to mention that the priest's present boss went off to fight for Hitler, no becoming a martyr for Herr Ratzinger.

5. Bill Moyers interviews Jonathan Miller

Comment #87658 by Tridhos on November 12, 2007 at 5:49 pm

I agree with all the comments about Miller his output is remarkable from his comedy with Beyond the Fringe to Medical programmes and everything in between. I am very conservative when it comes to Opera and hated the idea of placing a Verdi opera in Chicago but in Miller's hands the whole thing was wonderful and nothing detracted from the music. I have loved all his opera production from Mozart to Gilbert & Sullivan. It only reinforces my own convictions when someone of his stature is on the same side of the fence.

6. Honest Mistakes or Willful Mendacity

Comment #68383 by Tridhos on September 7, 2007 at 3:40 am

From Judge Jones UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. DOVER AREA SCHOOL CASE.

It is ironic that several of these individuals,
who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would
time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID
Policy.

Nothing new in those with strong religious convictions telling porkies

7. Bill Moyers interviews E.O. Wilson

Comment #55027 by Tridhos on July 9, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Or the discussion with James Watson absolutely brilliant.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6927851714963534233

8. The Great Mutator

Comment #49663 by Tridhos on June 12, 2007 at 8:15 pm

I have nothing but envy for this guys students, what a brilliant article. To anyone who says that something is irreducibly complex, read any article by this guy and he has the knack of making thing very easy to understand even for the lay person such as myself. If I was attending Lehigh University I would most defintely ask not to be taught by Behe.

9. What I Think About Evolution

Comment #46604 by Tridhos on May 31, 2007 at 7:28 pm

Well written blog polishrequiem, I totally agree.

10. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41377 by Tridhos on May 16, 2007 at 3:29 am

Thanks for that Youtube link Drad, after listening to Christopher Hitchens I think that most of the comments on here are mild by comparison.

11. The torture of the grave Islam and the afterlife

Comment #38039 by Tridhos on May 6, 2007 at 7:30 pm

Billy Connelly the Scottish comedian on a visit to a Belfast cemetery related how the cemetery was shared by Catholics and Protestants with both faiths being buried in their own half of the cemetery. However the Catholic bishop insisted that the cemetery be divided by a wall to separate the two religions. The amusing part about it was that the wall was built below ground and Billy Connelly wondered whether this was to stop the buried from intermingling after death.

12. The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Comment #37850 by Tridhos on May 6, 2007 at 2:29 am

I daresay the Muslims will be demonstrating world wide against this outrage, but then again maybe not, far better to wait for some offensive book or cartoons now that is worth getting worked up about.

13. The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

Comment #37817 by Tridhos on May 5, 2007 at 8:53 pm

I could not agree more with the remark Johnathan Miller made to Richard Dawkins when he described the Middle East as the biggest open air lunatic asylum.

14. 'god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' by Christopher Hitchens

Comment #36287 by Tridhos on April 30, 2007 at 8:26 pm

Thank you for that link Foxfire I really enjoyed the discussion.

15. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #35791 by Tridhos on April 28, 2007 at 9:54 pm

The technical feasibility is dealt with here http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html#building
but creationists have never allowed facts to spoil their silly stories. Bear in mind that that this was during a storm so you can bet your best boots that this guy is not going to test his scale model anywhere near a squall let alone a storm. Its amazing that the creationists point to gaps etc in the fossil records which date back hundreds of millions of years but they cannot produce one shred of evidence for this Ark even though they have been told where it came to rest. My theory is that it ascended into heaven.
This is just one of the hoaxes they have tried. "In 1955 French explorer Fernand Navarra reportedly found a 5-foot wooden beam on Mount Ararat some 40 feet under the Parrot Glacier on the northwest slope and well above the treeline. The Forestry Institute of Research and Experiments of the Ministry of Agriculture in Spain certified the wood to be about 5,000 years old. A claim that is disputed by Radio Carbon dating. Navarra's guide later claimed the French explorer bought the beam from a nearby village and carried it up the mountain." See this link for more examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searches_for_Noah's_Ark

16. Two idiots get a forum

Comment #35680 by Tridhos on April 28, 2007 at 9:16 am

If you thought the banana video was a joke you should watch the same pair of clowns in this clip. I leave it to the viewer to decide which is the most intelligent of the trio in the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCDWDsUefk

17. Kadra attacked in public

Comment #32114 by Tridhos on April 15, 2007 at 7:51 pm

I am sure that any moment now there will be world wide demonstrations with Muslims condemning this outrage; well perhaps we had better not hold our breath in anticipation.

18. E.O. Wilson Accepts his 2007 TED Prize

Comment #30603 by Tridhos on April 9, 2007 at 2:05 am

[quote] If you've not already done so, I urge all of you to watch the hour-long Charlie Rose episode featuring E.O.Wilson and Jim Watson, it's on Google video and might still be a free view. The program was produced when both had just released Darwin anthologies. There's a marvellous moment when Jim states his opinion that Darwin was the most important person ever to have lived on Earth, Wilson pauses for a moment, then agrees.
Well worth a watch![/quote]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6927851714963534233

19. E.O. Wilson Accepts his 2007 TED Prize

Comment #30598 by Tridhos on April 9, 2007 at 1:45 am

Wonderful presentation and that salute to Darwin at the end, priceless.

20. Answers To the Atheists

Comment #30361 by Tridhos on April 7, 2007 at 8:31 pm

The Catholic writer Michael Novak's book "Belief and Unbelief" is a classic in self-interrogation. "How does one know that one's belief is truly in God," he asks at one point, "not merely in some habitual emotion or pattern of response?"
 
But stray too far and you will run into the modern day inquisition "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" The following link gives some good examples of those who have gone to far in their criticism
http://www.sofn.org.uk/doctrine/catholic_cases.htm

21. Postmodernism Disrobed

Comment #29134 by Tridhos on April 1, 2007 at 7:58 pm

I was taught in Engineering the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Stupid

22. Richard Dawkins interview about 'Unweaving the Rainbow'

Comment #25499 by Tridhos on March 13, 2007 at 7:56 pm

If you go to www.keepvid.com you can download and save the video clip from YouTube

23. Tolerating intolerance is still this country's besetting sin

Comment #23454 by Tridhos on February 28, 2007 at 10:12 pm

Once again people think that education is the key. When will people realise that some of these people have education coming out of their ears. The 9/11 highjackers were not uneducated people they were highly educated. The answer is to use existing laws so that when people preach this filth they are brought before the courts. Muslim leaders should also be more forthright in the condemnation of these preachers of hate.