1. What Will Change Everything?

Comment #310702 by Big T on January 1, 2009 at 8:32 pm

Try 'The Hedonistic Imperative' of Dave Pearce.

2. Obama cranks up the green revolution

Comment #305903 by Big T on December 23, 2008 at 10:53 pm

There was an item posted on this website not long ago about a breakthrough in separating hydrogen from oxygen in H2O. Supposedly, it can be done for very little money, with simple techonolgy, imitating photosynthesis. So why not build lots and lots of plants to do just that, burn the hydrogen to fuel generators, use the electricity to become independent of fossil fuels? No pollution from burning hydrogen, correct? Drive electric cars, use electric everything, build more power lines and towers to support them. Why not?

3. Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors

Comment #305900 by Big T on December 23, 2008 at 10:45 pm

Our ancestors lived in caves in the ground.
There was no Garden of Eden, I've found.
No apple, no Eden, no Fall, no snake,
The Bible is just a big fat mistake,
But the silly stories just go round and round.

4. Siphonophore: Deep-sea superorganism

Comment #305893 by Big T on December 23, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Siponophores are not fictitious
They really exist and are vicious
But they won't attack you or me
If we just turn and flee
Or creep away, being surreptitous.

5. Siphonophore: Deep-sea superorganism

Comment #305891 by Big T on December 23, 2008 at 10:27 pm

6. Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors

Comment #305293 by Big T on December 22, 2008 at 10:16 pm

The Universe was created approximately 6,000 years ago. Allah will burn for eternity anyone who does not believe in Him - one layer of skin will be burned off, to be replaced by another to be burned off, etc., etc., forever. This is because He is infinitely merciful and loving. In His infinite wisdom and mercy He permitted Satan to bury fossils and otherwise make it look like the Earth is billions of years old, in order to make His children doubt His wisdom in the Bible and the Qur'an. Allahu Akbar! God is Great! On the other hand, maybe ALL organized religions are bullshit! Maybe both the Bible and the Qur'an contain "mountains of life destroying gibberish" (Sam Harris).

7. Church Preaches The Music Of Beethoven

Comment #284837 by Big T on November 15, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Ex-love: It was the late great bioligist/essayist/Doctor of Medicine Lewis Thomas.

8. Catholic bishops warn Obama they'll fight on abortion: Statement to focus on 'opposing evil'

Comment #282924 by Big T on November 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Abortion gives me more trouble than any other moral issue (I'm an ex-Catholic). Nevertheless, to be consistent, I have to say that abortion should be legal everywhere. Is there a God? Who knows? Is abortion always immoral? I don't think so. If there is a certainty the child will be born severely handicapped, (whatever that means) then should it always be recommended? I think so, but what do I know? Should it always be employed if rape or incest is involved? All I can really suggest is that we all try to use our limited ability to be rational to try and keep it legal and up to the mother and physician to decide.

9. 'Child-witches' of Nigeria seek refuge

Comment #282264 by Big T on November 11, 2008 at 11:01 pm

We are a mainly irrational species. We must all try to think and behave rationally and try to persuade others to do so. If the species Homo Sapiens survives it's adolescence, there will (I hope) be better days ahead. Remember, there are still educated people in Western societies who believe in demonic possession.

10. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278569 by Big T on November 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm

The forces of enlightenment, education, and equality have triumphed over the forces of fear, fundamentalism and fanticism - go get 'em, Barack! What a wonderful night!

11. Convert or we will kill you, Hindu lynch mobs tell fleeing Christians

Comment #266730 by Big T on October 19, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Ahh, good old organized religion. I'll go see 'Religulous' and hope to get a few laughs out of it. Better than crying, I guess.

12. Richard Dawkins infected with Satanic 'virus of mind', Christian group claims

Comment #252241 by Big T on September 22, 2008 at 4:55 pm

I've always suspected that Prof. Dawkins, rather than being infected in the mind by Satan, really IS the Antichrist. It is good to see Annabanana posting again.

13. Does faith have a place in medicine?

Comment #250962 by Big T on September 20, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Does Faith have a place in medicine? No.

14. Sharia courts operating in Britain

Comment #248204 by Big T on September 15, 2008 at 10:05 pm

Is Islam really that different from other religions? Some scholars say no. Others disagree, and talk about what they call "Bloody Islam." I happen to believe that Islam IS fundamentally different, as, apparently, do Fanusi and Al-Rawandi. Certainly, as Sam Harris pointed out in "The End of Faith", the Qur'an has passage after passage after passage urging Muslims to fight, spread Islam, kill infidels and apostates, and passages saying Allah will roast unbelievers in hell, etc. But does that mean Islam is really so dangerous? Well, consider the following 4 religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judiasm. Certainly Christians have persecuted and killed adherents of Judiasm (pogroms, the 'Final Solution', etc). Still, Christian violence against Jews seems to have died out. Christians have fought against Islam (the Crusades, etc.) And Muslims have fought Christians (the Crusades) and continue to do so (9/11, 7/7, etc.). And Muslims have fought Hindus, and continue to do so (India vs. Pakistan, Kashmir valley dispute, etc.) And Muslims continue to fight Judiasm (look at the Middle East from 1948 until the present.) Or from any time in since the 7th century to the present. But where is the Judiasm vs. Hinduism war? Christianity vs. Hinduism? Christianity vs. Judiasm in the 21st century? Is it not true that of these 4 religions only Islam is fighting ALL the others? Well, I consider Islam a danger to the West and I have been called a bigot on this site, but I will continue to consider Islam a grave threat to secular, enlightened, civilized values.

15. Letter from Sir Richard Roberts asking Reiss to step down

Comment #248190 by Big T on September 15, 2008 at 9:16 pm

I shouldn't gloat, I must not gloat, gloating is bad. Anyone who would gloat is a bad person. Oh well, what the heck! How many times have I read on this website that Americans are ignorant, rednecked, religious fanatics, in contrast to civilized, enlightened Europeans? I believe it was Diancanu who was sick unto the death of Americans in "flyover country" (where I happen to live). And now, what do we hear? Sharia courts are operating in Great Britain (but not in America). And a member of the Royal Society wants creationism taught in schools in England? Oh, I'm so ashamed of being an American in "flyover country."

16. Islam's war on freedom

Comment #240722 by Big T on September 1, 2008 at 12:59 am

Pat Condell is one of my heroes. He is the greatest! I have contributed to Ayan Hirsi Ali's protection fund, and if Pat Condell ever needs police protection, I will contribute to that also. Free speech forever, Islam never!

17. Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells

Comment #240119 by Big T on August 30, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Relax, everyone. Even if the U.S. govment succeeds in blocking stem-cell research, it will still go on in Europe and Asia. Astounding medical breakthroughs are right around the corner. Limitless blood supplies for transfusion, cures for diabetes, alzheimer's, etc. Providing only that we don't destroy ourselves in a nuclear war, all this and more will happen in my lifetime (which means in the next 10 years or so). I looked in my crystal ball, consulted my ouija board, rolled the dice, and consulted the Delphic oracle and the Cumae Sybil. It will all come to pass!

18. Manitoba dig uncovers 80-million-year-old sea creature

Comment #239035 by Big T on August 28, 2008 at 11:36 pm

A person calling himself or herself 'Satanburiedfossils' used to post on this site (back in the days when there were giants on the Earth - Yorker, Veronique, Bremas, Jonecc, etc.) God did not bury fossils to test our faith. Adding up the ages of patriarchs and such in the Bible gives us an age of the Earth (and the rest of the universe). That figure is a little over 6,000 years. Since the Bible is 'inerrant', that settles it. Fossils were buried by the Father of Evil himself. I know because he told me so himself yesterday.

19. Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech

Comment #192079 by Big T on June 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Right on, Fighting Falcon! The First Amendment rocks!

20. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

Comment #172501 by Big T on April 29, 2008 at 4:17 pm

Right on, Anti-Defamation League! Tell it like it is!

21. Religion is 'the new social evil'

Comment #164617 by Big T on April 20, 2008 at 1:10 pm

This is good news. Organized religion is a source of great evil in the world, a fact that needs to be recognized in America like it is in England.

22. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163740 by Big T on April 19, 2008 at 12:20 am

I have wondered for a long time where babies do come from. I have never been comfortable with the 'Stork Theory'. But if babies are not brought by the stork, where DO they come from? We need some expert advice around here. I'll bet if we asked Dr. Benway, she could tell us where babies come from? Surely you can't get through medical school without know that?

23. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #162910 by Big T on April 17, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Another good laugh from this website! I needed that. Thanks, Sarah 95 for the YouTube.

24. German Church admits aiding Nazis

Comment #157941 by Big T on April 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm

Fighting Falcon has a point. It is easy for people living in a democratic society to say 'I would have stood up to Hitler'. It is true that the Catholic Church was complicit in more than just providing forced laborers as Hitchens and others have pointed out. And I am no fan of the Catholic Church. But for people living under the Nazi dictatorship to actively oppose it would require more courage than about 99 percent of the human race possesses. Which is one reason (among many) why I feel strongly about Europeans opposing fundamentalist Muslim immigrants. The time to oppose evil is BEFORE it comes to power.

25. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154833 by Big T on April 3, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Dr Benway, give yourself a break. Mental illness runs in my family and I've been treated for depression. But sometimes it's hard not to laugh, and you are not a horrible person.

26. Beware the Believers

Comment #151533 by Big T on March 29, 2008 at 12:16 am

I got a good laugh out of it.

27. Iowa county board gives initial OK for ghost hunters to investigate asylum

Comment #151531 by Big T on March 29, 2008 at 12:11 am

Exactly how does ghost detecting equipment work? Thermal imaging? If a ghost is supernatural, outside the laws of physics, not made up of mass/energy, how can thermal imaging equipment detect one? Sound recording? If a ghost has no mass/energy, how can he/she make sounds? How can you see a ghost? How can light be deflected by his/her body? How can ghost detecting equipment be tested to see if it works? I was going to ask more skeptical questions, but I've just been slimed by a ghost! Bill Murray, where are you when I need you?

28. EXPELLED!

Comment #147522 by Big T on March 20, 2008 at 8:55 pm

Sounds good to me. Hope Richard enjoyed the movie.

29. Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites

Comment #147479 by Big T on March 20, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Frankus 1122: That YouTube bit about messaging Mr. Deity is hilarious. Thanks for recommending it. And, shucks, I should have checked the article again before I posted. My odds are not one in 170 million but one in 170 billion! Now that's discouraging!

30. Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites

Comment #147011 by Big T on March 19, 2008 at 4:58 pm

So there's almost no chance (well, maybe one in 170 million) that any prayer I utter will reach the ear of God. Dear me, how very discouraging. No wonder I quit praying years ago.

31. The Atheist Apocalypse

Comment #146128 by Big T on March 18, 2008 at 4:33 pm

The person doing the comic strip apparently picked Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens to caricature because they are such visible spokesmen for atheism, I should think. Anyone who can see racism or sexism in that is either too culturally enlightened or too just plain sensitive for me.

32. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #145495 by Big T on March 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Well, darn, there goes my faith in tantric power. Logicel, your pun about ghee was most excellent! Be proud, be very proud!

33. Immune system differences found

Comment #145489 by Big T on March 17, 2008 at 4:41 pm

DamnDirtyApe: It may be Monday, and early in the day, but let's not forget this particular Monday is St Patrick's Day.

34. Lords Approve Abolition Of Blasphemy

Comment #139716 by Big T on March 6, 2008 at 12:29 pm

People on this website have bemoaned the rise of Christian fundamentalism in the USA, predicted that someone like Huckabee might win the presidency in November, threatened to leave the USA if that happens, and generally criticized American ignorance. Well, Huckabee is out of the race, all the remaining candidates seem to believe in evolution, and we have the First Amendment, not anti-blasphemy statutes. Maybe America is less backward and Europe a tad less enlightened than some claim?

35. Church exhumes Padre Pio

Comment #138855 by Big T on March 4, 2008 at 10:30 pm

According to one of my college history professors, Martin Luther "threw a turd at the devil." In Mark Twain's 'The Mysterious Stranger', a priest was said to have thrown a bottle of wine at the Devil, and you could see the splotch on the wall where the bottle broke. But these are just myths. The truth is, I fought Satan last night, in the parking lot of a bar in Independence, Missouri, and I kicked his demonic ass!

36. Bulldozers tear down giant religious teapot

Comment #138849 by Big T on March 4, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Quetzalcoatl, they have blasphemed against ye! Smite ye them! Quetzalcoatl is Great! Death to blasphemers! Death to infidels! Go get 'em Quetz! Let them feel the wrath of the Plumed Serpent!

37. Ayaan Hirsi Ali to get EU protection

Comment #136340 by Big T on February 29, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Right on, E U! I argued earlier on this website that she needed and deserved our help, and I sent in several contributions out of my own pocket to pay for her protection. This is the best news I have heard in ages! Obviously, it won't be necessary to pay for protection for all who leave Islam, but this woman is world famous for her apostasy, her books and that famous film. As far as I'm concerned, taxpayers in every country in the Western world should be willing to pay for her protection. She is a heroine! A symbol of free speech, secularism and the Enlightenment.

38. Cutting Edge: Baby Bible Bashers

Comment #129201 by Big T on February 18, 2008 at 9:16 pm

Remind anyone of Marjoe Gortner? Who knows, perhaps someday these child evangelists will grow up to take revenge like he did. Let's hope so.

39. The New Atheist Movement

Comment #123884 by Big T on February 7, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Teach 'Christian apologetics' to the young, hey? Shit, I was immersed in Christian brainwashing from the time I drew my first breath until I was eighteen years old. Never heard from any agnostics or atheists in all that time. And although 'Christian apologetics' means a defense of Christianity, somehow I can't help but think of that word 'apologetics' as meaning they are 'apologizing' for something. Belief without evidence, anyone? Brainwashing? Refusal to leave others alone?

40. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Comment #108828 by Big T on January 7, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Annabanana: So many men want you to come and live near them because you are a lovely, intelligent young woman with a beautiful smile. Well, I'm an ugly old man and I want to say this: The Bible, The Qur'an, The Baghavad Gita, The Book of Mormon, etc. - they're all collections of fairy tales. On the other hand, consider this. I live in Independence, Missouri, where the Garden of Eden used to be (according to Mormon teaching). Hitchens likes to ridicule Mormons by saying that when Jesus returns, he won't have "a summer home in Jackson County, Missour." But suppose the Mormons are correct. If you move here and Jesus comes back, you could wind up living next door to the Creator of the Universe. Let's see Lancashire, Berkshire, Yorkshire, Sweden, etc. top that!

41. It is possible to be moral without God

Comment #105159 by Big T on December 30, 2007 at 7:32 pm

Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Aayan Hirsi Ali, the late Carl Sagan, the late Isaac Asimov, the late Robert Green Ingersoll, the late H.L. Mencken - I've never heard of any of these people raping anyone, murdering anyone, burning down any orphanages or anything of the sort. Nevertheless, the five living atheists MUST, sooner or later, do all those things and worse, just as the four deceased people I mentioned must have done them while they were alive, because, you see, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be moral without God!

42. Sudan demo over jailed UK teacher

Comment #92592 by Big T on November 30, 2007 at 9:02 pm

To all the naive people on this site: I was accused of anti-Muslim bigotry almost as soon as I first posted on this site. Very well. So I'm a bigot. But the Koran (or Qur'an or whatever) is a totalitarian, mind-control document. In passage after passage it threatens anyone who even questions it's assertions with eternal punishment. The Bible does some of the same, but to a much lesser extent. It will be lovely if we avoid an all-out clash of civilizations, but that seems increasingly less likely. Okay, I'm a racist, anti-Muslim, evil bigot. But please try not to be too shocked when majority-Muslim societies do things like this. To repeat an earlier warning of mine, the only reason they are not doing it in the West is because they do not (yet) have the power to do so. Freedom is more fragile than you think it is.

43. Frequently Asked Questions about the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust

Comment #89470 by Big T on November 20, 2007 at 9:59 pm

If some people do not wish to give, that's fine. I have not tried to "shame" or "guilt" anyone else into donating, honest. But I regard what has been called "Islamofascism" as a very real threat to freedom of expression everywhere on Earth. Remember, many many newspapers and magazines refused to publish the cartoons of Muhammad in places like America. Why? Because they were afraid, of course. I have a middle-class job and lifestyle and I have contributed because I consider it a worthwhile cause. And I intend to continue to contribute. Thanks for giving me the chance, Sam.

44. URGENT APPEAL: Please Help Protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Comment #88747 by Big T on November 18, 2007 at 9:13 pm

I have just put the first of many donations in the mailbox. This woman needs and deserves our help. According to an Internet site I looked at, there are about 45 million Dutch citizens. If Ms. Ali's protection costs 4 million dollars a year, that's less than ten cents a year for every Dutch citizen, but if the Dutch government doesn't want to do it, I intend to continue making a contribution every month.

45. Dr Bari: Government stoking Muslim tension

Comment #88142 by Big T on November 14, 2007 at 11:23 pm

So, he's afraid England is becoming too much like Germany in the 1930's? On the other hand, like the Nazi book burners, he would ban Salman Rushdie's writings (they should be "pulped")? How is advocating censorship going to move a society AWAY from 1930s style Germany? And shortly thereafter he says that Muslim places that sell extremist, anti-Semitic, hate-filled literature CANNOT be censored or controlled - only Salman Rushdie can? What an asshole!

46. Jesus Rides the Number 7 Train

Comment #84851 by Big T on November 4, 2007 at 12:47 am

Jesus vs Gojira? (Gojira is the orignal Japanese name of the monster - a combination of 2 Japanese words that comes out to mean roughly "Gorilla Whale" - The Hulk could beat both of them at the same time!

47. You big, fat pile of bacteria

Comment #84850 by Big T on November 4, 2007 at 12:37 am

We are all part of an immense ecosystem. It is probably better to let bacteria into one's body than to endlessly scrub one's surroundings, take antibiotics needlessly, etc. I would personally rather have a healthy immune system and plenty of rest and good nutrition than a medicine cabinet full of antibiotics. Live in harmony with nature and don't worry about germs!

48. Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case

Comment #84596 by Big T on November 2, 2007 at 5:07 pm

News flash: Someone has defaced the Westboro Baptist Church with spray-painted graffiti including, among other things: "God Hates The Phelps". People are evidently getting fed up with pastor Fred. I hope it doesn't happen, I despise violence, but I'm beginning to think someone is going to get hurt at one of these demonstrations.

49. Prejudicial concerns

Comment #80902 by Big T on October 23, 2007 at 12:13 pm

Hear, hear!

50. God's honest truth?

Comment #79749 by Big T on October 18, 2007 at 12:23 pm

It sounds like a good idea to me.