551. Debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #78327 by the great teapot on October 12, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Re styrer comment
How can anyone assert that a universe with a god is different to one without.
Given that the greatest quality of a god is nobody knows what the hell one is, does or thinks.
This world could be exactly what a world with a god looks like, maybe god is malicious and intervenes irratically (erratically- can someone attach a spelling checker to this site- just for me.)
It seems like a fruitless line to take.

552. Fox News Attacks 'Godless' Free Thought Radio

Comment #78317 by the great teapot on October 12, 2007 at 12:18 pm

quill
You are misreading the tone of my comment.
It is only being playful, not snide.
Although if these people do seriously represent 90% of Americans, heaven help us.

553. Fox News Attacks 'Godless' Free Thought Radio

Comment #78299 by the great teapot on October 12, 2007 at 11:35 am

Science can't answer those difficult questions in the same way that making stuff up can.
Three cheers for just making stuff up.
Let's not forget his equally successful twin brother just pulling stuff out your arse.

554. Fox News Attacks 'Godless' Free Thought Radio

Comment #78290 by the great teapot on October 12, 2007 at 11:21 am

What a silly idea, a radio show that only appeals to 10% of the population. Who is going to listen to that. You can't even see any tits.

555. Fox News Attacks 'Godless' Free Thought Radio

Comment #78288 by the great teapot on October 12, 2007 at 11:12 am

"people who don't believe in god believe that science proves there is no god and people who believe in god believe science proves there is a god"
Really.
What evidence are both sides forwarding. I'd love to see either.
Americans, they are so funny (said in my best homer simpson voice)

556. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #76573 by the great teapot on October 6, 2007 at 10:31 am

Don't knock it Corylus.
Someone has to foot the bill for all the wonderfull research and education provided by the creationists.
Transporting mankind back to the dark ages doesn't come cheap.

557. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #76571 by the great teapot on October 6, 2007 at 10:21 am

Heard it all before, except for "if Gods balls banged together he would become Thor".
Very sharp Lionel.
Worth a listen just for that.

558. Norway flourishes as secular nation

Comment #76513 by the great teapot on October 6, 2007 at 3:23 am

10% Go to church.
But is is possible that 74% believe. yeah right.
God is almighty, If I don't believe in him I will burn in hell, but you know I just can't find the time to go to church, but I really believe, honest.

559. Norway flourishes as secular nation

Comment #76511 by the great teapot on October 6, 2007 at 3:14 am

Eat Norways shorts Sweden.

560. 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' Religious Group Turning Heads at MSU

Comment #76508 by the great teapot on October 6, 2007 at 3:10 am

The report starts with
"as it pokes fun at religion"
Why do people on this comments page think the reporters have missed the point.
They have not missed the point at all.
Me thinks there are to many blinkered people posting here.

561. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #74596 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 4:23 pm

by all means peel back those bandages.
No one here is looking.

562. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #74584 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Nice answer steve but you never addressed my main point. Namelijk " Boy George is the Moon"- do I sense you are runnuig from a debate you know you can never win.
No reply required steve I am of course being sarcastic for no reason and agree with nearly all you have said.
best wishes
John.

563. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #74556 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 1:55 pm

steve99
I really don't know why you bother with DG.
The endless circle of pseudo-intellectual claptrap is becoming so tiresome.
He believes nothing can be proved therefore there may be a god.
That is the best he can say.
Nothing can be be proved so Boy George is the moon. I am convinced of it.
Anyone like to disprove that and I will take them on in a philosophical battle about it.
Only diifference is I wouldn't dream of wasting everyone elses time over such nonsense.

564. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74550 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 12:58 pm

Yes, if we are to be taken seriously we must leave behind such immature words as wanktard.
well said ,erm captain underpants, we should all strive to be taken more seriously.

565. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74497 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 6:47 am

Yorker
Don't forget bad goal keeping.

566. Teacher: I was fired, said Bible isn't literal

Comment #74495 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 6:28 am

wee flea
Ok prove there is no "chocolate" teapot.
You must back your claims up.You said you could, so prove it.
Should you, praise be to god, be able to do that, then that is not the chocolate teapot I meant. My teapot....

567. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74490 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 5:50 am

yorker
I share your optimism with the young.
Any one under the age of 30 in the UK who believes in God is, well how shall we say it, a bit way out there.
Believing in God is so uncool that,in the UK at least, this website is superfluous to requirements.
Lets hope this is not a fashion but an unstoppable trend.

As a PS, I have visited this site too often.
For the first time ever, while in the pub last night, I questioned a friend of 8 years about her religious beliefs. When arguing the atheist point of view I kept saying "what we believe...."
Oh dear, I have joined the cat herd. I tried to stop saying it but it kept creeping out.I am so ashamed.

568. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74470 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 2:29 am

Rapid response to comment 117
Religious believers have already decided that they believe before they argue.
Rationality has already been discarded.
They may be building intricate arguments in the loft but the foundations can be blown away with a puff of breath.
Don't get involved in creationism (or whatever they call it), it is a decoy away from the main issue, ie all religion is horse shit.

569. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74466 by the great teapot on September 29, 2007 at 2:15 am

If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence then farcical theories (religion) only require farcical rebuttals (RRS).
Why use a sledge hammer to crack a nut.
Intelligent people have more important things to do.
Leave the nobrain arguments to the nobrainers.
Like us.
Richard and his like are wasting their talents here.
Corylus, is that seat next to you free?

570. AAI Convention webcam

Comment #74323 by the great teapot on September 28, 2007 at 5:59 am

Pewkatchoo

I don't know wether it is an urban myth or not but I have heard cats don't like it when people look them in the eyes or watch them to closely.
They often feel more secure around strangers who don't immediately fawn all over them, hence they prefer cat neutral people to cat lovers.When they stare at you look away after a few seconds and ignore them for a minute or 2, or throw them a fish.
Having said that some cats are absolute tarts and snuggle up to anyone. So the theory probably stinks.
Christ it's a slow news day. Burma aside.
Leave the RRS alone you nit picking bastards, they probably visit this site.

571. Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?

Comment #73263 by the great teapot on September 24, 2007 at 3:39 pm

Richard
Last year I entered a fantasy football team under the name Allahsucks - but my email and address were also available, this was fine till on about week 3 I found myself about joint 950000th with 2 Egyptians. Since then I have given that sort of pseudonym a wide berth.

572. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73255 by the great teapot on September 24, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Your facts of life tale reminds me of Mr Brodericks style.
Get this, he actually said and I remember this verbatem.
"The penis, what is the function of the penis.
Amanda you're a slag. This should be easy for you"
No lie.
By the way if Amanda was not a girl of easy virtue she certainly liked to give the impression she was.

573. 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Comment #73240 by the great teapot on September 24, 2007 at 2:37 pm

I remember my first Biology teacher, she was a cute blonde whose name escapes me.(I mean actual teacher of biology not sexual partner)
My next one was a bald bastard called Broderick,
His first words to me were "Bircham! How does a plant take up water?"
His next words to me were "You're like a bloody minor bird son, I poke you with a pencil and you say anything"
From that moment on I was a straight A biology student.Horses for courses i suppose..
If he had tried to appeal to my sense of wonder or fun I would probably have started reading my copy of shoot under the table.
PS Northern Bright - that must be an old photo.
PPS My A level Chemistry teacher was called Richard Morgan.Another sarcastic bastard who got results.

574. Keeping the faith at school

Comment #73229 by the great teapot on September 24, 2007 at 2:17 pm

What a relief.
I thought it was Peterborough, England for one horrific moment.

575. Row Brews Over DUP Call for Schools to Teach Creationism

Comment #73218 by the great teapot on September 24, 2007 at 1:32 pm

Devolved

I am no scientist nor unlike you do I pretend to be.
But surely, to even the biggest fool, the knowledge accrued piece by piece over the last few thousand years by the greatest minds that have lived mean more than that crock of shite written by a warring tribe trying to justify their own superiority over the next poor bastards they are about to rape and butcher. Come on, use your bloody brain mate,try to see things in their true historical context. I couldn't give a shit about proof for evolution. If evolution by natural selection hadn't been proposed there is still nothing worth taking seriously in the notion of god or the bible.
You do realise you are embarrassing yourself.
I assume you are also aware Jesus ( if he existed) didn't speak english - just checking.

576. Row Brews Over DUP Call for Schools to Teach Creationism

Comment #72908 by the great teapot on September 23, 2007 at 1:02 pm

Billy, What have you done to the wee flea?
You do realise if he goes missing it will be your floorbards they will pull up.

577. Crisis of faith in first secular school

Comment #72807 by the great teapot on September 23, 2007 at 2:47 am

Russell
I think Richard is joking.
When he refers to the brevity of your post he is alluding to the short attention span of the cretins who visit this site,himself included.

578. Crisis of faith in first secular school

Comment #72797 by the great teapot on September 23, 2007 at 2:06 am

Baning religion from school will just drive it underground.
Kids will start making up their own gods behind the bikesheds and before you know it they will believe in the most unsubstantiated nonsense.
This campaign must be stopped immediately

579. Crisis of faith in first secular school

Comment #72796 by the great teapot on September 23, 2007 at 1:59 am

Politically impossible?
So France and Russia amongst others don't exist.
My world is falling apart.

580. Crisis of faith in first secular school

Comment #72793 by the great teapot on September 23, 2007 at 1:51 am

Bremas

Strictly speaking the answer is non of the above.
They both rotate about their combined centre of gravity.(but dont qoute me- I am as thick as the average Frenchman)
But the video is an eye opener I was always under the impression that the French were perfect.

581. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #72632 by the great teapot on September 22, 2007 at 3:12 am

Dianelos
I have read a large number of your posts and you have changed my view of the universe (Y).
I am now convinced that God exists and I don't.
This is a great relief to me, I shall start cancelling all my standing orders when the bank opens on monday.

582. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #70821 by the great teapot on September 17, 2007 at 2:38 am

Credit where credits due to the Independent, but I suspect they couldn't believe their luck when Richard Dawkins, himself, replied.

583. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #70557 by the great teapot on September 16, 2007 at 3:37 am

Iraq , schmiraq.
Hitchens worthy contribution is to ask people to question.
Mother Terresa is a by word for "Good" to nearly everyone in the western world. But ask anyone in the western world what she has acually done and how many could answer. Suprisingly the answer is jackshit.- that is hitchens great contribution.
His personal opininion on iraq is irrelevent.

584. Review of Darwin's Angel

Comment #70554 by the great teapot on September 16, 2007 at 3:04 am

"and the sheer factual inaccuracy of Christopher Hitchens's rant"
Funny how facts are suddenly important.
Compare
"Dawkins's fact-based approach" which is thrown out as an insult.
If this were a 500 page review we could forgive the inconsistency, but on the same page?
Perhaps what he is advocating is a happy medium between facts and just making things up.
Relying on facts wrong, making things up wrong.
A small amount of facts & a small amount of making things up- Perfect.

585. Review of Darwin's Angel

Comment #70550 by the great teapot on September 16, 2007 at 2:36 am

Is Richards response available yet?
Sorry, is the very reverend Dawkins response available yet?
(I forgot what an arrogant man he is when I disrespectfully called him Richard)

586. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #70009 by the great teapot on September 13, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Icy water is cold, boiling water is hot.
Inbetween is difficult.
Yes I agree, I am not the one who claims to have absolutes. If the answers are absolute that suggests to me they already exist and are "written in stone"
My point is, if there is an absolute,why are there difficult questions?
Clearly I don't understand the point.
But even what is hot and what is cold is subjective and depends on circumstances etc.
I still do not understand why you need the security blanket of an external morality. It is beyond me.

587. A Response to Jonathan Haidt

Comment #70008 by the great teapot on September 13, 2007 at 4:03 pm

My view of reality has been challenged.
I thought Dianelos only existed in the Alaister McGrath thread.
This clearly is a figment of my imagination.
I shall ignore all the evidence to the contrary and continue my life as if his posts do not exist here.

588. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #70002 by the great teapot on September 13, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Clearly it is wrong to beat children. No one would deny that. Really? says who?
Is it wrong to beat a dog, eat a sheep, keep a chicken in bad conditions.
We know nothing of the self awarenwess of any other creature. I err(?) on the safe side. Do you Paul? Perhaps my absolute morals are more absolute than yours.
Belief in evolution brought me to this conclusion 25 years ago - harm no living creature for pleasure.(taste is for pleasure alone- I am still alive 25 years later so it must be)
Surely no right minded person could disagree.
Obviously xians need not reply.- not being of sound mind.
Final foot note , I am watching the VTM nieuws as I speak . Let us all say a pray for Madeleine as her parents continue their search. Cheap shot I know but all the praying , "look at us we are so good, we go to church" shit made me puke. Not for 1 minute am I suggesting it is a front, you understand.
Apologies for not having read "how to bluff your way in philosophy, etc.." before writing this.

589. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #69979 by the great teapot on September 13, 2007 at 1:03 pm

Sbooder

Your comments are on topic.
See that it doesn't happen again.

590. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #69663 by the great teapot on September 12, 2007 at 5:09 am

Keeping it simplistic.
Can someone tell me what these "absolute morals" are and where will I find them?
And why do we know that this is the source of absolute morals.
I would also like to know what are the inconsistencies in saying "I do not believe things to be the case based on no evidence" (the only thing all Atheists have in common) and living an altruistic life in which my own well being is not my only consideration.(Although living a completely hedonistic lifestyle rife with rape and murder is also completely consistent with an atheistic position , atheism makes no comment eitherway)
DG this is not an invitation to bullshit.

591. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #69515 by the great teapot on September 11, 2007 at 2:57 pm

I can't possibly know the motivations of David or any of the others but at least David offers his opinions on this site for free. (I am still not sure it is value for money) and either he thinks it is free advertising or he has a genuine passion for the debate. I suspect the latter.
I have to say he has changed my opinion on one subject, I never believed the British soaps when bad or disliked characters kept on going back to the same local as their arch-rivals, I always thought surely they would find another pub. Clearly not.

592. Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith

Comment #69494 by the great teapot on September 11, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Ronnie Harper

Which version of the article did you read.
I can't see it anywhere.

593. Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith

Comment #69455 by the great teapot on September 11, 2007 at 10:09 am

Thanks for the link Ingeborg,
All my hobbies in one hit.
Laughing at the ridiculous opinions of the religious,learning Dutch and watching women bellydance.
I am in heaven.

594. Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith

Comment #69435 by the great teapot on September 11, 2007 at 8:47 am

I don't know how many dutch speakers out there are interested but if you haven't seen it already the Dutch series "God bestaat niet" (God doesn't exist) is available at the following link
http://www.rvu.nl/rvu.php?i=4&l=0&n=806
Hope the above works, I enjoyed it, even with limited dutch. The guests all speak clearly enough for even an hopeless case like me.

595. Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on Mother Teresa

Comment #66474 by the great teapot on August 30, 2007 at 4:41 am

Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England.
Can we offer a prize for the first person who has actually heard the well known saying "an Englishman has to be quiet when an Irishman speaks" before.

596. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #64257 by the great teapot on August 19, 2007 at 4:29 am

what's wrong with prostitution?

597. Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath

Comment #64132 by the great teapot on August 18, 2007 at 1:10 am

Where is it revealed that I should not rape a child because it is against "Gods" will?

598. The Pentagon Sends Messengers of Apocalypse to Convert Soldiers in Iraq

Comment #64045 by the great teapot on August 17, 2007 at 12:02 pm

"Imagine 135 F and no aircon."
I don't suppose many Iraqis have ever known airconditioning. Most of mankind managed for 100000 years without it.

599. Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch

Comment #63415 by the great teapot on August 14, 2007 at 5:11 am

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600. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #63410 by the great teapot on August 14, 2007 at 5:02 am

Did Steve Wright really say in response to Richard dawkins comment that coming from nothing and going back to nothing is not logical.
Logical must mean a different thing in DJ world.