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51. Stupid flies live longer: study

Comment #189097 by notsobad on June 5, 2008 at 12:43 pm

This is most probably because the increase in neural activity weakens the fly's life-support systems, they speculated.

"This would explain why flies, like most other animals, have hardly developed their neural capacities," they said.

DUH!
They didn't evolve bigger brains because there was no pay off.

Idiocracy intro for those who wonder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyewL0oaWA

52. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188960 by notsobad on June 5, 2008 at 3:32 am

teaching of biological and chemical evolution

Sorry, did I miss something ? Chemical evolution ?

In short, the Big Bang didn't produce all 116/117 elements we know today.

53. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188821 by notsobad on June 4, 2008 at 4:38 pm

The one weakness I can think of immediately is that morons like people behind this initiative haven't been selected out of the gene pool yet.

54. The Great Evangelical Decline

Comment #188818 by notsobad on June 4, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Let's hope it is at least around to participate.

Let's hope not.

Evangelical leaders defend their stance by claiming that God doesn't change and that neither does sin. But sin does change. Slavery wasn't sin once. Now it is. Taking a wife and a concubine wasn't sin once. Now it is.

It's just a confirmation of what Dawkins was saying all along about the shifting moral Zeitgeist.
some of the most cynical I've read anywhere.

"It's called reality, my friend."
But nothing is more damaging to it than the move from authority-based truths to the testable truths that science has caused us to embrace.

You say it like it's a bad thing.

55. Ben Stein 1, Yoko Ono 0 in 'Expelled' copyright spat

Comment #188274 by notsobad on June 3, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Skep,
fair use decisions also depend on whether the artwork was used commercially or not. Also, his avatar is small size, which diminishes the use.

56. When two worlds collide: threat of class warfare over faith-based schooling

Comment #187661 by notsobad on June 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm

I need 5 minutes of Carlin after reading so much bullshit.

"a schooling system in Australia which enables diverse expressions of identity and religious commitment and also allows our communities to come together around wider commitments to the common good"

diversity - check
religious commitment - check
communities come together - check
commitment again - check
common good - check
That's 10/10 on my bullshit meter for political speeches.

57. Karma comedians

Comment #186742 by notsobad on May 31, 2008 at 8:38 am

Correct link is guardian.co.uk and there is a good illustration of the odd treatment of religion in the comment from "singhji": "Sharon Stone has converted to Budhhism and she has every right to see the things in light of karma if she wants to and say things she likes to."
While everybody should have a full right to say anything (well, with some obvious limitations), the person also deserves to be ridiculed if they say something vile or stupid.
Before Buddhism, Stone was a Scientologist, which is enough to conclude that she is an idiot.

58. 'Uncontacted tribe' sighted in Amazon

Comment #186731 by notsobad on May 31, 2008 at 8:23 am

They are fucked now.

It's not necessarily correct to say that just because they are (allegedly) aware of the "outside world", and have decided to shun it, that they have made a reasonable, informed decision that their current lifestyle is better and preferred.

Wanna exchange some liquor with them?

59. Senate bill allows display of Lord's Prayer, 10 Commandments

Comment #186566 by notsobad on May 30, 2008 at 3:57 pm

fucktards ... really nothing else to say to this repeated idiocy and pretention

60. Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

Comment #186144 by notsobad on May 29, 2008 at 5:44 pm

If they really valued their health, they would move.

61. Top 6 Incestuous Relationships In The Bible

Comment #186094 by notsobad on May 29, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Bronze Age, what would you expect.

Christians are not worried about this because they usually don't read the Bible or only a few selected paragraphs.

62. Repulsive but right

Comment #185001 by notsobad on May 26, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Double standards:
Religious people need to kill or at least say to others that they should die/be killed to be called fundamentalists.
Atheists just need to say they are atheists and don't agree with religion, pointing out its factual problems, to be called that.

63. Mail-boat record 'proves Darwin stole his original ideas from a Welsh scientist'

Comment #184999 by notsobad on May 26, 2008 at 4:44 pm

The article and book are disgraceful to both Darwin and Wallace.

64. The Mind-Altering Role of Incense in Religion

Comment #184991 by notsobad on May 26, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Karl Marx claimed that organized religion was the "opiate of the people," meaning it dulls us into complacency, but that might not be such a bad thing.


Catching at straws.

65. Repulsive but right

Comment #184538 by notsobad on May 25, 2008 at 3:55 pm

"that one side is wrong but romantic"

And the pussyfying continues..

People who complain about civility or rudeness are usually either obsessed with political correctness or have no facts to support their assertions and opinions.

66. How Are Humans Unique?

Comment #184536 by notsobad on May 25, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Tribalism, here called group-mindedness, was identified as the problem some time ago.

This article should have come up with solutions.

67. 16% of US science teachers are creationists

Comment #184420 by notsobad on May 25, 2008 at 5:21 am

quantum_mechanik,
are you talking about the stupid "evolution exists but god started it"?
I am talking about the morons who say evolution doesn't exist at all.

68. 16% of US science teachers are creationists

Comment #183744 by notsobad on May 22, 2008 at 5:12 pm

quantum_mechanik,
please demonstrate your flawless logic to disprove my statement.

69. 16% of US science teachers are creationists

Comment #183414 by notsobad on May 22, 2008 at 4:44 am

You can't be a science teacher and a creationist. They obviously don't understand science.

The correct title should be 16% percent of people employed as science teachers should be fired at once.

70. What is science for?

Comment #183413 by notsobad on May 22, 2008 at 4:42 am

Debating a Holocaust denier is like debating a fundie.

71. Lab agrees to test Shroud of Turin for new theory

Comment #183411 by notsobad on May 22, 2008 at 4:37 am

No theory, just an assumption or hypothesis at best.

72. Richard Dawkins Responds to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #181362 by notsobad on May 17, 2008 at 3:28 am

Hitler was a Catholic pure and simple.

He was more into occult and Norse paganism, but not an atheist and definitely not a rationalist.

73. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #181357 by notsobad on May 17, 2008 at 2:43 am

They should never visit churches in Europe either.
e.g.
http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/pics/images/StPeter.jpg

Don't tell me you don't have these in the US.

74. Bible Theme Park Faces Opposition in Tennessee

Comment #181355 by notsobad on May 17, 2008 at 2:40 am

it'll be a drain on the water system

That's actually a serious concern.

75. Richard Dawkins Responds to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #181351 by notsobad on May 17, 2008 at 2:36 am

he has even won a preaching competition!

Woah, is that anything like the competition with the prophets of Baal described in 1 Kings 18:24 onwards?

From my experience, it is best not to even react to narcissistic* busy bodies like Boteach. They don't address the actual argument and just start throwing red herrings in and playing the offended card to appeal to emotion.

*just his self-given title "America's rabbi" speaks volumes. The linked story just confirms this.

76. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #181190 by notsobad on May 16, 2008 at 3:17 pm

this is old
good reminder tho

77. Bible Theme Park Faces Opposition in Tennessee

Comment #180874 by notsobad on May 16, 2008 at 2:22 am

"Making money off the Bible" started like 1500 years ago.

78. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180873 by notsobad on May 16, 2008 at 2:20 am

Why don't these busy bodies do some charity or something useful instead of being stupid?

79. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #180730 by notsobad on May 15, 2008 at 4:27 pm

The church and catholics are not as homogeneous as some may think here.
While Vatican may accept evolution, it doesn't mean churches in other countries do or catholics do.

80. 'Framing Science' and The Dawkins Effect

Comment #180481 by notsobad on May 15, 2008 at 4:36 am

Nisbet and Mooney are both sanctimonious douchebags. I don't even know why scienceblogs keeps them around.

See my avatar.

81. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #180451 by notsobad on May 15, 2008 at 2:10 am

Vergil,
you mean red herring, not non sequitur.

But the post from the Vatican is the original red herring because this is a non-issue. They should talk about things that matter and bring misery to many people's lives every day.

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

Comment #180446 by notsobad on May 15, 2008 at 1:42 am

Just because "it's obviously not essential" doesn't mean it doesn't have an evolutionary explanation...

Not just explanation but also advantage.
and are never on display.

You are doing it wrong :-)
Anyway, I think your friends were joking.

83. A natural selection

Comment #180237 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 12:25 pm

his theory of natural selection helped humans unlock some of the mysteries of life - maybe not the why, but the how.

Evolution tells us that there is no original why, only what we make of it.
Am I being dense, or does it seem that the belief that species alive today as a result of evolution through some version of Darwinian natural selection originating from some large organic compounds billions of year ago is DIRECTLY incompatible with a relgious belief of God as the creator of life and some 'special' status of humans as compared to other animals, or inanimate objects for that matter?!

It's incompatible. If Genesis is not true, there is no original sin. If there is no original sin, the rest of the book is pointless.
If someone accepts evolution and science, miracles are nonsense. If miracles are nonsense, the book is pointless.

84. Richard Dawkins discusses Einstein's new letters

Comment #180041 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 6:16 am

On other forums, I've already seen comments by theists claiming that Einstein's opinion is irrelevant.
That's true but it was theists who tried to use him as an authority to confirm their irrational beliefs.
I've also seen comments saying that Einstein is in hell for those words now, but those are just good old "high moral standards" of some of the deluded.

85. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #180037 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 6:13 am

sol76,
ignorant prejudice? arrogant disrespectful people?

Oh, the irony.

86. Richard Dawkins discusses Einstein's new letters

Comment #179976 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 3:44 am

Well said but it's not like the fundies are gonna listen or stop lying if they already know.

87. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #179968 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 3:34 am

To the "politically correct" people here: what a waste of enlightenment.

88. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #179966 by notsobad on May 14, 2008 at 3:29 am

Who cares?

When will they stop bringing misery by opposing birth control?

89. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Comment #179724 by notsobad on May 13, 2008 at 3:12 pm

"Einstein became angry when his views were appropriated by evangelists for atheism. He was offended by their lack of humility..."
source?

90. 85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science

Comment #179522 by notsobad on May 13, 2008 at 11:12 am

hard to believe but encouraging if reliable

91. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #178600 by notsobad on May 11, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Saying the classic 'You scream like a baboon' would be more appropriate given the debate is about evolution.

Dawkins should have avoided this comparison for tactical reasons, but surely not for bloody political correctness.

92. Research Volunteers Needed

Comment #175557 by notsobad on May 5, 2008 at 3:27 pm

I have a problem with the question

"Jesus Christ was born like an ordinary person, not sent by an invisible God."

I don't know whether he was actually born.

93. Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

Comment #168624 by notsobad on April 25, 2008 at 8:39 am

See also:
Human line 'nearly split in two'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7358868.stm

94. Student's 'Be Happy, Not Gay' t-shirt ok

Comment #168619 by notsobad on April 25, 2008 at 8:36 am

He indeed has a right to label himself as an intolerant idiot.

95. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #162797 by notsobad on April 17, 2008 at 1:26 pm

One of the primary causes: overpopulation.

96. Ancient serpent shows its leg

Comment #160631 by notsobad on April 14, 2008 at 8:45 am

BTW, there are other two known species of snake with legs: Haasiophis and Pachyrhachis.

97. German Church admits aiding Nazis

Comment #158438 by notsobad on April 10, 2008 at 2:08 pm

It's 60 years ago, get over it

And I thought God was outside of time, always perfect and never changing.
Or maybe god just didn't care 60 years ago.

98. 'Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom

Comment #158435 by notsobad on April 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Interesting news:
Ancient serpent shows its leg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7339508.stm

99. Get out of here, atheists!

Comment #156382 by notsobad on April 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm

It's just a red herring to conceal the fraud.

100. Dawkins warns of human extinction

Comment #155354 by notsobad on April 4, 2008 at 11:36 am

"Secular fundamentalism is sweeping this nation and people are being deceived by the devil. The devil works through people.

"Mr Dawkins is the devil's speaker and he has expressed this boldly. He believes in evolution, that nothing produces everything.


As always, where are the so called progressive Christians dissociating from this insane rant?

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