51. No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film

Comment #148067 by Animavore on March 22, 2008 at 12:37 am

The first 2 reviews of this movie are on IMDB. I'm not gonna add one without seeing it but at the moment the reviews are favourable. Hopefully the rebuttal will be swift to follow.

52. EXPELLED!

Comment #147666 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 5:11 am

Why do people keep equating evolution with atheism anyway? There's more religious evolutionists than atheists when put together, many believe evolution is gods way of creating (so it's a form of creationism in that sense) even the lead scientist on the Killmister trial was a devout Christian. I hope religious scientists make a stand against this and other lay religious yet sensible people.

53. EXPELLED!

Comment #147664 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 5:05 am

INteresting. Still no review or star rating on IMDB. It's hardly blocked is it. I thought they'd be rushing out to add their 2 cents. For and against. Blogs are there though.

54. EXPELLED!

Comment #147613 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 1:29 am

Yeah I agree with PJG. I didn't know that much about the movie when I first read this post but after quickly educating myself on it in a mere 20 minutes, reading reviews by Christians and learning the movies content, I can predict a shit-storm in America (who knows, maybe here in Ireland too) over this film. This is not good.

55. EXPELLED!

Comment #147610 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 1:14 am

So I guess we'll be seeing reviews on IMDB soon?

56. EXPELLED!

Comment #147608 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 1:11 am

There's a new post relating to this in Pharngula.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

57. EXPELLED!

Comment #147596 by Animavore on March 21, 2008 at 12:09 am

I wonder if this film will get a European release? I will, of course, be downloading it for free as I refuse to give money to this 'cause.' Hope Richie boy has a review later today. (what will Johnaton Ross say?)

58. Flipping particle could explain missing antimatter

Comment #146578 by Animavore on March 19, 2008 at 7:51 am

This information has shaken my faith in physics. Crisis of conscience.

Oh.. it's ok. It's passed.

59. Jesus saves

Comment #146575 by Animavore on March 19, 2008 at 7:49 am

To answer Lucas, yes, I eat souls.

60. Jesus saves

Comment #146526 by Animavore on March 19, 2008 at 7:00 am

Maybe they should do a study on why atheists DONT believe. I know it seems obvious to you or me but I'm just calling for a balance.

61. In Britain, creationist theory is evolving

Comment #144657 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Why to they keep equating atheism with hedonism? Hedonism is a choice amongst atheists and I myself lived that life in my early 20's but, I just grew out of it. Gradually. No trumpets, no parade, now I immerse myself in books on various topics to keep my mind active and exercised. I never felt I had to cling to the life preserver of Christianity or any other religion to mend ways which I never thought needed mending because I didn't have the AA style guilt culture to make me feel debased, to lower me down to a miserable wretch so that it could build me back up again to be a man. (whatever that even means...how many roads must a man walk and all that) More indication that religion is for those with weak constitutions.

62. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144612 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Hitler believed what he was doing too.

63. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144606 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Oops. I meant faith. (or did I)

64. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144604 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Yeah right. Re-think his life? Have you never seen a charlatan debunked before? I'll be keeping an eye out for a follow up, check out his excuse. You can bet your pimply little ass much of his followers will just band tighter around him. Funny as this is to us, believers are rock solid in their fate.

65. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144592 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 11:32 am

I just can't believe the Shamen guy kept up the charade. Was he hoping that Sanal might die from old age in the mean time?

66. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144564 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 10:42 am

Hey that rationalist international site is full of interesting articles.

67. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144554 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 10:28 am

Na. Just to wipe the smug off his face.

68. 'Anonymous' takes anti-Scientology to the streets

Comment #144549 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 10:23 am

"What do you expect from a "religion" made up by a Sci-Fi writer?"

Light-sabers?

69. In Britain, creationist theory is evolving

Comment #144546 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 10:21 am

Yawn!

Wake me when the world wakes up to reason.

"snore"

70. The Great Tantra Challenge

Comment #144544 by Animavore on March 16, 2008 at 10:18 am

Dammit. I was really hoping he'd die.

71. The business of natural selection

Comment #144147 by Animavore on March 15, 2008 at 7:52 am

Could we manipulate this data against multi-national corporations?

72. Selling science to the masses

Comment #144144 by Animavore on March 15, 2008 at 7:50 am

Also we need more good looking cool scientists like Brian Cox, Lisa Randell, That Polish woman, Olga something and Tyson (how cool is that) out there presenting shows and documentrys with cool computer effects and less cardigan wearing Raelian lookin' mo'fo's with trousers around their armpits.

...and the geek shall inheirit the earth...

Get over yerself, jesus-esqe/dr. phil style nice words bear no relation in real life. Sorry L-heads, that's just the way it is.

73. I don't believe in atheists

Comment #143734 by Animavore on March 14, 2008 at 10:29 am

I think someone was reading John Gray. Still I do understand his point of view, it's pretty much like Trey Parker and Matt Stones, he wants to see a world without -isms, and I would agree, even though I'm an atheist I don't usually go around stating this fact and usually, when trying to make someone question their belief, I don't bring up the word at all because it would immediantly 'undermine' my position (causing the believers immediate hate in me in otherwords). But the point he misses is that atheists don't have a fixed view. As far as I know Hitchens and Dawkins held opposite opinons on the Iraq issue. How can atheism be dangerous when it is desultory and amorphous, and to re-iterate previous posts, it's a lack of belief NOT a belief.

74. Deadly Sins 101

Comment #143056 by Animavore on March 13, 2008 at 11:53 am

Those this mean we have to write a new 'Inferno' or 'Cantenbury Tales?'

And 'SE7EN' will have to be changed into 'FOURTEEN' and have twice has many victims.

75. The ethics of mixing science and religion

Comment #142509 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 3:18 pm

I MEAN FOR FU... eck sake. Did he really ask that question? I'd have sex with another man for that amount. I'd lose a little finger.. I'd eat dung. You only have to live with the embarrassment for a bit then you're laughing for the rest of your easy life getting fat.

76. The ethics of mixing science and religion

Comment #142503 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I see priests lurking in playgrounds.

77. The ethics of mixing science and religion

Comment #142496 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Seriously! They're asking atheists do they have a problem taking money of a religious group? Don't they know we're not sukers duped into living a life of 'modesty' I mean, sure we have our morals (don't we) but we're not feckin' stupid. I'd take money of a gangster if I thought it would get me my dream life of living as a nomad out of hotels always on the move, never answering to no one. It's like asking a bee if it would take nectar off a flower.

78. The ethics of mixing science and religion

Comment #142473 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Simple answer. Yes.

79. Two More Fleas

Comment #142450 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Do I care?

Do I fuck.

80. Chemical brain controls nanobots

Comment #142255 by Animavore on March 12, 2008 at 7:42 am

"First "blue brain," now "nano-brains!"

In the future, if these computer-based intelligences ever attain a life-like sense of existence--will they worship humans as "intelligent designer" deities?"

They might for a while but eventually, like god, we will over-step our usefulness.

81. Seven new deadly sins: are you guilty?

Comment #141683 by Animavore on March 11, 2008 at 4:56 am

And the church just keeps adding bits on...

82. Should Galileo's tomb be opened for DNA tests?

Comment #141682 by Animavore on March 11, 2008 at 4:54 am

"Even if you don't believe in an afterlife, respect for human remains can be justified as a way to protect their memory for the living, Seeing the body of a love one being abused may cause emotional damage for the living family and friends. I think that is a good enough reason to treat dead bodies with respect. Since we are hard wired to feel empathy, it would be natural for us to extend the same respect to dead bodies of strangers."

Can't wait to see the look on everyones face when they see my plastified remains at a Body Worlds exhibition.

Oh...wait...

83. Crossing the Divide

Comment #140039 by Animavore on March 7, 2008 at 12:04 am

I really don't know how to take this article, one part of me is saying 'get over it,' but that's easy for me to say growing up in Ireland were evolution is accepted, standard fact, I never even heard about creationists until 2 years ago when I first read The God Delusion, the other half is trying to show empathy although he did achieve something I didn't. When I was an early teen I once pronounced to my parents that I didn't believe in religion expecting a reaction. Turns out they didn't believe it either. I felt like that bloke out of Little Britain, 'I'm the only atheist in the village.' I guess the clue was my father never went to church with us. Mum must've felt like she had to. Once I stopped going my brother and sister stopped and my ma stopped too. My little sis had 5 years less of church then me the bitch.

84. A Pragmatist and a Lobbyist on Atheism

Comment #134132 by Animavore on February 27, 2008 at 10:04 am

You can't get anymore in-your-face then Christians calling to your door first thing on a Sunday morning. Or BattleCry. It's perfectly alright to profess your beliefs from the atop a miranet, a steeple or the highest mountain with unashamed pride. But to profess your disbelief, no no we can't do that. Someone stop that person. How dare he go in the face of the status quo. Dosen't he know that sensitive ears might hear (ie, those who's belief lies in a balance or young impressionable children with thier naturally inquisitive minds)? I have never heard such balatant disregard for all things sacred.

85. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #132982 by Animavore on February 25, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Atheists are a threat to freedom? Is he trying to be funny? We're not the ones suppressing homo-sexuals and Brokeback Mountain because it is a 'fag enabler,' (I nearly die laughing everytime I hear that one, I told the gay couple up the road that one and they cracked up) We're not the ones telling people ,'Believe this or you shall perish,' while sending our kids to 'hell houses,' just to wring the message home. I haven't read any of these fleas and I've no intention of. I don't give this shower of dopes the time of day. Fuck it, I could do with some money, I think I'll get on the band wagon.

86. Ore. Court: Boy Has Say in Circumcision

Comment #116330 by Animavore on January 26, 2008 at 8:54 am

why? because some priest tried to drown me as a baby when i had no say? the church neither knows or cares about me. I'm not up there every sunday giving them money ye see.

87. Ore. Court: Boy Has Say in Circumcision

Comment #116323 by Animavore on January 26, 2008 at 8:51 am

copy and paste mistake maybe

88. Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

Comment #116302 by Animavore on January 26, 2008 at 8:14 am

It may sound on the face of it like hate speech but, if you can't live by the laws of the country you're in; feck off back to the Middle East. And if we do grant muslims sharia law (and i hope to spagetti monster the people in power are not that thick) where does it end? We'll have every one demanding they're own tailor made laws. Also how would the laws affect people who grow up and abandon their religion or people who join in from another religion? It'll get very messy very quickly.

89. Ore. Court: Boy Has Say in Circumcision

Comment #116298 by Animavore on January 26, 2008 at 8:01 am

One thing that always puzzled me was how do people 'convert'? How can you be one religion one day then the next be another just by gettting a splash of water dropped on you or a wave of a hand with some words mumbled? Some could argue i converted to atheism from catholism when i was 13 although I would say I lost catholism through a gradual process of reasoning and was left with atheism. And as for expecting your family to go with it. If his kid wasn't circumsised when he was 2 like he should have been then tough titty. He missed his window. I doubt or at least hope the child will tell his aul lad to feck off. Also, will the rabbi suck the skin off his nob at that age?

90. Honour Killings

Comment #113664 by Animavore on January 20, 2008 at 10:10 am

Protect their kids from society. Sure then they just grow up to be maladjusted cry babies. How can they say that western schools teach kids to be stupid? Your either stupid or you're not. It seems to me that they think that anything that isn't muslim is stupid. As for binge drinking. Never done me any harm.

91. Mandrake: Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'

Comment #113662 by Animavore on January 20, 2008 at 10:03 am

Worship technology? I've never heard of someone going to war over an i-pod.

92. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees

Comment #112618 by Animavore on January 17, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Come to Ireland Driver. The trend is reversed.

93. Gigantic fossil rodent discovered

Comment #112593 by Animavore on January 17, 2008 at 2:10 pm

WOW! Imagine the size of the mouse-traps they had to use!

94. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees

Comment #112590 by Animavore on January 17, 2008 at 2:01 pm

I'm well aware that not all americans are dumb and the percentage of idiots might be the same as here. Only problem is. Over there a small percentage is a couple of million people who cna pool together lots of money and resource and infest the media and make their presence felt. Over here when dumb little clubs get together it usually dosen't make even a hundred people who rent out a room in a local library and quite soon disappear into obscurity.

95. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees

Comment #112584 by Animavore on January 17, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Will I even bother...

So glad i don't live in America. Please Spagetti Monster, don't let the I.D. crowd come over here. Smite them with celestial meatballs Your Formaggioness.

96. Dinesh D'Souza: Winner of the 2007 Bad Faith Award

Comment #112096 by Animavore on January 16, 2008 at 10:14 am

"The secular tribe is made up of matter that cannot explain why it is able to think at all."

...and religion can?

97. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists

Comment #110494 by Animavore on January 11, 2008 at 11:05 am

So..skip to the conclusion. 'I am therefore led to conclude that adding God (to cosmological theorie) would just make things more complicated.' So. Nothing new there. Dosen't (he) make everything more complicated? You'll have to forgive me for not reading the whole article because i find it hard to read long passages on computer screens and I've no ink to print it but a scan of it suggests it's not saying anything I don't know.

98. Monkey, Business

Comment #105089 by Animavore on December 30, 2007 at 2:32 pm

'I like Michael Shermer- he runs http://www.skeptic.com/ and he's into debunking stupid supernatural things like psychics and witchcraft'

Yeah like he did with yer one on Bullshit by Penn and Teller.

99. Monkey, Business

Comment #105074 by Animavore on December 30, 2007 at 2:06 pm

So... nothing new in other words. Didn't Coke beat Pepsi in an independent test? (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not sure.) And won't the governments always have to take care to supply jobs to the poor ie. by preventing greedy companies outsourcing? The connection with evolution is tenuous. Like god belief (almost) if you look for evolution in everything you'll find it in clouds forming or dumps (scrapyards) piling.

100. It is possible to be moral without God

Comment #104946 by Animavore on December 30, 2007 at 5:47 am

That video is amazing briancoughlanworldcitizen. Just had to put it on my bebo.