51. John McCain: America a Christian nation, needs Christian president

Comment #191192 by EvidenceOnly on June 10, 2008 at 11:02 am

Comment #191104 by al-rawandi

Yes I know about the RockRidge Institute. Too bad they ran out of money.

IDiots like the Discovery Institute never run out of money but those institutes who actually make sense have a hard time staying afloat.

52. John McCain: America a Christian nation, needs Christian president

Comment #190875 by EvidenceOnly on June 9, 2008 at 7:30 pm

UC Berkeley Prof. George Lakoff wrote a great book: "Moral Politics" and a light version: "Don't think of an Elephant".

He describes 2 world views that drives your action and impacts how you raise your children:

1. The "STRICT FATHER" model = punish your children into good behavior; children are not to think for themselves but have to blindly follow authority; if they fail put them in jail

2. The "NURTURING PARENT" model = where both parents nurture their children, lead by example, and let the children discover themselves and can learn from their mistakes

As it turns out 1/3rd of the population is consistently STRICT FATHER, 1/3rd is consistently NURTURING PARENT and the remaining 1/3rd flip flops between the two (= bimodal).

The bimodal part of the population are typically those who have a nurturing environment at work (unions) and are very autocratic at home: blue collar America.

The “starve-the-beast” party (create the biggest deficit in mankind through tax cuts and costly wars, wait for the population to revolt against it and then cut all social programs) figured out in the late 70-ties that the only way to win was to get some of the bimodal crowd to vote for them. The could not get them to vote for their economic policies of destruction, so they had to get them on their STRICT FATHER side.

What is the solution? Adopt family values, appeal to their religion, preach how women’s rights to chose, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, ... are destroying our Christian nation. Suck up to religious leaders (we all know that the poor vote for God first and food on their table second).

What is the moral of this story?

No republican candidate can be elected president without sucking up to the “RELIGIOUS WRONG” (calling it religious right enforces the frame that they are right and everyone else is wrong).

McCain may have been vocal against the religious wrong 8 years ago but he won’t make it if he does not suck up to them now.

It is irrelevant what McCain believes in. He needs to make stuff up and LIE FOR JESUS to get elected.

Notice his mantra: tax cuts and war (= continue creating the biggest deficit in mankind; what he does not state is the republican dream to use this to starve the beast and kill all social programs.)

This is what it is all about. Nothing less. Nothing more.

53. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190742 by EvidenceOnly on June 9, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Everyone who still has the delusion that the bible is the word of god should use their self-proclaimed god-given brains and read Prof. Mark Ehrman's books:

1. Misquoting Jesus: The story behind who changed the bible and why.
2. God's problem: How the bible fails to answer our most important question - why we suffer.

That sets the stage for Prof. Richard Dawkins' books:

1. The God Delusion
2. The blind watchmaker

Anyone who, after reading these books, still hangs on to GodDidIt is refusing to use heir brains.

And, please, don't give me that crap that any evidence against GodDidIt is because God empowered the devil to fool us with scientific evidence.

54. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190632 by EvidenceOnly on June 9, 2008 at 9:59 am

The evidence is conclusive: anything supernatural is so extremely improbable that is is virtually impossible.

In the face of this very well documented mountain of evidence, much of which is written in language that a non-scientist can understand if he/she wants to, I can only conclude that:

(a) some did not get around to read and think about it
(b) some don't want to read and think about it
(c) some have read about it but don't understand it (maybe their brains are not sufficiently EVOLVED)
(d) some have read about it but don't want to understand it (the bible trumps everything)
(e) some have read about it, understand it but purposely continue to pull wool over they eyes of (a) through (d)

Group (e) is the worst of all. The continue to "Lie for Jesus".

Total hypocrites and IDiots.

55. Holiday in Hellmouth

Comment #189954 by EvidenceOnly on June 7, 2008 at 10:18 pm

I recently read Prof. Bart Ehrman's book: "God's problem - How the bible fails to answer our most important question: Why we suffer"

It is by thinking about suffering that he became an agnostic and convinced that if there is a God, it is certain it is not the Christian God.

Here is how the explanation of suffering EVOLVED over thousands of years:

1. God rewards you when you obey him/her/it and punishes you when you don't.

2. When 1. does not seem to agree with reality, you invent Satan who gets all power from God (WTF?) to pest the believers. Now those who obey God get punished by Satan and those who don't get rewarded by Satan.

3. So why would you want to want to obey God when it makes your life miserable? The trick: Jesus will come back soon (as in during Paul's life), will rise all the death, establish his Kingdom on Earth and reward those punished by Satan and punish those rewarded by Satan.

4. When Jesus did not come back during Paul's life ("Houston we have a problem"), you invent Heaven and Hell and life after death where essentially 3. will happen.

5. 2000 years have gone by. What do we want to invent next?????

(3 is called the horizontal duality of Heaven and Hell = both are real and on Earth while 4. is called the vertical duality of Heaven and Hell = both are in the afterlife, Hell is below the Earth and Heaven is above the Earth and nowhere to be seen by us Earthlings).

The moral of this?

Mankind has invented just about anything to keep everyone dumb and sheepishly staying in line with man-made religion.

There is indeed no clearer evidence that man created god in his/her/its image than to study the absurdity of religion's explanation of pain and suffering.

56. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188850 by EvidenceOnly on June 4, 2008 at 7:41 pm

We need to encourage science teachers in those IDiotic states who vote to teach the strengths and weaknesses of evolution to also teach the weaknesses of the weaknesses.

A good summary can be found at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/34_unconvincing_arguments_for.php

It is only a couple of pages long and very straightforward.

Could be thought convincingly in about 1 hour.

57. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188844 by EvidenceOnly on June 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Ref. 17. Comment #188771 by davemei on June 4, 2008 at 2:03 pm

They claim ownership to morality that they want to enforce on everyone and spend a whole lot of time "lying for Jesus".

It seems that their morality is little more than "lying for Jesus" and child abuse by indoctrinating their nonsense through the educational system.

They are shameless hypocrites.

58. Darwin still causing waves after 150 years

Comment #188792 by EvidenceOnly on June 4, 2008 at 2:45 pm

11. Comment #188735 by CanadianRealist

Along the same lines, people who believe in a supernatural being and especially creationists, IDiots, GodDitIt-ists are constantly displaying evidence that they either have not evolved as far as the rest of us or that they are total hypocrites.

They believe that they are made by God in his/her/its image but refuse to make use of this God-given ability to think critically.

Since they also believe that everything exists for a purpose, they should accept that their critical thinking has a purpose as well.

Furthermore, they all believe in a very vengeful God.

It seems therefore very logical to conclude that they are greatly infuriating their God for refusing to use the brains that their God so artfully crafted for them.

But then again, logic is not what they are really good at.

59. Storm erupts over 'virginity' divorce

Comment #187553 by EvidenceOnly on June 2, 2008 at 9:56 am

Reaction to: Comment #187455 by Quetzalcoatl

"The sole argument of this entire board (it would seem) is the intolerance for the feeling of disgust for homosexuality."

As a society, we have become intolerant of several views that most found absolutely disgusting in the distant or not so distant past and that some probably still find disgusting today:

- a women's right to vote
- interracial marriage
- homosexuality
- freedom FROM religion
- science education based on observable and duplicatable evidence
- habeas corpus
- torture-free imprisonment
...

As you can see from this, it is possible to be tolerant to a fault.

That is why we have laws (even if some governments ignore them).

We need to be intolerant to any injustice against anyone anywhere anytime.

Tolerance is not an absolute virtue.

60. Karma comedians

Comment #186787 by EvidenceOnly on May 31, 2008 at 10:09 am

The 2 quotes we hear most often are:

1. It is God's plan
2. Everything happen happens for a reason

We all know that both are total nonsense.

Mark Ehrman, professor of religious studies at the University of Chapel Hill, wrote an interesting book: "God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer".

He converted from a born again christian to an agnostic based on this.

It would be a good book to recommend to your religious friends and even those who believe that everything happens for a reason.

61. Teacher tortures, kills boy

Comment #186778 by EvidenceOnly on May 31, 2008 at 9:51 am

While it is true that we should not generalize from a single incident, it would be worth investigating if these incidents are really isolated.

In that case, we should count all incidents where someone is killed for religious reasons. What Steven Weinberg calls "good people doing evil things because of religion".

That should include killing girls and women for violating insane religious rules, anyone who abandons a religion, anyone killed in a religious war, anyone killed because of a different religion or no religion at all, women that bleed to death during sexual mutilation because of religious beliefs, ...

The list is too endless to complete.

From that point of view, religion-inspired killings are widespread.

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

Comment #186389 by EvidenceOnly on May 30, 2008 at 8:32 am

Someone recently claimed that "all humans are created by the benevolent Flying Spaghetti Monster, last Tuesday" and created the appearance of earlier time just to fool us.

He has as much scientific evidence for this as any other religion out there.

In that case, let's vote to only display documents about the Flying Spaghetti monster.

That would simplify a whole lot. It's cheaper. There is not much to publish and, on the heels of the Unintelligent Design spoofs, continues the tradition of making the US the laughing stock of the rational world.

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

Comment #186375 by EvidenceOnly on May 30, 2008 at 8:21 am

"Martin said afterward that a number of senators were nervous about including the Lord's Prayer but did so out of fear of what voters would think if they voted against it."

What a hypocrisy and double standard.

How about "Senator X said afterward that a number of senators were nervous about voting against W's request for more money to continue his illegal occupation of Iraq, but voted in favor of bringing all soldiers home out of fear of what voters would think if they voted in favor of W's request?"

More than 75% of WE THE PEOPLE want to end this illegal and criminal invasion/occupation.

With our without religion, rational people do rational things and irrational people do irrational things but for rational people to behave totally irrational, that takes religion!

64. Altruism in social insects is a family affair

Comment #186216 by EvidenceOnly on May 29, 2008 at 11:54 pm

I look forward to the day that the catholic church issues the following statement:

By challenging something that we have based all our understanding on for more than 2,000 years, the newly elected pope has forced us all to examine the holy books again and assess the validity of our theological arguments.

We have now concluded that we created god in our image, that both the old and new testament were creative writing by humans based on the limited knowledge of the world and the universe that people had at that time. We further acknowledge that in all fairness the oldest credit card sized gospel fragment dates from the first half of the second century and was not even written in the language spoken in Jerusalem at that time, that the gospels of Luke, John and Matthew were all based on the gospel of Mark, that the oldest full copies date back to the 4th century, that there are more differences between the early copies found than there are words in the bible.

We apologize to all current and past generations we, church leaders of all time including my most recent predecessor, have deceived all generations by doctoring with the texts to fit our doctrine in order to control exert control over you.

The new pope wants to set the record straight. There are no holy books, there are no supernatural powers, there are no gods, there was no virgin birth, there was no resurrection, there is no heaven or hell although there should be hell to punish all religious leaders in his humble opinion. We apologize for all child abuse, both pedophilia and the more evil religious indoctrination.

The only rule that remains is the golden rule: do to others as you want done to yourself.

Next week Wednesday, in a televised ceremony, the pope will officially turn off the lights and close down the Vatican as a religious institution forever. He will hand over the keys to the United Nations who will operate the grounds as a museum to remind us of the dangers of religion to mankind and human dignity. Never again! Never again! Never again!

After this ceremony, he will turn himself over to the authorities of the international human rights court. His rings, hats and designer shoes will be auctioned on eBay and the proceeds will go to charity.

65. Fossil reveals oldest live birth

Comment #186187 by EvidenceOnly on May 29, 2008 at 9:04 pm

10. Comment #186136 by HappyPrimate

A couple of years ago, I was driving from Houston to Austin and back for a meeting. My rental car too had the radio set to some Lying for Jesus station.

I've never listened to that many hours of pure nonsense in my life.

For many, listening to that kind of crap is the quickest path to atheism of agnosticism.

It is pretty clear to me that the die-hard fundies, IDiots, GodDidIt-ists, will never accept anything as fact when it contradicts with their holy books.

Christian fundies especially have an easy way out: the devil has put all that science there to tempt the believer away from Jesus.

Our best bet is to keep children away from these religious mind abusers.

It is too late for many die-hards.

66. Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

Comment #186119 by EvidenceOnly on May 29, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Maybe a double blind study will prove that vaccines given under a Wi-Fi tower do not cause autism?

Maybe Arthur Firstenberg is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones because he is intelligently designed that way? He should thank his creator. He risks going to hell if he complains.

:)

67. Louisiana's latest creationism bill moves to House floor

Comment #185852 by EvidenceOnly on May 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm

70. Comment #185849 by TroubleNYC

Louisiana governor Jindal said: Personally, it certainly makes sense to me that when you look at creation, you would believe in a creator. Let's not be afraid to teach our kids the very best science.

And this is the guy on the short list for VP of McCain?

And this is a biology major?

We all know that Republicans and IDiots go well together.
What really blows my mind is that this IDiot claims to be a biologist.

Don't count on this guy for science.

68. Louisiana's latest creationism bill moves to House floor

Comment #185816 by EvidenceOnly on May 28, 2008 at 5:06 pm

61. Comment #185796 by Edouard Pernod

Really clever!

Let's teach all students about the 3 major forms of quackery (in the words of Christopher Hitchens):

- Alchemy (chemistry begins where alchemy ends)
- Astrology (astronomy begins where astrology ends)
- IDiotry (philosophy begins where religion ends).

3 good examples on how NOT to do science.

69. Louisiana's latest creationism bill moves to House floor

Comment #185485 by EvidenceOnly on May 27, 2008 at 11:12 pm

Is it not ironic that it is exactly those who BELIEVE that their god created everything also refuse to make use of their ability to think which they also claim is god-given?

Worse, they spare no effort to try to stop the rest of us, who KNOW we evolved through natural selection, from using our brains in search of evidence and truth.

Freedom of speech unfortunately but rightfully includes the freedom of some to prove to the rest of the world beyond a reasonable doubt that they really are ignoramuses, IDots, GodDidIt-ists, and the like.

While freedom of speech gives them the right to make a fool of themselves, it does NOT give them the right to force others from following the evidence to wherever it leads to.

It is child abuse to indoctrinate students with anti-evolution, anti-scientific, anti-truths in educational.

The same nonsensical arguments keep coming back. A great, short and sweet article that describes 34 unconvincing arguments for God can be found at:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/34_unconvincing_arguments_for.php

70. Car dealership advert tells atheists to 'shut up'

Comment #185458 by EvidenceOnly on May 27, 2008 at 9:04 pm

We used to call FORD: Fix Or Repair Daily.

Wouldn't a supernatural being want you to drive something better than a FORD?

Come to think of it, the Christian god who wants you to suffer on earth for a heavenly afterlife might want you to do just that.

These IDiots and GodDidIt-ists are so clever!

A christian should drive a FORD.

What should the rest of us (agnostics, atheists) drive?

Must be a high-quality car like Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, etc.

FORD has a small and shrinking percentage of the world market for cars.

Maybe the true percentage of christians is small and shrinking too.

Time to celebrate!

:)

71. Town moves against Islamic school

Comment #184888 by EvidenceOnly on May 26, 2008 at 10:47 am

The United Nations should ban ALL religions from getting involved in education of anyone.

Every child should get short comparative courses in school on the silliness of all religions and the gods they created in their own image, mostly abandoned by now. This should be mandatory at the age of 7, again at 12, and again at 18. Just like we keep educating students about the dangers of smoking.

Religious myth, indoctrination and child abuse should be confined to churches and the privacy of homes.

Educational institutions can then to combat this nonsense on a daily basis through real science based on real evidence.

72. Animal Science Without Evolution

Comment #184656 by EvidenceOnly on May 25, 2008 at 10:51 pm

Why go through the pain to write a book? Just show the Flinstones as if it is a documentary!

73. Animal Science Without Evolution

Comment #184612 by EvidenceOnly on May 25, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Is it not ironic that it is exactly those who BELIEVE that their god created everything also refuse to make use of their ability to think with they also claim is god-given?

Worse, they spare no effort to try to stop the rest of us, who KNOW we evolved through natural selection, from using our brains in search of evidence and truth.

Freedom of speech unfortunately but rightfully includes the freedom of some to prove the rest of the world beyond a reasonable doubt that they really are ignoramuses, IDots, GodDidIt-ists, and the like.

While freedom of speech gives them the right to make a fool of themselves, it does NOT give them the right to force others from following the evidence to wherever it leads to.

It is child abuse to indoctrinate students with anti-evolution, anti-scientific, anti-truths in educational books.

74. How Are Humans Unique?

Comment #184511 by EvidenceOnly on May 25, 2008 at 2:18 pm

I would not pick on Bullet's age. I've met 14-year olds who are more open to follow the evidence to wherever it leads to than an 80-year old Pope.

75. How Are Humans Unique?

Comment #184505 by EvidenceOnly on May 25, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Bullet,

- your cell phone operates on the THEORIES of wireless communications, electronics, chemistry (batteries), etc.
- your car operates on the THEORIES of mechanics, electronics, chemistry, gravity, etc.
- your house is built on the THEORIES of gravity, material sciences, etc.
- you can walk around based on the THEORY of gravity.

They are all just theories but theories that are so overwhelmingly supported by evidence that we call them fact.

If you do not understand the difference, you should no longer use anything from this world and just pray to your God that gravity keeps working for you so that you do not get lost in space.

It is never too late to accept that we invented Gods in our image and that the holy books are just myth and stories written generations ago by people who did not know as much as we do now.

Let go of this false certitude of religion and open up to the wonderful world of theories that explain the facts we observe.

76. 'Reverse Evolution' Discovered in Seattle Fish

Comment #183514 by EvidenceOnly on May 22, 2008 at 7:50 am

Couldn't we consider the rising tide of IDiot and GodDidIt religious freaks as a form of reverse evolution back to the dark ages?

:)

77. Kenya mob reportedly burns 11 'witches'

Comment #183504 by EvidenceOnly on May 22, 2008 at 7:34 am

In the name of which God did they kill these people or have we lost track by now of all the Gods mankind has killed people for?

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

Comment #183307 by EvidenceOnly on May 21, 2008 at 7:56 pm

Isn't this like putting the previous US president in charge of White House interns or worse, putting the current US president in charge of torture investigations?

79. In God's Name

Comment #183078 by EvidenceOnly on May 21, 2008 at 10:57 am

Richard Dawkins is so right calling religious indoctrination of children a grave form of child abuse.

Many of the reactions in this forum are like a frog promptly jumping out when abruptly thrown in hot water. We react with disgust and run away from such nonsense.

But religious child abuse is like putting a frog in room temperature water and then very slowly bringing it to a boil. The frog has no idea what is happening and sits still until it dies. This child abuse slowly brings the mind of children to a boil until their ability to critically think is completely killed.

We need to start calling this a crime against humanity. These religious nutcases belong in a mental institution.

80. MPs reject calls to cut abortion limit

Comment #183001 by EvidenceOnly on May 21, 2008 at 7:52 am

If Mr. Cormac Murphy O'Connor is so passionate about saving 200,000 embryos each year from being aborted, he should be even more passionate against his boss, Joseph Ratzinger whose passion against condoms is causing 1.6 million deaths of HIV in Africa each year. Needless to say these are people who were already born.

Isn't it ironic that religions seem more concerned about the welfare of people before they are born or after they get into a vegetative state (Terri Schiavo in 2005) than when they are alive?

Hypocrisy is too nice a label for such these guys.

81. 16% of US science teachers are creationists

Comment #182579 by EvidenceOnly on May 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm

We need a new survey about math as well:

- How many math teachers do teach that 1 plus 1 is 2?
- How many math teachers teach this together with the belief that 1 plus 1 is 3 (or any other number)?
- How many math teachers only teach the belief that 1 plus 1 is 3 (or any other number)?

Can we make these kind of surveys such that teachers who deviate from the scientific theory automatically send in their resignation?

I'm sure they can find alternative employment in some government recognized faith-based initiative instead.

With enough faith, the "intelligent designer" provides for all your needs, so employment is really not that important :)

82. Indian village proud after double 'honor killing'

Comment #181142 by EvidenceOnly on May 16, 2008 at 1:17 pm

Is there any believer out there who, after reading this, can explain to me why religion is a virtue and deserves even the tiniest bit of respect?

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

Comment #179806 by EvidenceOnly on May 13, 2008 at 7:46 pm

In 1632, the Vatican convicted Galileo for his scientific evidence that our planet orbited around our sun.

In 1992 Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how Galileo was treated.

In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the Church really did the right thing in 1632.

Weeks later, they believe that aliens exist?

How about embracing total equality of everyone irrespective of gender and sexual orientation, contraception, women's right to choose, same sex marriage and a slew of other social issues where they are hopelessly behind the times.

Isn't that of much higher priority than to belief in aliens?

Or are they counting on the aliens to make this happen?

84. God seekers go public

Comment #179399 by EvidenceOnly on May 13, 2008 at 7:59 am

The behavior of all these GodDidIt IDiots is proof of evolution :)

Each time they run into the brick wall of reality we call scientific evidence they morph their story to keep their nonsense alive longer.

First creationism, then intelligent design, then blaming Darwin for all evil in this world, then expelling all intelligence from their own ranks, then claiming freedom of opinion in science class for teachers and students, then setting up false biology research centers. What's next?

For the pious who claim patent rights to morality, they obviously belief that the highest level of morality is lying for Jesus.

Should we call this the Lying for Jesus Disorder (LJD)?

Could science come up with a cure for this terrible disease?

85. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179165 by EvidenceOnly on May 12, 2008 at 7:59 pm

This praying nonsense reminds me of an old joke.

A old man had prayed every night his whole life asking whatever God he believed to let him win the lottery.

One night, he heard a thundering voice from above: "It would really help if you started buying lottery tickets".

I'm sure that this came from his neighbor in the apartment above him who was sick and tired of all that begging night after night.

:)

86. Atheists are nice people who will roast in hell, says Cardinal

Comment #177843 by EvidenceOnly on May 9, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Here is EvidenceOnly's Wager:

1. If you don't believe in God and there is no God: no problem

2. If you believe in God and there is no God: you wasted a good part of your life

3. If you don't believe in God and there is a God: you get rewarded because you have used your God-given ability to think critically and came to the sensible conclusion that there was no evidence whatsoever for the existence of a God (or any God) when you were alive

4. If you believe in God and there is a God after all: (a) you get punished for NOT using your God-given ability to think critically and instead using blind faith that a God existed even though there was absolutely no evidence for a God when you were alive, and (b) get punished again for inventing a God in your own image that could not possibly be anywhere close to the real thing (There is an infinite probability that you believed in the wrong God!).



Conclusion: Following the evidence (or in this case the lack thereof) is the ONLY thing to do!

I've seen the deep pain in the eyes of grown-ups when they describe how they have been threatened with everlasting burning in hell by their parents or educators. This is child abuse that is hard to overcome by many.

Having said that. Can anyone invent a hell for people like this pious cardinal? He should get a taste of his own medicine.

87. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong

Comment #177833 by EvidenceOnly on May 9, 2008 at 7:48 pm

2 things come to mind:

1. You don't have to become an expert in tooth fairies before stating that the existence of tooth fairies is extremely improbable. You can replace tooth fairies with anything for which no evidence exists. Keep doing this Richard!

2. When I get in an airplane, I don't argue with the pilots that I can fly the plane myself because I don't want to risk my life nor that of the other passengers. However people who believe things not based on any evidence (IDiots, GodDidIts, etc) keep pushing policies onto society based either on pseudo science or on bogus morality claims that jeopardize the life of many people. Examples are (a) the Pope's opposition to condoms which every year kills 1.6 million from HIV in Africa (the equivalent of 1.5 NINE-ELEVENs each and every day), (b) the opposition to stem cell research, (c) I could go on for a very long time here!

88. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #177205 by EvidenceOnly on May 8, 2008 at 6:39 pm

It seems like most IDiots and GodDidIts have to raise their voice when uttering nonsense in order to hide their lack of intelligence and to appeal to the emotions of the ignorant.

Are Allistair McGrath and Ben Stein the only ones who deliver their nonsense in a monotonous voice that puts you to sleep?

89. Is Liberal Catholicism Dead?

Comment #175879 by EvidenceOnly on May 6, 2008 at 7:36 am

Let's see the Pope for what he really is: the CEO of the largest pedophile organization in the world.

Would the head of a non-religious child care organization with thousands of pedophiles stay out of jail by simply apologizing for this child abuse?

Bastions of Dogma do not need to grow up. They should disappear!

90. Dumb and Dumber: A discussion between Ben Stein and Glenn Beck

Comment #175462 by EvidenceOnly on May 5, 2008 at 1:15 pm

The list of organizations or groups in which absolutely no intelligence is allowed is growing rapidly, proving Einstein's statement: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

91. Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools

Comment #174927 by EvidenceOnly on May 3, 2008 at 9:41 pm

All these laws are to let IDots and GodDidIts bring their opposing view into science education, starting with biology and evolution.

It is like giving Fox Noise total control over public education. "The jury is out on what 1 plus 1 is since there are opinions ranging from minus infinite to plus infinite. Isn’t 0 a reasonable average? Why should teachers be fired for saying 1 plus 1 = 11? Not in America, the land of the free with a constitutional freedom of speech!"

Here is what we should lobby for with our politicians:

You either reject his nonsense or make everything “Fox Fair and Balanced” across the board:

- At each and any event of a tax-exempt or religious organization, all opposing view have to be invited, better yet MUST participate, because education is really important and should not stop with high school or college.

- IDots and GodDidIts will be required to walk to each such event and bring a candle light, a flag and a rope with them since the Theories of Electronics, Mechanics, Wireless Communication and Gravity do not include any of the popular GODS in their equations and are just “theories” that cannot be trusted and do not explain everything. They can then light the candle when the lights fail, wave the flag to their loved ones from the tower of the church in case the meeting lasts longer than expected, tie themselves to the ground in case gravity fails, etc.

- Freedom of speech and opinion should also be extended to the election of anyone in a tax-exempt or religious organization. Non-believers and believers of competing religions should be able to vote when the largest pedophile organization in the world elects its next Pope.

I could go on and on and on. You get the point.

We can never rest in the education of critical thinking in the population.

92. Science leads to killing people

Comment #170741 by EvidenceOnly on April 27, 2008 at 11:40 pm

The true meaning of the title: "EXPELLED, NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED" just became crystal clear to me:

1. EXPELLED is the nonsense of anything not based on scientific evidence at any University worthy of such a name.

2. NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED is the target audience of their movie.

3. SCIENCE is the arch enemy of IDiots and Creationists. When people use their brain they would not fall for their biblical nonsense.

4. KILLING is what Ben Stein wants to see more of and at a much larger scale than the killings he accuses Darwin of doing during the Holocaust.

This man belongs in a mental institution.

93. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166348 by EvidenceOnly on April 23, 2008 at 7:22 am

I posted this on a different topic, It is relevant here to put the "uncertainty" of science and religion in perspective.

The common response to "we don't know yet" [the scientific uncertainty) is "god-did-it" (the religious certainty].

The life of a scientist is to discover what we don't yet know and each time we learn something new, we also find new things we don't yet know.

Under the "god-did-it" philosophy, we scientists would have stopped long ago searching for answers:

- Computers and the internet would not exist

- Travel would still be with horses and sailboats

- Diseases would still kill millions/billions of people

- IDiots would not be able to create a movie full of lies in which they expelled any form of intelligence.

- Scientists would no longer say that they don't have an answer yet

- Everyone would be pious, pray and praise their favorite undefinable supernatural creator

- All would be well, at least if you define never ending religious wars of our history as "well".

I prefer the alternative: science in search of answers annoying the crap out of the "god-did-it" folks who are all too happy to use the results of science (electronics, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, ...).

94. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166237 by EvidenceOnly on April 23, 2008 at 3:10 am

Regarding "the book of Job".

I recently read Prof. Bart Ehrman's book: "God's problem - How the bible fails to answer our most important question: Why we suffer"

It is by thinking about suffering that he became an agnostic and convinced that if there is a God, it is certain it is not the Christian God.

Here is how the explanation of suffering EVOLVED over thousands of years:

1. God rewards you when you obey him and punishes you when you don't
2. When 1. does not seem to agree with reality, you invent Satan who gets all power (WTF?). Now those who obey God get punished by Satan and those who don't get rewarded
3. So why would you want to want to obey God? Well Jesus will come back soon (as in during Paul's life), will rise all the death, establish his Kingdom on Earth and reward those punished by Satan and punish those rewarded by Satan.
4. When Jesus did not come back during Paul's life ("Houston we have a problem"), you invent Heaven and Hell and life after death where essentially 3. will happen.
5. 2000 years have gone by. What do we want to invent next?????

(3 is the horizontal duality of Heaven and Hell = both are real and on Earth while 4. is the vertical duality of Heaven and Hell = both are in the afterlife, Hell is below the Earth and Heaven is above the Earth and nowhere to be seen by us Earthlings).

The moral of this? Mankind has invented just about anything to keep everyone dumb and sheepishly staying in line of man-made religion. No clearer evidence that man created god in his/her image!

95. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166226 by EvidenceOnly on April 23, 2008 at 2:49 am

35, That is kind of covered in option 4, punishment (b)

96. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166224 by EvidenceOnly on April 23, 2008 at 2:45 am

Here is how you can ridicule Pascal's wager:

1. If you don't believe in God and there is no God: no problem
2. If you believe in God and there is no God: you wasted a good part of your life
3. If you don't believe in God and there is a God: you get rewarded for using your God-given ability to think critically and come to the sensible conclusion that there was evidence whatsoever for a God when you were alive
4. If you believe in God and there is a God: (a) you get punished for NOT using your God-given ability to think critically and instead used blind faith that a God existed even though there was absolutely no evidence for a God when you were alive, and (b) get punished again for inventing a God in your own image that could not possibly be anywhere close to the real thing

Following the evidence (or in this case the lack thereof) is the right thing to do!

97. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #165946 by EvidenceOnly on April 22, 2008 at 4:01 pm

The common response to "we don't know yet" is "god-did-it".

The life of a scientist is to discover what we don't yet know and each time we learn something new, we also find new things we don't yet know.

Under the "god-did-it" philosophy, we scientists would have stopped long ago searching for answers:

- Computers and the internet would not exist

- Travel would still be with horses and sailboats

- Diseases would still kill millions/billions of people

- IDiots would not be able to create a movie full of lies in which they expelled any form of intelligence.

- Scientists would no longer say that they don't have an answer yet

- Everyone would be pious, pray and praise their favorite undefinable supernatural creator

- All would be well, at least if you define never ending religious wars of our history as "well".

I prefer the alternative: science in search of answers annoying the crap out of the "god-did-it" folks who are all too happy to use the results of science (electronics, transportation, healthcare, entertainment, ...).

98. Mecca should become core to measure time zones: scholars

Comment #165206 by EvidenceOnly on April 21, 2008 at 7:58 am

How long will it take for:

1. A counter announcement from the IDiots, supported by the usual fake science from Behe and Demski, that the Christian world should use the address of the Discovery Institute in Seattle as its reference point for time zones.

2. A new Ben Stein movie that claims that Darwin is responsible for the current use of Greenwich with details of numerous scientists who have lost their jobs for proposing research to prove that Seattle is the Jesus point and not Greenwich.

3. Bush to declare a new "war on timezones" and invade Greenwich.

Nutcases.

99. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #164994 by EvidenceOnly on April 20, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Creationists and IDiots are all "Lying for Jesus", lack any critical thinking to see through the lies of their brethren or simply want to further distribute these lies to an ignorant population.

Only quality education of science can help us.

100. Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home

Comment #164742 by EvidenceOnly on April 20, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Hi "Devolution",

You would be right if Creationists put a theory and evidence forward that does not survive critical analysis but they don't.

This makes it 5,432,673 for evolutionists and -infinite for creationists.