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Comments by Jiten


101. Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'

Comment #123745 by Jiten on February 7, 2008 at 3:13 pm

If you're not muslim then how will it affect you? Not at all.

102. Math Religion Trouble

Comment #119935 by Jiten on February 1, 2008 at 3:23 am

Cartomancer:

Alas, from my perspective, it is all too often the former whose discipline reaches the public eye, rather than the latter.
Well then why don't you write a book about it? I'm sure it'd be very interesting and I for one would read it!

103. Happy Birthday Josh Timonen!

Comment #118820 by Jiten on January 31, 2008 at 3:02 am

Happy Birthday Josh! I love this website.You're doing a great job here.

104. Canadian fossil makes waves in Huckabee's presidential run

Comment #111967 by Jiten on January 16, 2008 at 5:16 am

in which he traces the primordial origins of the human race to such lowly creatures.

I don't like loose language like "lowly" when referring to animals other than humans.Do they not realise how complex is even a single celled eukaryote? Or for that matter a bacterial cell.
We'll have to find other ways to refer to other animals like earthworms,slime mould,rabbits,sheep,fish etc..Words like "simple","less complex","less evolved" just won't do.Any suggestions?

105. The Group Delusion

Comment #111583 by Jiten on January 15, 2008 at 4:12 am

What I want to know,having just read the article (and not all the posts so forgive me if this has already been asked) is this:

Why is D S Wilson trying to revive Group Selectionism at all,which he has been since getting his Phd? Is there something,some bit of life not explained by Gene's-eye-view of Natural Selection? Why does he see the need for Group Selection?

106. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #91897 by Jiten on November 29, 2007 at 2:16 pm

What a brilliant piece by Dawkins who never fails to surprise me with his new way of looking at things.I loved his idea that you can love more than one child,wine,film,album,friend etc..,and so why not more than one lover?

Some of the other posters here have said it's about trust.But it's only about trust if it's done behind your back and lying is involved,not when it's all out in the open.

107. A new website addition: Debate Points

Comment #83805 by Jiten on October 31, 2007 at 10:51 am

Good grief! This site has really expanded! I've been coming here from the beginning and I can see how much it has developed.It's amazing.There's so much you can do here now.I hardly have time to watch tv now!

108. Make Richard Dawkins a Knight

Comment #80748 by Jiten on October 23, 2007 at 12:41 am

I agree with decius and Jack Rawlinson.This is a very bad idea.Why o why o why has the bandwagon started rolling on this?RD is hugely respected by his peers and by his readers and has been honoured with numerous presigious prizes already.He doesn't need this tainted 'honour'.

Now,I'd get on a bandwagon that calls for his nomination to recieve the Nobel Prize for Literature!Why is this rectricted to fiction only?I don't understand it.I mean the best writing today is done by the scientists.

109. John Templeton's Universe

Comment #79041 by Jiten on October 16, 2007 at 1:06 am

Templeton is perverting science.We need a billionaire on our side!

110. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'

Comment #78960 by Jiten on October 15, 2007 at 2:22 pm

Fanusi here is regurgitating the same old stuff that he's posted in threads passim.He's being slaughtered(!) here like he was trounced by xenocratic,amongst others,there.

And what does he have to say in reply to Pervez Hoodbhoy?

111. Richard Dawkins receives the Deschner Prize

Comment #78821 by Jiten on October 15, 2007 at 2:34 am

Congartulations Prof.Dawkins! Excellent acceptance speech.

I wonder if we can have Prof.Dennett's acceptance speech of the Dawkins Prize here?

112. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'

Comment #78715 by Jiten on October 14, 2007 at 1:08 pm

No bargaining. No quarter. No mercy.

Sorry,is that on your part or on the part of the muslims?

113. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'

Comment #78550 by Jiten on October 13, 2007 at 2:49 pm

Thanks for fixing the link mmurray

That's a tall order...

Yes steveroot it's that or they'll get nuked!

114. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'

Comment #78471 by Jiten on October 13, 2007 at 3:31 am

As to what to do with the muslims,rather than Fanusi's rabid right-wing nuclear option I prefer what Pervez Hoodbhoy has to say:

http://www.himalmag.com/2007/october_november/
between_imperialism_and_Islamism.html

115. A Revelation

Comment #78216 by Jiten on October 12, 2007 at 7:22 am

"creationist lunacy,"

That's not provocative,that's the truth!

116. If Muslim doctors are intolerant, let them go

Comment #77465 by Jiten on October 9, 2007 at 11:31 am

These medical students are being radical for the sake of it.They really have nothing to campaign against and so invent supposed infringements to their religion so that they then do.

117. I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer

Comment #76501 by Jiten on October 6, 2007 at 2:24 am

Long into the future Craig Venter will be looked on as the Intelligent Designer by the future life-forms,descendents of his artificially designed organisms.

118. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #74533 by Jiten on September 29, 2007 at 11:08 am

This thread should be called :

WHY NO ONE SHOULD TAKE DIANELOS GEORGOUDIS SERIOUSLY

119. The Saudi connection that belittles Britain

Comment #73465 by Jiten on September 25, 2007 at 3:24 am

You'd think the police in a liberal democracy like the UK would have better things to do than try to suppress freedom of speech - but what do I know?

A liberal democracy Russell?It is a complete sham.Wake up and smell the money.Nothing comes in the way of making money.To hell with any consequences.

120. The Dawkins Prize for Animal Conservation and Welfare

Comment #72167 by Jiten on September 20, 2007 at 1:22 pm

I'm going!

121. Against the grain: There are questions that science cannot answer

Comment #71955 by Jiten on September 20, 2007 at 2:09 am

Mary Midgley must be such an embarrassment to philosophy.And she is so very ignorant.And on top of that are her lies and falsehoods.

She's going to be skewered here!

122. Oxford's Christian colleges 'are not suitable for school-leavers'

Comment #71561 by Jiten on September 19, 2007 at 3:27 am

Scott:

How else will future diplomats, politicians, business leaders etc be able to relate and communicate effectively with so-called "people of faith"?

Why would they want to do this?Is it in their interest?Ever since there has been a priest class it has been in cahoots with the ruling class.Why would you expect the ruling classes now to act any differently?

123. A Response to Jonathan Haidt

Comment #70230 by Jiten on September 14, 2007 at 12:27 pm

It's hotting up over at edge.David Sloan Wilson,Michael Shermer have responded and PZ Myers is now there too along with Sam.I'm waiting with delicious anticipation the thundering reply from Dennett and Dawkins.

124. Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science

Comment #69995 by Jiten on September 13, 2007 at 2:33 pm

Science is counter-intuitive and natural selection has not equipped us to do science.It has equipped us to deal with things that our ancestors successfully dealt with.People are naturally resistant to a scientific view of the world.And worse still is that many just don't care.

125. Mind Over Manual

Comment #69992 by Jiten on September 13, 2007 at 2:21 pm

The human brain is staggeringly complex but I guess it is easier to figure out what went wrong when it's to do with the hardware than with the software.Neurology v psycology.

126. A Response to Jonathan Haidt

Comment #69842 by Jiten on September 13, 2007 at 1:44 am

P Z Myers has written a brilliant response too on his pharyngula blog.

127. A Response to Jonathan Haidt

Comment #69838 by Jiten on September 13, 2007 at 1:36 am

A brilliant response from Sam.I love the clarity of his writing.

128. Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Comment #69346 by Jiten on September 11, 2007 at 12:39 am

Brilliant just brilliant.Every word beautifully put together.

129. The Fleas Are Multiplying!

Comment #68720 by Jiten on September 8, 2007 at 9:18 am

Incredible! They sure are multiplying.It's as if they're responding to a challenge to "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough".There are always foolhardy people who accept.

130. We need a more intelligent religion debate

Comment #68446 by Jiten on September 7, 2007 at 7:47 am

We need a more intelligent religion debate

There is no such thing and anyway even if there were we're not going to get one from you,are we?

131. Honest Mistakes or Willful Mendacity

Comment #68357 by Jiten on September 7, 2007 at 1:49 am

To prepare for my BBC Radio 4 discussion with John Cornwell I read Cornwell's book Darwin's Angel: an angelic response to The God Delusion

Ahh I feel for you! To read such bilge can't have been fun.

132. The Flea Circus moves to your iPod!

Comment #68071 by Jiten on September 6, 2007 at 2:53 am

But with your own admitted disinterest in actually checking it out, any attack on the author is invalid.

Nonsense.There is not enough time in our short lives to check everything out rigoursly befre dismissing it.Are you going to check out every nutty idea before rejecting it? Are you going to read the Bhagvad Gita before saying that its cosmology is laughably rubbish in the light of modern theories?

133. The Mix Tape of the Gods

Comment #67966 by Jiten on September 5, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Today I guess we'd send an ipod loaded up with audio and videos.A bonus is that the aliens wouldn't have to build a player first like with the phonograph.

134. Like any half-decent atheist, I'm fond of a bit of religion

Comment #67836 by Jiten on September 5, 2007 at 1:29 am

Like any half-decent atheist, I'm fond of a bit of religion

Because they have the ceremonies for weddings and funerals and births.There exist humanist ceremonies but religions have a thousands of years head start.

135. This human's life, decoded

Comment #67708 by Jiten on September 4, 2007 at 1:10 pm

I think Venter's use of race is what Pinker means by bureaucratic pigeonholes.

136. India to charge writer Nasreen with 'hurting Muslim feelings'

Comment #67598 by Jiten on September 4, 2007 at 1:26 am

Under Indian law, promoting "disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will" between religious groups is punishable by up to three years in jail.


Funny that as all the right-wing hindu politicians are freely doing just this.

137. In God we doubt

Comment #67342 by Jiten on September 3, 2007 at 4:57 am

What? In ONLY God we doubt? Shouldn't that be"In God and Fairies we doubt"? Wait,shouldn't it really be "In God and Fairies and in all sorts of other beings that people have dreamt up over the millenia we doubt"?

138. What do these atheists understand of religion?

Comment #67274 by Jiten on September 3, 2007 at 2:13 am

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is so so ignorant that I wonder if they feel no shame in letting the whole world know just how ignorant they are by writing and publishing this stuff?

Has anyone else also noticed how this type of article is always written by the scientifically illiterate?

139. Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on Mother Teresa

Comment #66538 by Jiten on August 30, 2007 at 10:53 am

After these revelations of Mother T's atheism Christopher Hitchens is being very magnanimous.

BTW it is hilarious that Christopher's name means the carrier of Christ.

140. The Sacrifice of Reason

Comment #66287 by Jiten on August 29, 2007 at 3:31 pm

Sam is just tireless! And I always learn something new.

141. Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation

Comment #65376 by Jiten on August 24, 2007 at 1:00 am

It's all in the mind.

142. Scientists should unite against threat from religion

Comment #65244 by Jiten on August 23, 2007 at 10:19 am

SteveN writes:

Healthy, constructive criticism is usually more helpful in the long run than polite but insincere praise.

True.I'd just add this.In an open and free society Any criticism,both helpful and unhelpful, should be allowed and encouraged.After all you'd be free to vigorously defend your position.Evidence will decide.

143. Scientists should unite against threat from religion

Comment #65228 by Jiten on August 23, 2007 at 8:44 am

Thankyou for your excellent post Omar Ali.A scientific journal is no place for articles like Sardar's and much less so in a journal as august as Nature.

144. Scientists should unite against threat from religion

Comment #65181 by Jiten on August 23, 2007 at 5:16 am

Another excoriating reply from Sam Harris.His writing is always coruscating.

145. Sleights of Mind

Comment #64642 by Jiten on August 21, 2007 at 5:34 am

The human mind is so endlessly facinating.I love reading about it.It's AMAZING.

146. Atheists and believers have got religion wrong

Comment #63586 by Jiten on August 15, 2007 at 2:22 am

In a just and fair world, these ideas would be no more harmful than the irrational following people have for football teams.

Good point.

For those who haven't heard of Mark Steel,he is a comedian and his articles are meant to make you laugh whilst making serious points.

147. Saudis to build their own version of Eden Project

Comment #63467 by Jiten on August 14, 2007 at 12:32 pm

This sort of thing a malarkey? How small minded! It's a step in the right direction.It'll present evidence to its visitors that life has a long history,no doubt a surprising fact to those who are indoctrinated by religious texts.And remember this'll be built in a country in the grip of Wahabism.

This should be seen a first step in the fall of Wahabism-a long term view.

148. These preachers of hate must be exposed

Comment #63457 by Jiten on August 14, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Being threatned with prosecution has other bad consequenses-perhaps in the future television companies will think it's not worth the risk to make programs like this.We need more programs like this not less.

149. Richard Dawkins and the New Age fakers

Comment #63437 by Jiten on August 14, 2007 at 6:15 am

I've seen the first program now and it was excellent.I'm really looking forward to the episode on health.I hope Dawkins has something to say about psychoanalysts as well-they're complete charlatans.

150. When did the police start collaring television?

Comment #62960 by Jiten on August 12, 2007 at 2:24 pm

taken 'out of context'

Yeah right! This is the favorite weasely pleading of the devious and the dishonest and their apologists.

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