Comments by MorituriMax

Comment #46597 by MorituriMax on May 31, 2007 at 6:47 pm

I would never call the origin of species an accident. On the contrary, evolution is part of how our universe works. Life is inevitable, life will find a way.

Absolutely.. it's like saying water flowing downhill on a planet with gravity was an accident.

102. What I Think About Evolution

Comment #46593 by MorituriMax on May 31, 2007 at 6:33 pm

I kind of favor the latter, because if God designed everything knowing how it would come out, how do you explain Sam Brownback?

Maybe God had faith that her creations would develop intelligence, along with logic and reasoning abilities?

I can see her thinking, "Good Me, after all the shit I pull on them I still can't make them think for themselves? I give up."

103. What I Think About Evolution

Comment #46591 by MorituriMax on May 31, 2007 at 6:25 pm

Faith seeks to purify reason so that we might be able to see more clearly, not less. Faith supplements the scientific method by providing an understanding of values, meaning and purpose.

Is he fargin serious?!?!?! Let's see this in it's true form without the buzzword.

Gullibility seeks to purify reason so that we might be able to see more clearly, not less. Gullibility supplements the scientific method by providing an understanding of values, meaning and purpose.

How in the world does believing something without evidence of any kind somehow make things more clear? Does he do anything else in his life based on peoples assertions without evidence?

If I came to him for a loan of $250,000 and he asked me for proof that I could pay it back, would he accept, "Oh have faith. I'll pay you back."

If I knocked on his door and asked to take his daughter out to a movie, would he let me, a perfect stranger, do so without anything other than, "Oh come on you can TRUST me.. have faith, I really am a nice guy."

104. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Robert Winston

Comment #45669 by MorituriMax on May 28, 2007 at 9:37 pm

What's up with the lightning thing he brings up twice. Is he seriously suggesting that, unlike us poor atheists, religious people KNOW when lightning is about to strike someone for speaking against God?

Hmmmm.

105. It came like yesterday

Comment #45568 by MorituriMax on May 28, 2007 at 8:43 am

Good points all around, was thinking that everything is insignificant to everything else. If we're insignificant to the universe, then so are bacteria, planets, stars, galaxies, superclusters, everything scales up. And if you scale down, everything... EVERYTHING is particles. At our scale, the middle world I think I have heard it called, we perceive structure.

But it's an illusion. Aren't we in fact made up of the material of the star that gave birth to our star? We're just as significant as hydrogen, helium, nitrogen. As significant as the 130 or so types of molecules drifting around space.

So am I humbled? Yes, but only by the diversity of reality which is based on particles.

106. Observer Diary 27th May 2007

Comment #45454 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 9:17 pm

philos, I don't know maybe Bill Gates giving 36 billion to charity and setting up foundations might count.. but gee, without a moral compass maybe I shouldn't even be allowed to say 36 billion.

Hmmm? How much have YOU given to charity? How many foundations have you set up? Warren Buffet also gave around 30 billion to charity or so.. wow...

107. Observer Diary 27th May 2007

Comment #45453 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 9:15 pm

I think the Bono controversy had something to do with them saying we needed to supply Africa with Refrigerators.. which then sat around because the African people getting them didn't have access to electricity.

Go figure. Like using one square of toilet paper to save the planet.

108. It came like yesterday

Comment #45451 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 9:11 pm

FVThinker.. then why are you continuing to breathe? Shouldn't you just go out and remove yourself from the species then? Heh, kidding..

If you think it is conceited, then sure, but every other species on the planet shares that trait. Anything alive today is here because they spent the entire time since they've been around trying to "propogate" the species.. hell, Stars do it too. They blow up, new better stars form with heavier elements.

You have to be around to do anything else, so I would say, anything after that is cake. As for divine creators, the only ones I recognize are my Mom and Dad.

Oh, and I don't think I am insignificant. The universe may think so, but that is it's prerogative.

109. Aiming for knockout blow in god wars

Comment #45427 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 5:24 pm

God forbid (pun intended) that atheists should be as vehement and persistent in publishing their views as the Church.

Church "Oh no! Don't be mean and argumentative! Bad things happen if you question us. Oh woe is me!"

110. Observer Diary 27th May 2007

Comment #45424 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 5:20 pm

Holy sheepdip, a penny a mile? That alone made this whole article worthwhile.. I always wondered what the cost would be when I heard of the Tesla vehicle. I figured my electric bill would shoot up to $5,000 a month to run one.

Come on Tesla!

111. It came like yesterday

Comment #45422 by MorituriMax on May 27, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Funny, people used to think we were the end-all be-all of evolution, put here by God and that we were the best thing in the universe. That went along with saying that the Earth had to be the center of the universe because we were on it.

Then science came along and said "Hey, we're not special. We aren't the center of everything. Everything doesn't revolve around us." And some people were humbled.

Then along come the environmentalists and say "Hey! We're special. We can change the climate of an entire planet as a byproduct of some of our activities. We alone do more to the climate than the energy output of a star hitting us for billions of years. Solar Flares? Comets? Volcanoes? Meteors? Plate Tectonics? Nah. We got all of those beat."

Amazing how humble we aren't anymore.

112. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #44769 by MorituriMax on May 25, 2007 at 9:10 am

Brian better walk real quiet.. once his God finds out he's got competition, it'll be all old testament on his ass.

Heh..

113. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #44317 by MorituriMax on May 24, 2007 at 10:11 am

So Falwell can say that God killed thousands of people in different places with tornadoes and hurricanes because those people all deserved what they got. They were sinners or they were gay or they didn't devote enough time worshiping Jerry's "god" and that's okay.

When he dies and someone calls him on it, they're a meanie? Oh no, Falwell's family are going to get their feelings hurt. Incredible. Even after he's dead he demands people respect his carcass.

Uh huh...

114. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43708 by MorituriMax on May 22, 2007 at 10:32 am

Yeah, I love how Hitchens handled himself during the interview. I do watch Fox News sometimes, usually the financial shows, can't stand how they will break away to a N E W S A L E R T ! N E W S A L E R T ! every 2 minutes.

For example, listening to an informative segment on personal finances and they break away to talk about a car chase in San Fransisco. Arg... Fox's idea of what I need to know or devote mental storage to is incredibly shallow.

Bravo Hitchens! I want to see him on Hannity more often, perhaps he should take Colmes spot.

115. Hitchens on Falwell, Part 2

Comment #43522 by MorituriMax on May 21, 2007 at 10:22 pm

You notice how Hannity talked over Hitchens reply about how we need to respect anyone who gives to charity, "Then you have to respect Hamas and Hezbollah."

116. Catholic Church Reconsiders Limbo

Comment #43199 by MorituriMax on May 20, 2007 at 7:19 pm

I thought it was cute.

117. Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off

Comment #39787 by MorituriMax on May 11, 2007 at 11:25 pm

I got as far as the evolution of the coke can before I paged out of it... Holy Moly... how can you fight someone that just blatantly misrepresents the actual science?

The sad thing is, most people buy it because they accept the christians setup of how it works.

118. The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it

Comment #38242 by MorituriMax on May 7, 2007 at 9:58 am

My "proof" email to Madeleine Bunting

I converted to atheism after reading the God Delusion. My "proof?" I have more faith in science than a compilation of Christian Mythology stories (Bible).

For example. I dropped a tennis ball from shoulder height 100 times and said to myself before each release, "I think this should hit the floor and bounce about halfway back up at least once." And Lo! It happened the same each and every time. Then I dropped it 100 times and said to myself before each release, "God I really hope you can bounce this to the ceiling each time it hits the floor." And Lo! Zip. Nada. Nothing. It bounced the same exact way that it did with the initial 100 drops.

That's more than the proof needed by the standards of Religion.

Ronald Stepp
Enterprise, Alabama

119. God Exists. A Formula Proves it.

Comment #37942 by MorituriMax on May 6, 2007 at 11:11 am

The statement "..you are forced to conclude that God exists." pretty much sums up how Religion wants things. Note that scientists never say, "You are forced to believe in my version of Quantum Mechanics."

120. The Damned

Comment #36949 by MorituriMax on May 2, 2007 at 10:31 pm

Feel free to disagree, but I thought this video was just a different face on the same worn-out approach.

Shoot, there is only one Bible and we get that rammed down our throats day-in day-out.. At least we are presenting the same material in different ways. It needs to be repeated as often as the Bible is.

121. When Seeing Is Disbelieving

Comment #36637 by MorituriMax on May 1, 2007 at 8:51 pm

Bad example. A mission in military parlance is not the same as a war. One can even differentiate between a mission and a sortie.

Would have been interesting to see him on the flight deck saying, "What the hell are you guys doing back already? The war isn't over! Right, Dick?"

122. 4 Sermon for Matins: 'Dawkins and The God Delusion'

Comment #36540 by MorituriMax on May 1, 2007 at 1:05 pm

This is a challenge a Christian like myself cannot ignore, so over the next four weeks I plan to discuss the four reasons he says people are religious, and to try to respond to the critique of religious belief in The God Delusion.

And he is going to provide a rebuttal how? After all, he is speaking from a knowledge base which Richard Dawkins has already addressed. In order to have a NEW take on it, he would have to create a New New Testament which explains why Richards criticisms on the established body of Christian Dogma no longer apply or are disingenuous.

note: I specifically reference the Christian branch since this guy is one. I would say the same thing about ANY religion and it's followers.

123. Pundit Christopher Hitchens picks a fight in book, 'God is Not Great'

Comment #35944 by MorituriMax on April 29, 2007 at 12:16 pm

But Hitchens is an equal opportunity atheist. His reviles all religions and scorns anyone foolish enough to accept any idea on faith.

Equal Opportunity? Wow, and here I thought atheists by definition scorned all religions?

124. New Noah's Ark ready to sail

Comment #35923 by MorituriMax on April 29, 2007 at 10:43 am

What a waste of cedar and pine. From I recall, Holland isn't exactly covered in forests, making this colossal fantasy-ship an affront to global reforestation efforts. But then again, someone who cheers the fact that the creator of the universe killed off most of life on the planet probably couldn't give a shit either way.

No waste of wood. The mothership dropped off the materials.

125. Two idiots get a forum

Comment #35700 by MorituriMax on April 28, 2007 at 12:10 pm

The best evidence of God isn't the banana. It's the Vyeena Sausage. What else could explain how they are perfectly bite-sized, in fact just the right size that 7 of them fit exactly in the can. They also are kept fresh in their own sweat. What a convenience!

I think they first appeared on Noah's Ark. Some conspiracy theories associated with the wonderfull godly fruit suggest that there were in fact more than 2 of each animal on the Ark, at least before God created the Vyeena sausage.

126. Two idiots get a forum

Comment #35699 by MorituriMax on April 28, 2007 at 12:02 pm

Do we even know yet if the Virginia Tech Shooter was an atheist? Does the University of Virginia have a chapel?

Also, was the guy who killed all the girls in the Amish School in Pennsylvania an atheist?

127. Bill O'Remix

Comment #35120 by MorituriMax on April 26, 2007 at 9:10 am

Bill: Science? Evidence? Evolution? Nah, not convinced. But hey, let me whip out my faith and that trumps everything you want to try and get to sink in to my made up mind.

Typical no spin zone, oh oops, unless religion or Jesus is involved.

As long as he stays away from religion I can agree with Bill.

128. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33884 by MorituriMax on April 22, 2007 at 12:46 pm

Heck if you can't keep the discussion civil, just go away. You aren't the only one here who thinks their opinion is the holy gospel of the real world.

Maybe step back and take an objective look at the world before you go off on "oh we got to ban guns, then the world will be perfect."

I was in the military for 10 years and never had shootouts on base with all the other guys even though we had access to big bad guns in the armory.

And just because you don't agree with gun use doesn't mean you have to label those who do fascists. As for how tiresome it is, sorry the truth is so painful.

So maybe we can just agree to disagree without you calling me any more names or insinuating you are letting me off lightly. This is a public discussion forum. I'm not the one who needs to get a grip and calling everyone fascists or extolling how pissed you are at some dissenting views. Peace. May Cho and the church loons rot in Hell if there is one.

129. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33883 by MorituriMax on April 22, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Never said America won the war singlehandedly. But without us Russia would never have been able to hold of Nazi Germany long enough to turn the war.

Japan even found this out when they discovered that a mobilized USA industrial strength with its Military Forces was something that turned the tide. Even the wolfpacks weren't enough to stop the US reinforcing the other powers against them.

Guns aren't going away. The gun is a machine that makes the weak strong enough to stand against the strong. Like any machine, shoot like anything at all bad people can use it to do bad things.

You ban guns, you take away from the law abiding the ability to keep others from killing them or robbing them. Should we ban guns from the police too?

Heck go back far enough and you'd be hearing calls to ban the longbow.

130. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33854 by MorituriMax on April 22, 2007 at 8:22 am

Ah, so the shooter kills all those people cause he has a gun and they don't and the answer is "Ban Guns." Yeah, then we can just expand the problem to the rest of the country.

@briancoughlanworldcitizen
If it weren't for us Americans and our 2nd Amendment fanatics and their guns, you people elsewhere would be speaking German (Hitler), Russian (Stalin), Japanese (WW2), or Chinese (Mao Zedong) today. Care to pick your favorite?

Back to the guns thing, they got banned in Australia, wow that worked.

Guns never killed anyone. Cars kill 43,200 people per year. Do we ban cars too?

Kennesaw, Goergia passed an ordinance in 1982 requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. In the 25 years since this passed there has not been a single resident involved in a fatal shooting, either as victim, attacker, or defender. Man, those gun fanatics.

In the interest of full disclosure, I don't own a single gun. Yet. If I think I need one I'll get one.

131. Dinesh D'Souza says I don't exist: an atheist at Virginia Tech

Comment #33753 by MorituriMax on April 21, 2007 at 3:11 pm

One thing strikes me as, perhaps unconsciously, hypocritical. Christian and other religious leaders and followers are always pounding on atheists for not having anything to look forward to when we die. We have no God, so we have no Heaven to look forward to, no glorious afterlife.

Well shoot, if we don't have and they do have such a glorious light filled kingdom they go to after they die, then why do we see such sorrow when a fellow religious believer dies? Why for example, do the people at Virginia Tech display such extreme displays of grief, tears without end, and long speeches about how they were taken too early, etc.

Why are they even shedding more than the grief required for no longer being able to interact with their lost ones? Have a good cry, then move on, after all, they are in Heaven now.

And even though I am not religious, in this case I really hope I am wrong and that little murderous bastard DOES have a Hell for whatever religion he believed in. If he was an atheist, he got off easy. God would have an instant convert in me if he were to raise Cho from the dead and drop his ass off in the nearest police station.

132. Gay hate church to picket VT gun rampage funerals

Comment #33708 by MorituriMax on April 21, 2007 at 9:41 am

The old argument that if more people carry guns, there will be full blown shootouts is not true.

Where the states have allowed conceal and carry, old west shootouts never appeared, in fact crime went down.

If 1 person with a gun can kill 32 people, how many could he kill if all 32 people also had guns. In other words, labeling a town, campus, or school a "gun-free" zone merely announces to the people who don't obey the law that he is entering a smorgasboard of helpless sheep.

"Oh darn, the sign says I can't bring my gun with me." Does anybody really think a mass murderer is going to obey gun laws if he doesn't obey "Don't murder people?"

133. Dinesh D'Souza says I don't exist: an atheist at Virginia Tech

Comment #33329 by MorituriMax on April 19, 2007 at 9:54 pm

I don't understand where someone like that gets off telling us we're bad because we're atheists and where is Richard Dawkins when something like this happens?

I'd rather ask, "Where was God?" If we live in a universe with a supposed God that embodies all the good in the same universe, and yet this God won't step forward and stop the Cho Seung-Hui's of the world, then might we not as well LIVE in a universe with no God?

If all the prayers of the world are one-way, why do the religious believers think they have some kind of step up over us, the non-believers?

134. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32336 by MorituriMax on April 16, 2007 at 10:38 pm

The books referenced above assert that the debate is over and that atheism has won, but atheists have been saying that for more than 200 years. Since the French Enlightenment, the death of God has been confidently proclaimed. Religion has been made obsolete by egalitarian revolution, industrialism, or science, they insisted. Yet, early in the 21st century, faith endures.

So he is worried why? If it's all cut and dried on the religious home front why is he even worried about something that's been ongoing for 200 years?

135. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32334 by MorituriMax on April 16, 2007 at 10:34 pm

So... it is okay to have tens of thousands of books on religion, thousands of books on UFOs, tens or hundreds of thousands of books on Cooking, etc etc, but he's upset that he is tripping over more books on atheism? How many hundreds of books on atheism are out? Maybe his next desire is to burn all the books he doesn't want to read?

Nice philosophy he has. Oh and the atheist books get more and more "strident" in his words.. wow.. what an absolute crime against humanity.

136. Is God poison?

Comment #30922 by MorituriMax on April 10, 2007 at 10:34 am

Not to go off topic to political stuff, but after that election went his way because of his "friends" in the Supreme Court and Florida, a consortium of newspapers recounted the ballots and found that Bush did win fair and square. What is really funny here is that the newspapers generally can't stand Bush either.

That being stated in fairness, go Richard! I can't wait for his next book to come out. And I'll be getting Hitchens' new book as well.

137. Prophets of the new atheism

Comment #30520 by MorituriMax on April 8, 2007 at 10:35 am

"God gives objective definition to our ideas of right and wrong,"
@Roll: "Unless you're God. Then I suppose it's pretty subjective."

@me: Unless you're the OLD God. Then it's kill em all, bring plagues on em, have em sacrifice their first born to you, or better yet, just kill all the first born. Objective? Heh heh heh.

138. Religion useless to Dawkins

Comment #29428 by MorituriMax on April 2, 2007 at 10:51 pm

Reminds me of an old skit I saw somewhere..

A voice comes on the radio sounding like Rod Serling. "In Chicago, a woman receives terrible burns when she grabs a red-hot burner on her stove. At exactly the same moment, across the country in Los Angelas, her daughter lifts an iron while it is still on, also sustaining terrible burns. Coincidence? Or does stupidity just run in the family?"

139. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #28577 by MorituriMax on March 30, 2007 at 12:41 am

Heh heh heh.. watched it again.. man, it boggles the imagination what people can assert under the guise of logic.

It reminds me of a favorite tactic of Kent Hovind, when he said, "How can there have been a big bang? You can't prove it. You weren't there."

Then he takes a breath and says how God created the Universe. Following his own logic, one immediately should ask, "How do you know he created the universe? Were you there to see it?"

Strangely enough nobody ever seemed to want to get his answer to it. One wonders if his response might have been as brilliant as the banana hypothesis.

140. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #28086 by MorituriMax on March 27, 2007 at 10:38 pm

Ok, ok, ok.. now for the question nobody has asked.

Drum roll..

Why aren't ALL fruits and vegetables designed perfectly for people? What? God couldn't get the franchise for all of them?

And if God designed the perfect ones, which ones did the devil design?

141. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #27934 by MorituriMax on March 27, 2007 at 10:06 am

I'm waiting for a clip where someone sets a ball on the ground, watches it for a few seconds, then declares.. the world is flat, if it wasn't flat this ball would have rolled away. THUS! proving God did indeed make the world flat so he had a place to put his giant beer during the superbowl.

142. Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!

Comment #27933 by MorituriMax on March 27, 2007 at 10:01 am

Good thing people don't buy jars of dust.. we'd have people popping up left and right.

143. Does God answer prayer? ASU research says 'yes'

Comment #25997 by MorituriMax on March 16, 2007 at 2:24 am

"...and is not a single work with a single conclusion."

Oh other than, "and found it is beneficial."

Wow.. nope no single conclusion there.

144. Free Speech

Comment #25754 by MorituriMax on March 15, 2007 at 2:49 am

You know if we follow Apemanblues logic we have to wonder when he is going to go confront Hitchens in person. After all if you can't agree with the war without actually going there and fighting it (that by itself is one of the most infantile arguments on the planet) then you can't criticize Hitchens unless you put your money where your mouth is and tell him to his face you dislike his views.

145. Free Speech

Comment #25752 by MorituriMax on March 15, 2007 at 2:47 am

What's really funny, is that even Saddam thought he had WMDs... even at the point where all his subordinates had either hidden them, moved them to Syria or destroyed them after they finished pissing themselves when they recognized the other countries were about out of patience with them, they still knew that if they told Saddam he no longer had any WMDs IN Iraq, Saddam would have had them tortured to death for lying to him.

146. Turkey: Creationism Documentary

Comment #25503 by MorituriMax on March 13, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Evolution isn't science? Man, those kind of people terrify me. I wish I could move to a different planet to get away from them.

147. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24753 by MorituriMax on March 8, 2007 at 10:31 am

Of course the cactaeiea.. uh, the cicataec.. um er.. caktooses, darnit, the big forkie things that look like satans pitchforks are satanic!

148. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24673 by MorituriMax on March 8, 2007 at 2:24 am

Ok Ok... this is my last post.. man this shit is hilarious..

History books speculate at length about "prehistory", which predates writing. But there is no reliable evidence to support this speculation, SINCE NOTHING WAS WRITTEN DOWN...

149. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24672 by MorituriMax on March 8, 2007 at 2:23 am

Theme of Conservapedia:

Ok.. here are our conclusions.. what facts can we post to confirm them?

150. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24670 by MorituriMax on March 8, 2007 at 2:20 am

Space is overall flat after all?

Geesh... how can they get that so wrong.. space is curved but LOCALLY it's flat... ARG!

Plus the speed of light as measured in a vacuum is a specific value.. it can change depending on local condtions.. water, glass, etc..

Man, save us from religious wackjobs..