Comments by irate_atheist

Comment #130672 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 6:30 am

765. Comment #130670 by MPhil -

Hmm... I thought we were supposed to believe he was a young bloke, with a beard, nailed to a cross?

Very confusing, isn't it?

1652. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130669 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 6:27 am

755. Comment #130621 by wooter -

You haven't insulted me in your last few posts.

I'm feeling left out. Go on - give it your best shot.

1653. Minnesota Atheists Interview Richard Dawkins

Comment #130667 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 6:25 am

44. Comment #115989 by Steve Zara -

(and all Atheists ARE Naturalists)
No, they aren't.

I'm not, either. Too many laws against it and, at home, the heating bills would be horrendous in winter.

Oh. Naturalist. Oops.

1654. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130666 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 6:17 am

760. Comment #130664 by ForestMist -

Furthermore, if it is a 'spirit' and 'non-materialistic' is it therefore made of nothing?

I challenge anyone to clarify the distinction between something made of nothing and, quite literally, nothing.

1655. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130662 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 5:55 am

678. Comment #130302 by Peacebeuponme -

Atheists 347-9 off 50 overs.
Theists are 74-5 off 21 overs before rain. Need 278 off remaining 24 overs to win (D-L).

A McGrath and F Collins at the crease.
To bat: R Williams, A S A H Khamenei, D Robertson.

Betting: Theists looking for divine intervention

Final result:

Atheists: 347-9 off 50 overs

Theists: 312 all out off 47.2 overs

Atheists win by 35 runs.

Man of the match: C Hitchens - for consistently aggressive fast-bowling and final figures of 6-52.

Memorable events:

R Dawkins scores 27 (3 sixes, 2 fours and a single) off an over from T Haggard.

R Williams requests rule change in 28th over (Theists innings)to dismiss all beardless fielders. Umpires decide to defer ruling until next match.

A McGrath dismissed in 37th over - trod on own stumps. S Harris later reprimanded by match referee for 'over exuberant celebrations'. Fined 25% of match fee.

1656. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #130616 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 2:43 am

229. Comment #130603 by Steve Zara -

Steve, I assumed it was a misprint and should have read:

...monkeys are in the way of the gnomes

They're not above using blocking tactics, these pesky monkeys.

1657. The argument from oranges

Comment #130612 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 1:51 am

13. Comment #128260 by steveroot -

Where's Irate when we need him? Hello?

Sorry mate - this one snuck under my radar.

So, especially for steveroot:

Fucktard.

1658. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #130607 by irate_atheist on February 21, 2008 at 1:39 am

225. Comment #130548 by wooter -

Irate: you know the rule; bad words and bad slanders belong to the mouth they popped up. Let me make you busy with you something. It is better than swearing:

Scientists found a very big frog lived 70 billion years ago and it is same as the living ones today? Another puzzle?

More complete fucking bollocks from wooter logic. The frog species is 70 million years old and is more than twice the size of any current living frog species. I'm more than happy to swear at you, you prick. The big problem is that you are, as ever, spouting shit.

1659. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130288 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 8:14 am

661. Comment #130282 by Steve Zara -

What technique do you use to understand the scriptures better than them?

Presumably the Duckworth-Lewis method.

1660. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130281 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 8:04 am

658. Comment #130278 by The Bishop -

I already have.

Foolhardy in the extreme. Do you have any family to support? (Please pardon the question if it is too personal.)

1661. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130274 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:59 am

652. Comment #130268 by The Bishop -

As Diderot, himself, wrote - 'Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.'

1662. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130271 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:56 am

649. Comment #130262 by Tyler Durden -

Ah, yes, Pascal's wager:

Yahweh 7-4F

Allah 5-1

Thor 13-2

Bobby Robson 10-1

All other gods 20-1 bar

1663. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130264 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:52 am

648. Comment #130258 by hungarianelephant -

Yes. It's going down the pan.

1664. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130253 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:45 am

645. Comment #130249 by The Bishop -

And your opinion of The Crusades is.....

1665. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #130250 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:43 am

206. Comment #130178 by wooter -

Wooter - I think I've actually lost my patience with you.

Take your shit and shove it back up your arse where it belongs.

P.S - Al-Rawandi, yup, you guessed it here first. Fucktard.

1666. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130240 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:33 am

638. Comment #130234 by The Bishop -

Well, of course it is! It was written by one person.

Good. We've now established common ground that the Bible is man-made.

Where's your god now that we've cleared that up?

1667. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130237 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:30 am

633. Comment #130225 by The Bishop -

I'm sure you would be among the first to claim that the Bible contradicts itself.

Yes it does. But you said earlier:

Well, I take it that you are mostly ex-christians of one sort or another who have decided to find all the bits of the Bible which make you unhappy.....and on that basis reject God.

So when it does contradict itself, do you keep one half of the contradiction or reject one side? And how can you possibly know you've got it right?

1668. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130218 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:18 am

624. Comment #130208 by The Bishop -

No. Wrong burden of proof.

You claim there is an invisible sky fairy in charge. You have to provide concrete evidence for this assertion.

1669. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130210 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:13 am

622. Comment #130205 by The Bishop -

Well, here comes the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. And so early in the debate, too.

1670. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130204 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:11 am

620. Comment #130200 by The Bishop -

Don't you understand. God had to lead his people away from their own pre-conceived ideas of sacrifice.

No.

Don't you understand that all gods are man made?

It's not difficult.

1671. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130197 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 7:03 am

604. Comment #130176 by The Bishop -

Well, I take it that you are mostly ex-christians of one sort or another who have decided to find all the bits of the Bible which make you unhappy.....and on that basis reject God.

Whatever. Perhaps there's alot of the Quran that you reject so you won't follow Allah. Don't like the views of polygamy in the Book of Mormon, Bishop, so you're not a member of that cult? Breathtaking inanity.

Well: The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the "meaning" of later discoveries and developments which were, when they began, either obstructed by their religions or denounced by them. And yet?quot;the believers still claim to know! Not just to know, but to know everything. Not just to know that god exists, and that he created and supervised the whole enterprise, but also to know what "he" demands of us?quot;from our diet to our observances to our sexual morality. In other words, in a vast and complicated discussion where we know more and more about less and less, yet can still hope for some enlightenment as we proceed, one faction?quot;itself composed of mutually warring factions?quot;has the sheer arrogance to tell us that we already have all the essential information we need. Such stupidity, combined with such pride, should be enough on its own to exclude "belief" from the debate. The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted. - Christopher Hitchens

Says it all, really.

1672. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130162 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 6:40 am

584. Comment #130146 by The Bishop -

The Bible is the foremost authority on evolution.

Genesis 1 gives a good description of how it all came about....just without all the detail that modern scientist are uncovering.

Am I the only person here that's thinking, 'if they give The Bishop an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox'?

1673. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130145 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 6:24 am

570. Comment #130128 by The Bishop

don't think you have the courage!

Some of us have had the courage to rescue loved ones from fundamentalist cults. Christian retards who have people weeping on the floor because they're so bad and praying for forgiveness for practically every thought they have. Nutjobs who teach children about the earth being 6,000 years old. Twats who say evolution is nonsense because the bible says it ain't so. Functional psychotics who think they hear voices in their heads telling them what to do and encouraging children and vulnerable adults to do the same.

Don't talk to me about 'courage' - some of us have used more of our store of it than you can comprehend.

The book you refer to was written by ignorant men in ignorant times. It is only scary if you believe the tripe it contains. A bit difficult given its inaccuracies and self-contradictions.

Crap on your own lawn, not ours.

1674. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130126 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 5:58 am

566. Comment #130124 by Dr Benway -

Devote yourself to truth and love becomes possible. Devote yourself to love above truth, and you'll unwittingly waste your life in masturbation.

Don't knock masturbation; it's sex with someone I love. - Woody Allen

1675. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130120 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 5:50 am

562. Comment #130112 by Tyler Durden -

I've never encountered a talking snowman but I've got a door jam and tree bark. Woof woof.

1676. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130108 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 5:18 am

203. Comment #130105 by Steve Zara -

Well, it might confuse other people too. I dunno. It's a difficult judgement call.

1677. Why Darwin matters

Comment #130104 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 5:03 am

557. Comment #130095 by wooter -

Further to my comment elsewhere:

Irate, Lorien,
When you or if you come to the level of logic and science from the level of funny, give me a call.

I'm not being funny, you prick.

If I were you I would not dare to mention again the snowflakes. Because any objective reader of this web page may access into web pages that show the pictures of snowflakes which is surely self proving of designer. No need to talk about it or being funny. Snowflakes speak for themselves.

If you hear snowflakes speaking for themselves, either get your hearing checked or visit a psychiatrist. Seriously.

1678. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #130101 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 4:55 am

201. Comment #130097 by Steve Zara -

irate: Sorry, did not mean to steal your thunder, but wooter is back in the business of posting the same thing on multiple threads!

What's even better is that he's replying to my reply on this thread on the other thread. Perhaps I should do the same - a bit like the two Ronnies mastermind sketch where the specialist subject is answering the question before last. What do you think?

1679. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #130092 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 3:56 am

199. Comment #130088 by wooter -

How do you explain the working of stomach? Stomach can digest the meat by acid but it cannot harm itself because of the protective tissue covering inside of the stomach? How do you explain this evolution?

Ever heard of intestinal ulcers?

2.How come a reptile's legs turn into wings gradually but while this is happening how is that possible a half foot and half wing creature will survive? How logical is that we have a lot a lot of creatures like that- even not monsters and even in the movie ice age is not that bad?

What, like Archaeopteryx? http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html

3. ...our memory is a tinier than our finger nail?

Well, perhaps your brain's that small - and it would explain a lot - but most aren't.

1680. State Approves Evolution As 'Scientific Theory'

Comment #130081 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 3:34 am

In other news:

Texas housewife concedes 'world might not be flat, after all'.

CofE Bishop admits 'recent flooding probably due to rain, not gays'.

and finally

Vatican spokesman confesses 'yes, it was all an elaborate joke from the start'.

1681. Why do we believe in God? 2m study prays for answer

Comment #130067 by irate_atheist on February 20, 2008 at 2:50 am

38. Comment #129523 by Geoff on February -

Having said that, the answer "because they're fucktards" (with apologies to irate_atheist!) surely deserves the Â£1.9m. They can send the money to my PayPal account...

They're by no means all fucktards. Any apologies should be directed to Al-Rawandi, by the way.

P.S:

Can we share the cash anyway?

1682. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129409 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 4:24 am

179. Comment #129404 by epeeist -

Good move, very good move.

I can't see an easy way out of this one.

Unless....North Greenwich?

Any flat-earthers out there?

1683. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129403 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 4:09 am

177. Comment #129390 by epeeist -

Tricky, tricky. Trying to find the legal move.

Ponders.

Ponders more.

I'll go for South Kensington - close enough to the Natural History Museum to walk to it.

1684. Why Darwin matters

Comment #129400 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 4:06 am

491. Comment #129389 by Philip1978 -

I'm not so bad, thank you. Caught a stinker of a cold from irate_junior - but he's soooooo cute!!!!

Tea - always best enjoyed wth a good book and (lots of) chocolate biccies.

492. Comment #129395 by Roland_F -

Also the hyper creative God who is designing every snowflake differently , very busy God every time a cloud is ripe for snowfall God has to hurry and create all different snowflakes. Hilarious !

Yeah. Laugh - I nearly shat.

1685. Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

Comment #129391 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:51 am

26. Comment #129386 by AllanW -

For the record (no pun intended), he was world record holder for the triple jump.

He is no longer a christian...

http://www.secularism.org.uk/theapostasyofjonathanedwards.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(athlete)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/athletics/article1991114.ece

1686. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129387 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:41 am

174. Comment #129384 by epeeist -

And, may I add, Oliver's army is here to stay.

1687. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129385 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:37 am

174. Comment #129384 by epeeist -

Aha!!!! Cannon Street!

If only, if only...

1688. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129383 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:35 am

171. Comment #129378 by wooter -

The liver also produces cholesterol and 'deals with' drugs, alcohol and toxins in the bloodstream.

But sometimes not well enough. A better design wouldn't result in people dying of alcohol poisoning or from eating the wrong mushroom or plant...

So evolution or incompetent designer. You choose.

1689. Why Darwin matters

Comment #129379 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:28 am

488. Comment #129373 by Philip1978 -

Hello!!!!

How are you!!!!!

1690. Atheists An Increasingly Outspoken Minority

Comment #129377 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:22 am

As a man of faith, Bishop Hanson still has a key question for those who don't believe in God.

"Where do you place your trust in times of need? Where do you place your hope in the time of a crisis of confidence?" Hanson said.

Er...perhaps I place it in getting off my arse and doing something about the 'situation' instead of asking the fairies to help.

Pathetic, wishful thinking, self-centred, self-pitying, ignorant tripe. No less than one would expect of a so-called 'grown-up' playing silly make-believe games with other peoples lives.

1691. Why Darwin matters

Comment #129367 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 3:00 am

484. Comment #129364 by wooter -

er...West Harrow? Perhaps?

1692. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #129338 by irate_atheist on February 19, 2008 at 1:45 am

164. Comment #129334 by wooter -

Ealing Broadway.

1693. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism

Comment #127420 by irate_atheist on February 15, 2008 at 8:57 am

10. Comment #127418 by Arcturus -