Comments by Tyler Durden

151. Richard Dawkins replies to Libby Purves

Comment #229056 by Tyler Durden on August 13, 2008 at 3:45 am

Perhaps it's because there's too many atheists, or too many comments or the system has moved to a new database/language...

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/richarddawkins.net

152. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #229045 by Tyler Durden on August 13, 2008 at 3:30 am

Boulat,

Check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_in_animals

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602257.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070625085134.htm

Frans de Waal's Our Inner Ape and Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved also cover the topic.

153. Richard Dawkins replies to Libby Purves

Comment #229017 by Tyler Durden on August 13, 2008 at 2:48 am

Comment #229010 by isthatclear

To Thewhitepear

Can I ignore you? Please. I cant find any solid points to write back to you. What about fashion magazines?

Flagging as offensive.

154. Judge says UC can deny class credit to Christian school students

Comment #228994 by Tyler Durden on August 13, 2008 at 1:55 am

bilge242,

That may very well be the case, sad really, so much to appreciate through science, and these idiots want to leave it all up to their imaginary friend in the sky.

How do they rationalise using the internet, antibiotics, or advances in IVF - none of which are mentioned in their Bible? How can these scientific advances contradict the "Word of God" when this "God" never thought to mention them in the first place. Some God!?!?

155. Judge says UC can deny class credit to Christian school students

Comment #228991 by Tyler Durden on August 13, 2008 at 1:43 am

Another rejected text, Biology for Christian Schools, declares on the first page that "if (scientific) conclusions contradict the Word of God, the conclusions are wrong"

Oh good grief - how do these people actually cope in the real world?

156. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228648 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 10:36 am

Comment #228635 by Marcus

Deviation from such behaviour in in the west is only a recent development, not anything biological, but social and political.

Marcus, this is why Richard said, and has repeated this often, that he is not a fan of Social Darwinism.

It was biological, it was biological for small groups of kin, or community, it helped them survive - but in the "big, bad world" it is quite different. But altruism still exists today.

Read The Selfish Gene. If you've already read it, I suggest reading it again!

Dawkins jumped the shark in last night's episode.

Oh please! Leave the hyperbole to the hack TV critics!!

157. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228549 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 7:38 am

And this is what we discover: that the world is there for our benefit, and that there are all sorts of things that fit together for us.

Yeah, but how do catastrophic volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, tsunamis, meteor strikes, comet strikes, typhoons/hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, ice ages, heat waves, wildfires, blizzards, solar flares, drought, and famine fit in with this "plan"?

If an almighty omnisicent being were to have "created" this planet Earth, why allow us to live on such malleable, and therefore unpredictable, tectonic plates?

Yet another case of cognitive dissonance and childish rationalisation by the ignorant fundies.

Idiots!

158. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228481 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 5:21 am

Anyone see the Saudi team at the opening ceremony of the Olympics?

Missed it, do tell...

Are there any Saudi female javelin athletes? :)

159. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228475 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 5:02 am

DDjango = Django Reinhardt, perhaps? (Of course, he was Belgian)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt

160. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228457 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 4:28 am

Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital
by ABC News

Saudis play ~~by their cat~~ with a pussy outside a pet shop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday , July 31, 2008

There, fixed it.

161. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228423 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 3:27 am

Thanks decius.

It's Ambulocetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus

I snapped it while in the Grand Gallerie d'Evolution in Paris last week. What an exhibition... magnifique!

You dare question the brilliance of Fight Club? Right, outside, now :)

162. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228401 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 2:47 am

Steve,

Robertson is annoyed RD doesn't acknowledge his existence, he feels the need to play the "victim" whenever, and wherever, he can, while stamping his feet like a two-year old who can't get his own way. Sad really.

Vaal,

Thanks for the link but I'd rather poke my eye out with a sharp stick than read Robertson's puerile nonsense :)

163. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #228398 by Tyler Durden on August 12, 2008 at 2:36 am

Comment #228396 by Steve Zara

David Robertson is lying.

Again.

164. Richard Dawkins replies to Libby Purves

Comment #227983 by Tyler Durden on August 11, 2008 at 6:34 am

Hungarian,

I was watching "Who Wrote The Bible?" on Discovery over the weekend, they mentioned Tyndale and his exploits to allow the masses to read the bible, and also mentioned he was burnt at the stake for his troubles, but no word on why he was strangled first.

The thrust of my post, after watching that particular programme, religion is about control, even if there is some longterm benefit, the Church/Vatican/Imams want to keep it for themselves, the acolytes are merely pawns.

How they don't see this is beyond me.

165. Richard Dawkins replies to Libby Purves

Comment #227964 by Tyler Durden on August 11, 2008 at 5:11 am

What do you expect from a god who mixed up human language at the tower of babel in order to prevent people from communicating?

And when people like Tyndale and Wycliffe had the audacity to translate their "holy" book into English for the general population, they were butchered.

And this wasn't anything as revolutionary as Copernicus or Galileo - this was their own holy scripture, except the regular joes weren't allowed, or supposed, to understand it. Keep them ignorant, makes them easier to control.

"The Council of Constance declared Wycliffe (on 4 May 1415) a stiff-necked heretic and under the ban of the Church. It was decreed that his books be burned and his remains be exhumed. The latter did not happen till twelve years afterward, when at the command of Pope Martin V they were dug up, burned, and the ashes cast into the River Swift that flows through Lutterworth."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe

"While a number of partial and complete Old English translations had been made from the seventh century onward, and Middle English translations particularly during the 14th century, Tyndale's was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535 Tyndale was arrested, jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year, tried for heresy and then strangled and burnt at the stake."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale

166. An atheist plays God's advocate

Comment #227925 by Tyler Durden on August 11, 2008 at 4:02 am

Comment #227907 by Richard Morgan

And this is love, blind is almost as good. Ah well.

I suppose everything is this priceless!

Yep, quote mining can be fun. Give it a rest why don't you Mr. Morgan.

167. Richard Dawkins replies to Libby Purves

Comment #227902 by Tyler Durden on August 11, 2008 at 3:19 am

It's not noble to think that you're polluted and weak, it's negative, pessimistic and just plain wrong. No wonder so many believers feel badly about themselves.

Quetz, very true - which is why the Church then "come to the rescue" by making these fools feel "better" about themselves for a very, very short while, before the whole vicous cycle repeats itself.

"You're going to Hell, You're going to Hell, You're going to Hell - but if you do what we say, you can be saved from eternal damnation!"

It's almost akin to mental and physical torture endured by children, or in some cases, prisoners of war. If you tell a child he's stupid/worthless ten times a day, he'll believe it. Tell him he's stupid/worthless (or going to Hell) only once, he suddenly doesn't feel as bad, and somehow thinks you're doing him a favour/being kind.

Classic abusive behaviour, and the Church have been getting away with it for years.

168. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #224977 by Tyler Durden on August 6, 2008 at 4:15 am

Poor Joe, skipping any questions put to him. Let me repeat:

According to Sura 65:12 - "It is God who hath created seven heavens and as many earths."

Really? There are another six planet Earths out there in the cosmos?!?! Wow! Where exactly are they? Perhaps you could enlighten us, and maybe win a Nobel prize along the way...

169. IT'S A GODDAMNED CRACKER!

Comment #224948 by Tyler Durden on August 6, 2008 at 3:46 am

And did you know these crackers have allegedly made it all the way to the moon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin

"He received Communion on the surface of the moon, but kept his Communion a secret because of the lawsuit brought by Madalyn Murray O'Hair regarding the reading of Genesis on Apollo 8. Aldrin, a church elder, used a pastor's home Communion kit given to him by Dean Woodruff and recited words used by his pastor at Webster Presbyterian Church. He celebrated Communion alone, without his colleague Armstrong participating. Webster Presbyterian possesses the chalice used for communion on the moon, and commemorates the event annually on the Sunday closest to July 20th."

Sigh!

170. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #224224 by Tyler Durden on August 4, 2008 at 10:38 am

Hey Joe,

According to Sura 65:12 - "It is God who hath created seven heavens and as many earths."

Really? There are another six planet Earths out there in the cosmos?!?! Wow! Where exactly are they? Perhaps you could enlighten us, and maybe win a Nobel prize along the way...

171. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #224215 by Tyler Durden on August 4, 2008 at 10:23 am

Just in case txpiper ignores my last post, I'll throw one more in for good measure (apologies if this has been asked before):

Did Noah have Kangaroos on the "Ark"? If so (and I'm guessing he did if they still exist on the Earth today, to keep the "flood myth" going a while longer), how did he get them from Australia to this "Ark" of his, as they are indiginous only to that particular continent.

And no, "magic" will not be accepted as an answer!!

172. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #223686 by Tyler Durden on August 3, 2008 at 6:52 am

I'm of the opinion that our friend txpiper is actually a masochist. Why else come here to be completely and absolutely humiliated day after day by the likes of Reverend Dark, Steve Zara, epeeist, fizhburn, and on more that one occassion, Scot Rafkin.

I guess the truth hurts - but then, txpiper seems to like it that way!!

And if you're still reading txpiper... the Lascaux cave paintings in Dordogne departement of France have been estimated to be 16,000 years old.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/871930.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/l/lascaux.htm
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/cave_paintings_000810.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/html/ft_20010801.6.html

How does this fit with your "young earth" theory?

Also, how does this fit with your "global flood" theory?

173. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #220435 by Tyler Durden on July 28, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Poor Joe.

Nobody else will listen to his inane ramblings so he's decided to spend his time "educating" us.

Joe,

Why not tell us your conversion to Islam story... what finally tipped you over the edge? Was it the promise of virgins in the afterlife? C'mon, you can tell us...

174. Catholics To Pope: Lift Birth Control Ban

Comment #220431 by Tyler Durden on July 28, 2008 at 12:31 pm

"The answer to AIDS requires deeper and more complex interventions..."

No. It requires education, and condom use.

Fucktard.

175. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217345 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 8:36 am

Man in black: No other object as been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.
Roky Crikenson: Really?
Man in black: Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once... But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I'm a republican.
Man in black: Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I know... What I saw.
Man in black: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? Mister Crikenson, your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.
Roky Crikenson: You... can't threaten me.
Man in black: I just did.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Jose_Chung.27s_.27From_Outer_Space.27_.5B3.20.5D

176. Richard Dawkins on Al Jazeera English

Comment #217328 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 8:08 am

Comment #217325 by rachedi

I do not see a real difference between the two.

Then you're obviously not looking hard enough.

177. Cardinal accuses Anglican Communion of 'spiritual Alzheimer's'

Comment #217318 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 7:37 am

well-known secret sects

Reminds me of people using the "silent majority" phrase to make their case. If they are indeed silent, how do they know what they think?

178. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217311 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 7:22 am

Comment #217300 by Peacebeuponme

Not to be confused with PMS of course, which I don't think you can get from a deluded clown.

LOL - waiter, there's coffee all over my keyboard :)

179. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217288 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 6:28 am

That is the argument:

"If you had the exact same experience as me, you would realize I am right and only I am right."

Perhaps txpiper is Richard Morgan?

180. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217283 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 6:13 am

Al,

I do apologise in advance for being so pedantic:

I never get PM's from deluded clowns

PMs = Personal Messages, as it's plural. Whereas, "The PM's tone was quite sharp"

:)

181. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217280 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 6:08 am

What's to talk about on a FCOS forum anyway?

How did the Universe begin? Goddidit.
How did life begin? Goddidit.
Why do we have an appendix? Goddidit.
How did our Moon form? Goddidit.
How did David Robertson manage to pay for a coach trip with no money in his account? Goddidit.

Etc., etc., etc,. ad nauseum.

182. Cardinal accuses Anglican Communion of 'spiritual Alzheimer's'

Comment #217150 by Tyler Durden on July 24, 2008 at 1:59 am

Dias told bishops the battle to bring Christ to the world must be placed in the "wider context of spiritual combat" with Satan.

Cool. Will this be on Pay-per-View?

183. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216869 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Hellene,

Joe's not a tool of Israeli Intelligence - just a tool :)

184. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216863 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Joe,

are you by any chance from planet Earth?

185. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216855 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:57 pm

Joe,

I've given you both my numbers, why won't you ring?

Are you afraid?

186. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216852 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Joe,

Your caps lock is stuck again!

187. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216841 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Joe,

I'm over in Ireland, give me a call: 353-1-8420700

Or call my office: 353-1-402 2346

188. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216834 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm

AND NOT CHANCE LIKE YOU WISHED IT WAS

Oh boy!

(Not that Joe will bother to read this, but, here goes...)

Joe,

Darwinian Evolution by Natural Selection is not about chance, quite the opposite in fact. This is where the Natural Selection part comes in.

189. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216818 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Joe,

Do you own any other books apart from your copy of the Qu'ran?

(Can you, in fact, read - I'm beginning to wonder)

190. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216795 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm

I would like to thank Denis Giron for his presentation...

Hey Joe,

Why are you thanking Denis Giron??

191. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216793 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Poor Joe!

Can't think for himself, can only cut 'n' paste.

192. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216772 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 1:54 pm

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/06/19/harun-yahya-preaches-islam-slams-darwin-and-awaits-jesus/2/

Reuters: Now let's get to Jesus. Why do you talk about him? When is he coming?

Adnan Oktar: When you take the hadith and the verses of the Koran, we understand that Jesus is going to be coming. When we analyse this from a technical point of view and look at the words of the prophet Mohammad, we understand this is going to be in the next 20 to 25 years.

Ok, everybody set a reminder in their diaries for 2028 - 2033. Man, this is going to be sooooo exciting.

193. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216498 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 8:51 am

Joe,

What's your country international access code?

194. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216494 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 8:48 am

Joe,

What other imaginary figures do you believe in?

Santa Claus? Tooth Fairy? Unicorns? Leprechauns?

195. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #216491 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 8:44 am

Al,

Methinks you struck a nerve.

196. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #216484 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 8:39 am

So, it's called "Good" Friday by the religious acolytes because...

197. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #216469 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 8:19 am

Comment #216455 by mixmastergaz

Did the crucifixion occur on a Thursday or Friday? It depends on which Gospel you read (and decide, arbitrarily, to believe).

It happened on a Thursday, and that's a fact - txpiper told us so :)

http://richarddawkins.net/articleComments,2394,Lying-for-Jesus,Richard-Dawkins,page181#212237

198. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #216428 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 7:29 am

Comment #216424 by hungarianelephant

Without a resurrection, the gospels make (even) less sense, a bit like ending Macbeth before Birnam Forest comes to Dunsinane.

Aww, thanks a bunch, now you've ruined the ending for me!!!! :)

199. Good Science Writers: Richard Dawkins

Comment #216427 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 7:26 am

Richard,

Have you decided on a title for your latest book?

200. Islam subway ads cause stir in New York

Comment #216415 by Tyler Durden on July 23, 2008 at 6:48 am

Comment #216405 by Bonzai

Check this out: redneck Christian fundies converted to Islam because Jesus was a sissy.

From the YouTube clip: 6:30 "At this point I couldn't actually even conceive of not being Muslim. I think it's kinda like the idea of thinking about not breathing."

Try leaving the faith, you may get to experience just that!