251. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15339 by Jiten on December 30, 2006 at 1:38 pm

nine9s: Just a small comment to your post.It is this:The poor will not always be with us.And they haven't always been with us either.In hunter-gatherer societies of the pre-neolithic and indeed in todays foragers(for example in Borneo) there are no poor.For there are no rich.There is no money at all.True egalitarian societies.

Let's co-operate to build a just post-industrial society free from superstitions.

252. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15291 by Jiten on December 30, 2006 at 7:28 am

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

253. Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat

Comment #15127 by Jiten on December 29, 2006 at 4:00 am

Here we have one religious nutter badly treated by other religious nutters.

If you're pious and your religion goes in for separation of the sexes then you've got to go along with it,don't you?After all this woman is quite happy to be separated in the synagogue.But not on the bus.What's the difference?She's no Rosa Parks.

This woman wants the best of both worlds.She wants to be pious and to be treated according to Enlightment values of equality for all.

254. 10 myths - and 10 truths - about atheism

Comment #14968 by Jiten on December 27, 2006 at 2:37 pm

Good post Steven Mading.Thanks!

255. The Komodo Dragon's Tale

Comment #14943 by Jiten on December 27, 2006 at 3:04 am

Surely this is an error : ...one haploid cell splitting into two,...

A haploid cell cannot split into two.Shouldn't that read ...one diploid cell splitting into two...?

256. The Komodo Dragon's Tale

Comment #14416 by Jiten on December 22, 2006 at 11:09 am

A very interesting tale.

257. The problem with secularism

Comment #14396 by Jiten on December 22, 2006 at 9:16 am

AcesUp:Brilliant!!

258. The problem with secularism

Comment #14387 by Jiten on December 22, 2006 at 8:40 am

"Barely literate" said of Richard Dawkins!!! This takes my breath away.I've not come across a more exquisite user of the English language.

Just imagine if I was as barely literate as RD then I too would be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature!!

259. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14325 by Jiten on December 22, 2006 at 3:09 am

Edutheria,if I had said to someone else the short answer is natural selection and the long answer has been more than adequately provided by Darwin (and later eloquently refined by Dawkins and others) what would have said? Would you have made the same spurious analogy? I think not as you would have rightly pointed out that theirs was a reasoned argument backed up by evidence.Do you then believe that Marx's arguments are not reasoned arguments backed up by evidence?

If I had regurgitated Marx in my own less elegant words would you have then taken my argument to be 'inteligent',one worthy to be in a 'clear thinking' forum?

kcjerith and cholmondeley there is a mighty,big elephant called the US Military following you.Have you not noticed it maintaining order in the world?

260. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14230 by Jiten on December 21, 2006 at 2:54 pm

Edutheria : the long answer has been more than adequately provided by Marx and I wouldn't be able to match his eloquence.His critique of Capitalism is still very relevant today.The evidence is all around you.

Why do you assume that any alternative to Capitalist society will result in an erosion of economic freedom or for that matter the freedom of ideas? Is it because of what went on in the former USSR?

261. I love the commercialisation of Christmas

Comment #14145 by Jiten on December 21, 2006 at 9:14 am

Edutheria asks what is wrong with commerce.The short answer is Capitalism.It is destroying this world.

262. Christmas Present to Defenders of Darwinism

Comment #13401 by Jiten on December 17, 2006 at 12:35 pm

Bill Dumbski boy you've sunk low!

263. The Panel with Richard Dawkins

Comment #12549 by Jiten on December 12, 2006 at 2:28 pm

BTW what is a troll? Sorry to ask such a basic question but you don't learn if you don't ask.

264. The Panel with Richard Dawkins

Comment #12546 by Jiten on December 12, 2006 at 1:48 pm

I think the reason Dawkins used the word "codes" rather than "replicators" is that it's all about information that's actually surviving and replicating and there is no need to mention the actual physical entity that embodies the information in the current generation.

265. Sunday Sequence with William Crawley

Comment #12163 by Jiten on December 11, 2006 at 3:04 am

I'll sign any petition to get that preposterous fool of a professor out.He is an outrage.

266. A man who believes in Darwin as fervently as he hates God

Comment #11802 by Jiten on December 7, 2006 at 12:39 pm

He's best ignored as he is a know-nothing,scientifically illiterate,dunderhead.

Dawkins shouldn't allow such fools into his house.

267. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #8162 by Jiten on November 20, 2006 at 2:43 pm

maryhelena seems to have wilfully misread what Dawkins wrote in TGD.He drrew a distinction between an Einsteinian god and the god as a personal god,one who answers prayers etc.,and nothing about Einsteinian religon and "ordinary" religon.

Please go back to the book and read what is actually written and not what you want to read.

268. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7843 by Jiten on November 19, 2006 at 4:10 pm

Thanks to Niels and sweetsunray for such quick responses!

269. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7825 by Jiten on November 19, 2006 at 2:36 pm

Could someone tell me what "ad hominiem" means please?

270. I'm an atheist, BUT . . .

Comment #7669 by Jiten on November 19, 2006 at 2:29 am

Jonathan Dore wrote : 'The facts are observed first. The theory comes later."

Not always.Sometimes scientists have a hunch,make a theory and then check to see if it is backed up by observation or experimental evidence.

271. My God Problem

Comment #7142 by Jiten on November 17, 2006 at 10:18 am

Another: Ted Haggard "On Humility"

272. My God Problem

Comment #7140 by Jiten on November 17, 2006 at 10:15 am

More thin books : Micheal Behe's "What Evolution Has Taught Me"

273. My God Problem

Comment #7137 by jiten on November 17, 2006 at 10:12 am

Here's another thin book: Ted Haggard's "Big book of Family Values"

274. The God Delusion? Part 1

Comment #6882 by jiten on November 16, 2006 at 3:42 am

When I read that DC was going to make a point by point comment I said to myself this'll be fun! The snake-oil peddler vs the mighty Dawkins! But the complete dunderhead gave up after one point as evidently it's difficult going on in the same vein for much longer.He doesn't have anything to say.What a joke this dispicable man is.Making money from fools.