I was just watching this funny Youtube video when my mind wandered a little and a few random thoughts connected themselves.
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 February 17th, 2010 |  Tags: Bible, Creationism, Crocaduck, Evidence, Eye, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science |  Category: Evolution, Science, Stupidity |  2 comments | A few days ago I stumbled upon a web site which linked a video titled “The Scientific Case for Intelligent Design – Darwinism Debunked“. I didn’t have the time to watch it then so I put the link aside. Today I had a quiet afternoon and so I watched it. Below are my notes dissecting [...] January 31st, 2010 | Tags: Charles Darwin, Creationism, Evidence, Goddidit, Gods, Intelligent Design, Science | Category: Evolution, Science, Stupidity | Leave a comment | This is just shoddy journalism of the highest order. I had considered The Times to be a reasonably balanced and reliable news source, but if this article is anything to go by that perception is well off the mark. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6925781.ece BHA Please Dont Label Me poster November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Atheist, Evidence, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism, Rationalism, Richarsd Dawkins | Category: Atheism, News, Religion | 3 comments | According to this Poll, 54% of UK Adults support the teaching of Creationism alongside Evolution in science [...] Over at the Missing Universe Museum website (another Creation/ID website that can provide many many hours of entertainment) they have created an little Evolution Test which they propose students give to teachers to see how they react. As you can probably already imagine, the test is rather silly, and the questions posed are almost entirely rediculous. However I (as a non educator and non scientist) shall attempt to provide at least reasonably accurate [...] The average human being is a simple creature. They go about their daily lives, obeying the law, obeying any commands given to them by authoritative figures, and obeying signs and notices all over the place. So it was that a week or so ago in the kitchen of my place of work (I work for a large US based international IT company with offices in most countries) a cardboard box appeared, with a note attached requesting that milk bottle lids be left therein. No further information was given at all. Being the human sheep (sheople?) that we all are, milk bottle tops began to appear in the [...] Take a look at this article by Tom Clark at Naturalism.org; it’s about the misguided notion that in some areas faith can give us genuine answers to questions before which science is impotent. This is the NOMA (”nonoverlapping magisteria”) refrain that we hear constantly from organizations like the National Academy of Sciences, the National Center [...] If you find yourself with about a month free, and feel like melting your brain, you could always pop over to http://www.jesus-is-savior.com – but I wouldn’t recommend it. But when you start reading some of that massive content, that’s when the brain melt will set in. It’s just a constant barrage of idiotic drivel. [...] April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Evidence, Goddidit, Gods, Rationalism, Science | Category: Atheism, Evolution, Human Origins, Morality, Religion, Stupidity, Superstition | 3 comments | Gods message to creation: For those who don’t know, it’s a reference to the last book in Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (book 5!) I posted this a while back on another site, I figured I should re-post it here: To all those theists who wonder why us atheists care… We care for many reasons. We care because we don’t like seeing people waste their time praising a God that doesn’t exist and looking forward to an afterlife that they will never [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: Caring, Evidence, Rationalism | Category: Atheism, Religion | Leave a comment | There seem to be many religious nutters who continually spout on about the end of the world, or the second coming, or some other such nonsense. They often seem to think that we are currently living in The End Days. Most recently David Wilkerson has decided that New York is about to burn to the [...] It is surely incumbent upon us all to be intellectually honest about the things we believe in – even if it is only to ourselves. Even our most centrally held beliefs must be available for inspection, and subject to alteration if for instance new evidence surfaces that makes the belief no longer tenable. Reading the results of the survey linked in my previous article I was astounded with the apparent lack of understanding of the validity of science and the discoveries and theories that have resulted. The survey showed that there were not only a significant number of people that believed that evolution hadn’t been proved beyond a [...] |
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