1. No Admission for Evolutionary Biologist at Creationist Film

Comment #148013 by Tea Q on March 21, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Good job, Dr Benway :)

2. EXPELLED!

Comment #147539 by Tea Q on March 20, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Dawkins who?

3. A match made on RichardDawkins.net?

Comment #128246 by Tea Q on February 16, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Yipee!!!

4. Taking Science on Faith

Comment #90465 by Tea Q on November 25, 2007 at 8:24 am

Davies says:

"Clearly, then, both religion and science are founded on faith — namely, on belief in the existence of something outside the universe, like an unexplained God or an unexplained set of physical laws, maybe even a huge ensemble of unseen universes, too."

"This shared failing is no surprise, because the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm."

"And just as Christians claim that the world depends utterly on God for its existence, while the converse is not the case, so physicists declare a similar asymmetry: the universe is governed by eternal laws (or meta-laws), but the laws are completely impervious to what happens in the universe."

If Davies is not trying to put religion and science on equal footing, he should learn how to articulate his thoughts better.

5. Taking Science on Faith

Comment #90461 by Tea Q on November 25, 2007 at 8:17 am

Great comment, Janus. You're very good at articulating my own thoughts, I must say ;)

What I took the guy to be saying, in short, is this: if you believe that you're not a brain in a vat despite your inability to prove so, then you should also believe in tooth fairy.

6. American kids, dumber than dirt: Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history

Comment #81788 by Tea Q on October 25, 2007 at 7:22 am

mrmatt,

Yes, Idiocracy...
Here's a movie based on a true story, despite the fact that it's happening thousands of years in the future. I wonder when it'll appear on Lifetime TV.

7. Searching for God in the Brain

Comment #77049 by Tea Q on October 8, 2007 at 9:45 am

I don't think my epilepsy has *anything* to do with my "unusually large emotional response" whenever I her the word "god". It has *everything* to do with the fact that I can't stand all those moronic godbotherers any longer!!!


Can they tell the difference when they do these tests, or would they just assume that my response is caused by my epilepsy-induced religiosity?

8. Against the grain: There are questions that science cannot answer

Comment #72017 by Tea Q on September 20, 2007 at 6:36 am

A commenter on Butterflies & Wheels suggested that we [the atheists] must have been reading *misprints* of The God Delusion (and it now seems The Selfish Gene as well). Most articles and book-reviews are clearly referring to some other book, also named The God Delusion, and have been written by a different "Richard Dawkins" than the one we've read.

Now, why do I think that it was *us* who got stuck with the misprints, while *they* got the real thing? Well, because they outnumber us at a ratio 100:1 (at the very least).

My rant against Cromwell (http://tea.sopca.com/2007/09/07/read-the-goddamn-book/) was based on my unwarranted assumption that he was writing about the same GD that I've read. I've since apologized, and am eagerly awaiting the *real* copy of the book.

9. The Paradoxical Hatred of Christopher Hitchens

Comment #42903 by Tea Q on May 20, 2007 at 4:51 am

"I was struck by the irony of his viciousness, meanness and hatefulness in attacking Falwell essentially for being vicious, mean and hateful."

A perfect spot to insert Colbert's recent bit on intolerance.