1. Daniel Dennett Debates Dinesh D'Souza

Comment #93128 by Pagan on December 2, 2007 at 9:23 am

I agree with other posters here; it's a no-win proposition to debate D'Souza simply because he has so many tricks up his sleeve. He pontificates non-answers to questions (how does god fall outside the requirement to have a creator) or sets up fallacious counter-arguments (dogs can't address Newton; therefore, it's OK for us to not comprehend god). Throw in some smarmy ad hominems and you have an infuriating situation for a logic- and fact-based debator.

2. Researchers May Remake Neanderthal DNA

Comment #52600 by Pagan on June 27, 2007 at 12:31 pm

Depends on whether they could produce offspring. Horse/donkey matings produce sterile mules, so that isn't a successful "breeding." Different chromosome numbers, I think.

3. Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good?

Comment #3370 by Pagan on October 27, 2006 at 11:31 pm

Thanks for the compliment :)

4. Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good?

Comment #2754 by Pagan on October 23, 2006 at 9:00 am

The worst thing we face today is our moral values belong to a barbarian Bronz-Age tribe.

Immoral
A 14 years old boy have sex with older males to feed his very poor family in Iraq.

Moral
Shooting that boy 2 times in the head, and 6 times in the chest in front of his home by Iraqi police

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Immoral
A 16 and a 18 years old Iranian boys love each other and have sex.

Moral
Hanging these boys

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Immoral
A 15 years old girl loves a boy of her age and has sex with him.

Moral
Killing that girl to protect the "honor of family"

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Immoral
A 16 years old American boy, Shymmer, is sexually attracted to males (something totaly out of his control), and is honest enough to share this with his parents.

Moral
Kicking your "own" kid out of the house so that he gets beaten and raped; sells himself to make money, and dies at the age of 19 because of starvation.

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Inconvenient
Here in Turkey, if a movie has fighting scenes in it, TV station must put a sign "7" which means kids under 7 shouldnt watch it.

Even more
If a movie has killing scenes in it, TV station must put a sign "13"

Immoral
If a movie has erotic scenes, the sign must be "18"

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Broback Mountain, where two persons love each other, wasnt allowed to be watched by people under 18; whereas any movie where people slaughter each other can be.

This is our perverted Judeo-Christian "morality"

This is from Kenneth Humphreys site:

"Hitler, a Roman Catholic, is never excommunicated for causing the death of millions; whereas Martin Luther was excommunicated for translating the Bible into German!"

5. The Descent of Man - Episode 1

Comment #2102 by Pagan on October 18, 2006 at 8:06 pm

Im from Turkey and English isnt my native language. To be honest with you, i dont understand these audio files. Could somebody write everything thats talked in interviews to text?