1. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #182363 by lostn on May 19, 2008 at 9:02 pm

This is old isn't it? I remember him talking to this guy, and the questions he asks and the answers.

2. Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

Comment #174583 by lostn on May 2, 2008 at 8:09 pm

What were the three popular science documentary series?

1. Cosmos
2. David Attenborough portfolio
3. ??

The third one is the one I didn't quite pick up. Sounded like some Russian name. I'd like to know what that series was so I can check it out.

3. Bill Good Interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #174103 by lostn on May 1, 2008 at 4:27 pm

"Dawkins was on his game in this interview, well worth the listen (even though he does have to confront some worn out and incredibly unoriginal social memes) "

I guess he has had a lot of practice answering these questions since they're always the same. He would have had these answered prepared and memorized like the back of his hand by now. I do agree that he was very patient. I cringed on almost every caller, and wanted to just cut them off. Especially the ones who rant long like the last caller.

4. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #160127 by lostn on April 13, 2008 at 5:10 pm

"The host was awful, most of the callers were ignorant, but damn Richard was brilliant! It seemed like he was prepared for every question that came from the callers, providing a great response, no hesitation, no frosting, just facts. "

That's because it's the same questions he's used to getting every time, and the same answers trumpeted back.

5. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #160124 by lostn on April 13, 2008 at 5:02 pm

I really wish Richard was familiar with Lee Strobel's dishoenst farce, then he could have destroyed that woman. I wish I had the chance to answer her question. Lee Strobel had been a Christian since 1981 which was long before he wrote those Case for books. He had an agenda, and was a Christian falsely posing as a skeptic in order to sound convincing.

6. It was a bad year for God.

Comment #116406 by lostn on January 26, 2008 at 12:11 pm

I'm surprised it took this long for a paperback version to release. Here in Australia, a paperback has been available for about 2 years now. I think it's the only version available, because I've yet to see a hardcover edition here.

It makes sense to release in paperback. They are cheaper, and generate more sales. Once bookstores get their paperbacks, they abandon the hardcovers and stop selling them... because they won't be able to sell them again when a much cheaper version is available.

To give some perspective, a fiction hardcover book RRPs for $50 AUD, while a paperback version of the same book would cost only $12-16 AUD. You do the math.

7. The Four Horsemen: on Christmas

Comment #103484 by lostn on December 25, 2007 at 7:43 pm

"Anybody who owns an Xbox-360 will be able to playback an HD-DVD (but not a Blu-Ray disc)."

Wrong about that. You need to buy a separate add-on for $179 to play HD-DVD.

"And, if I'm not mistaken, the HD-DVD format is commonly (in the industry) believed to have won the battle."

You are indeed mistaken. No one has won it yet, but blu-ray has been outselling HD-DVD 2:1 all year.

8. A House Divided: Hitch at Georgetown

Comment #85147 by lostn on November 5, 2007 at 5:45 am

Reading your article has made me realize just how inept my vocabulary is. I had to look up the dictionary at least 15 times just to get through your piece of work... Congrats to you.

9. Why do we ignore the plight of ex-Muslims?

Comment #83379 by lostn on October 29, 2007 at 9:42 pm

The murder of apostates is NOT an extemist thing. In islam, this is a normal, commonly accepted practice, and this news is nothing new or shocking.

Absolutely ANY muslim is allowed to kill a muslim that is converting to another religion, atheism, or blasphemes against God or Mohammad. They are legally allowed to kill apostates without punishment.

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

For more (frightening) information, check out that entry.

10. Reply to a Christian

Comment #56184 by lostn on July 14, 2007 at 10:48 am

Not at all, using just the attribute of omnipotence, God could create prevent all evil and suffering, but could have no desire to. Not that this is my belief, but your assertion doesn't establish a contradiction against the concept of omnipotence.

Ahh! But that creates more problems, for you see, God is also attributed as being Benevolent or All-loving, All-good, whatever.

Evil and suffering exist, and he may have the power to end it but not the desire to. If he has no desire to do so, then he isn't benevolent at all.

Epicurus said it best:

"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

Mark, there is an excellent book entitled 'The Case for Christ' in which an atheist sets out to disprove that Christ existed and was who he said he was and ends up coming up with the opposite conclusion through careful study of the evidence.

That book doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The author claims to have been a skeptic to give himself more credence to other skeptics, but was always in actual fact a believer masquerading as a skeptic. You can tell by his flawed investigation. All of his 'sources' were christian sources, and not one did he seek out someone from the other side of the fence. The book is so full of problems that another author wrote a follow up book debunking it, called Challenging the Verdict. It points out just where the author's logical problems lie. I recommend YOU check out that book.