1. Dying of the Light

Comment #260875 by paceetrate on October 6, 2008 at 6:22 am

"Thanatophobia is a fact in his life - he thinks about death daily and sometimes at night is "roared awake" and "pitched from sleep into darkness, panic and a vicious awareness that this is a rented world . . . He dreams about being buried and "of being chased, surrounded, outnumbered, outgunned, of finding myself bulletless, held hostage, wrongly condemned to the firing squad, informed that there is even less time than I imagined. The usual stuff."

"The usual stuff"? Do most people have nightmares like that on a regular basis? I don't.

2. Artist Builds Temple of Science

Comment #257159 by paceetrate on September 30, 2008 at 6:22 am

"He's trying to be profound, when in fact he's just talking bollocks."

Every artist I've ever met who made something like this and tried to justify it did that. They all have physics envy, they want to be complex but their subject is actually very shallow or they have no real understanding of it whatsoever. So they bullshit, and all their sycophantic colleagues nod and go "ah ha" at them when they do it. I went through 4 years of an art college and that's pretty much what it felt like. I didn't do very well in my fine arts core classes for the simple reason that I -didn't- like to talk bullshit. Now despite having a BFA, I refuse to call myself a "fine artist."

3. Manitoba dig uncovers 80-million-year-old sea creature

Comment #238634 by paceetrate on August 28, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Birds can fly over water you know. :P It's not impossible that they were sea birds.

4. Richard Dawkins, the naive professor

Comment #225859 by paceetrate on August 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm

What a load of tripe this Purves person spouts, for reasons others have already stated.

I think the only way in which Richard could be accused of being "naive" is in his seemingly unfailing optimism that humanity will be able to pull itself out of the ditch before it's too late. But maybe I'm just cynical. ;)

5. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #167526 by paceetrate on April 24, 2008 at 6:19 am

"is that he seems unable to treat the beliefs and feelings of believers seriously."

Well, it's kinda hard to treat the completely irrational seriously.

On the other hand, it would seem that Dennett treats the beliefs of the religious very seriously. More seriously than the average stooge in the media. It seems like so few people actually realize that yes, a lot of them DO really believe they are superior and that everyone else should die, and yes, they ARE actually insane enough to do something about that.

6. Commentary: Democrats finally getting religion on religion

Comment #158314 by paceetrate on April 10, 2008 at 10:27 am

"And there are clear examples when folks who operate in the secular world want to apply their standards to those in the theological world,"

So he just pretty much admitted that theists are living in their own little world, and they don't like it when they have to deal with reality.

I think that's the only thing he got right in the whole article.

7. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150018 by paceetrate on March 26, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Happy birthday, Professor!


And now....


PARTY!!! *throws confetti*

8. Help Build The Reason Project Archive!

Comment #123666 by paceetrate on February 7, 2008 at 1:33 pm

righton: "By the way, with regards to your insults, go fuck yourself."

No, that's what boys and toys are for, thanks.

9. Help Build The Reason Project Archive!

Comment #123515 by paceetrate on February 7, 2008 at 9:44 am

@righton

Why don't you?

You get more improvement from people being critical than from mindless wow-birds like yourself. Do take your fanboyism elsewhere, please.

10. Help Build The Reason Project Archive!

Comment #123432 by paceetrate on February 7, 2008 at 6:34 am

What about podcasts? I know most podcasts wouldn't pass the submission guidelines, just because most podcasts deal with current events and news. But things like Skeptoid, Logically Critical, or the Evolution 101 podcast might be good candidates.

11. Stop revisionist Christian nation House Resolution 888

Comment #114263 by paceetrate on January 21, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Don't bother arguing with Summer seale, people. He's already stated that nothing will ever change his mind on the matter. He's no different from the Islamists that he so hates. Not in the slightest. Congrats man, you've become the very thing you wish to torture and kill. I hope you're happy with yourself.

12. Richard Dawkins on The Late Edition with Marcus Brigstocke

Comment #110124 by paceetrate on January 10, 2008 at 2:14 pm

"What is that word whose definition is: A state of mind which causes someone to keep posting the same thing over and over expecting a different reply?"

Stupidity?

13. Richard Dawkins on The Late Edition with Marcus Brigstocke

Comment #110123 by paceetrate on January 10, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Don't feed the trolls, children.

Anyway...

Hilarious clip, but the Professor looked quite out of his element. XD Brigstocke and Dawkins share a lot of ideas, but the two don't really mesh all that well, do they?

14. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Comment #109690 by paceetrate on January 9, 2008 at 1:51 pm

"Could it be that we are more afraid of math than gods?"

I know I am. o.O

15. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #105395 by paceetrate on December 31, 2007 at 12:32 pm

The Prof has far better nerves than I do. If I was in his position, I'd have lost my cool before the halfway mark. *applauds*

I wish we got this show broadcast in the US. I'd so email in, and shoot for an actual intelligent question. ;)

"Did anyone else get the impression that the female muslim reporter in Istanbul is perhaps an unbeliever? Her question to Dawkins was so lame and non-proking "Do you think that your book may be offensive to some believers?" "

I thought that too. Her reaction when asked to explain her faith seemed a bit like she was just parroting things rather than expressing what she truly thought.

16. This Week's Flea

Comment #100338 by paceetrate on December 18, 2007 at 2:03 pm

"a world expert on science and theology"

How does a PhD in Theology make him a "world expert on science"? :P

I never trust a source that says someone is an "expert on science" without specifying what AREA of science.

Google, how I love thee.