1. Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'

Comment #124065 by yanco on February 8, 2008 at 9:11 am

No, no, nooo! You all got it wrong!

Who is the only one who can violate laws of the Nature?

2. Help Build The Reason Project Archive!

Comment #123354 by yanco on February 7, 2008 at 2:51 am

My concern is that the decay rate of internet links is quite fast. I have lost great many videos and good articles because of that already.. It would be nice to have a site that would archive these materials in case the originals are no longer available..

copyright issues

Well that's what I thought would be the purpose of the staff. To inquire owners of the copyright if they wanted their material included in the the portal.

BTW: Isn't google doing the same thing in a way? Downloading huge amounts of data from various sites into their database and providing its content to the end users?

3. Help Build The Reason Project Archive!

Comment #123320 by yanco on February 7, 2008 at 12:51 am

I'm not quite I understand the archive. Is it archive of links? Or do they plan to eventually download the stuff and host it on this portal?

My concern is that the decay rate of internet links is quite fast. I have lost great many videos and good articles because of that already.. It would be nice to have a site that would archive these materials in case the originals are no longer available..

4. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway

Comment #121761 by yanco on February 4, 2008 at 5:11 am

Vinelectric :
Sure that's why I don't think it'll stop completely. My point was that if (hopefuly) medicine will progress at the same speed it did in the past 2 centuries, the natural selection will have less and less individuals to work on.
Mutation doesn't equal evolution. There still needs to be a process of selection be it natural or artificial.

The only biological evolution on humans I can now imagine, would be due to manipulation of our own DNA. But am not sure if it would still count as "evolution"..

5. Sprinting down the evolutionary highway

Comment #121745 by yanco on February 4, 2008 at 4:15 am

I'm skeptical about the conclusion that the Evolution of humans will go faster. Medicine and plentitude of food in modern countries must inevitably slow down the process, because most people will survive and reproduce even with serious health problems that would some 200 years ago prohibit them to even reach adulthood.

But otherwise very interesting and inspiring article.

6. Atheism and Violence

Comment #120577 by yanco on February 2, 2008 at 3:27 am

Edward T. Oakes, S.J., teaches theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, the seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Well, well, well. The true importance of "theology" for the mankind can olny be compared to the importance of vampirology, leprechaunology and of course my favorite werewolfology!

7. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Comment #120563 by yanco on February 2, 2008 at 2:18 am

DamnDirtyApe:
Can we remove agn's comments please?

Very nice! This is beautiful example of freethinker's hypocrisy. We fight against religious censorship, yet instead of refuting some illogical aruments of other freethinker you call for censorship?

How dare you DamnDirtyApe!?

8. Banned From Church

Comment #115311 by yanco on January 24, 2008 at 1:48 am

The pastor did the right thing. This woman is old and istead of enjoing last years of her life to the fullest, she was wasting here precious time and money in a church.. That is an abomination!

9. There is no God and Dawkins is his Prophet

Comment #69380 by yanco on September 11, 2007 at 3:21 am

"He divides the world into two camps: good, tolerant atheists who believe in science and evil-minded, intolerant believers who try to counteract science. People who fall outside this pattern have no room in his view of the world."

I'm sick and tired of this endless series of strawmen being spat out by theists. They can never beat a mediocre atheist in argument so all they can do is build this absurd strawmen and kick the heck out of them instead..