1. Indian village proud after double 'honor killing'

Comment #181219 by BCReason on May 16, 2008 at 4:39 pm

They spread it here to.

In Vancouver a rich Sikh families daughter ran back to India to marry her lower caste boyfriend. The family hired hit men to kill her. The girls Canadian friends have been trying to get the father charged in Canada with setting up the murder.

2. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #181114 by BCReason on May 16, 2008 at 12:46 pm

As much as I like Steve I think it was a little unfair to bring on the snipe panel after Richard left. These three brought up common criticisms of Richard's views that I've heard him dispense with before.

Background
Agenda is a production of TV Ontario (TVO). TV Ontario is a government funded corporation set up to provide educational broadcasting for the province of Ontario here in Canada. Sort of like PBS with government sponsorship.

3. Richard Dawkins Interview on TVOntario

Comment #181008 by BCReason on May 16, 2008 at 9:23 am

Met Steve Paiken once. Helluva nice guy.

4. UC Berkeley is going to court over Evolution website

Comment #180693 by BCReason on May 15, 2008 at 3:05 pm

I think their problem is that their belief is that science confirms their beliefs.

All the ID/creationist sites say that science confirms a 6000 year earth and instant creation.

So what the university said about science contradicts their beliefs is a contradiction in itself.

5. Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

Comment #171388 by BCReason on April 28, 2008 at 1:18 pm

AOL News is also carrying the story plus they're taking a poll whether you believe in God.

Amazingly 21% said no and 9% were undecided. The poll received 18,000 votes so far.

This is hardly a scientific poll but still 30% Atheist or Agnostic is really an encouraging number.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/atheist-claims-harassment-in-military/20080428092709990001?icid=100214839x1200904492x1200037986

6. Inadequate, private and late apology with grotesquely inadequate excuse

Comment #159202 by BCReason on April 11, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Of course everytime there's a school shooting it's the fault of atheism. These are the lies spoken from the pulpit. So when she learned Sherman was an atheist she had to take it out on him because he's part of the problem.

They blame us for Columbine and all the rest. Like this stuff doesn't happen to religious students as well. Gays and Atheists are responsible for all societies ills. Only a few years ago it was blacks, before that it was Jews, before that it was the Irish. We're the new Jews. Be careful if you're asked to take a shower.

7. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #134215 by BCReason on February 27, 2008 at 12:22 pm

I've a better response to the Stalin killed for Atheism argument.

Let's say a man who was a baptist, a republican and a mason kills a whole bunch of people. Could you say he killed those people because he was any one of those things? It would be illogical to say any of those were the reason he killed unless you had some evidence that he did. Even if he confesses to the police that he heard God tell him to do it. That means he killed because he's crazy not because he's a baptist.
He could of killed for money, power or jealousy. Reasons that have nothing to do with the groups he belonged to.

Stalin was a communist who killed to gain and retain political power in the name of communism. Being an atheist was incidental to that.

8. Jumbo shrimp, creationist astronomy

Comment #98534 by BCReason on December 13, 2007 at 8:49 pm

I like Quicktime. Of course I just bought a new Macbook so they play great. If your still using Win ME, I wonder if you like to buy some stock in a buggy whip factory.

9. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96764 by BCReason on December 10, 2007 at 10:06 pm

The one thing that pisses me off more than anything else is this blatant anti-atheist smear campaign. Some PR hack must have thought up this Nazi Atheist thing to perpetuate the the evil atheist stereotype. This seems to be a new idea that has come out in response to the success of the Atheists books that have been published recently. I'd never heard of it until a few months ago.

It's tantamount to a hate crime. If Father Morris had talked about the Jewish blood curse or the protocols of Zion he would have been prosecuted for a hate crime. However saying that atheism leads to totalitarian atrocities, he gets a free pass.

All these ideas are deliberate lies intended to persecute a minority. The Pope should not be allowed to get a way with this. He should be brought to trial for this hate crime or at the very least sued for libel.

The worst thing is to be slandered by a pedophile protecting, African murdering, Homophobic, anti-Semitic ex Hitler youth.

10. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Comment #86098 by BCReason on November 8, 2007 at 6:20 am

Sent at: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:48 am
From: ChrisMcL
To: BCReason

The program will be shown at the URL provided after the 14th: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html

For some reason I can't log onto the forum to post this message to everyone. Would you be so kind?
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I'm not sure if that link will help me. After reading about Judgement Day I went to NOVA to get more info about it. While I was there I saw another program that looked interesting. However that program was blocked. The explanation given was that NOVA didn't have the rights for distribution outside the US. Maybe that's the same reason my cable company is not carrying JD. We get the same problem with iTunes and other web services that sell TV shows. They're blocked from sale outside the US.

11. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Comment #86013 by BCReason on November 7, 2007 at 8:27 pm

CRAP! The show is not available in Canada. At least from my cable company. I hope it shows up in Google or YouTube.

12. Science owes its origins to Christianity or Religion

Comment #82364 by BCReason on October 26, 2007 at 6:55 am

I think it's no coincidence that the enlightment soon follwed the protestant reformation. It was only after the Churchs totalitarian power was broken that we began to see progress.

13. There Go The Dinosaurs

Comment #73787 by BCReason on September 26, 2007 at 7:37 am

If we ate the Dinosaurs how come Archaeologists don't find the bones when excavating archaeological sites? They find sheep and cattle bones but no dino bones.