1. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #16025 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on January 4, 2007 at 7:45 am

He doesn't say who is 'mass killing' who! For all we know it's thos damn Christians rounding up and killing all those lovely innocent atheists.

2. Let's Hope It's A Lasting Vogue

Comment #15560 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on January 1, 2007 at 9:53 am

If I knew Professor Anthony M Stevens-Arroyo I would keep an eye on him. Especially if I were part of a minority group! If he can be so casual in his Atheistophobia what other sub-section of society has he got it in for?

3. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #15410 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 31, 2006 at 3:57 am

Richard Fortey's "The Earth" says (athough I don't have a copy to hand, so feel free to correct me) that the top of the Grand Canyon is already 300 million years old and just gets older as you work your way down. I find this a much more elucidating number than the 2000 million of the oldest rock.

Besides, the Grand Canyon was carved out by aliens in 20,000 BC.

4. God's Enemies Are More Honest Than His Friends

Comment #15190 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 29, 2006 at 12:01 pm

I consider my self a strong atheist (level 7 on the Dawkins scale). But more than this I am a sceptic. This means (to me) that I reject astrology, ghosts and fairies; I don't believe in Peter pan, Frankenstien or Superman, all I want to do is... but I digress.

BTW, I use the term 'strong' in the same way that DNA used the term 'radical'. However, what a surprise to find that Wikipedia has a definition for 'Strong Atheist'.

5. Religion does more harm than good - poll

Comment #14687 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 24, 2006 at 10:33 am

The C of E spokesman say "It doesn't alter the fact that the Church of England will get 1 million people in church every Sunday, which is larger than any other gathering in the country."

But this is barely more than 1% of the population - entirely consistent with the polls results.

6. The Komodo Dragon's Tale

Comment #14570 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 23, 2006 at 10:14 am

I read about the virgin birth Komodo dragon on the Sky News (SN) web site and on New Scientist (NS) web site. I had wondered about the sex of the babys (which wasn't mentioned in either site) but I'd forgotten about the WZ of reptile sex determination so I would have misunderstood anyway!

When NS refered to 'cloning' I assumed they ment 'selfing'.

What interested me about the SN article was the fact that London Zoo hadn't realized that they had anything special. This says a lot about that once great institution: 'The London Zoo dragons hatched earlier this year, but keepers had no idea they had witnessed scientific history' (http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13558119,00.html).

7. The Trouble with Atheism

Comment #13670 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 19, 2006 at 4:20 am

One visit to this web site or any similar web site would have stopped Liddle asking so many pointless questions. I can't believe he hasn't done his research - he has apparently read the books and talked to the right people - so my only conclusion is that he's trying to stir the mud and make a name for himself. To answer Ole's question, no, he is not trying to understand this!

8. Julia Sweeney on The Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Comment #12756 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 13, 2006 at 3:51 pm

I thought Craig Ferguson was an actor, at least I remember him in 'Red Dwarf'. Was he serious about the dog on the crossing? I suspect he has no particular religious belief but can not say so on public television (and not be cancelled).

Sweeney was great. I couldn't put a face to the name until I saw this. So thanks onegoodmove!

9. Ministers to ban creationist teaching aids in science lessons

Comment #11887 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 8, 2006 at 3:24 am

Truth in Science and any other crackpot organisation have the freedom and money to send anything they like to any school or educational center anywhere they like. The Government or education authorities then have to spend time and money to try and undo the damage.

I believe in free speech, so I can not justify a law that stops them from sending text or multi-media stuff to schools and teachers, but I do think its time to start fining groups the cost of the clean-up. They can have the right to appeal, but thereafter they should pay up.

10. A man who believes in Darwin as fervently as he hates God

Comment #11886 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 8, 2006 at 3:00 am

Rod Liddle appears to have done no research at all prior to this interview. He knows nothing of Natural Selection and evolution, and he appears not to have even read the God Delusion. The Spectator must be desperate for copy to have let this get as far as the printed page.

You don't have to be an athiest to see that the text has been put together in a very poor way (ie, in that he has manipulated the interview with inserted comments and text). I'm surprised at The Spectator's editor; I would have told Rod Liddle to do it again, and this time write like a grown up.

I sincerely hope that the Channel 4 programme's editor does a lot better.

11. Book a Day

Comment #11747 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 7, 2006 at 2:57 am

Good article. Go you Canadians!

But what is "screed"?

12. The God Delusion in Private Eye

Comment #11745 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 7, 2006 at 2:51 am

What happend to the trilogy of philosophical blockbusters "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who is this God person anyway?" ?

13. The God Delusion in Private Eye

Comment #11743 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 7, 2006 at 2:35 am

What happend to the trilogy of philosophical blockbusters "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who is this God person anyway?" ?

14. O Come All Ye Unfaithful

Comment #11657 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 6, 2006 at 10:50 am

Didn't Billy Connolly sue God? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268437)

I do think David Mathews is correct on one thing. There's no evidence of a utopia forming in this or any other human society, either now or any time soon.

Science can't provide utopia, and has never said that it could. And I don't think anyone on this site has said that it would.

So, no, I won't argue on behalf of the hope for a technological utopia in human kind's future. But I'd rather strive to achieve it and have at various points in the time-line a human society slightly better than the one before, than have a distopia based on religion such as 13th century Europe, or worse, any Bronze age society.

No religion based society has ever, reached anything like Utopia, and never will. If you take science and scientists out of society, death and disease and high child mortality immediately step in.

15. O Come All Ye Unfaithful

Comment #11640 by CreatedAnAthiestByGod on December 6, 2006 at 7:26 am

I think David Mathews is missing the point of NoLongerBelieve's insistance that he should not use the Bible as a reference. (Just in case it's not obviouse, the Bible, Qur'an etc are all books written by human beings, based on legend and imagination, which are neither themselves empirical nor are they built up from previous empirical evidence or logical axioms, and can not therefore be cited as reference without the tag 'allegedly' or 'but this may not be true'). However, David Mathews appears to be a lucid and educated writer and must surely know that a mere document cannot be cited in this way, and yet he continues to do so. So now I'm confused! Is he, to be generous, purposely throwing meaningless scripture into the arguement just for some wicked fun, or does he really have a grey spot in his logic that blinds him to clarity?

Also, the arguement about overpopulation is very (very, very) weak. Only scientific research and development could ever have allowed the human population to get this big (and remain human). The best arguement that could be mustered is that science is a victim of it's own success.

By the way, David Mathews previous comment (#11555) contains a quote from the Qur'an that for all the world sounds like the blurb on a chain letter. But this is just my opinion.

Allegedly!