1. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Comment #179548 by MrPickwick on May 13, 2008 at 11:36 am

Hi people! Heres a wav file of Dakwins on this matter.
BBC Radio Scotland. Tuesday, 13.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LSPNZ2ZI
[2:27 minutes; 12MB]

2. Dumb and Dumber: A discussion between Ben Stein and Glenn Beck

Comment #175495 by MrPickwick on May 5, 2008 at 1:58 pm

6 minutes. No more stomach.

3. Bill Good Interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #173769 by MrPickwick on May 1, 2008 at 8:28 am

I've got a present for you MrFeynman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg
:-)

4. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #172185 by MrPickwick on April 29, 2008 at 10:18 am

It's often been said that there are two Richard Dawkinses...

But can we reconcile the two Richard Dawkinses...?

5. Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Comment #171421 by MrPickwick on April 28, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremonious burial to emphasise her disgrace. Police released her father without charge two hours after his arrest. "Not much can be done when we have an honour killing case," said Sergeant Ali Jabbar of Basra police. "You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.

6. Does science make belief in God obsolete?

Comment #170088 by MrPickwick on April 27, 2008 at 11:00 am

Does science make belief in God obsolete?

7. Mount Vernon schools to hire investigator in Bible case

Comment #168875 by MrPickwick on April 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Ok this is all very interesting but you are all missing the point... was Satan succesfully removed or not?

8. Student's 'Be Happy, Not Gay' t-shirt ok

Comment #168639 by MrPickwick on April 25, 2008 at 8:49 am

The Ted Haggard wannabee wants to make a fool of himself? So what?

God, in his amazing wisdom [Hitchen's AWE anecdote here], created Dawkinses, monkeys, peas, bulls and idiots; Jesus loves them all! Let them be!

9. Investigating Atheism

Comment #168339 by MrPickwick on April 25, 2008 at 3:57 am

Off topic, but I know you're gonna love it. New Pat Condell video!:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EPG3-1gogXU

10. Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Comment #167416 by MrPickwick on April 24, 2008 at 2:34 am

I am very sorry mikecbraun; and I share your concern. But I was a very naughty boy in my past life and my catholic priest has ordered me to stare at that lovely spidey avatar until I repent or I will not get my 72 virgins in heaven.

Annabana: I have no idea! (But you love it!, don't you?)

11. Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Comment #166838 by MrPickwick on April 23, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Methinks this poor victims have probably been watching some Ben Stein production...

12. Investigating Atheism

Comment #166828 by MrPickwick on April 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm

I quote from that site:

"Jean Meslier was a Catholic priest who is often identified as one of the first intellectual atheists in Europe. Meslier was not an avowed atheist during his life, but on his death it was discovered that he had written a book-length Testament which promoted virulently anti-Christian views. Whether or not Meslier's views as expressed in the Testament strictly count as atheistic rather than deistic remains a matter of contention."

13. Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Comment #166375 by MrPickwick on April 23, 2008 at 7:50 am

Lord Winston is emeritus professor of fertility studies.

Is there video of the debate?

14. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #166064 by MrPickwick on April 22, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Wow! The LA Times has done a great job collecting ignoramuses (I pick just one stupidity from each one):

- Ken Savage: "If it was all random, that is a faith assumption also." = Evolution is random...
- James McDermott: "Even Jesus didn't worry about proofs for God's existence." = It's true cause the Bible says so...
- Paul Rosenberger: "This notion embodies the ultimate mystery of life, which is beyond our power to penetrate from a purely logical and philosophical point of view, and which we must accept on that basis and learn to live with." = I don't undersstand it, ergo nobody does or ever will.
- William S. LaSor: "Either the universe has always existed, or it was created by someone who has always existed." = The 50/50 thing...
- Elaine Fleeman: "How could natural selection create the first living cell?". My God!


But my favorite is this one from dear Elaine: "As a former evolutionist,..."

15. Mecca should become core to measure time zones: scholars

Comment #165214 by MrPickwick on April 21, 2008 at 8:24 am

I don't see that happening. All calendars have faults but at least every other calendar since the dawn of history has had a year that's actually (very close to) a year long. The Muslim "year" is off by about 11 days. (The exact figure depends on when an imam sees the moon.)

16. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165064 by MrPickwick on April 21, 2008 at 2:25 am

It makes me feel very sad and depressed (I'm serious this time) to see that letters like this one have to be written. At this moment I'm far from sharing Dawkins optimism...

[P.S. to admins and Richard Dawkins: This letter should be published everywhere!]

17. A Conversation with Expelled's Associate Producer Mark Mathis

Comment #165056 by MrPickwick on April 21, 2008 at 2:08 am

Shonny writes:

Life is too short to argue with a moron.

18. Religion is 'the new social evil'

Comment #164597 by MrPickwick on April 20, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Mitchell Gilks: WTF does impurity mean?

19. Darwin's original theory of evolution goes online

Comment #163458 by MrPickwick on April 18, 2008 at 11:26 am

Wonderful!

Transcript:

I think
[drawing]
Case must be that one generation then should be as many living as now. To do this and to have many species in same genus (as is) requires extinction.
Thus between A & B immense gap of relation. C & B the finest gradation, B & D rather greater distinction. Thus genera would be formed. �" bearing relation

20. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163299 by MrPickwick on April 18, 2008 at 6:54 am

Al-rawandi answering clearmind (lol at the oxymoron) is just like Dawkins debating Ben Stein: funny and useless at the same time.

21. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163209 by MrPickwick on April 18, 2008 at 4:18 am

If you want to learn more about this great theory check this amazing paper on "Scientific Storkism":

"Scientific Storkism" Or "Ovulation versus cretinism"
Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world's leading scientists are in favour of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught.
Evidence supporting the theory of the stork includes the following:
1. It is a scientifically established fact that the stork does exist. This can be confirmed by every ornithologist.
2. The alledged human foetal development contains several features that the theory of sexual reproduction is unable to explain.
3. The theory of sexual reproduction implies that a child is approximately nine months old at birth. This is an absurd claim. Everyone knows that a newborn child is newborn.
4. According to the theory of sexual reproduction, children are a result of sexual intercourse. There are, however, several well documented cases where sexual intercourse has not led to the birth of a child.
5. Statistical studies in the Netherlands have indicated a positive correlation between the birth rate and the number of storks. Both are decreasing.
6. The theory of the stork can be investigated by rigorous scientific methods. The only assumption involved is that children are delivered by the stork.

(Original version by Erkki Aalto, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Stork Science, University of Helsinki --- English version by Jopi Louko, Institute of Stork Research, University of Alberta)

Prime Minister Tony Blair has lent his support to the controversial campaign to teach "Storkism" in Britain's state schools.
[...]"I believe that in any civilised society the tolerance of viewpoints different to one's own is something of utmost importance. Therefore it is right and proper that Storkism be afforded the same amount of time in school biology lessons as the so-called 'sex' theory. Thankyou."[...]In completely unrelated incidents, the Catholic church today donated $100,000 to Labour party funds and Professor Richard Dawkins of Oxford University hurled himself out of a fifteenth storey window in utter despair.

22. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163182 by MrPickwick on April 18, 2008 at 3:53 am

This is soooooooo good!
Now we just need a live debate!

23. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162716 by MrPickwick on April 17, 2008 at 10:43 am

Off topic. [How do you send a link to admins? somebody]

Gallup Pol question: 7. Next, we'd like to know how you feel about people of different religious or spiritual groups in the United States. Please say whether your overall view of each group is very positive, somewhat positive, neutral, somewhat negative, or very negative. How about -- [random order]?

# Four groups receive strongly net positive ratings: Jews, Methodists, Baptists, and Catholics.
# The use of the word "Evangelical" in front of "Christian" produces significantly more positive responses than the use of the word "Fundamentalist".
# Two groups (in addition to Fundamentalist Christians) break roughly even in terms of those who have positive or negative opinions: Latter Day Saints, or Mormons and Muslims.
# Two groups have significantly net negative results: Atheists and Scientologists.

http://tinyurl.com/5a7zh7


Next, we'd like to ask about your views on two different explanations for the origin and development of life on earth. Do you think Creationism, that is, the idea that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years is definitely true, probably true, probably false, (or) definitely false]?

Definitely
true
39%

Probably
true
27%

Probably
false
16%

Definitely
false
15%

No
opinion
3%

http://tinyurl.com/5q6ur2

24. Victims: Pope Benedict Protects Accused Pedophile Bishops

Comment #161467 by MrPickwick on April 15, 2008 at 10:22 am

Little warm up:
1. Lovely link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_sollicitationis

"Crimen sollicitationis":Crimen sollicitationis (Latin for "the crime of soliciting") was a letter sent in 1962 by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, to "all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local Ordinaries, including those of Eastern Rite". It laid down rules for procedures to be taken against clerics (priests or bishops) of the Roman Catholic Church accused of having used the sacrament of Penance to make sexual advances to penitents.

25. Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art

Comment #160418 by MrPickwick on April 14, 2008 at 4:12 am

Richard really deserves a sainthood and all that "falling at his feet" and "worshipping"... Having to cope with all this idiots with the same stupid and childish questions, moronic arguments and old sophistry... again and again, endlessly... The passion of the christ was NOTHING compared with this!

26. A New Flea

Comment #160415 by MrPickwick on April 14, 2008 at 3:57 am

And another new flea trying to get some blood... and with an amusing twist:

I quote the moron, a guy named Rzeppa:

"I'm offering the doctor [Richard Dawkins] $64.000 of my very own money if he will join me before a live audience to answer a single question from my little poem. I'll read the history aloud and pose the mystery query. He'll answer and walk away with the loot. Simple as that."

27. Lungless frog discovered in Borneo

Comment #158834 by MrPickwick on April 11, 2008 at 5:15 am

Comment #158777 by fretmeister
I just say what a wonderful, amazing and surprising place the universe is.

More than ever before I am so annoyed I went into the law and didn't study the sciences.

28. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158829 by MrPickwick on April 11, 2008 at 5:03 am

iBELIEVEinJESUS says:

I don't know what Hitler believed, but he certainly wasn't Christian. His actions were completely contrary to what Jesus teaches. You're not a Christian because you say you're a christian, or because you go to church for that matter. You're a christian if you believe in and obey Jesus' commands.[...] That doesn't mean that Hitler had to be atheist, but if he believed in God, it wasn't the God of the Bible.

Whoever would dare to raise a profane hand against that highest image of God among His creatures would sin against the bountiful Creator of this marvel and would collaborate in the expulsion from Paradise. [...]Everybody who has the right kind of feeling for his country is solemnly bound, each within his own denomination, to see to it that he is not constantly talking about the Will of God merely from the lips but that in actual fact he fulfils the Will of God and does not allow God's handiwork to be debased. For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will. Therefore everyone should...[more religious Hitler babble in Comment #158423]

29. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158509 by MrPickwick on April 10, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Follow-up to Christian post. Nazi belt buckle, WWII

http://starpathvisions.com/godmitus.jpg

30. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158423 by MrPickwick on April 10, 2008 at 1:19 pm

A quote from Hitler's Main Kampf (Thx for the link jimbob) showing his evil atheism.

On this planet of ours human culture and civilization are indissolubly bound up with the presence of the Aryan. If he should be exterminated or subjugated, then the dark shroud of a new barbarian era would enfold the earth. To undermine the existence of human culture by exterminating its founders and custodians would be an execrable crime in the eyes of those who believe that the folk-idea lies at the basis of human existence. Whoever would dare to raise a profane hand against that highest image of God among His creatures would sin against the bountiful Creator of this marvel and would collaborate in the expulsion from Paradise.

The two Christian denominations look on with indifference at the profanation and destruction of a noble and unique creature who was given to the world as a gift of God's grace. For the future of the world, however, it does not matter which of the two triumphs over the other, the Catholic or the Protestant. But it does matter whether Aryan humanity survives or perishes. And yet the two Christian denominations are not contending against the destroyer of Aryan humanity but are trying to destroy one another. Everybody who has the right kind of feeling for his country is solemnly bound, each within his own denomination, to see to it that he is not constantly talking about the Will of God merely from the lips but that in actual fact he fulfils the Will of God and does not allow God's handiwork to be debased. For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will. Therefore everyone should...

How devoid of ideals and how ignoble is the whole contemporary system! The fact that the churches join in committing this sin against the image of God, even though they continue to emphasize the dignity of that image, is quite in keeping with their present activities. They talk about the Spirit, but they allow man, as the embodiment of the Spirit, to degenerate to the proletarian level. Then they look on with amazement when they realize how small is the influence of the Christian Faith in their own country and how depraved and ungodly is this riff-raff which is physically degenerate and therefore morally degenerate also. To balance this state of affairs they try to convert the Hottentots and the Zulus and the Kaffirs and to bestow on them the blessings of the Church. While our European people, God be praised and thanked, are left to become the victims of moral depravity, the pious missionary goes out to Central Africa and establishes missionary stations for negroes. Finally, sound and healthy â€" though primitive and backward â€" people will be transformed, under the name of our 'higher civilization', into a motley of lazy and brutalized mongrels.
It would better accord with noble human aspirations if our two Christian denominations would cease to bother the negroes with their preaching, which the negroes neither desire nor understand. It would be better if they left this work alone, and if, in its stead, they tried to teach people in Europe, kindly and seriously, that it is much more pleasing to God if a couple that is not of healthy stock were to show loving kindness to some poor orphan and become a father and mother to him, rather than give life to a sickly child that will be a cause of suffering and unhappiness to all.

31. The simple falsehood at the heart of Expelled

Comment #158388 by MrPickwick on April 10, 2008 at 12:17 pm

I can't help remembering George Carlin and his amazing taxonomy of stupidity. [http://tinyurl.com/6ztshu]

*Some people are stupid
*Some people are full of shit
*Some people are fucking nuts

Where do these ID guys belong?

32. Highway to hysteria

Comment #158137 by MrPickwick on April 10, 2008 at 5:58 am

WOW! And I thought Tom Cruise was a loonie!

33. Richard Dawkins on The Big Questions

Comment #157398 by MrPickwick on April 9, 2008 at 3:34 am

"Hitler was an atheist, Hitler was evil, therefore the devil exists".QED

Amazing logic, and amazing applause from the audience!

An interesting piece of info:

BERLIN (Reuters) "The Roman Catholic Church in Germany exploited nearly 6,000 forced laborers during the Nazi era, the church said in a report released Tuesday. In 2000, the church acknowledged its use of forced labor under Hitler; it has paid about $2.35 million in compensation to foreign workers. The report, "Forced Labor and the Catholic Church 1939-1945," is the most thorough look at the issue. It documents the fate of 1,075 prisoners of war and 4,829 civilians who were forced to work for the Nazis in nearly 800 Catholic institutions" including hospitals and monastery gardens" to help the war effort.

34. Get out of here, atheists!

Comment #156451 by MrPickwick on April 7, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Maybe off topic... but I can not resist the temptation to copy and paste the "Ads by Google" I've found in that chicagotribune.com link:

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35. Biologists Take Evolution Beyond Darwin Way Beyond

Comment #155962 by MrPickwick on April 6, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Thanks for that "emergent" link Crossman.

Its always appreciated when you are shown how gullible you have been!

36. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154710 by MrPickwick on April 3, 2008 at 3:31 pm

I've just found a clever looking louse in my moustache, let's invite the little creature to join the debate with Dawkins and Lennox!

37. Upside-down church sculpture on hit list

Comment #154695 by MrPickwick on April 3, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Lovely!
Let's do the same with the priests.

38. Vote on freedom of expression marks the end of Universal Human Rights

Comment #153207 by MrPickwick on April 1, 2008 at 7:51 am

One more nail in the coffin of the UN and a brand new boost to planetary idiocy.

39. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #152480 by MrPickwick on March 31, 2008 at 6:05 am

dragonfirematrix prayer:

"I hope Pat Condell does video on this."

40. Iowa county board gives initial OK for ghost hunters to investigate asylum

Comment #151637 by MrPickwick on March 29, 2008 at 5:34 am

I bet they will find 4 moronic dudes in there.

41. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150034 by MrPickwick on March 26, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Happy birthday Darwin Crash Kid... I mean, Richard Dawkins!

[c'mon ladies, find a better one for the professor!]

42. EXPELLED!

Comment #147838 by MrPickwick on March 21, 2008 at 12:01 pm

You can watch a trailer of this "movie" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCxbhGaVfE&NR=1

Warning: You will not believe it! (Evil Dawkins, Nazis, evolution equals chance... the whole pack)

Quote from this piece of s:

"If you watch this film [...] some of you are going to lose your friends [...] some of you may even lose your jobs [...]in fact, if you are a scientist with any hope of a future I suggest you leave right now..."

43. EXPELLED!

Comment #147623 by MrPickwick on March 21, 2008 at 2:21 am

Big LOL!!

I can't wait to read RD's comments!

44. Religious groups want Russian cartoon channel shut down

Comment #145989 by MrPickwick on March 18, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Who can still doubt that religion turn people into morons?

45. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #145982 by MrPickwick on March 18, 2008 at 12:52 pm

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides."

John Stuart Mill

(MrPickwick is getting tired. This is so easy...)

46. New Atheists Are Not Great

Comment #145269 by MrPickwick on March 17, 2008 at 12:43 pm

"These traits spring directly from our faith."

47. 'Anonymous' takes anti-Scientology to the streets

Comment #144713 by MrPickwick on March 16, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Check this link, a former scientologist speaks:

http://tinyurl.com/2nffow

48. The business of natural selection

Comment #144339 by MrPickwick on March 15, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Interesting, very interesting... btw, there's this swamp land I've got for sale in Florida...

49. The atheist delusion

Comment #144096 by MrPickwick on March 15, 2008 at 4:45 am

Of course this whole article is full of s***, no question about it. But it is exactly what people who want to believe, but are not used to think for themselves, need to go on believing: An "intelligent" guy, from a "respected" newspaper, quoting poets and philosophers (out of context) and providing "arguments" that support their view of the world. This kind of "intellectuals" are the real enemies. Let them play the flute and a huge herd will follow them. Who cares about truth.

I am afraid that nobody, not even guys like Dawkins, Hitchens, etc, can compete with The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

50. I don't believe in atheists

Comment #143764 by MrPickwick on March 14, 2008 at 11:12 am

"I don't believe in atheists"