1. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200496 by LUCASWB on June 27, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Lucas,
I will consider changing my name for you, but I have to think of a good name that my wife also likes. My son's name is Lucas A. B., but Im gonna let him keep his because he is not a member of this site yet. Also to answer your question I don't know why some of my friends chose to be Christian conservatives. I guess they just are to fuck with me.

2. Non-voters: It's all in God's hands

Comment #200311 by LUCASWB on June 27, 2008 at 9:38 am

I am voting for Obama. some of my christian conservative friends tell me there is a good chance he is the anti-christ. I tell them that means they should vote for him too so we can get this thing moving along, and bring on the rapture.

3. Stop distorting young minds!

Comment #200239 by LUCASWB on June 27, 2008 at 6:30 am

COWALKER,
thanks, I do plan on exposing them to all of the myths. You never know what other fundamentalists will tell your kids when your not around, but most of them are not shy. They may even convince my kids to try to get me to come to church, to save me from hell. I don't plan on raising my kids to be atheists, but I will encourage them to be freethinkers, which most likely will lead to atheism. Child indoctrination is an extremely powerful thing. I know because I was a victim of it. Although I FINALLY reasoned my way out of it, my little sister never has understood the truth. I think childhood indoctrination /brainwashing is religions only chance at survival.

4. Stop distorting young minds!

Comment #199847 by LUCASWB on June 26, 2008 at 12:22 pm

this article does worry me and piss me off a little. I live in the bible belt of the U.S., and I was raised southern Baptist. I have 2 boys 3 and 4 years old. recently I decide that I am going to start reading them some children's bible stories. The reason being that I enjoyed some of the stories as a child, and I can't/don't want to shelter my kids from religion. I would like to teach them what I know about all religions as they grow.
My kids went to a Christian daycare for about half a year. I chose that day care, because it was close by, and happened to be the best one I had found. I didn't mind it being run by Christians, because at the time my sons were only 2 and 3. Just recently( a year after we pulled them out of day care) I asked my 4 year old what he knew about god, and he started talking about Jesus. I was shocked that he remembered the stuff the daycare had been telling him about their religion. I was also a bit confused at what I should do now, because I had planned on letting them start back there for pre-k because they have fun there, and they learn a lot there (besides the religious stuff)
I hope that reading them bible stories is the answer to my problem. I plan on reading them the stories, like David and Goliath, and the story of Noah and the ark, and when they ask if they are true I will say "no these are just bible stories" I want them to be familiar with the stuff religious people are going to throw at them when Im not around, and be able to understand that none of it is true.

5. An Interview with Prof. Richard Dawkins

Comment #199365 by LUCASWB on June 25, 2008 at 3:31 pm

I also heard him say something about a childrens book. I wish he would too. I have noticed some of the trouble I have with creationist, is not only that they don't know much about evolution, but that they don't know anything about the scientific process in general. They think they can imagine something to be true and call it a "theory".

6. Hints of structure beyond the visible universe

Comment #191770 by LUCASWB on June 11, 2008 at 4:30 pm

william1w1

I know that I don't really know anything about this stuff, but I love to TRY to wrap my head around it. Having said that it seems to me that either scenario is very hard to imagine. Both of them seem impossible, but one of them has to be the case. It is easier for me to imagine an infinite regress than something popping out of complete nothingness. Sometimes I have to remind myself that you can't teach a dog physics.

7. Hints of structure beyond the visible universe

Comment #191630 by LUCASWB on June 11, 2008 at 10:33 am

how can you talk about a moment in which time does not exist? if our universe is contracting and expanding then we can talk about the time when time did not exist, and what happend before that. maybe time as we know it is only do to our consciousness,which may or may not have existed before our universe.

8. Hints of structure beyond the visible universe

Comment #191508 by LUCASWB on June 11, 2008 at 5:14 am

"Frankly, you might as well jump to the conclusion that some supernatural being created everything we can see if you're going to assume that there was something before the universe that we have no evidence for. "

Do we really need evidence to assume there was something before our universe. I find it easier to beleive there was something that created our universe(not an intellegent being), than to beleive our universe developed from nothing out of no where. that indeed would take some sort of divine magician.

9. Louisiana's latest creationism bill moves to House floor

Comment #185569 by LUCASWB on May 28, 2008 at 5:03 am

maybe they should redefine the "controversy"

something from nothing vs. the infinate regress

10. Richard Dawkins lecture at ASU's Tempe Campus

Comment #183673 by LUCASWB on May 22, 2008 at 1:09 pm

I would love to see RD in FL. especially here in the bible belt of Pensacola Fl.

11. Discussion on PZ Myers being expelled from Expelled

Comment #151957 by LUCASWB on March 29, 2008 at 6:45 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DHbdMbSLfb4&feature=related

After I watched this video I looked at the you tube version, and next to it were some other videos about the movie. I found this one(link above) INSANE. Ben Stein acts like we worship Darwin, and that scientist havn't reaaly learned much more about evolution since Darwin.

He dicredits scientist explanation for the origin of life by saying It is nonsense that a child wouldn't understand.

that is astonishing to me. What else can I say. Watch this video , and it sounds like Dawkins talking about creationist, but the other way around.