1. Saudi Marriage Officiant : 'It Is Allowed To Marry A Girl At The Age Of One'.

Comment #198742 by Geodesic17 on June 24, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Only 1-year-old? Heck? Why not from the moment of birth? Or why not promise to have daughters to be married off when they are born? Why not marry a fetus? Why stop at 1 year?

2. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197318 by Geodesic17 on June 21, 2008 at 5:51 pm

When I occassionally encounter people who criticize this site, they fail to realize that it started out as a fan site where people with similiiar interests such as reading Richard Dawkins' books come to share ideas. Am I wrong about this?

3. Godless

Comment #192333 by Geodesic17 on June 12, 2008 at 7:38 pm

On the contrary, people in the medical field do this very expertly. A friend of mine, who is a surgeon is very able to critically analyze study data and information pertaining to science but when it comes to religion, he just believes. That's it, he just believes. It is called compartmentalization. And many other doctors think this way. They do not question their religious beliefs and are able to keep those beliefs neatly away from science. They do this because the religious beliefs are never analyzed.

4. Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound

Comment #190677 by Geodesic17 on June 9, 2008 at 11:14 am

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5. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189880 by Geodesic17 on June 7, 2008 at 12:47 pm

So PZ Myers gave an interesting talk about the human eye at the dinner mentioned at the bottom of the article. Afterwards, he pledged his allegeance to the squidlike Cthulu (not really).

6. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #189608 by Geodesic17 on June 6, 2008 at 4:39 pm

This is proof that God does not exist. OOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

7. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #189486 by Geodesic17 on June 6, 2008 at 10:53 am

oooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ouch!

8. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189472 by Geodesic17 on June 6, 2008 at 10:22 am

Intelligent Design - A religion friendly theory that describes human origins in a fantasy world.

Evolution - A science friendly theory that describes human origins in reality.

9. The day of judgment

Comment #189469 by Geodesic17 on June 6, 2008 at 10:16 am

This is incredibly long, but probably worth reading.

10. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #189457 by Geodesic17 on June 6, 2008 at 10:07 am

Ouch!

11. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189254 by Geodesic17 on June 5, 2008 at 10:43 pm

Kent Lite sounds better and more American. I didn't found the city though.

12. Blogger spreads the gospel of science

Comment #189250 by Geodesic17 on June 5, 2008 at 10:39 pm

Kent, Washington. http://www.ci.kent.wa.us/

I'll be at the dinner on Friday.

13. Stupid flies live longer: study

Comment #189092 by Geodesic17 on June 5, 2008 at 12:19 pm

This sheds some light on why the fundies are out-reproducing us..........

14. A New Step In Evolution

Comment #188798 by Geodesic17 on June 4, 2008 at 2:57 pm

I just saw Carl Zimmer talk about this at the Seattle Town Hall last night. Coincidently, PZ Myers was in the audience. Security must not have spottted him.

15. Opponents of Evolution Adopting a New Strategy

Comment #188696 by Geodesic17 on June 4, 2008 at 11:54 am

If CDesign Proponentsists believe in free speech, the Discovery Institute should open its press releases to be commented on through its site. For people who claim to be squelched, they certainly do a good job of trying to silence others.

16. Random Acts of Evolution

Comment #187518 by Geodesic17 on June 2, 2008 at 9:23 am

Is there a relationship between the size of an organism's genome and how quickly it reproduces?

17. Synthetic Copycat Of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not As We Know It?

Comment #186178 by Geodesic17 on May 29, 2008 at 8:22 pm

One step closer to a race of Cylons...

18. We happy hooligans

Comment #185834 by Geodesic17 on May 28, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Funny thing about the name calling, I attended an embarrassing Intelligent Design vs Evolution Debate while an undergaduate. The ID side was represented by some obscure upstart named Bryan O'Neal, ABD (still working on a PHD in Philosophy and Design Theory, as I understand it). Anyhow, he took a few cheap shots at Dawkins even though the man wasn't even there. If he was in a crowd of ID Proponents, he might of gotten a few slaps on the back. The funny thing is, very few people that the school probably heard of Richard Dawkins at the time. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit by thinking that it is an attempt to discredit the man before people even hear his name.

19. 1968 Supreme Court case of Epperson v. Arkansas

Comment #185802 by Geodesic17 on May 28, 2008 at 3:37 pm

I present the following argument from authority:

"How you believe doesn't affect the doctrine. Either at a certain moment in evolution God breathed into one particular ape-man who was Adam, or God could have taken a handful of dust and blowed and created a man just like that" - Billy Graham ("Cooperative Evangelism at Harringay," United Church Observer, July 1966).

20. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #185276 by Geodesic17 on May 27, 2008 at 10:50 am

I've been a fan of Bill Maher for some time now. It would be cool to see Richard Dawkins as a panelist on his show.

21. That's it. Texas really is doomed.

Comment #185265 by Geodesic17 on May 27, 2008 at 9:57 am

I can only imagine the sychopantic backslapping that is required to place someone against knowledge on the board of education. He is tearing the system down from the inside.

22. Mail-boat record 'proves Darwin stole his original ideas from a Welsh scientist'

Comment #185263 by Geodesic17 on May 27, 2008 at 9:51 am

Great. We can call ourselves Wallacists now, but the Creationists will not catch on and still call us evil Darwinists.

23. Five Things Humans No Longer Need

Comment #184056 by Geodesic17 on May 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm

There is a documentary called The Ghost in Your Genes that suggests that environmental events can switch off certain genes. I do not know enough about the subject, but I do not care for their choice of metaphor.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/

24. Five Things Humans No Longer Need

Comment #184024 by Geodesic17 on May 23, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Mordacious1:

This kind of thinking is common. By the way, the worst place to be in a medical emergency is a Pentecostal Church service.

25. Five Things Humans No Longer Need

Comment #184021 by Geodesic17 on May 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Any god that would design vestigal wisdom teeth is a total asshole.

26. Scientists discover 'frogamander' fossil

Comment #183782 by Geodesic17 on May 22, 2008 at 8:07 pm

Isn't Turducken a transitionary animal?

27. Geeks and Guinness: the formula for sexy science

Comment #182532 by Geodesic17 on May 20, 2008 at 11:02 am

Socrates Cafe is a similar movement. Seattle has a Socrates Cafe.

28. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #181288 by Geodesic17 on May 16, 2008 at 8:51 pm

This logo is demonic, pagan, and pornographic. That looks like a hell of a cup of coffee!

29. Pelosi, Reid shunning Ten Commandments?

Comment #181285 by Geodesic17 on May 16, 2008 at 8:47 pm

If these people ever get their way, I bet they will find out it is more than they bargained for. It would be a huge disaster. How can they be so ignorant of history? I don't understand how a person could be so dense and deluded.

Also, are they trying to bribe and please God by this stunt? How do they intend to enforce the 10 Commandments? Have they thought that far ahead or are they just trying to promote the rapture?

30. Richard Dawkins Responds to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #181257 by Geodesic17 on May 16, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Well said, Richard. I offer the following:

If a man had a mustasche like Hitler's, would it be wrong to point this out?

31. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, ed. Richard Dawkins

Comment #181105 by Geodesic17 on May 16, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Since when was atheism a "tarnish" or a "debauchery"?

32. UC Berkeley is going to court over Evolution website

Comment #180794 by Geodesic17 on May 15, 2008 at 8:09 pm

If anyone is going to the PZ Myers event in Seattle, feel free to send me a PM.

33. UC Berkeley is going to court over Evolution website

Comment #180691 by Geodesic17 on May 15, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Does have have this event up on Facebook?

34. God seekers go public

Comment #180599 by Geodesic17 on May 15, 2008 at 9:39 am

From kev_s:

The problem is that too many lower forms of life have evolved and are now working for Biologic.

35. God seekers go public

Comment #180436 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Here is an article that is relevant.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/042408dntexcreationscience2.917bf873.html

After being defeated when trying to get a Creation Science Degree program, the creationists cry that their next step is to sue under the first amendment.

36. God seekers go public

Comment #180327 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 3:23 pm

Don't forget to reverse the polarity of the deflector array to create a tachyon pulse.

37. Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found

Comment #180291 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Solarium,

That is a good question. I don't know. Either they had the picture and just started looking at it, or they "just discovered that it is the oldest". The language used here should be cleared up.

38. Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found

Comment #180271 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Evolver23,

I don't know. But if you read the article, they couldn't date the event without a second photo to calculate the rate of change in the distribution of gas.

39. Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found

Comment #180264 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Like RevJimBob said, but rephrased, just add the number of light years to the estimated time of the event. The phrasing is a matter of perspective. From our perspective, it happened (became visable) about 150 years ago.

They didn't "just discover it". They just calculated the expansion from the center based off the distance the gas has traveled from the center in 23 years.

40. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #180228 by Geodesic17 on May 14, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Plus, there won't be any jobs and the atmosphere is going to be like it is in China, except everywhere in the world. Plus the rising sea levels are going to drown major coastal cities like NYC and London. Disease, war, starvation, pollution, terrorism, disasters are all standing around the corner waiting to strike.

But still we go our merry way, get up in the morning and go to work. What can you do about it? I guess, we shouldn't worry too much about it... sort of like death, it's inevitable.

41. God seekers go public

Comment #179831 by Geodesic17 on May 13, 2008 at 8:41 pm

I just imagine the Biologic Institute as a bunch of animatronic scientists, with labcoats, that sing Bible songs.

42. Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Comment #179814 by Geodesic17 on May 13, 2008 at 8:02 pm

Hypothetically, we could find life on a moon of Saturn or Jupiter. The Catholics will be prepared to accept evidence of life on other planets or moons. The Creationists will probably follow the flat earthers and claim it is a hoax.

It is also true that you cannot put Jesus or the Holy Trinity into a particle accelerator, for various reasons, of course.

43. Richard Dawkins discusses Einstein's new letters

Comment #179812 by Geodesic17 on May 13, 2008 at 7:59 pm

I've thought it before, and I've seen it written elsewhere, but I'll say it here: Ben Stein is no Einstein.


It is unfortunate that some people see a quote about god and automatically assume that it is about their own god. Thoughts?

44. The Stupidity of Dignity

Comment #179470 by Geodesic17 on May 13, 2008 at 9:51 am

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45. God seekers go public

Comment #179464 by Geodesic17 on May 13, 2008 at 9:40 am

"Biologic", "Scientology", "Intelligent Design"...

46. Americans pray at the pump for cheaper petrol

Comment #179164 by Geodesic17 on May 12, 2008 at 7:58 pm

This doesn't take into account all the people praying for the price to go up. God is on the side of the oil companies.

47. Faith in Britain today

Comment #177032 by Geodesic17 on May 8, 2008 at 1:40 pm

This article looks like a maze of theological rambling that I do not have the patience to navigate through.

48. The History Channel might do something right

Comment #176171 by Geodesic17 on May 6, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Hopefully they will minimize the sensationalism.

I'm reminded of how Indiana University Northwest's marketing department advertised their ID vs Evolution debate: God vs Science.

Hopefully they have consulted some solid sources and minimize edutainment sensationalism.

49. The History Channel might do something right

Comment #176091 by Geodesic17 on May 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm

It is ironic how creationists often mock their own beliefs.

"Lightening striking mud? HA!"
"The eye just magically forming? HA!"

50. The History Channel might do something right

Comment #176074 by Geodesic17 on May 6, 2008 at 1:52 pm

More like, "The Faux Archaeologist".