1. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #42044 by Al A. on May 17, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Astonishingly Grrrrrrreat! We all need to take these backwater charlatans to task. What a scathing, but objective critique of the life of this fanatical moron. Simply wonderful that Hitchens characterizes Falwell as a delusional dolt on the corner selling pencils....this is where all these parasites should abide. Incidentally, where will they (preachers) all go after we decimate their rank and file? OH YEAH! They'll be selling pencils!
Al

2. Preaching the word via satellite: Megachurches branching out

Comment #22285 by Al A. on February 13, 2007 at 11:20 pm

Megachurches = Megadelusion. Great! We need to change the laws and start taxing the charlatans. Perhaps we have some secular friends in the IRS because they caught up with Hovind (Fl creationist)and he has been incarcerated for 10 years. Praise Darwin!

3. Kansas science standards evolve again, becoming pro-Darwin

Comment #22283 by Al A. on February 13, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Amazing! It'll flip back and forth for the next few decades until the old guard finally dies off and young people find more entertaining things to do on Sunday. Atheist need to organize picnics and trips to museums. Who knows! Perhaps that is not exciting enough, afterall it is pretty amusing to watch the faithful shake, rattle, and roll in the aisles as they stew in their own milieu of emotion.

Eventually people will understand that the law of common descent and natural selection trumps the talking snake in the garden, afterall, as I ask my students, "has any organism ever existed without parents?" Appeal to their common sense and make it as concrete as possible. Use props to represent ancestors...plastic toy soldiers work fine. Many American children live in a helter skelter fast paced world with little connection to the historical past, especially in the west. How can they understand phylogeny when so many of them don't even know who their grandparents are? Heck, after the meth epidemic passes how many will know their parents?
Al A.

4. Blasphemy Challenge on FOX

Comment #19727 by Al A. on January 29, 2007 at 2:27 pm

We see the origin of the rage of the "chosen ones," and how it so easily can fuel a potential neoinquisition. Fleming is right on. As a child I used to fear demonic beings in the night and hell opening up under my bed. Children do suffer from the ridiculous fantasies promulgated by the ignorant that populate pews. Let's keep it up. Perhaps we can commission a study of the effects of religious fantasies on the anxiety levels of children (if there isn't good research on this that exist already)....these effects are real and may indeed slow or influence the development of rational thinking.
Al

5. Intelligent design is a science, not a faith

Comment #16966 by Al A. on January 9, 2007 at 10:15 pm

Why don't we start making ID theorists seem preposterous. If ID theory is correct it undeniably suggest a Designer. Where is the Designer who constantly replaces organisms? Where are His artifacts (labratories, prototypes, factories, bludprints, CAD software, etc.)? Certaninly they can't believe that the Designer designed without edifice? Do they know the meaning of the word? When did the Designer act? Was He hiding out somewhere in Noah's Arc? Perhaps the Designer had a shop in a remote place in Eden or a spaceship of gigantic proportions within the "firmament" somewhere. I just don't get it, can't these folks see that they are just resurrecting Natural Theism.
I have an idea for a project. Let's create a cartoon parody of their ideas w/ a splash old testament panache. We can have the Designer running around in a lab coat whipping up a variety of testube creations, throwing temper tantrums and bolts of lightning as they fail to meet his standards. It could be quite entertaining! Throw in some aliens, Krishna, angels, and of course pink little talking unicorns...what a blast, what a party!