1. Texas State Board of Education approves Bible course for high schools

Comment #213571 by SimUser on July 18, 2008 at 3:16 pm

Best way to counter this is to argue that they need to allow all religions to be taught in equal measure, so first we will teach about Bael, then Wotan, then Thor, then any number, and some time we will get to your Christian God.

2. Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Comment #198439 by SimUser on June 24, 2008 at 12:20 am

Further evidence of my better to be a Smart Ass then a Dumb Ass hypothesis.

3. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198200 by SimUser on June 23, 2008 at 11:04 am

First this, and then I get a call and my aunt died overnight also...

Fuck

4. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198082 by SimUser on June 23, 2008 at 7:06 am

A true loss, words can't even say it.

Only one will work for now.

Fuck!!

5. The Flea Delusion

Comment #198078 by SimUser on June 23, 2008 at 6:54 am

Why do you guys even try debating Clearthinker?

No matter what you say he will try to flip the argument.

You say that air itself isn't actually blue, he will say that you only say that because of your firmly held belief system about the way that light works.

6. The Flea Delusion

Comment #197907 by SimUser on June 22, 2008 at 9:42 pm

Another Flea:

Atheism Remix - R. Albert Mohler Jr.

http://www.atheismremix.com/

7. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196930 by SimUser on June 20, 2008 at 3:46 pm

I lived in Ohio (further North, but still in a small community) for a while when I was a kid, and people really are that wacko in that part of the Bible Belt. Try going to school where everyone knows you are one of those kids that doesn't go to the local church.

In Ohio they only know how to teach you to build the box you have to think inside.

So very glad I already had my science credits when I went there for a year in High School, I already had to unlearn a lot of falsities when I left at 12.

8. Male circumcision is a weapon in the sperm wars

Comment #189530 by SimUser on June 6, 2008 at 12:26 pm

I remember reading/watching somewhere that the foreskin serves another evolutionary/mating purpose.

Not quoted verbatim, but I think that it was something like this:

If a mans sexual partner has been recently with another man, then his (the primary partner) foreskin and the head of the penis will act as a sort of trow and bucket (very crude and barely accurate way of putting it) to scrape out the semen of the previous man, thus making it more likely that his sperm will be the ones with the greater chance to impregnate her.

9. 3QD interviews Richard Dawkins

Comment #179930 by SimUser on May 14, 2008 at 2:21 am

Very good Interview, filming quality aside, naturally.

On the discussion about the possibility of a "leap" into human intelligence, Has it been considered that it may not be such a tremendous leap in the full scheme of things in many generations, if looking back as an evolutionary biologist in 10 million years (if it is possible for our species to propagate that far out), if it would look like a very small adaptation in the scheme of things, even if it looks like a tremendous change now?

As for the question of the roulette wheel, is if you look at it from a 6 of 7 are red, then yes the odds are on your side. The problem is that you can't include events that have already occurred to your statistical model if there is a complete reset. Starting the wheel spinning again sets it back to 1 in 2 (or lower with 0 and 00 in the mix).