1. They let anybody onto the faculty at Oxford nowadays

Comment #60688 by Audley Strange on August 2, 2007 at 5:27 pm

Reason cannot debate with absurdity.

2. The Flea Circus Invites a Newcomer!

Comment #60340 by Audley Strange on August 1, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Hey you forgot the masterwork of contemporary Literature Theist "Shut Up! Shut Up! I'm not listening" which is subtitled "The bible is great because the bible says so."

You can buy it direct from God.

3. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41152 by Audley Strange on May 15, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Heh all that vitriol against others was bound to to bring some back upon him. One more enemy of humanity dead, his rotting corpse or ashes will be of more use to this world than he ever was.

4. Does God Exist? The Nightline Face-Off (more info)

Comment #40695 by Audley Strange on May 14, 2007 at 5:39 pm

I watched what I could find on the Web and no Martin it was not worth watching, neither the RRS version nor the ABC version. I was quite embarrassed on behalf of all involved.

5. Among the Disbelievers

Comment #40523 by Audley Strange on May 14, 2007 at 12:01 pm

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If one does not believe in God, what should one believe in instead?
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Like Dower,I think such questions are as simple minded as Bush's "with us or against us" dualist morality.

Belief is the refuge of the complacent and un-inquiring mind.

6. Unintelligent Design

Comment #39879 by Audley Strange on May 12, 2007 at 7:12 am

"Science is not particularly well-suited to deal with problems of human existence that have no enduring logical and or factual solution, such as avoiding death... anticipating catastrophes,"

Hmmm. Anti-biotics, anti-malarial drugs, bypass operations, chemotherapy amongst other things have been very good at helping people avoiding death (perhaps only in the short term so far, but it's something thats still in it's infancy ask again in 2000 years)

Meteorology, volcanology, epidemiology, Cat modelling, seismology are all quite good at anticipating catastrophe.

I like Scott Atran's work, but he should stick to his disciplines.

7. Disney daughter calls Muslim Mickey evil

Comment #39711 by Audley Strange on May 11, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Hahahah I can just hear its squeaky voice now.

"Go get the infidel Pluto!"

Pehaps atheism can rip off Barney? After all he is a dinosaur. "there's no god there's no god those who think so are just odd..."

Tears in my eyes laughing.

8. Better God-fearing than sneering

Comment #38761 by Audley Strange on May 9, 2007 at 5:53 am

I don't understand why people are getting upset about such a trite asinine article. The Guardian like that other stalwart of the "Middle Class Liberal" the New Statesman have a simple agenda of provoking their readership by publishing articles of this ilk in order that its readership can get their indignant juices flowing. It is a tactic so sell print nothing more.

9. Science and fiction

Comment #37406 by Audley Strange on May 4, 2007 at 11:48 am

So much for "education education education". This sickens me, but then very little these power-whores do these days does not.

10. Your favorite book in the last 25 years?

Comment #37286 by Audley Strange on May 4, 2007 at 2:09 am

Godel-Escher-Bach. Hofstadter.
Foucault's Pendulum. Eco.
Cryptonomicon. Stephenson.
Fuzzy Logic. Koto.
Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming O'Connor & Seymour.
True Hallucinations. McKenna
Valis. Dick.

11. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #36440 by Audley Strange on May 1, 2007 at 5:48 am

It all makes so much sense now. If you give an infinite amount of chimps an infinite amount of typewriters they may well come up with the works of Shakespeare. But if you give a finite amount of chimps some pen parchment and ink and a couple of thousand years they'll come up with the Bible.

12. Fighting Words: A wartime lexicon

Comment #34995 by Audley Strange on April 25, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Hightrekker, spot on. I've always thought he was in the business of self promotion through controversy, though he does have razor sharp focus in his writings.

13. Religious bias colors doctors' views: survey

Comment #31114 by Audley Strange on April 11, 2007 at 3:41 am

One of the many reasons I left working in the medical community was because I was told one day by a registrar that I "did not have a good Christian attitude".

14. Praying for the Apocalypse

Comment #30900 by Audley Strange on April 10, 2007 at 9:09 am

To Rtambree.

Yes I have met quite a few endtimers in my life who truly believed in the rapture. Ironically many of them were not elderly but born again teenagers or twenty-somethings who were part of the same nursing course as I was back in the nineties. Coming from the U.K. I am often told we are a post religious society, but its not quite as "post" as you or I would like to think.

15. Praying for the Apocalypse

Comment #30695 by Audley Strange on April 9, 2007 at 11:13 am

What amazes is that the psychotic, life hating, smug endtimers really think that when their "rapture" happens they won't be "left below".

I only wish it already had, the world would be a better place without them.

16. Even non-believers must recognise the moral necessity of Christianity

Comment #30608 by Audley Strange on April 9, 2007 at 2:42 am

Mr Anderson speaks as if "The Christian Ethic" was something tangible rather than a mishmash of centuries of contradictory literature and behaviour.

What amuses me is the "fear of death" idea. It would seem very simple to me that if they actually understood the example set by their "messiah" they would understand his ultimate teaching was fear of death was the root of being enslaved.

Not only does Mr Anderson seem cowardly with regards to his mortality he seems cowardly with regards to "outsiders". I live in a profoundly large Asian community in Glasgow, many Muslims are quite happy to discuss their beliefs with me and others, I have had fascinating discussions with taxi drivers, shopkeepers, poets, dealers, insurance clerks, and telecom workers. I have spoken to people who were very polarised by America and Britians actions in the Middle East and never have I had to cower or hide my traditions with them. I did not need to grasp on to the idea of the resurrection not to fear Islam. Indeed I do not fear Islam or its tangential terrorist organisations any more than I fear the right wing crusades of the American Government.

Mr Anderson is frightened of an awful lot. Frightened of Death frightened of Islam frightened of not believing enough in his non existent God. If this is an example of the meek, I would imagine they will inherent, not the earth, but crippling neuroses and duodenal ulcers.

He is more to be pitied than laughed at.