Comments by A.Lex

1. Hints of structure beyond the visible universe

Comment #191203 by A.Lex on June 10, 2008 at 11:20 am

10^100 = googol!

Comment #185982 by A.Lex on May 29, 2008 at 9:44 am

"Photographs are illegal in Saudi Arabia..."

That's not true - here is one from a muslim family album. All five wives seem to be happy!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691349/posts

3. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #180931 by A.Lex on May 16, 2008 at 6:42 am

This is a blasphemous cartoon! It depicts my pious neighbor! Let's burn a few Starbucks outlets as a protest!

4. A match made on RichardDawkins.net?

Comment #128234 by A.Lex on February 16, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Congratulations Veronique & Yorker! Will you label your offspring as "atheist children" :>)

5. Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan

Comment #104684 by A.Lex on December 29, 2007 at 5:48 am

Did you notice his right hand doing the old, familiar "Sieg Heil" gesture? Or was it "Heil Hitler"?

6. Believe it or not

Comment #97468 by A.Lex on December 12, 2007 at 6:28 am

How about "Realians" as opposed to "Raelians" ;>)

7. A House Divided: Hitch at Georgetown

Comment #84608 by A.Lex on November 2, 2007 at 8:03 pm

Hitch:"A faith-based religion is about as useful as the Pope's balls!" Absolutely priceless! I am not so sure about Pope's soldiers - I hear some of them use their balls to play with altar boys ...

8. Help Counter the New Atheist Crusade to 'Evangelize' America!

Comment #79461 by A.Lex on October 17, 2007 at 10:15 am

There is growing market for millstones! Can Chinese make them (without lead)?

9. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams criticizes popular atheist writers

Comment #78578 by A.Lex on October 13, 2007 at 4:29 pm

A-bishop Williams urges atheist writers to better understand religion.
RD responds: "Do you have to read up on leprechology to disbelieve?"

10. The benefits of 80 million years without sex

Comment #78325 by A.Lex on October 12, 2007 at 12:38 pm

The expression "f**k yourself" doesn't sound offensive anymore. For rotifers, that is.

11. The benefits of 80 million years without sex

Comment #78323 by A.Lex on October 12, 2007 at 12:33 pm

GBile: "Now I understand why they have these freshwater pools at the entrances of the Catholic churches. Must be full of Bdeloid Rotifers."

The question is whether they use them (pools) before or after the mess :)

12. A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation

Comment #76805 by A.Lex on October 7, 2007 at 10:25 am

the izz: it's "principles".

13. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #72561 by A.Lex on September 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm

72555 by revcort: ... I will post elsewhere..."

Great idea! Good bye. I won't miss you.

14. Why Christians should take Richard Dawkins seriously

Comment #72131 by A.Lex on September 20, 2007 at 12:04 pm

..."it is no bad thing regularly to be reminded that all images of God fall far short of the reality encountered and witnessed to by Moses and the prophets, and by Jesus and the apostles."

This is the most meaningless sentence I've ever read!

15. Against the grain: There are questions that science cannot answer

Comment #71993 by A.Lex on September 20, 2007 at 5:03 am

"There are questions science cannot answer"

Religion answers ALL questions, even those that haven't been asked yet!

(somebody said that before - RD?)

16. Oxford's Christian colleges 'are not suitable for school-leavers'

Comment #71583 by A.Lex on September 19, 2007 at 4:40 am

I wonder how does the Harvard Divinity School compares with these colleges. It's described (on Google under www.hds.harvard.edu) as a "nonsectarian school of theology and religious studies, educating women and men for service as leaders in religious life and thought". Does "nonsectarian" mean that they produce Pastafarian leaders, too?

17. Oxford's Christian colleges 'are not suitable for school-leavers'

Comment #71572 by A.Lex on September 19, 2007 at 4:11 am

#71553 by Beer-monster: "Oxford center for Christian apologetics"

Is this a real thing? Never heard about it.

18. Religious education

Comment #71282 by A.Lex on September 18, 2007 at 9:26 am

"There is a valid argument that some religious education is vital for children to operate as decent members of a pluralist society."

Does that mean that without "some religious education" children cannot become "decent members" of a society? I doubt this guy Beadle is serious!

19. Alex the Parrot

Comment #69743 by A.Lex on September 12, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Could s/he/it pray?

20. The Rise of Atheist America

Comment #68916 by A.Lex on September 9, 2007 at 5:04 am

#68873: "Should we help them out or just sit back, amused, and watch their linguistic antics? Any suggestions?"

Deotergents?

21. 'Incredibly lucky' find yields important fish fossil

Comment #68725 by A.Lex on September 8, 2007 at 9:56 am

Did "god of the gaps" lose another gap?

22. Polling Data on Science and Religion

Comment #66823 by A.Lex on August 31, 2007 at 4:49 pm

"The strategy where you publicly attack bad religious ideas has barely been tried."

I wish I could differentiate between "good" and "bad" religious ideas. They are all crap!

23. God Hates the World

Comment #56110 by A.Lex on July 13, 2007 at 7:53 pm

Did you notice the idiot in the back row waving Canadian flag upside down? (I did not read all 265 previous emails, so I might not be the first one to see that).

24. Borehamwood eruv granted planning permission

Comment #56050 by A.Lex on July 13, 2007 at 2:36 pm

Any comment from Poles?

25. Borehamwood eruv granted planning permission

Comment #56048 by A.Lex on July 13, 2007 at 2:34 pm

Can we attach cross-beams to these poles and hang green flags on them too?

26. A force for evil?

Comment #55189 by A.Lex on July 10, 2007 at 8:10 am

#55130 by AdrianB: "Any ideas how it could be improved anyone?"

Steven Weinberg did it long time ago: "With (religion) or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"

27. Small, Yes, but Mighty: The Molecule Called Water

Comment #55182 by A.Lex on July 10, 2007 at 7:54 am

"...boiling point at sea level of 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius), and a full 180 degrees (100 degrees Celsius) lying between the tempest of a teapot and the tinkling of an ice cube at 32 degrees (0 degrees Celsius)."

I like Natalie's writing and her passion for science. Her recent book "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science" should be an obligatory lecture for any kid leaving the high school (especially American one). It puzzles me, though, why she does not make any effort to make her books and articles more understandable by the majority of the world, which is everything outside the U.S.of A. The "quarts", "Fahrenheits", etc. are long forgotten there (outside USA). Converted values into commonly used liters (or litres) and degrees Celsius would really help to spread the message.

28. My Road to Atheism, What Took Me So Long and The Aftermath

Comment #47337 by A.Lex on June 4, 2007 at 5:52 am

CJ22: Aren't we all born here? I mean as atheists. It's the (religious) environment that causes all that damage.

29. Prayer can improve physical health

Comment #43677 by A.Lex on May 22, 2007 at 9:17 am

To run a really unbiased experiment the "researchers" should sample at least two praying populations: atheists and xtians ;>)

30. Atheism isn't the final word

Comment #32461 by A.Lex on April 17, 2007 at 5:52 am

"There are no secularist counterparts to Pope John Paul II, ..."

How about the thousands of Rotary International volunteers responsible for nearly eradicating polio on this planet. The progress was slowed down by religious nuts in some African countries.

BTW: pope and his doctrine is actually killing millions of Africans by denying them condoms!

31. Is God poison?

Comment #31176 by A.Lex on April 11, 2007 at 9:05 am

Is God poison? Yes, s/he/it is!

32. James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son

Comment #23163 by A.Lex on February 26, 2007 at 3:19 pm

It's not a joke - yet! It will be aired on April 1st.

33. Believing In Things Unseen Is Not Delusion

Comment #20730 by A.Lex on February 6, 2007 at 7:00 am

Bla, bla, bla, .......

34. Does Evolution Select For Faster Evolvers? Horizontal Gene Transfer Adds To Complexity, Speed Of Evolution

Comment #19850 by A.Lex on January 30, 2007 at 9:23 am

SF stated that "Apparently multicellular life has appeared several times, as well as eyes, etc, but intelligence only once."
That's not true - intelligence may appear one more time among the Fundies sub-species.

35. Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007

Comment #16004 by A.Lex on January 4, 2007 at 6:23 am

Why do we waste the bandwidth for such nonsense?

36. A Free-for-All on Science and Religion

Comment #12150 by A.Lex on December 10, 2006 at 9:17 pm

Did you know that in some American prisons you are allowed to poop in privacy only if you are a good Christian? According to this recent article in New York Times (link below) the program was supported by President Bush himself! What a visionary!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/business/10faith.html?em&ex=1165899600&en=d5cf2b37d0c59403&ei=5087%0A

37. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #6188 by A.Lex on November 13, 2006 at 3:55 am

Josh,
Can you weed out the incoherent, insulting, bandwidth wasting, atrociously spelled babble from this forum (e.g. yinka's)?

38. Reading of The God Delusion in Lynchburg, VA

Comment #6068 by A.Lex on November 12, 2006 at 11:49 am

Dear Anonymous,
I like your kewt spelling. The rest is undatedly unreal!
Sinsrely,
A.

39. Controversial Religious Summer Camp Closed

Comment #5313 by A.Lex on November 8, 2006 at 9:00 pm

At least they did not program kids to blow themselves up. But they were on a good path!

40. Pasadena, CA : Batch 2

Comment #3524 by A.Lex on October 29, 2006 at 7:25 pm

I think that Richard is "at the lectern 1-4" rather than "at the podium".