Comments by bugaboo

51. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #233177 by bugaboo on August 19, 2008 at 8:40 am

Comment #233167 by ColdFusionLazarus

Relativism. Why is the programme you watched more "privileged" than Big Brother?

Edit: But then again we have this interweb thingy

52. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #233141 by bugaboo on August 19, 2008 at 7:15 am

Steve_W

What would have been perfect for me would be a series of 3 programs showing Darwin's ideas in all their breathtaking glory, that could have been used in schools

And we will have this. Next year BBC are planning lots to commemorate the 200/150th anniversary.

As i watched the programme last night i couldnt help wondering the effect it would have if there were only three channels of TV in the UK as there were in the 70's. (ever met a baby boomer who didnt see Abigails Party?). As is how many kids were tuned to channel 4 last night?

53. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #233093 by bugaboo on August 19, 2008 at 5:47 am

Have to disagree with you there Steve_W. I thought the last programme was the best of what has been an excellent series.

You mention the quote regarding evidence for evolution (a fact) Yet it's the religious groups who are holding this knowledge back from schoolchildren.

Of course they have to be taken to task.

54. A flea we missed?

Comment #232990 by bugaboo on August 19, 2008 at 1:57 am

What do you make of 65 million year old fossil abcesses?

Or this (one of many)

Metastatic cancer in the Jurassic .
The Lancet , Volume 354 , Issue 9176 , Pages 398 - 398
B . Rothschild , B . Witzke , I . Hershkovitz

Summary

Recognition of cancer in extreme antiquity has been limited to osteomas in mosasaurs and haemangiomas and growths of unclear origin in dinosaurs. We describe a metastatic cancer in a dinosaur.

55. A flea we missed?

Comment #232970 by bugaboo on August 19, 2008 at 1:30 am

David Robertson asked why cancer is predominantly western disease and Steve Zara gave him the most plausible explanation .

He could have, but didnt, ask why leukaemia manifests predominantly in childhood.

56. A flea we missed?

Comment #232418 by bugaboo on August 18, 2008 at 5:16 am

David Robertson

On daft terms like atheist faith

Another one checked off. No it is not daft. It is actually a good description of your position. It is a faith position in just the same way as Christianity is - although Christianity has more evidence and reason behind it.

Sorry David. That check just bounced. Please write another.

57. A flea we missed?

Comment #231788 by bugaboo on August 17, 2008 at 4:55 am

David Robertson

Yes - complete nonsense. My article was written precisely against the nonsense that the Tsunami was a direct result of bad behaviour by people

Mmmm. specific disasters? not usually the direct result of specific sins etc.

Now, please address Steve Zara's question @259

Also. Will you please stop using expressions like "the atheist faith" Its just daft and I suspect you know it.

58. A flea we missed?

Comment #231561 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 2:37 pm

David

It has been drawn to my attention that you had suggested that the tsunami of 2004 was a result of god's wrath for the all the debauchery in the world. Is this true?

would you like to comment?

59. A flea we missed?

Comment #231552 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Hey David

What does the "A" stand for?

Must resist. Must r e s i st.....

60. Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster

Comment #231327 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 6:06 am

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Carroll

Its now time to go blow the froth off of a few cold ones

bye all

61. Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster

Comment #231318 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 5:58 am

laurie

Trying to move the discussion over to Nietzsche The homosexual scie...

i'll get my coat

Brian

beware the Jaberwock...

62. Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster

Comment #231307 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 5:46 am

Does anyone know why i cant see any avatars?

Edit: Ah! they're back

63. Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster

Comment #231303 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 5:43 am

8teist

From the same website-

Enola Homosexual Drops A-Bomb on Japan!

64. Big-brained Animals Evolve Faster

Comment #231262 by bugaboo on August 16, 2008 at 4:08 am

Comment #231239 by MPhil

So i suppose that one can suffer from this syndrome in relation to your pet dog or your favourite chair.

Funny how when its talked about in psychoanalytical circles its always in relation to the wife or mother.

edit: MPhil. i meant to thank you a while back for the link to one of your papers. Thanks and I really enjoyed reading it.

65. Enemies of Reason: Available now on DVD!

Comment #231017 by bugaboo on August 15, 2008 at 2:35 pm

The whole area was kind-of new to me

What? No friends CFL?

66. Enemies of Reason: Available now on DVD!

Comment #231006 by bugaboo on August 15, 2008 at 2:23 pm

8teist

...I/we are not going to convince them that their belief is fantasy.

We live in hope.

Edit: Good evening to you too

67. Enemies of Reason: Available now on DVD!

Comment #230986 by bugaboo on August 15, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Durant
Bigotry entails prejudice. Show me some evidence for this please.

68. The rebellion of the child-brides

Comment #230677 by bugaboo on August 15, 2008 at 3:40 am

Is that you Joe?

Edit: Trolled

69. Do stop behaving as if you are God, Professor Dawkins

Comment #229312 by bugaboo on August 13, 2008 at 10:58 am

Diacanu

Not quite. But if we add verbal diarrhoea it is now

Edit Mornin' TWP. There's a chap over on another thread called timmydoo and he needs a whack from your trusty bat!

70. Do stop behaving as if you are God, Professor Dawkins

Comment #229290 by bugaboo on August 13, 2008 at 10:26 am

Melanin?
Is a white dwarf an albino?

Vomit

71. Darwin's bulldogs

Comment #226468 by bugaboo on August 8, 2008 at 5:58 am

Comment #226448 by Cartomancer

You certainly do have a way with words Carto. I love reading your posts.

72. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #224636 by bugaboo on August 5, 2008 at 9:12 am

Hey Joe

Any evidence for God yet?

Nope. See ya

73. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224600 by bugaboo on August 5, 2008 at 7:58 am

NASA are in cahoots with these bastards
http://www.justglobes.co.uk/

74. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #224523 by bugaboo on August 5, 2008 at 4:27 am

105. Comment #224518 by Mark Barratt

The review in the independent is worse

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/tv-radio-reviews/last-nights-tv-the-genius-of-charles-darwin-channel-4-im-kylies-body-double-bbc-3-885139.html

and the telegraph just a little better

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/08/05/nosplit/bvtv05last.xml

Too much emphasis on religion for everyones (not mine) taste.

75. Evangelically Serious Science

Comment #223671 by bugaboo on August 3, 2008 at 5:32 am

Hi folks

If you go to the channel 4 website http://www.channel4.com/
you will see "free catch-up" where it seems that programmes can be viewed for up to seven days after transmission. I 'm sure that this programme will be added to the list.

76. Kung poo panda 'The Sex Lives of Animals' exhibit digs deep.

Comment #221994 by bugaboo on July 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Is it just me or does this seem like a crazy intersection here?!

Guess it's what happens when Christians do evolutionary biology.

Anyway reminded me of this

Ricky Gervais: Animals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIcrCZQkSlg

77. Kung poo panda 'The Sex Lives of Animals' exhibit digs deep.

Comment #221975 by bugaboo on July 30, 2008 at 11:54 am

SK Graham
Hawt4dawk

I was thinking more along the lines that what might be picked up is that "Darwin was totally wrong about sexual selection" (as Roughgarden seems to be suggesting). The implication being that if he was wrong about that….well you get the picture.

Anti-evolutionists love controversies in evolutionary theory, as for example SJ Gould et al and the criticisms of "adaptationists".

That was why I added the post. Sorry I didn't elaborate.

78. Kung poo panda 'The Sex Lives of Animals' exhibit digs deep.

Comment #221930 by bugaboo on July 30, 2008 at 10:13 am

15. Comment #221881 by hawt4dawk

The exhibit's main scientific advisor is Joan Roughgarden.

see Wiki entry on her-

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Roughgarden

79. Kung poo panda 'The Sex Lives of Animals' exhibit digs deep.

Comment #221877 by bugaboo on July 30, 2008 at 8:53 am

From an article by Bob Grant in The Scientist magazine about the exhibit

"The main thrust of the exhibit is that sexual selection - a key component of Darwin's theory of evolution - is flat out wrong and needs to be re-thought in light of the curious sexual proclivities held by a number of our fellow animals."

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/54890/

80. Write to UCF

Comment #219475 by bugaboo on July 27, 2008 at 2:46 am

8teist, Irate

Only £14.99

http://www.8ball.co.uk/tshirt/3/27196/T-Shirts/Offensive-T-Shirts/Havent-Got-Tourettes-T-Shirt/

81. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #219452 by bugaboo on July 27, 2008 at 2:14 am

Laurie

Please correct me if I'm wrong, chaps and lassies, but didn't our Joe really, really, really promise on a pile of bronze-age goat dung called the Quaran that his last post would be about, oh, five posts ago?

Your not wrong. He swore on his holy book that that was his last post.

82. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #219310 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Txpiper

As a matter of fact, I don't think mutation is involved at all.

A single amino acid change in the gene for haemoglobin can confer resistance to malaria. This is common in certain areas of the world where malaria is prevalent. The consensus thinking on this is that a mutation arose and conferred a selective advantage for people who were heterozygous at this locus.

This is one of many examples.

What is your explanation of this?

83. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219303 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Dr Dr

How weird is the human mind (or maybe just mine).

Mine's wierd. I started thinking of the line "i sing this for the gypsies and the jews and the smoke that they made" and missed the obvious.
Oh well, time for beddy baws.

84. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #219291 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm

epeeist

All I can say is that he must be an absolutely crap gardener.

Yes, and he can reduce his dissonance further by longing for the desert.

85. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219271 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm

27. Comment #219264 by moderndaythomas

How is it that people can follow someone like this.

There's an essay by Nicholas Humphrey which is germane. Haven't read it for some time but here is the link to the pdf file.

http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/2002FollowMyLeader.pdf

86. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219262 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 2:32 pm

8teist

Ah ha!!
Now it all makes sense. Afterall it was springtime...

87. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219255 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 2:23 pm

21. Comment #219247 by 8teist

I may be mistaken but I think its possible to ski in Austria

88. A Holocaust Denier Hits Manhattan (And Hearts Hitchens)

Comment #219254 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 2:22 pm

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Can't remember who said it
Voltare? anyone?

5. Comment #219170 by Dr Doctor

"Please dont pass me by"?

PS Whatever happened to AS Marques?

89. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #219218 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 1:41 pm

Did anyone read Joe's last post?

Could someone please summarise? ;)

Steve: mmmmm currrry

lamb rogan josh?

chicken tikka chasni?

I have to make a phone call. And in honour of Joe I think a pork vindalhoo is in order...

90. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #219096 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 9:02 am

Joe

I am free and more independent in the garden with little mental stress where i am away from wasters.

Now that's what I call a nice example of cognitive dissonance reduction.

91. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #219014 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 4:12 am

Does Joe think that Allah designed women with smaller feet in order that they could get closer to the sink?

Vaal: Indeed. My thoughts are with her.

92. PZ Myers Desecrates a Eucharist

Comment #219012 by bugaboo on July 26, 2008 at 3:59 am

Dr Doctor

Cue Mr Creosote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk&feature=related

93. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?

Comment #217765 by bugaboo on July 24, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Hi Teddy

A catholic eh?

How come? Would that be bacause your parents were catholics?

Just curious.

94. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217680 by bugaboo on July 24, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Phas

ive still not yet thought of a name for this invariable progression of events

Pick any (or all) from the pharyngula dungeon

95. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217663 by bugaboo on July 24, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Robert. Is this the five minute argument or the full half hour?

What have you published robert?

Edited for tpyos

96. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217650 by bugaboo on July 24, 2008 at 1:59 pm

Evening all

What's happening?

Oh!! I see Mr O'Brien has materialised.

Bobby. Richard Dawkins is brilliant scientist.He has done more to publicise the scientific method (the greatest achievment of humanity IMO) than the vast majority of published researchers that I can think of, who are busy adding pieces to the big "jigsaw puzzle" His ability to communicate this to generations of other people is outstanding. And in order to do this you REALLY have to understand it.

Unfortunately his efforts are lost on people like you.

What have you published recently Robert?

97. Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup

Comment #217271 by bugaboo on July 24, 2008 at 5:54 am

Richard

Not yet, I'm sorry. It's a bit too soon. But i'm working on that, too

It's too soon to tell us. You are not ready or you feel that we are not ready?

Did this temporal brain infarction involve lysergic acid?

A session of sensory deprivation?

I can't wait Richard. Please tell us. Go on, go on, go on...

98. Losing Sight of Progress

Comment #215681 by bugaboo on July 22, 2008 at 8:52 am

Hellene

Its just that the whole phylogeny ontology recapitulation theory of Haekels has really bugged me for years. Its wrong, and it had some nasty adherents.

99. Losing Sight of Progress

Comment #215636 by bugaboo on July 22, 2008 at 8:15 am

23. Comment #215519 by Hellene

Pedant Alert:

Please take care. These are not transitional forms but stages of development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory#cite_note-Gilbert-0

100. Nine face stoning death in Iran

Comment #215114 by bugaboo on July 21, 2008 at 10:08 am

We need to have a moratoriun on this cloning business.

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