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951. Protests no concern for outspoken atheist

Comment #154963 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 3:10 am

Steve-

I'll qualify my statement. He made it clear that he's not a YEC. He could believe that humanity was specially created. He did mention Adam & Eve in his talk, but never elaborated. I think he was honest about not being a YEC.

952. Protests no concern for outspoken atheist

Comment #154955 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 3:04 am

I hope there is going to be a fuller summary of the event than this.

Anyway-

Derick Gillies, of the Free Church of Scotland, said there was an unbalanced debate between those believing in creationism and those believing in evolution


Yes there is. It's due to the overwhelming mountain of evidence against creationism. All we need is some creationist evidence to make the debate more balanced.

EDIT- Robertson isn't a creationist, his Bedford talk made that clear. Some in FCOS are, however.

953. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday

Comment #154941 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 2:52 am

On a separate note, has it been mentioned anywhere why this guy didn't go into the caves with his followers? I've looked, but I can't find an explanation.

954. Whale 'missing link' discovered

Comment #154937 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 2:30 am

Aragorn2007-

Where is your common sense?
Does THIS really look like a WHALE to you?!


Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but is that the extent of your argument? It doesn't LOOK like a whale, so therefore they cannot be related?

955. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154922 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 1:30 am

Peter_on_Sax-

that and the extreme differences in both quality of argument and writing ability. But mainly the 10p, I'm sure.

Scottishgeologist-

started listening to that last night. Got bored about 4 minutes in and gave up.

956. Pastor attacks scientist's talk

Comment #154910 by Quetzalcoatl on April 4, 2008 at 12:50 am

Artful Dodger-

when you've answered the question about how you can tell the metaphorical from the literal in the Bible, you also promised us evidence for objections to materialism. I can only presume that you've been using the months since you promised this to refine your arguments, all the better to impress us with.

957. Expelled Overview

Comment #154607 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Jon_Sociologist-

IQ tests have shown strong correlations between "race" and IQ, although notably these studies would not be so useful to white supremacists as "whites" did not come out on top (in fact they where middle of the road well below the Jews that they so revile).


Do you have a link to back this up?

958. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #154512 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 11:43 am

NoNeedToLie-

I have one comment to add to your interesting article-There has NEVER been nor will there EVER be a reason to lie for Jesus


Then why do so many Christians do it?

959. Scientists reshape Y chromosome haplogroup tree gaining new insights into human ancestry

Comment #154505 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 11:33 am

Anna-

Quetz,

Jesus had a mutation that allowed him to have a symbiotic relationship with some bioluminescent bacteria, didn't you know that?


I did, Anna. I first found it out when I was a Christian, reading the Bible one night. The verse is pretty obscure, but it is there.

960. Fleabytes

Comment #154269 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 2:48 am

Epeeist-

no evidence of one as yet. It might appear later on. Most of the new articles appear late afternoon, probably because that's when Josh wakes up in the US.

961. CEAI Action Alert for Science Teachers

Comment #154266 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 2:28 am


-Are you a person of strong religious belief?
-Do you feel that the theory of evolution, with its elegant explanation of how modern lifeforms came about, undermines your faith?
-Are you someone who finds critical thinking and questioning to be threatening?
-Do you feel or want to feel as if you are being persecuted for your beliefs?
-Do you wish that others would just see the light, and agree with you and your beliefs?

Then write to David Brackin, and support him in his courageous fight against the dark forces of neo-science. Start your letter "I'm a religious fundamentalist, and I KNOW I am right because....."

Contributing to this campaign will increase your likelihood of getting into heaven. So get writing, and don't forget: God is always watching.

962. Scientists reshape Y chromosome haplogroup tree gaining new insights into human ancestry

Comment #154255 by Quetzalcoatl on April 3, 2008 at 2:00 am

Hard to tell, perhaps it glowed more than others hence the whole aura thing in the pictures of him?


Little known fact: the skin of Jesus was actually fluorescent. What do you think inspired the hymn "Shine, Jesus, Shine"?

963. Fleabytes

Comment #153965 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 9:24 am

Billy-

Ezekiel 14:9- And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet.

964. Fleabytes

Comment #153937 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 8:33 am

Billy-

especially in the light of 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12:

10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness


It sure sounds like he lies to me.

965. Fleabytes

Comment #153931 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 8:24 am

Billy-

God does use lies when it suits him too (2Chron. 18:19-22)


Thanks Billy, that was the verse I was thinking of earlier. What do you have to say to that, Gimlibengloin?

966. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153915 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:57 am

Anna-

thanks for the link, it's very helpful.

967. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153911 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:49 am

Anna, DrB, Al- Thanks for the info. I freely admit that I know very little about this, so I might leave it there before I go off on a tangent.

968. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153904 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:41 am

No they don't which puts them in a bit of a bind


Can't they use this though? Surely they could say "Oh, little Hector is now a citizen, you must make us citizens too. We could not bear to be parted from our child". (Or something like that). Couldn't they get in that way?

969. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153899 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:38 am

Dr Benway-

well, the parents are taking advantage of that, aren't they? Presumably it's the case that if the baby is an automatic citizen, the parents become citizens as well?

970. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153894 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:32 am

Anna-

This is interesting. People come across our southern border often as soon as they go into labor because our hospitals are legally obligated to care for them and their child will then legally be a citizen


Those people are taking the piss a little, I think. There might be an argument for taking care of the baby until it can leave the hospital and then sending them either back across the border or to a place where they can legally apply for citizenship.

971. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153884 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:15 am

Al-

it does, but the circumstances for the US and the UK are different. I suppose then you have to start thinking about the extent of the contribution, which is difficult with people who are actively trying to stay off the radar.

972. Fleabytes

Comment #153879 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:06 am

If we're blog-plugging-

http://musingsofastrangemind.blogspot.com/

Currently celebrating 100 posts since the blog's creation!

973. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153876 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 7:03 am

Excellent, it's good to say that yesterday's bad feeling has been put aside.

Al-

What do you think, should place of birth be enough to determine citizenship?


Not necessarily, if the parents are there illegally, or enter the country with like a week to go before the child is born, for instance. But it depends, I suppose.

974. Fleabytes

Comment #153868 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 6:58 am

Gimlibengloin-

this isn't actually the quote I was thinking of, but it illustrates my point just as well:

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12- 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

975. Fleabytes

Comment #153860 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 6:53 am

Gimlibengloin-

would take your second option, Q, and say he cannot act contrary to his own nature. However, no Biblically derived philosophy would assert that God can do anything. Paul wrote, "God, who cannot lie" (Tit 1:2). God can't make two plus two equal five. He can't make square-circles


He cannot lie? But he sends lying spirits (I'll find the quote in a moment). And I notice that you have as good as admitted that God is not all-powerful. I'll remember that.

whereas atheism provides no basis for condemning an atheist like Stalin.


Groan. Why did you have to bring up that tired old claim?

976. Fleabytes

Comment #153846 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 6:42 am

Anna-

he's still going on about how the differences between Protestants and Catholics could be written on the back of a postage stamp. He used the following example which made me laugh:


Trans
subst
antia
tion

Would I think fit nicely on a stamp.


I then listed half a dozen more differences and suggested he'd need a bigger stamp.

977. Fleabytes

Comment #153836 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 6:29 am

Anna-

Jimmy will never give cogent answers. Even though we are on the internets, you can almost see the gears turning in his brain when he posts


You might be right. At the moment he's explaining that religious people who hate each other aren't "of God", although he seems to be unable to justify why.

Steve-

but what about the seventh day? You could become an atheist God, and stop believing in yourself.

978. Fleabytes

Comment #153822 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 6:07 am

Anna-

I'm still sticking to my assertion that David is always better than Jimmy


And I still agree, mostly. But things are looking up. Jimmy has had an operation that enables him to see my blog comments once again. The operation that will enable him to give cogent answers is still pending, however.

979. Fleabytes

Comment #153813 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 5:51 am

Gimlibengloin-

careful, your assumptions are showing. If God acts in accordance with who he is, is it possible for him to act in another way, ie in an evil fashion? If it is possible, then he cannot be all-good. If it is not possible, then he is bound by his own nature, which means he is not all-powerful, since an omnipotent God would be able to do anything.

980. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153776 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 4:00 am

RichardMorgan-

A rather dangerous confusion, don't you think?


Yes I do.

While you're here: what were you on about last night? (see 538. Comment #153544).

981. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153773 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 3:53 am

RichardMorgan-

I think Ssssetc is confusing the fact that the rioters were mainly either immigrants from Islamic countries or were descendants of those with there being a religious basis. If there was a religious basis to the violence, which I don't think there was, it was certainly not obvious.

982. Fleabytes

Comment #153762 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 2:14 am

Philip-

I think you are very right indeed!

For the hell of it, here's the Muse track!


If you like that, then you should check out my blog right now!

983. Who wants to kill the elderly?

Comment #153757 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 1:58 am

Teratornis-

Did anyone reading this, who grew up in a country with these restrictions on underaged drinking, have the slightest difficulty obtaining alchohol as a teenager?


No problem. House parties are the friend of the under-age drinker.

984. Fleabytes

Comment #153750 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 1:43 am

Paula-

have a good time at the event today. Will there be a report on RD.net about it?

985. Fleabytes

Comment #153746 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 1:30 am

Philip-

this reminds me of a certain Muse track you suggested to me yesterday on my blog. Perhaps Clearthinker is further along than Jimmy?

(Apologies to everyone else, for whom this will make no sense).

986. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153743 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 1:26 am

577. Comment #153705 by MaxD-

Well said, and I agree. Here in Britain multiculturalism has been encouraged to the extent that I think it has actually become a problem. This is why I think encouraging a sense of national pride is a good thing, although obviously not to the extent that it causes antipathy with other countries.

What I am referring to is the goofy multi-culturalism that makes certain ideologies off limits because they are practiced by lots of people


It boggles my mind when I run across comments by people saying that we cannot criticise human rights violations in Islamic countries because it's "their culture". All cultures are not equal, and just because something is believed by a large number of people does not make it right.

No tax bucks to faith school, or ed programs or charities.


You're right, secularisation is the way forward. If people want to send their children to faith schools, that is their right, but they shouldn't expect government funding for it. And the schools' curricula should be subject to the same standards as any other school.

987. Fleabytes

Comment #153737 by Quetzalcoatl on April 2, 2008 at 12:58 am

Clearthinker-

Yes - I understand the ridicule. And you all make it frequently. Yet a long time ago I asked you to explain how life comes from non life. Apart from falling about laughing - no one explained.


Hmm. Could this be because I am not a scientist with the appropriate training? Could it also be because we do not yet know how life got started from non-life? It would hardly be reasonable for us to expect you to provide a detailed explanation of the precise mechanism by which God created the Universe.

If you are genuinely interested, check out this link-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

It contains a good summary of the current theories. I admit that how life got started is one of the big unanswered questions, but I think RD did a good job of addressing it in TGD with his comments on large numbers, the idea that you found so ridiculous. Life is essentially a series of self-sustaining chemical reactions. And in primordial oceans rich in organics, seething with chemical reactions, it only had to happen ONCE to get the whole thing started.

988. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153570 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Anna-

I'm glad to know I can run everyone off so quickly.


Have you considered work as a bouncer?

989. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153567 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Anna-

because I'm tired, and clearly my mental faculties are slipping!

990. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153560 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 3:06 pm

Anna-

ah, I see. It may be time for me to leave.

991. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death

Comment #153558 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Sweatypalmsunday-

I haven't found a good reason why, say, an abortion one day before birth is perfectly legal and accepted by the pro-choice crowd (myself included), but an "abortion" one day after birth (i.e., infanticide) is a capital offense which nearly all modern-day people find abhorrent.


Have you mistyped something here? Who on earth thinks an abortion at eight months is acceptable?

992. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153554 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Anna-

Erm...


Durr?

993. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153548 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Uh oh


Er, what? I'm confused :(

994. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153544 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:46 pm

Richard-

sorry, don't mean to be dense, but I'm still a little confused. I don't remember saying anything about Al needing Anna to speak for him. Which comment of mine do you mean?

995. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153527 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Kaiserkriss-

I'm at home right now. But even at work, I'm on this site fairly often. My job is dull.

Anna-

I think Richard is the only one who knows what the joke is.

996. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153516 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Richard Morgan-

Quetz the Man : and EVERY group needs its Quetzalcoatl.
You're a lovely guy.
Sorry about your neurotic dragon. Has it tried Prozac?


Erm, pardon? What are you trying to say?

Kaeru-

I think we all need more tea.


I can definitely agree with that!

997. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153507 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Steve, Al-

every group has its share of idiots. And on subjects like this, misunderstandings are inevitable. Don't get disheartened too quickly.

998. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153499 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Goldy-

Soon, Chinese and Indian ideas and ideals will be everywhere too.


Problem is, they have a lot of dubious ideas as well, but I suppose no more than the West does.

999. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153488 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Goldy-

you're right, they're probably not. But I do remember thinking that it wouldn't be half bad if a version of Islam in which women could be teachers got exported to other parts of the world, rather than the radical Wahhabi crap the Saudis are funding.

1000. Anti-Quran Film Fitna Pulled From Web Due to 'Threats'

Comment #153479 by Quetzalcoatl on April 1, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Kaeru-

the UK has not gone "nuts".

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