251. Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways

Comment #167315 by moderndaythomas on April 23, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Speaking of how silly the Bible is, I have more than I care to have of the thing, and It never fails to surprise.

ON the occasion that I partake in a sermine, I find myself sitting behind a typical silver haired church lady of the third degree.

She speeks of how satan has control of you if you have more than one drink in an evening. Not one for heavy drinking this is of no concern other than there is a person ten inches in front of me that's insane.

Little does she know that satan has control of me and all I want to do is strangle her! Just kidding, it's not satan, it's me all the way.

252. Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways

Comment #167312 by moderndaythomas on April 23, 2008 at 10:00 pm

The city of Vancouver is rather diverse in its ethnicity, so the idea of passing the Bible around the class would be stopped immediately.

Though it should be said that this is not because of a more enlightened take on the origin of life, but rather the replacing of the one with the other.

253. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #167303 by moderndaythomas on April 23, 2008 at 9:36 pm

comment#164748by Hmmmm.

I'd like to take a shot at the naturalistic basis for compassion/morality.

Firstly I would recommend a book written by the behavioural scientist William H. Calvin. "A Brain for all Seasons." Though I warn you, he begins somewhere in the neighbourhood of about six million years ago.

The primary motive here, naturaly, is survival. Early homonid survival hinged on their ability to share and store up favours. The beginning of reciprocity, and helping your neighbors who might help you when you're in need. This is also seen in modern primates such as the Chimp and Bonobo.

I see that TheTruthID is still at it. This is for you also

254. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165469 by moderndaythomas on April 21, 2008 at 1:51 pm

The TruthID. Wow, how's it going brother?

At the end of every day I place all that I know on the scale and I weigh it.
I do this at the end of every day!

On one side I have geology, biology, astronony, and genetics, to name a few; and on the other, and going by many names I have the Book of Genesis.

At the end of every day the magnitude of the unifying theory of biology (evolution), comes out on top.

In the few decades that we've been watching the clock (genetic), there has not been any maco evolution as it requires far more geologic time than we have in one life. But the hard evidence of micro evolution, coupled with geology and the fossil record provides much in the way of positive prodictions and evidence.

And I must say that's significant in comparison to ID claim.

So while you are at making requests for evidence, can I have a little spontaneous generation?

255. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #165420 by moderndaythomas on April 21, 2008 at 1:02 pm

This breaks my heart. This poor guy could have been set strait by Stein but instead was led to fester. Surely Stein knows what Hitler had wrote in Mein Kampf.

Having not read the book myself, I had come across many quotes by prominent writers of science, and anyone claiming to be well read would most certainly be at least as marginaly informed as I am.

256. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #165216 by moderndaythomas on April 21, 2008 at 8:25 am

Indeed, "gay rights". Hitler was a clear conservative that prefered all women to be bare foot and pregnant.
I missed this the first read through.
You're either the good guy or the bad guy according to this fello, and he's having trouble deciding what side he's on I think.

You can be gay so long as you don't be gay, and you women can speak so long as you don't want us to listen, and you can ask embarrassing questions so long as you don't want an answere. And if that's ok with you I'm the good guy.

257. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #165207 by moderndaythomas on April 21, 2008 at 8:07 am

Sputtering ranters, crystals, and aliens.
Here's a guy that tries very hard at coming up short.
How deliberately uninforming of him. And how deliberately uneducated his readers will be.

I'll take scientific theory with its sputtering scientists over an unimaginative, incomplete book of Genisis with its charismatic preachers any day.

258. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163578 by moderndaythomas on April 18, 2008 at 2:48 pm

First of all, how hard is it to impregnate a virgin? Sadly I missed the boat on that, thay were all out when I got there, I've only my keen imagination.
In anycase, I'm holding out a little longer for some weightier evidence on this IDC thing.
The articles help clear out the swill.

259. School bars same-sex partners at formals

Comment #163538 by moderndaythomas on April 18, 2008 at 1:39 pm

"Most parents send their children to our schools because of the Christian values that our schools espouse, because our schools stand for biblical values,"
Have I mentioned in the past that in my 12 biology class(never mind when), a female student had inquired as to why the male skeleton had the same number of ribs as the female skeleton?
What are they teaching in their schools besides bigotry?

260. Flea of the week

Comment #163531 by moderndaythomas on April 18, 2008 at 1:19 pm

This isn't a scientology pamphlet is it. If memory serves, was not Carl Sagan an atheist?
If only he were here!
Secondly, on atheism and probability; will we be hearing yet again about all the zero's after the ten in regards to the probability of life on earth.
I wonder how many zero's after the ten one would find when calculating the probability of the magnitude and diversity of life occuring in six days, and a paltry 8000 years ago?

261. Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed

Comment #163498 by moderndaythomas on April 18, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Verry funny, I've come across a comic strip of this on the experimental physicist Mano Dingham's blog.
Look it up if you haven't already.
He is known to have an opinion or two on IDC.

262. A New Flea

Comment #160745 by moderndaythomas on April 14, 2008 at 10:56 am

Has this guy forgotten his health? He's healthy enough to write a book because of science. The fact that he's not dead right now is most certainly because of science.
An Oxford man should know that it was the threat of war that compelled the crew at the Dunn School of Pathology to look further into this stray bit of mould that Flemming failed to isolate twelve years earlier.
And what's more, I'm willing to wager that behind every organized act of warfare there's a right hand on the Bible.
Is this a safe bet?

263. Two More Fleas

Comment #160226 by moderndaythomas on April 13, 2008 at 8:32 pm

I'm reminded of the many Christian evidence seminars that I have attended. It took me no time to come to the conclusion that there is little by way of education with these groups.
They are the target audience for such books and they're ripe with ignorance and drunk on self righteousness.
From boulders tumbling to a stop at the foot of a mountain in the shape of a Volkswaggan, to 747's sponteaneously emerging from junk yards, the drivel just keeps on coming. I can't imagine what's next.

264. Richard Dawkins: 'Growth in creationist beliefs a problem for schools'

Comment #156319 by moderndaythomas on April 7, 2008 at 10:27 am

Lately I've been wondering how many of my fellow Canadians are becoming concerned with the encrouching Christian fundamental movement that is migrating up across the 49th parallel.
Through my marriage, I have inherited a place on a pew next to my wife who is, thankfully, some what liberal on the matter; my mother in law however...
My concern culminated when my children came on the scene. They are exposed to condtradictions that at an early age are difficult to clarify. One argument is just as good as another to them it seems. But I am devoutely sceptical and I do not suffer fools well. And so my struggle begins.
My first step was to make very clear that science seeks to eliminate the need for belief through evidence. And that religion, though it may always have a place in thier lives, requires faith and then must therefore lack evidence.
The importance of continuing to teach science at the elementary and secondary levels without the influence of religious creationism is paramount.
Children need a foundation of hard earned facts to place as a template up against all other alternatives that they will most certainly encounter out in the world.