YOUR INNER FISH | We Hear With The Bones That Reptiles Eat With | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJc008GY8vI
An interesting fact for evolution deniers: The Islamic State terrorists agree with you.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
What I wrote at Ex-Christian.Net
God is just another word for magic. Magic is not real. Therefore magical beings are impossible.
http://www.ex-christian.net/topic/69176-at-age-18-i-threw-out-catholicism-many-years-later-i-threw-out-agnosticism/#.V-bqPzKZPOa
http://www.ex-christian.net/topic/69176-at-age-18-i-threw-out-catholicism-many-years-later-i-threw-out-agnosticism/#.V-bqPzKZPOa
Friday, September 23, 2016
A warning for a stupid Christian asshole.
Posted In The God Who Took Away My Wife
- PAUL DE ROSARosa, your offensive comment was reported.Also, you have been stalking me for a long time. Stalking is not allowed here so all future comments from you will be reported. This is your last warning.
If I get another comment from the retard, report it (offensive) and write this:
Rosa, despite my warning you continue to stalk me. Your comment has been reported.
Good news: The abusive comment I complained about was deleted by the WSJ.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-god-who-took-away-my-wife-1473981767
This is why the USA is called Idiot America. The Jeebus stupidity in this quote is breathtaking.
"The world can have all the freedom of religions they want. But Religions will not get anyone into heaven. All religions was placed here by Satan. It is a story in the bible that says something like a farmer went out and planted good seeds into his garden. But at night the farmer's enemy came at night and planet evil seeds into the farmer's garden. The interpretation is that God the Father planted the TRUTH on earth and how to be saved and get to heaven. But Satan came and planted lies or religions on this earth that will lead to mankind destruction who follow these religions. In the Old Testament it tells the one who will lead all the souls,if they follow Him, to heaven was coming. The true Messiah was coming. The New Testament tells us that Jesus Christ has come and He is the one that God the Father was talking about. When Jesus was getting baptized, a voice from heaven said that this is my beloved Son. The lies that are being spread that Jesus Christ is just another religion. Liars sure know how to tell lies don't they? Maybe that why God says that all Liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. The fact is that Jesus Christ is not a religion but our Savior and the Truth that was sent from heaven to earth by God the Father. This is why God says, whosoever call upon the name of Jesus shall be saved. If people you know do not want to call upon Him, don't worry about them. You just make sure you call upon Him and get yourself saved. All those souls in man made religions? Well Jesus said that all on the broad road lead to eternal death. But the people on Christ's road, the narrow road lead to eternal life in heaven. God is the God of the LIVING and not the DEAD."
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4317652-155/letter-freedom-of-religion-is-not
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4317652-155/letter-freedom-of-religion-is-not
Sunday, September 18, 2016
What I wrote for a fucking retard at the WSJ.
Mr. Crybaby, you got a lot of nerve calling Zurbay's polite comment "incredible rudeness". You should be ashamed of yourself and you should apologize for it. Of course you won't do that because you have no moral values at all.
Also, Rosa, if you're going to write about your ridiculous childish devil fantasy as if it's real then you better be able to provide strong scientific evidence for it. And if you can't do that then don't be surprised if people ridicule you and laugh at you.
Most Christians would agree you disgrace their religion.
Since you believe in the idiotic devil fantasy then most likely you're a know-nothing evolution denier. You probably think the entire universe was magically created 6,000 years ago. You probably think people lived with dinosaurs. You probably believe in the Noah's Ark genocide myth.
Some people grow up and face facts but you're too cowardly to grow up. Reality makes you cry.
Rosa, you're a gullible know-nothing uncivilized coward. You disgrace the human race.
Since you believe in the idiotic devil fantasy then most likely you're a know-nothing evolution denier. You probably think the entire universe was magically created 6,000 years ago. You probably think people lived with dinosaurs. You probably believe in the Noah's Ark genocide myth.
Some people grow up and face facts but you're too cowardly to grow up. Reality makes you cry.
Rosa, you're a gullible know-nothing uncivilized coward. You disgrace the human race.
Friday, September 16, 2016
From Science Daily an excellent summary of what evolution is and how it works
Evolution
In biology, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population from generation to generation.
These traits are the expression of genes that are copied and passed on to offspring during reproduction.
Mutations in these genes can produce new or altered traits, resulting in heritable differences (genetic variation) between organisms.
New traits can also come from transfer of genes between populations, as in migration, or between species, in horizontal gene transfer.
Evolution occurs when these heritable differences become more common or rare in a population, either non-randomly through natural selection or randomly through genetic drift.
Natural selection is a process that causes heritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common, and harmful traits to become more rare.
This occurs because organisms with advantageous traits pass on more copies of these heritable traits to the next generation.
Over many generations, adaptations occur through a combination of successive, small, random changes in traits, and natural selection of those variants best-suited for their environment.
In contrast, genetic drift produces random changes in the frequency of traits in a population.
Genetic drift arises from the role chance plays in whether a given individual will survive and reproduce.
One definition of a species is a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another and produce fertile offspring.
However, when a species is separated into populations that are prevented from interbreeding, mutations, genetic drift, and the selection of novel traits cause the accumulation of differences over generations and the emergence of new species.
The similarities between organisms suggest that all known species are descended from a common ancestor (or ancestral gene pool) through this process of gradual divergence.
The theory of evolution by natural selection was proposed roughly simultaneously by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, and set out in detail in Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
In the 1930s, Darwinian natural selection was combined with Mendelian inheritance to form the modern evolutionary synthesis, in which the connection between the units of evolution (genes) and the mechanism of evolution (natural selection) was made.
This powerful explanatory and predictive theory has become the central organizing principle of modern biology, providing a unifying explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
"The idea that species gradually change over many generations is the cornerstone of biology. This is how we know it's true."
This is for the know-nothing science deniers, a copy and paste job from BBC News:
Evolution is one of the greatest theories in all of science. It sets out to explain life: specifically, how the first simple life gave rise to all the huge diversity we see today, from bacteria to oak trees to blue whales.
For scientists, evolution is a fact. We know that life evolved with the same certainty that we know the Earth is roughly spherical, that gravity keeps us on it, and that wasps at a picnic are annoying.
Not that you would know that from the media in some countries, where evolution is ferociously argued about – put down as "just a theory" or dismissed as a flat-out lie.
Why are biologists so certain about this? What is the evidence? The short answer is that there is so much it's hard to know where to start. But here is a very cursory summary of the evidence that life has, indeed, evolved.
The rest of it is here: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150803-how-do-we-know-evolution-is-real
"Not that you would know that from the media in some countries, where evolution is ferociously argued about – put down as 'just a theory' or dismissed as a flat-out lie."
Those backwords countries include Idiot America where I live. This country is infested with dense people who are afraid of science. Reality makes them cry.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
How did life get a foothold on Earth almost four billion years ago? Here's an idea from ScienceDaily.
Protein-like structures from the primordial soup
The scientists performed an experiment to demonstrate that it is remarkably easy for such amyloid structures to assemble spontaneously from building blocks that existed on the prebiotic Earth, and under reaction conditions that also seem plausible for the primeval era. The scientists used four simple amino acids as starting materials: glycine, alanine, aspartate and valine. In addition, they used carbonyl sulphide as a catalyst for the reaction. This volcanic gas is also likely to have existed in the atmosphere billions of years ago.
The scientists performed an experiment to demonstrate that it is remarkably easy for such amyloid structures to assemble spontaneously from building blocks that existed on the prebiotic Earth, and under reaction conditions that also seem plausible for the primeval era. The scientists used four simple amino acids as starting materials: glycine, alanine, aspartate and valine. In addition, they used carbonyl sulphide as a catalyst for the reaction. This volcanic gas is also likely to have existed in the atmosphere billions of years ago.
PBS NEWS February 27, 2016: Saudi court sentences man to 10 years, 2,000 lashes for atheist tweets
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/saudi-court-sentences-man-to-10-years-2000-lashes-for-atheist-tweets/
A court in Saudi Arabia has handed down a guilty verdict in the case of a professed atheist accused of posting hundreds of tweets denying God’s existence and criticizing religion.
His sentence: a decade in prison, a fine and a flogging.
According to a Saturday report in the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — the Saudi religious police force whose duties include monitoring social media — found more than 600 tweets posted by an unnamed 28-year-old dissenter.
According to the report, the man refused to repent for the tweets and said that he had the right to assert his opinions.
In addition to the 10-year prison term, the court sentenced him to pay 20,000 riyals — about $5,330 — and receive a beating consisting of 2,000 lashes. Such floggings are generally broken up into weekly bouts of 50 lashings each and administered according to specific guidelines.
The legal basis of the court’s decision is a series of Interior Ministry regulations introduced in 2014 under the late Saudi King Abdullah.
The laws ostensibly seek to combat terrorism, but also allow authorities “to criminalize virtually any expression or association critical of the government and its understanding of Islam,” according to the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
These regulations contain provisions — including one that criminalizes “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based” — that Human Rights Watch says have been used to silence activists and peaceful dissidents.
Atheism is a taboo subject in Saudi Arabia, where the government derives legitimacy from its adherence to an ultraconservative form of Islam, but a 2012 WIN/Gallup International poll found that 5 percent of Saudi respondents described themselves as atheists, and anecdotal reports suggest that unbelief may be on the rise in the kingdom.
A court in Saudi Arabia has handed down a guilty verdict in the case of a professed atheist accused of posting hundreds of tweets denying God’s existence and criticizing religion.
His sentence: a decade in prison, a fine and a flogging.
According to a Saturday report in the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — the Saudi religious police force whose duties include monitoring social media — found more than 600 tweets posted by an unnamed 28-year-old dissenter.
According to the report, the man refused to repent for the tweets and said that he had the right to assert his opinions.
In addition to the 10-year prison term, the court sentenced him to pay 20,000 riyals — about $5,330 — and receive a beating consisting of 2,000 lashes. Such floggings are generally broken up into weekly bouts of 50 lashings each and administered according to specific guidelines.
The legal basis of the court’s decision is a series of Interior Ministry regulations introduced in 2014 under the late Saudi King Abdullah.
The laws ostensibly seek to combat terrorism, but also allow authorities “to criminalize virtually any expression or association critical of the government and its understanding of Islam,” according to the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
These regulations contain provisions — including one that criminalizes “calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based” — that Human Rights Watch says have been used to silence activists and peaceful dissidents.
Atheism is a taboo subject in Saudi Arabia, where the government derives legitimacy from its adherence to an ultraconservative form of Islam, but a 2012 WIN/Gallup International poll found that 5 percent of Saudi respondents described themselves as atheists, and anecdotal reports suggest that unbelief may be on the rise in the kingdom.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Darwin killed God. I explained why at Yahoo Answers.
"Why are some theists very dishonest about science? Where does this idea that if the science is true then there absolutely cannot be a god? Evolution is real, it's testable, measurable, observable and very much a part of every living thing on this planet. So what. It does not disprove or prove god in anyway."
You're right about everything you wrote. However science, especially evolutionary biology, has repeatedly removed hiding places for the god of the gaps. A god fairy who never had anything to do is a fairy that doesn't exist.
My point is Darwin killed the moronic god fantasy. If the fairy's magical powers were not necessary for something as complex as the development of new species, then it's ridiculous to pretend it was necessary for anything else.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160908003331AAZ3aPE&sort=R
You're right about everything you wrote. However science, especially evolutionary biology, has repeatedly removed hiding places for the god of the gaps. A god fairy who never had anything to do is a fairy that doesn't exist.
My point is Darwin killed the moronic god fantasy. If the fairy's magical powers were not necessary for something as complex as the development of new species, then it's ridiculous to pretend it was necessary for anything else.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20160908003331AAZ3aPE&sort=R
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
What I wrote at chess.com about the evidence for evolution and the Christian retards who deny it.
The Science of Evolution (no politics or religion)
Big brother is watching so we must obey. This must be what it's like in North Korea.
Since big brother is watching maybe he should know it will be so nice if my spell check worked on this website which is the only website where it doesn't work. Or is that too hard to fix?
Totally on topic:
It's interesting that the country I live in (Idiot America) is infested with millions of evolution deniers. I'm not sure what their problem is but I noticed they know virtually nothing about the science they don't like.
I am convinced evolution by natural selection is the strongest fact of science. The best encyclopedia in the world agrees with me.
"There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms." -- Encyclopedia Britannica
It backs up what they wrote with overwhelming and undeniable powerful evidence:
The evolution deniers want to throw all that hard-earned human knowlege in the garbage.
If this comment has any spelling errors it's not my fault. My spell check should work here but it doesn't work at all. Maybe chess.com should stop spending so much time spying on us and do something to fix their problems.
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Fantastic good news for AT&T. Moody's changed their outlook from negative to stable. This was the one thing I was worried about but now everything is OK.
Rating Action:
Moody's affirms AT&T's Baa1 rating; changes outlook to stable
Global Credit Research - 29 Aug 2016
New York, August 29, 2016 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has affirmed the Baa1 senior unsecured rating and Prime-2 commercial paper rating of AT&T Inc. ("AT&T" or "the company") and changed the outlook to stable from negative based on its improved fundamental credit profile. The key drivers of the outlook change are AT&T's progress with and outlook for cost savings benefits and a more stable wireless subscriber base.
The stable outlook reflects Moody's view that AT&T will continue to grow EBITDA and improve margins such that leverage declines from 3.1x (Moody's adjusted) as of June 30 to below 3x within 12-18 months. Moody's projects AT&T's leverage will remain near or slightly above 3.0x (Moody's adjusted) for 2016, the limit identified for its Baa1 rating, but anticipates leverage to decline as synergies and cost savings initiatives become fully realized. AT&T's wireless subscriber base has stabilized as it continues to grow its Cricket prepaid brand faster than it loses post-paid feature phone subscribers. Branded phone subscribers have grown each of the last three quarters, despite intense competition. These positives are offset by Moody's belief that AT&T's cash flows will continue to be pressured as the company requires additional capital to support ongoing investments. But, the majority of the negative cash flow effect of equipment installment plans (EIPs) is behind AT&T and its current spectrum holdings allow it to be selective in the ongoing incentive auction.
Moody's affirms AT&T's Baa1 rating; changes outlook to stable
Global Credit Research - 29 Aug 2016
New York, August 29, 2016 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has affirmed the Baa1 senior unsecured rating and Prime-2 commercial paper rating of AT&T Inc. ("AT&T" or "the company") and changed the outlook to stable from negative based on its improved fundamental credit profile. The key drivers of the outlook change are AT&T's progress with and outlook for cost savings benefits and a more stable wireless subscriber base.
The stable outlook reflects Moody's view that AT&T will continue to grow EBITDA and improve margins such that leverage declines from 3.1x (Moody's adjusted) as of June 30 to below 3x within 12-18 months. Moody's projects AT&T's leverage will remain near or slightly above 3.0x (Moody's adjusted) for 2016, the limit identified for its Baa1 rating, but anticipates leverage to decline as synergies and cost savings initiatives become fully realized. AT&T's wireless subscriber base has stabilized as it continues to grow its Cricket prepaid brand faster than it loses post-paid feature phone subscribers. Branded phone subscribers have grown each of the last three quarters, despite intense competition. These positives are offset by Moody's belief that AT&T's cash flows will continue to be pressured as the company requires additional capital to support ongoing investments. But, the majority of the negative cash flow effect of equipment installment plans (EIPs) is behind AT&T and its current spectrum holdings allow it to be selective in the ongoing incentive auction.
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