https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateEvolution/comments/6k4rts/creationists_poor_understanding_of_anatomy_and/?sort=new
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Friday, June 30, 2017
What I wrote at Reddit about why I threw out the moronic Magic-Man fantasy,.
"Did anyone else become an atheist all by themselves?"
I figured it out. It took awhile because the brainwashing was intense.
A few important events: When I was 17 years old my girlfriend asked me why do I go to church. The question shocked me and I was speechless. I could not answer the question.
At about the same time I was explaining one of the Catholic fantasies to some friends. They laughed at me.
At age 18 the Pastor, 2 Sundays in a row, spent the entire sermon asking us to give him more money for the wealthy Vatican. It was then I realized the Catholic Church is a business and the customers are suckers. I never went to church again. A few years later I threw out the ridiculous god fantasy. I did this by "thinking". Thinking is the biggest threat to theism. That's why part of the brainwashing is to encourage the victims to not think.
Today I totally get it. Magic is not real therefore the Magic Man is impossible. I'm a hardcore atheist (100% certain god is bullshit). On 9/11/2001 I became anti-theist. Theism (and the equally stupid agnosticism) must be eradicated from this planet before it destroys all of us.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
What I wrote at a Missouri news website.
Parents and school boards are not qualified to make decisions about science curriculums. Only biology teachers and biologists are qualified to do this. Not teaching evolution or dumbing down evolution is child abuse. The students are being cheated. They learn how to hate science because without evolution they think it's boring. Evolution is the strongest fact of science and foundation of biology. Evolution must be part of every biology lesson. The Christians can brainwash their children all they want but they have no right to tell biology teachers how to do their jobs.
Socialist asshole in South America needs to be vaporized.
"President Nicolás Maduro said a helicopter dropped grenades on the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a terror attack"
To be more accurate it's the beginning of a civil war. It's about time. Maduro needs to be killed.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
What I wrote at Reddit - Chess.
My 1st chess club I was 16 years old in the year 1965. It was in the back room of a bowling alley in Chicago. They gave me some beer to drink. I came back every week and because I was a student everything was free. They took the time to teach me lots of stuff. It was wonderful. Lots of bright people there including a University of Chicago professor and a World War One veteran.
These days chess clubs are obsolete because we have the wonderful Lichess.org. My living room is an international chess club. I never imagined this was possible in 1965.
Monday, June 26, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
The burning stupidity of Christianity and the cowardly idiots who believe in it. What I wrote at Reddit.
The debate's subject is the title, "Has science buried God?"
There is nothing to debate. Reality is what it is. Reality is not an opinion.
Science explains reality.
The magic god fairy requires throwing out reality.
Take your pick. If you're insane and a coward you want to throw out reality. If you have a brain you accept reality.
"I will answer myself: 1. I think Craig definitely won."
Amazing. You're voting for the cowardly idiot. "Duh, duh, the Magic Man did it, duh."
Sorry but I have zero tolerance for superstitious nonsense. This is the 21st century. We know things these days. The god-soaked want to throw out all that knowledge and replace it with their childish everything-is-magic fantasy world. The religious nuts are pathetic and they deserve to be ridiculed, especially with the all brainwashing and violence that comes with these disgusting death cults.
After the 9/11 religious atrocities the time for being nice is over with. Religions are destroying this planet and that's why they need to be eradicated.
One more thing:
"Craig made me believe that intelligent design is a logically strong position."
Why can't you people be honest? Instead of using the code words "intelligent design" call it what it really is: The Magic Man did it.
Either way you're making a fool out of yourself but at least nobody can accuse you of being a liar if you admit you have a childish belief in supernatural magic.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Muslims are morons.
Interesting facts:
"Pregnant muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies who will be more prone to learning disabilities in adulthood, according to new research."
"Three in four Muslim pregnancies overlap with Ramadan and surveys indicate that the majority of pregnant Muslims observe the fast."
All this to please Allah, the most ridiculous deity ever invented.
A comment I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about Muslim scum.
"The destruction of the mosque came as Iraqi counterterrorism forces approached within 50 meters of the structure, in a final push of an eight-month campaign to reclaim the last major urban territory controlled by Islamic State in the country."
Speak English so humans can understand. 55 yards, not 50 meters.
Muslims like to blow things up including themselves. Good riddance when that happens.
Actually I deleted my own comment. At the Wall Street Journal, no matter what I write, some asshole will harass me until the end of time. The place is too uncivilized. To solve the problem I stopped writing comments there.
A comment I wrote at the New York Times about why Islam is the most disgusting religious cult ever invented.
"When it comes to the pay gap, abortion access and workplace discrimination, progressives have much to say. But we’re still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery or female genital mutilation."
Apparently liberals don't care about female genital mutilation and those other disgusting things. Then they wonder why nobody votes for them.
Liberals who love Muslims need to read "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Then maybe they will understand why Muslims do not belong in this country unless they throw their religion in the garbage where it belongs.
Also, the New York Times should publish comments that tell the truth about Islam instead of vaporizing those comments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/opinion/kamala-harris-islamism-senate-hearing.html?emc=edit_th_20170622 Kamala Harris Was Silenced. Then She Silenced Us. By AYAAN HIRSI ALI and ASRA Q. NOMANI - JUNE 22, 2017
Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The clip of the exchange went viral; journalists, politicians and everyday Americans debated what the shushing signified about our still sexist culture.
The very next day, Senator Harris took her seat in front of us as a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. We were there to testify about the ideology of political Islam, or Islamism.
Both of us were on edge. Earlier that day, across the Potomac River, a man had shot a Republican lawmaker and others on a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Va. And just moments before the hearing began, a man wearing a Muslim prayer cap had stood up and heckled us, putting Capitol police officers on high alert. We were girding ourselves for tough questions.
But they never came. The Democrats on the panel, including Senator Harris and three other Democratic female senators — North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan and Missouri’s Claire McCaskill — did not ask either of us a single question.
This wasn’t a case of benign neglect. At one point, Senator McCaskill said that she took issue with the theme of the hearing itself. “Anyone who twists or distorts religion to a place of evil is an exception to the rule,” she said. “We should not focus on religion,” she said, adding that she was “worried” that the hearing, organized by Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, would “underline that.” In the end, the only questions asked of us about Islamist ideologies came from Senator Johnson and his Republican colleague, Senator Steve Daines from Montana.
Just as we are invisible to the mullahs at the mosque, we were invisible to the Democratic women in the Senate.
How to explain this experience? Perhaps Senators Heitkamp, Harris, Hassan and McCaskill are simply uninterested in sexism and misogyny. But obviously, given their outspoken support of critical women’s issues, such as the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria and campus sexual assault, that’s far from the case.
Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world.
No, what happened that day was emblematic of a deeply troubling trend among progressives when it comes to confronting the brutal reality of Islamist extremism and what it means for women in many Muslim communities here at home and around the world. When it comes to the pay gap, abortion access and workplace discrimination, progressives have much to say. But we’re still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery or female genital mutilation.
Sitting before the senators that day were two women of color: Ayaan is from Somalia; Asra is from India. Both of us were born into deeply conservative Muslim families. Ayaan is a survivor of female genital mutilation and forced marriage. Asra defied Shariah by having a baby while unmarried. And we have both been threatened with death by jihadists for things we have said and done. Ayaan cannot appear in public without armed guards.
In other words, when we speak about Islamist oppression, we bring personal experience to the table in addition to our scholarly expertise. Yet the feminist mantra so popular when it comes to victims of sexual assault — believe women first — isn’t extended to us. Neither is the notion that the personal is political. Our political conclusions are dismissed as personal; our personal experiences dismissed as political.
That’s because in the rubric of identity politics, our status as women of color is canceled out by our ideas, which are labeled “conservative” — as if opposition to violent jihad, sex slavery, genital mutilation or child marriage were a matter of left or right. This not only silences us, it also puts beyond the pale of liberalism a basic concern for human rights and the individual rights of women abused in the name of Islam.
There is a real discomfort among progressives on the left with calling out Islamic extremism. Partly they fear offending members of a “minority” religion and being labeled racist, bigoted or Islamophobic. There is also the idea, which has tremendous strength on the left, that non-Western women don’t need “saving” — and that the suggestion that they do is patronizing at best. After all, the thinking goes, if women in America still earn less than men for equivalent work, who are we to criticize other cultures?
This is extreme moral relativism disguised as cultural sensitivity. And it leads good people to make excuses for the inexcusable. The silence of the Democratic senators is a reflection of contemporary cultural pressures. Call it identity politics, moral relativism or political correctness — it is shortsighted, dangerous and, ultimately, a betrayal of liberal values.
The hard truth is that there are fundamental conflicts between universal human rights and the principle of Shariah, or Islamic law, which holds that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s; between freedom of religion and the Islamist idea that artists, writers, poets and bloggers should be subject to blasphemy laws; between secular governance and the Islamist goal of a caliphate; between United States law and Islamist promotion of polygamy, child marriage and marital rape; and between freedom of thought and the methods of indoctrination, or dawa, with which Islamists propagate their ideas.5COMMENTS
Defending universal principles against Islamist ideology, not denying that these conflicts exist, is surely the first step in a fight whose natural leaders in Washington should be women like Kamala Harris and Claire McCaskill — both outspoken advocates for American women.
We believe feminism is for everyone. Our goals — not least the equality of the sexes — are deeply liberal. We know these are values that the Democratic senators at our hearing share. Will they find their voices and join us in opposing Islamist extremism and its war on women?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@ayaan) is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. Asra Q. Nomani (@asranomani), an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter, is a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement.
Apparently liberals don't care about female genital mutilation and those other disgusting things. Then they wonder why nobody votes for them.
Liberals who love Muslims need to read "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Then maybe they will understand why Muslims do not belong in this country unless they throw their religion in the garbage where it belongs.
Also, the New York Times should publish comments that tell the truth about Islam instead of vaporizing those comments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/opinion/kamala-harris-islamism-senate-hearing.html?emc=edit_th_20170622 Kamala Harris Was Silenced. Then She Silenced Us. By AYAAN HIRSI ALI and ASRA Q. NOMANI - JUNE 22, 2017
Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The clip of the exchange went viral; journalists, politicians and everyday Americans debated what the shushing signified about our still sexist culture.
The very next day, Senator Harris took her seat in front of us as a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. We were there to testify about the ideology of political Islam, or Islamism.
Both of us were on edge. Earlier that day, across the Potomac River, a man had shot a Republican lawmaker and others on a baseball diamond in Alexandria, Va. And just moments before the hearing began, a man wearing a Muslim prayer cap had stood up and heckled us, putting Capitol police officers on high alert. We were girding ourselves for tough questions.
But they never came. The Democrats on the panel, including Senator Harris and three other Democratic female senators — North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan and Missouri’s Claire McCaskill — did not ask either of us a single question.
This wasn’t a case of benign neglect. At one point, Senator McCaskill said that she took issue with the theme of the hearing itself. “Anyone who twists or distorts religion to a place of evil is an exception to the rule,” she said. “We should not focus on religion,” she said, adding that she was “worried” that the hearing, organized by Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, would “underline that.” In the end, the only questions asked of us about Islamist ideologies came from Senator Johnson and his Republican colleague, Senator Steve Daines from Montana.
Just as we are invisible to the mullahs at the mosque, we were invisible to the Democratic women in the Senate.
How to explain this experience? Perhaps Senators Heitkamp, Harris, Hassan and McCaskill are simply uninterested in sexism and misogyny. But obviously, given their outspoken support of critical women’s issues, such as the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria and campus sexual assault, that’s far from the case.
Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world.
No, what happened that day was emblematic of a deeply troubling trend among progressives when it comes to confronting the brutal reality of Islamist extremism and what it means for women in many Muslim communities here at home and around the world. When it comes to the pay gap, abortion access and workplace discrimination, progressives have much to say. But we’re still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery or female genital mutilation.
Sitting before the senators that day were two women of color: Ayaan is from Somalia; Asra is from India. Both of us were born into deeply conservative Muslim families. Ayaan is a survivor of female genital mutilation and forced marriage. Asra defied Shariah by having a baby while unmarried. And we have both been threatened with death by jihadists for things we have said and done. Ayaan cannot appear in public without armed guards.
In other words, when we speak about Islamist oppression, we bring personal experience to the table in addition to our scholarly expertise. Yet the feminist mantra so popular when it comes to victims of sexual assault — believe women first — isn’t extended to us. Neither is the notion that the personal is political. Our political conclusions are dismissed as personal; our personal experiences dismissed as political.
That’s because in the rubric of identity politics, our status as women of color is canceled out by our ideas, which are labeled “conservative” — as if opposition to violent jihad, sex slavery, genital mutilation or child marriage were a matter of left or right. This not only silences us, it also puts beyond the pale of liberalism a basic concern for human rights and the individual rights of women abused in the name of Islam.
There is a real discomfort among progressives on the left with calling out Islamic extremism. Partly they fear offending members of a “minority” religion and being labeled racist, bigoted or Islamophobic. There is also the idea, which has tremendous strength on the left, that non-Western women don’t need “saving” — and that the suggestion that they do is patronizing at best. After all, the thinking goes, if women in America still earn less than men for equivalent work, who are we to criticize other cultures?
This is extreme moral relativism disguised as cultural sensitivity. And it leads good people to make excuses for the inexcusable. The silence of the Democratic senators is a reflection of contemporary cultural pressures. Call it identity politics, moral relativism or political correctness — it is shortsighted, dangerous and, ultimately, a betrayal of liberal values.
The hard truth is that there are fundamental conflicts between universal human rights and the principle of Shariah, or Islamic law, which holds that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s; between freedom of religion and the Islamist idea that artists, writers, poets and bloggers should be subject to blasphemy laws; between secular governance and the Islamist goal of a caliphate; between United States law and Islamist promotion of polygamy, child marriage and marital rape; and between freedom of thought and the methods of indoctrination, or dawa, with which Islamists propagate their ideas.5COMMENTS
Defending universal principles against Islamist ideology, not denying that these conflicts exist, is surely the first step in a fight whose natural leaders in Washington should be women like Kamala Harris and Claire McCaskill — both outspoken advocates for American women.
We believe feminism is for everyone. Our goals — not least the equality of the sexes — are deeply liberal. We know these are values that the Democratic senators at our hearing share. Will they find their voices and join us in opposing Islamist extremism and its war on women?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@ayaan) is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. Asra Q. Nomani (@asranomani), an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter, is a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Launch Window: July 31 – August 19, 2018
Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. Launching in 2018, Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.
Parker Solar Probe is an extraordinary and historic mission exploring arguably the last and most important region of the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft to finally answer top-priority science goals for over five decades.
But we don't do this just for the basic science.
One recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that without advance warning a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone, and the eastern seaboard of the US could be without power for a year.
In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Parker Solar Probe to touch the sun.
Parker Solar Probe is an extraordinary and historic mission exploring arguably the last and most important region of the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft to finally answer top-priority science goals for over five decades.
But we don't do this just for the basic science.
One recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that without advance warning a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone, and the eastern seaboard of the US could be without power for a year.
In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, we will send Parker Solar Probe to touch the sun.
I found a Christian asshole who threatens people with his invisible friend. The stupid, the extreme stupid, it burns.
WHAT THE CHRISTIAN FUCKTARD WROTE:
Someone came up with this acronym: Bible-Book of Instruction Before Leaving Earth. So let me quote from it regarding this article. In the Book of Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 6, "Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes Him MUST believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." Faith is defined in verse 1 of the chapter,"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." It comes by knowing biblical content.
It must be difficult for teens, who started out with any modicum of faith in God, to have any left after going through the secular humanist brainwashing in the public school system. But in the end each of us will be held accountable, oftentimes beginning in this life. As for the afterlife, ever heard of the book "23 Minutes in Hell"? That is a stark description of the fate awaiting everyone not rightly related to God.
WHAT I WROTE:
I saw your preacher man's YouTube video. Apparently he and his gullible customers think his loving god will torture anyone who isn't stupid enough to believe in the preacher's idiotic disgusting religious cult.
This is a mental illness and it's incurable. The brain damage can't be fixed.
"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Faith is an excuse for cowards to believe any childish nonsense that makes them fell good.
Some friendly advice: If you want to sell your Magic Man you're not going to accomplish anything if you threaten them with torture. This makes you equal to the Islamic State terrorists.
I'm leaving this up here for 5 minutes then I will delete it because I don't want to have a conversation with somebody who is insane.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Every day I eat a dinosaur. Chickens are dinosaurs.
"Birds are dinosaurs not just because they evolved from dinosaurs, but because they are more closely related to some of the extinct dinosaurs than those dinosaurs are to each other! So next time that someone tells you that dinosaurs are extinct, you can tell them that, actually, there are probably more species of dinosaur alive today than there were in the Mesozoic!"
Monday, June 19, 2017
Agnostics are a fucking retards. They have my contempt.
"Many atheists (like me) maintain an agnostic position that God's existence cannot be proven or disproven. We therefore reject belief in God, but do not outright state God doesn't exist."
Then you're not an atheist. You're an agnostic. Is supernatural magic real or not? You can't figure it out. Why can't you figure it out? That's a good question. Maybe you should try harder.
I'm 100% certain the sky daddy, aka Magic Man, Zeus, God, is not real. I know this for the same reason I know the Easter Bunny is not real. There is no magic in the universe therefore magical rabbits and magic god fairies are impossible, not to mention childish and too ridiculous to take seriously.
Agnostics are part of the religious insanity problem because Christian bible thumpers and Muslim terrorists love agnostics.
Saturday, June 17, 2017
A quote I wrote myself.
Science is about understanding reality. Religion is about throwing out reality.
Thursday, June 15, 2017
The difference between science and religion. A quote I wrote.
Science requires testable evidence for everything.
Religion requires wishful thinking and stupidity.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
These is a lot of burning stupid in Idiot America. What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal.
"Thomas Ramey quit praying a few years ago when he was 16 years old because it didn’t seem to matter. The 18-year-old, who was baptized and confirmed as a Methodist, doesn’t believe in an afterlife, but still believes in a God."
Mr. Ramey, you stopped talking to yourself and you threw out the ridiculous magical 2nd life fantasy which was invented by feeble-minded cowards.
You are making progress but before you can call yourself normal you have to throw out the idiotic idea there is a magical being (Allah, Zeus, God) hiding somewhere in the universe.
There is a lot of burning stupid in Idiot America. You don't want to be part of that.
"Thomas still believes in God. The earth and solar system are too complex and fragile not to have something influencing and connecting everything, he says."
Let's throw out science and pretend the Magic Man did it. This is the stupid you need to throw out.
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"Right when kids are having the most doubts, we ask them to affirm their faith,” says Dr. Zirschky.
Faith is an excuse for feeble-minded cowards to believe any idiotic childish fantasy that makes them feel good. Faith is brain damage.
"No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue." -- PZ Myers
"Religion is the antithesis of science, an anesthetic for the mind that disables critical thought and encourages the acceptance of inanity as fact, and wishful thinking as evidence." -- PZ Myers, University of Minnesota biologist
"Religion is the antithesis of science, an anesthetic for the mind that disables critical thought and encourages the acceptance of inanity as fact, and wishful thinking as evidence." -- PZ Myers, University of Minnesota biologist
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-teenage-spiritual-crisis-1497366054
The stupid. The burning out of control stupid. What an airhead wrote:
it is your mindset that is mindrot! A faithlesss Godless mentality like yours permeates the world today and is destroying it. A Godless life allows us to think we are our own god and have no need for the supreme good God. Faithlessness fosters despair; no hope for a better future and brings people to do unthinkable things. Your denial of the good God doesn't nullify His existence but verifies it. The evil one, the devil, tricks you into denying that God exists and your disbelief verifies the devils existrence. You don't even try to find Him when He's been there your entire life. Shame.
The stupid. The burning out of control stupid. What an airhead wrote:
it is your mindset that is mindrot! A faithlesss Godless mentality like yours permeates the world today and is destroying it. A Godless life allows us to think we are our own god and have no need for the supreme good God. Faithlessness fosters despair; no hope for a better future and brings people to do unthinkable things. Your denial of the good God doesn't nullify His existence but verifies it. The evil one, the devil, tricks you into denying that God exists and your disbelief verifies the devils existrence. You don't even try to find Him when He's been there your entire life. Shame.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Was Darwin Wrong? National Geographic - November 2004
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/index.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/fulltext.html
Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News August 31, 2005
https://ncse.com/news/2004/10/national-geographic-answers-no-00526
The cover story in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic, by the acclaimed science writer David Quammen, is entitled "Was Darwin Wrong?" And, of course, the answer is no.
In his thirty-three-page essay, accompanied by the sort of splendid photography for which National Geographic is famous, Quammen argues:
Evolution is both a beautiful concept and an important one, more crucial nowadays to human welfare, medical science, and to our understanding of the world than ever before. It's also deeply persuasive -- a theory you can take to the bank. The essential points are slightly more complicated than most people assume, but not so complicated that they can't be comprehended by any attentive person. Furthermore, the supporting evidence is abundant, various, ever increasing, solidly interconnected, and easily available in museums, popular books, textbooks, and a mountainous accumulation of peer-reviewed scientific studies. No one needs to, and no one should, accept evolution merely as a matter of faith.Although the complete essay is not available on-line, the National Geographic web site contains excerpts as well as extra features such as field notes, links, and a bibliography.
Thursday, June 8, 2017
An airhead for Jeebus wrote "God is always at work within His creation, directing with unseen hands the direction of His work."
An airhead for Jeebus wrote "God is always at work within His creation, directing with unseen hands the direction of His work."
Imagine the stupidity required to write that bullshit. This is at a science article at the Wall Street Journal.
Somebody with a brain wrote a reply to this bullshit and some other bullshit the airhead wrote. Here it is:
Imagine the stupidity required to write that bullshit. This is at a science article at the Wall Street Journal.
Somebody with a brain wrote a reply to this bullshit and some other bullshit the airhead wrote. Here it is:
Kweationist Klownery.
The typical/nonsensical, 'irreducible complexity' of 'Intelligent Design'/Stealth Kweationists.
A Shame you had to Blight this important news with your religious views, even if you masked them as scientific.
Your attempted fallacy?
Argument from Incredulity, a variant of Argument from Ignorance.
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You couldn't answer me, but I will again, rebut your answers to others.
One cannot prove the Negative that there is No god.
Of course, you can't prove I'M not god.
Ho Hum.
Ho Hum.
Science has shown that literal Genesis/Young Earth Creationism/YEC/6000 year old Earth is wrong. A Dozen sciences show it so.
All of the Tens of Thousands of gods on which we have a verdict, have been shown to be false. Gods created for the same reason as you have.
'God of the Gaps' (google it): creating gods for what you don't understand, is bad reasoning, and again, shown to be false in all cases on which we have a verdict.
"We don't know"/"We don't know yet", has always been the rational answer, rather than fabricating gods.
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This is what I wrote:
"We don't know"/"We don't know yet", has always been the rational answer, rather than fabricating gods.
Well done. Thanks.
The dense god-soaked are constantly looking for a hiding place for their god of the gaps. Their logic: "I'm too dumb to understand this and every scientist, including scientists thousands of years from now, will never understand, therefore the Magic Man did it."
The stupid, it burns.
There's a lot more stupid at that place. The average WSJ reader is a god-soaked moron.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Theism is brain damage.
Religions will eventually go extinct because they're ridiculous. Good riddance when that happens. The violence, the brainwashing, the breathtaking stupidity, we don't need this stuff.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about birds: "200 million years of evolution but only 500 years to wipe out 190 species thanks to humans."
"Birds are not only the proverbial canaries in the coal mine that by their presence and health tell us if something is wrong with our environment. They are subjects of admiration in their own right. It took evolution only several million years to produce us from a furry ape, but it has been working for perhaps 200 million years to make present-day birds out of dinosaurs."
200 million years of evolution but only 500 years to wipe out 190 species thanks to humans.
From wikipedia "Since 1500, over 190 species of birds have become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing."
"Currently there are approximately 10,000 species of birds, with an estimated 1,200 considered to be under threat of extinction."
Google "List of extinct birds".
Saturday, June 3, 2017
What I wrote at Reddit - Chess about assholes who distract their opponent with a draw offer.
"If the position is obviously dead drawn, but for whatever reason my opponent declines a draw offer, what's the etiquette for making another offer? I can't really just offer a draw after every move, right? That would seem disrespectful. So how many moves would you say is an acceptable amount before offering a draw again?"
It's not necessary to offer a draw. Just try to repeat the position 3 times. If your opponent doesn't cooperate the answer is no. If you ask for a draw, which is distracting aka rude, and the answer is no, then do not offer a draw again. If your opponent wants a draw he will repeat the position 3 times or offer a draw. If he doesn't want a draw he won't do these things so don't be a pest.
I never ask for a draw. Threefold repetition is what I use. It's totally wrong to distract the opponent with a draw offer. Distracting the opponent is cheating in my opinion.
Some advice I wrote for somebody who figured out life is meaningless.
"How do you put up with all the suffering and bullshit of daily life and make anything worth it?"
I'm not suffering. I eat good stuff, I swim, read fantastic books, and play chess on the internet.
Of course it helps to be retired and have a nice income without having to earn it.
One more thing: This makes life interesting. The best game ever invented - chess. And the best place to learn and play the game is Lichess.org which is totally free.
Some day you will be a stinking pile of garbage, aka worm food. So don't waste your precious life complaining.
“The mind is its own place and of itself can make a heaven of Hell or a hell of Heaven”
-- John Milton
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
-- Shakespeare
Thursday, June 1, 2017
What I wrote at Reddit - Debate A Christian.
In America at least half the Christians are evolution deniers aka creationists because they believe in the magical creation of species. Do these people realize they're disgracing their religion?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAChristian/comments/6e0re2/weekly_ask_a_christian_may_29_2017/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAChristian/comments/6e0re2/weekly_ask_a_christian_may_29_2017/