A UK paleontologist, Richard Fortey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fortey

I wrote a comment at a thread about evolution at chess.com: Why people reject evolution

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/why-people-reject-evolution?page=4

I have read 5 books about evolution the evolution deniers have never read and never will read. Denying this basic scientific fact requires going out of the way to know nothing.

Your Inner Fish, A Journey Into The 3.5-Billion-Year History Of The Human Body by Neil Shubin

Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne

The Making of the Fittest, DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll

The Greatest Show on Earth, The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

Evolution, The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer

These 5 books all explain different evidences for evolution. There is virtually no overlap. But still all the evidence described in these 5 books is only a very tiny fraction of the evidence for evolution. The science deniers have no idea how much powerful evidence they have to throw out to deny the established truth of evolution which is the strongest fact of science.

Religious upbringing linked to less altruism, study of children suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105121916.htm

"Our findings contradict the common-sense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind toward others. In our study, kids from atheist and non-religious families were, in fact, more generous," said Decety, the Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry and the College and director of the University of Chicago Child NeuroSuite.

At the Wall Street Journal a comment I wrote. The article was about the childish nitpicking about Ben Carson from desperate liberal loons.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ben-carsons-past-faces-deeper-questions-1446861864

This comment is not about the childish nitpicking about what happened a half century ago. This comment is about why I'm voting for Ben Carson (aka the next President of the United States).

I agree with Carson's idea about government spending, taxes, foreign policy, and allowing exports of oil & natural gas. Please see this 15 minute interview (which you may have already seen because I provided this link a few times before):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCtwa_g-Mg

I also like what Carson said about skin color which is the way it should be in my opinion.

"The skin doesn't matter to me. I really don't think those superficial characteristics have a place in society today."

"If somebody has a problem with the way that I look, more power to them. Let them sit and stew in it. I just got so many more important things to do than to deal with that."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/02/politics/ben-carson-gop-poll/

At the Wall Street Journal I tried to explain reality for a god-soaked coward.

Sir, the title of this article has the words "the immortal soul". That's what I wrote about.

The god-soaked can't exist without the soul fantasy because that means we are just ordinary animals and we are nothing but a stinking pile of garbage when we drop dead, equal to a dead cockroach. That's why the invisible soul was invented. It was an excuse for cowards to pretend they have a magical 2nd life. The god-soaked say they don't believe in magic but everyone else knows that's exactly what they believe. 

I would ignore this ridiculous inanity but the magical soul is not a harmless fantasy. It makes the daily suicide bombings possible. Also, children are brainwashed to throw out reality and replace it with a magical immortal soul. This is child abuse and I will never tolerate it.

Instead of complaining, the reality deniers should try to realize they are completely wrong about everything.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-knot-of-the-universe-1446837781?hubRefSrc=email&utm_source=lfemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lfnotification&alg=y

Sweden is infested with Muslim scum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uws9BlnJmjI

Christians, Jews, and atheists never blow themselves up. Muslims blow themselves up every day. Why do only Muslims have this mental illness?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151105093204AAQm69k

MUSLIM FUCKTARDS, MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE AND BLOW YOURSELF UP.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151105064122AAr1OHv

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/09/05/saudi-court-upholds-ruling-against-atheist-blogger-he-faces-10-years-in-jail-and-1000-lashes-for-insulting-islam/

Ramadan, Explain this: Saudi Court Upholds Ruling Against Blogger. He Faces 10 Years in Jail and 1,000 Lashes for “Insulting Islam”?

You Muslim scum have long ago lost your right to live on this planet.

Several images of liberal loons. Thanks Google.

https://www.google.com/search?q=liberal+loons&num=30&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCLq9rtrP9sgCFUd5JgodTm0NNw&biw=1622&bih=957

Wall Street Journal: Religious ‘Nones’ Multiply in Both U.S. Political Parties The unaffiliated have become largest Democratic group; evangelicals remain dominant in GOP

"Nones—who include not only atheists and agnostics, but people who may believe in God but have no specific religious affiliation—have grown as an overall share of the American population, to 23% of the total, compared with 16% seven years earlier, according to research that Pew released earlier this year."

A recent Gallup poll shows that 19% of Americans accept the established truth of evolution and are certain the Magic Man had nothing to do with it. I think it's fair to say most of these 19% are atheists. The rest are deists who prefer to hide their Magic Man of the gaps before the Big Bang.

Wall Street Journal: Religious ‘Nones’ Multiply in Both U.S. Political Parties The unaffiliated have become largest Democratic group; evangelicals remain dominant in GOP

What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about the stupidity of the liberals at the New York Times.

From an editorial at the New York Times where a liberal is criticizing Ben Carson for ridiculous reasons: “These young folks need to know that the way to escape their often dismal situations is contained within themselves.”

The NYT's article actually complained about this quote from Mr. Carson, as if good advice is a bad thing, while food stamps, welfare, and never ending poverty is a good thing. Most of the comments complained about the same quote, and a few other trivial things. Apparently they can't stand the  idea that an African American can be a conservative.

This is another good reason to nominate Carson. If he becomes president (the polls show Carson could easily defeat Clinton) then 8 years later, with charter schools to replace inferior public schools, and jobs being created instead of being destroyed,  the black population will realize the liberals are the enemy and they will never vote for a democrat again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/ben-carson-is-inspiring-but-not-for-president.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/carson-calls-for-major-changes-in-gop-debate-format-distribution-1446326197

Creationists: If humans aren't animals, why do our embryos look so similar to other animal's embryos?

A famous quote every biologist in the world agrees with: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." 

From Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne: 

"Creationists often cite Haeckel's 'fudged' drawings as a tool for attacking evolution in general: evolutionists, they claim, will distort the facts to support a misguided Darwinism. But the Haeckel story is not so simple. Haeckel may not have been guilty of malfeasance, but only of sloppiness: his "fraud" consisted solely of illustrating three different embryos using the same woodcut. When called to account, he admitted the error and corrected it. There's simply no evidence that he consciously distorted the appearance of embryos to make them look more similar than they already were." 

"The blood vessels of embryonic humans start out resembling those of embryonic fish, with a top and bottom vessel connectedly by parallel vessels, one on each side ('aortic arches'). In fish, these side vessels carry blood to and from the gills. Embryonic and adult fish have six pairs of arches; this is the basic ground plan that appears at the beginning of development of all vertebrates. In the human embryo, the first, second, and fifth arches form briefly at the beginning of development, but disappear by four weeks of age, when the third, fourth, and sixth arches have rearranged themselves, looking much like the embryonic vessels of a reptile. In the final adult configuration, the vessels are rearranged still more, with some having vanished or transformed themselves into different vessels. The aortic arches of fish undergo no such transformation." 

"All vertebrates begin development looking like embryonic fish because we all descended from a fishlike ancestor with a fishlike embryo. We see strange contortions and disappearances of organs, blood vessels, and gill slits because descendants still carry the genes and developmental programs of ancestors. And the sequence of development changes also make sense: at one stage of development mammals have an embryonic circulatory system like that of reptiles; but we don't see the converse situation. Why? Because mammals descended from early reptiles and not vice versa."

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151029111235AARjSaC&sort=N

A god-soaked anti-science fucktard in some town in Virginia wrote a letter to their newspaper about sticking magical creationism bullshit into public schools. I wrote this comment.

"there is data pro and con for naturalistic evolution"

You don't know what you're talking about. Evolution has been accepted by biologists as fact for more than a century. Today there are countless thousands of powerful evidences for evolution from DNA sequencing and other branches of science. Evolution has become the strongest fact of science. You should educate yourself about evolution instead of lying about it.

"the many scientists who also believe in creationism"

Science deniers are not scientists. Also, scientists do not invoke supernatural magic to explain the natural world. And that's what your childish creationism fantasy really is, a belief in magic.

This quote from a famous paleontologist was written back when magical creationism was called "creation science" even though there is nothing scientific about magic.

"Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage—good teaching—than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?"
-- Stephen Jay Gould

Another reason magical creationism is not taught in public schools is because teaching anti-science nonsense is child abuse. Another reason is it would violate the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights - we can't be sticking moronic religous fantasies into public schools.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/greenenews/opinion/to-the-editor/article_ffd98a40-7e4b-11e5-9ba1-37325b9f6b6d.html

The god of the gaps offers no explanation for those gaps. Why can't the god-soaked understand this?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151028002400AA85LWR

American stupidity in American universities. Two comments I wrote at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

http://info.umkc.edu/unews/keeping-religion-out-of-science-class/

1. GM

   October 26, 2015 at 6:20 pm

   “Why not let people choose what they want their children to learn?” Wellman said.

   There is a huge flaw in this line of thinking – primarily because the fact that parents can be mistaken or biased isn’t taken into consideration.”

   This is concerning. I’m all for teaching evolution. But the concept put forth here that scientists, or anyone for that matter, takes precedence over parents for what a child is taught and exposed to is appalling. Do you actually believe that “experts” in their fields are not biased? That they have a greater love and concern for the individual child than that child’s parents? This is an “ivory tower” belief.

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     Eric C.

     October 26, 2015 at 10:35 pm

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     “But the concept put forth here that scientists, or anyone for that matter, takes precedence over parents for what a child is taught and exposed to is appalling.”

     How is letting scientists and science teachers make decisions about science curriculums appalling? And since when did parents (especially parents who deny basic scientific facts) become qualified to say anything about science curriculums?

     The experts are biased? You want to throw out the experts because they accept reality?

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   Don

   October 26, 2015 at 6:41 pm

   Religion has been a problem for many many years in the classroom. Instead of sound science the 3% atheist population has infiltrated the PUBLIC classroom (not their own private schools) with 100% religious conjecture that all things were created without design and without a creator. This nonsensical, unscientific, debunked philosophy has cause more problem and chaos in the schools and in the world than any other and the public needs to be EDUCATED on the reality of the RELIGION being taught and the VAST evidence that supports what has ALWAYS been taught in the past in this nation.

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     Eric C.

     October 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm

     Your comment is awaiting moderation.

     “100% religious conjecture that all things were created without design and without a creator”

     Your ridiculous idea that basic facts of science supported by more than 150 years of scientific discoveries is “religious conjecture” is why we let scientists (instead of science deniers) make decisions about science curriculums.

     Evolution has been accepted by biologists as fact for more than a century. Today thanks to countless thousands of powerful evidences from DNA sequencing and other branches of science, evolution has become the strongest fact of science.

     Another thing about evolution is it’s interesting. Don’t teach evolution and students learn how to hate science because they think it’s boring. Teach evolution and students learn how to love science.

     Your magical creator fantasy does not belong in the 21st century. But you go ahead and believe your nonsense, nobody cares. Just have the decency to not infect America’s students with your disease.

Ben Carson will be the next president of the United States.

A comment I wrote at the New York Times. Out of 790 comments there were 11 "NYT Picks".  What I wrote was one of those 11 comments.

I have a very low opinion of Mr. Carson's denial of evolution which is my favorite branch of science. Despite this strange problem he has, I am for him 100%. I agree with his ideas about foreign policy, government spending, taxes, and allowing America to export oil and natural gas, especially to countries who depend on Russia for these things. His soft voice and his inability to insult anyone is exactly what this country needs to get the 2 political parties to work together to solve problems instead of constantly being at war with each other. This may surprise fans of Ms. Clinton but several polls show Ben Carson would be able to defeat her.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_carson_vs_clinton-5119.html

Another comment written by someone else.

Joe in Hartford, CT:

Wow a bunch of NYT fans commenting on the leading GOP candidate who is black and likely the most educated and experienced contender of both parties. I've noticed the word extreme and fundamentalist, bigot, and megalomaniacal used to describe this guy, a few even call these assertions facts. I've heard that as a doctor, he has no idea what Obamacare is or does. You folks sure love to throw big words and concepts around.

You all seem to believe that "experience" and leadership only comes from your blessed Taj Mahal on the Potomac. Sorry, there hasn't been leadership in that town in many years, and just being there does not confer some kind of magic quality that guaranty's even a mediocre outcome. We've already gotten several mediocre outcomes, how about an actual person with comviction and passion and courage take the helm for once?

So he doesn't think Muslims should lead the US because of inherent conflict with their faith, have any of you read the Quran? Is there pendency in a democratic society for that? Has anyone asked how or if his religion has ever entered his professional life? This is a man who has risked lives while in surgery, I think he is supremely qualified to judge whether additional lives should be sent overseas chasing God knows what.

You folks claiming anyone who does not March with you is extremist has become predictable and laughable. You've blown your credibility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/us/politics/calm-manner-has-ben-carson-rising-in-polls.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-slaps-carson-as-polls-shift-1445812954

What I wrote at an atheist website.

"Christianity is very specific about the character of this God, his attributes, his personality, his preferences, and his methods of working with humanity."

A few times I have tried to explain something to Christians but they are too dense to be able to understand. My idea is the universe is unimaginably vast. There are countless trillions of solar systems out there. Our Sun and our 8 planets are equal to one grain of sand in the Sahara Desert. So why would a magical master of the entire universe (if it was real, but of course it's just a ridiculous fantasy) want to give this tiny insignificant planet so much special treatment? It's insane to pretend our species and this planet are a big deal. But Christians are Christians because, to put it as nicely as possible, are just plain stupid. They might have successful careers, but anyone who believes their moronic fantasies has a terrible mental illness which is almost always incurable. What a waste of a life. These cowardly feeble-minded people are pathetic.

http://new.exchristian.net/2015/10/if-there-was-god.html

Ben Carson, candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination for USA president, is an evolution denier, aka fucking idiot. I'm voting for him anyway. I wrote this comment about him at the Wall Street Journal.

The Republicans have to defeat Ms. Clinton. Nothing else matters. That means Republican voters need to look at the polls to see which candidate has the best chance of winning the election and then voting for that candidate. Polls will change but right now that Republican is Ben Carson who has my vote.

There is another reason to vote for Mr. Carson. He is fantastic. I was totally impressed by everything he said at a CNN interview, 15 minutes, and I recommend everyone watch it. What surprised me was his knowledge of foreign policy, and his ideas about government spending and the income tax. Ben Carson is what I call a Real Republican.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCtwa_g-Mg "Ben Carson on being a black president"

One more thing: Unlike for example Mr. Trump he does not insult people. I don't think he could do that even if he wanted to.

I WROTE SOME MORE STUFF ABOUT BEN CARSON HERE:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/10/44-percent-of-republicans-favor-a-christian-theocracy-according-to-a-new-survey/

I wrote this at
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/10/ben-carson-if-noah-built-an-ark-i-can-be-president/

Atheist since 1967, anti-theist since 9/11/2001. I have extreme contempt for bible thumpers, Muslim scum, deists, and agnostics.

However I am a Republican, fiscal conservative, very conservative, I could never vote for a liberal extremist like Ms. Clinton. A problem (and it's a terrible disgusting problem) is virtually all Republican politicians are science deniers, aka idiots. Since I want to vote for a conservative I have to vote for my favorite idiot.

I was not going to vote for Ben Carson until I listened to a 15 minute interview (see video I provided, I bet nobody here watched it). More research showed that Carson could easily defeat Clinton. I was impressed by what Carson said, and even more impressed he could win the election. So I'm voting for him despite his god disease.

If he wins this would be two black presidents in a row. The difference is unlike Obama who would rather suck up to incompetent teachers than do anything about terrible schools in black neighborhoods, and unlike Obama who goes out of his way to destroy jobs, Mr. Carson would actually be a good thing for African Americans. His economic policy would create jobs, not destroy jobs, and like virtually all conservatives, he would not tolerate the teacher's unions who only care about themselves instead of the students.

Carson is not perfect but he is the best Republican candidate for many reasons, and many times better than what the Democratic Party offers. Look at the polls. He will defeat Ms. Clinton.

When I first read about this evidence for evolution I thought this should be enough for even creationist morons to understand. I was wrong.

What I wrote about idiot religions.

Religion has contributed absolutely nothing to human progress. Instead religion has a long history of getting in the way. Then of course there's the violence, brainwashing, and breathtaking stupidity, all thanks to religion.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/science-is-the-atheists-fanatical-religion?page=5