On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Why is Christianity and Islam so evil?
The question "Why is Christianity and Islam so evil?" was asked at Yahoo Answers. This was my reply:
"Why is Christianity and Islam so evil?"
Books could be written to answer your question. I will just write about their worst evil, the evil that keeps these disgusting cults from going extinct.
It's called religious indoctrination but it should be called child abuse. Christian scum and Muslim scum know their fantasies are too ridiculous for any adult to take seriously. So the brainwashing begins at the earliest possible age. The breathtaking stupidity is repeated thousands of times. They drill it into their gullible minds until the young victims have permanent brain damage.
My contempt for these child abusers (every Christian idiot and Muslim idiot in the world) is complete. They all belong in prison for ruining the lives of innocent children.
"Why is Christianity and Islam so evil?"
Books could be written to answer your question. I will just write about their worst evil, the evil that keeps these disgusting cults from going extinct.
It's called religious indoctrination but it should be called child abuse. Christian scum and Muslim scum know their fantasies are too ridiculous for any adult to take seriously. So the brainwashing begins at the earliest possible age. The breathtaking stupidity is repeated thousands of times. They drill it into their gullible minds until the young victims have permanent brain damage.
My contempt for these child abusers (every Christian idiot and Muslim idiot in the world) is complete. They all belong in prison for ruining the lives of innocent children.
There is at least one suicide bombing every day. Why is it always a Muslim? Is there something about Islam that makes people want to blow themselves up in crowds?
I asked this question at Yahoo Answers. An ex-Muslim answered it. His answer was excellent. Here it is.
muslimah's answer is very accurate, I'd just like to reconfirm that islam carries with it a strong culture of encouraging martyrdom.
Those who die for the cause of Islam are supposedly given the highest ranks in heaven, and get more "heavenly benefits" than others. In Islam, there is not just hell and heaven: heaven and hell are separated into ranks depending on how good/bad you were in life. The highest ranks are given to prophets (e.g. Muhammed) and martyrs. The Quran is littered with references and warnings reminding you to work hard and make sure you get into the best rank, since there is no going back once you die.
Therefore, this sort of teaching brings forth the mentality that since heaven is eternal and you can never go back and change it, you have to use every opportunity to score as many points as you can. (This, incidentally, leads to a very high rate of anxiety and obsessive patterns in muslims, and OCD is unfortunately very common amongst muslims.)
Also, it means that if you have an opportunity to become a "martyr" you should logically take it.
Now, this is where things get particularly ugly because there are always people who are either corrupt or extremist, and they use "martyrdom" as an tool to convince muslims to do things that most sensible people would refuse to do.
For example, in the Iran-Iraq war, young boys as young as 14 years old were recruited by the thousand in the Iranian army. They were told that this is a holy war, and therefore dying in this war gives you eternal heaven. So teenagers dropped out of high school to volunteer for the army. They were often guided over minefields --- they were asked to clear minefields by simply walking over the mines and killing themselves. 40,000 young people died this way in 1 night just to clear a path to 1 city.
The same ideas work for suicide bombers. In fact, in the native language they are not called suicide bombers, they are called "martydom-seekers".
So, in summary, Islam inflicts upon its followers a number of mindsets which make them easy to manipulate into doing stupid things.
Unfortunately, Islam also comes with a number of safeguards to prevent common sense from taking over. For example, muslims are taught from a very young age that they are not allowed to question islam or even think about the idea that the teachings of slam are not God's word. I was told that you're not allowed to even listen to somebody questioning Islam. So it kind of traps you within a number of mindsets that disallow most people from seeing beyond. It takes a lot of willpower and courage to go against all of that and start to think freely -- it took me years to finally break free from it.
Those who die for the cause of Islam are supposedly given the highest ranks in heaven, and get more "heavenly benefits" than others. In Islam, there is not just hell and heaven: heaven and hell are separated into ranks depending on how good/bad you were in life. The highest ranks are given to prophets (e.g. Muhammed) and martyrs. The Quran is littered with references and warnings reminding you to work hard and make sure you get into the best rank, since there is no going back once you die.
Therefore, this sort of teaching brings forth the mentality that since heaven is eternal and you can never go back and change it, you have to use every opportunity to score as many points as you can. (This, incidentally, leads to a very high rate of anxiety and obsessive patterns in muslims, and OCD is unfortunately very common amongst muslims.)
Also, it means that if you have an opportunity to become a "martyr" you should logically take it.
Now, this is where things get particularly ugly because there are always people who are either corrupt or extremist, and they use "martyrdom" as an tool to convince muslims to do things that most sensible people would refuse to do.
For example, in the Iran-Iraq war, young boys as young as 14 years old were recruited by the thousand in the Iranian army. They were told that this is a holy war, and therefore dying in this war gives you eternal heaven. So teenagers dropped out of high school to volunteer for the army. They were often guided over minefields --- they were asked to clear minefields by simply walking over the mines and killing themselves. 40,000 young people died this way in 1 night just to clear a path to 1 city.
The same ideas work for suicide bombers. In fact, in the native language they are not called suicide bombers, they are called "martydom-seekers".
So, in summary, Islam inflicts upon its followers a number of mindsets which make them easy to manipulate into doing stupid things.
Unfortunately, Islam also comes with a number of safeguards to prevent common sense from taking over. For example, muslims are taught from a very young age that they are not allowed to question islam or even think about the idea that the teachings of slam are not God's word. I was told that you're not allowed to even listen to somebody questioning Islam. So it kind of traps you within a number of mindsets that disallow most people from seeing beyond. It takes a lot of willpower and courage to go against all of that and start to think freely -- it took me years to finally break free from it.
Source(s):
I grew up in the middle east in a muslim family, and managed, over time, to free myself from the teachings of Islam and understand that it's all wrong. Unfortunately, that means I can never go back home.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Not everyone has received the memo but Christianity is already dead.
Evolution killed the Christian Death Cult. Christians know it. Their solution is to deny the whole thing or pollute evolution with "Jeebus invented, used, or guided evolution". Their problem is evolution is fact and evolution is a completely natural process. Evolution doesn't need the magic jeebus man, and the human race doesn't need Christianity or any other cult.
Fuck off google.
Google is going to kill the iGoogle homepage later this year. Apparently they think screwing a few million customers is a good idea. They offer Chrome as an alternative. To get that I would have to buy a new computer.
Alternatives to iGoogle, they all suck:
http://saveigoogle.org/alternatives/
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2664197
Alternatives to iGoogle, they all suck:
http://saveigoogle.org/alternatives/
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2664197
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
All of Christianity completely depends on the most ridiculous, most disgusting, and most insane fantasy of the Christian death cult, the resurrection of a stinking corpse.
At Yahoo Answers I asked "Can a Christian not believe in the magical resurrection of Mr. Christ and still be a Christian?"
There were 22 answers and virtually all the Christians agreed the resurrection of the magic jeebus man is a required belief. If you don't believe this bullshit you're not a Christian.
A typical answer: "You mean to not believe in the most basic tenant of the religion yet still be considered a member of the religion? No."
One Christian said the resurrection of the dead jeebus was not magical. My reply: "The preacher man was dead and decomposing for three days. His stinking corse was infested with maggots. Then he rose from the dead. That is one heck of a magic trick."
How much longer can a religion survive if it depends on idiots willing to believe any bullshit no matter how ludicrous it is?
People don't rise from the dead even if they are related to an imaginary god. Zombie movies are interesting but zombies are not real. This is basic biology.
If only I had a time machine to go into the future to watch the last Christian imbecile carried away to an insane asylum in a straitjacket.
There were 22 answers and virtually all the Christians agreed the resurrection of the magic jeebus man is a required belief. If you don't believe this bullshit you're not a Christian.
A typical answer: "You mean to not believe in the most basic tenant of the religion yet still be considered a member of the religion? No."
One Christian said the resurrection of the dead jeebus was not magical. My reply: "The preacher man was dead and decomposing for three days. His stinking corse was infested with maggots. Then he rose from the dead. That is one heck of a magic trick."
How much longer can a religion survive if it depends on idiots willing to believe any bullshit no matter how ludicrous it is?
People don't rise from the dead even if they are related to an imaginary god. Zombie movies are interesting but zombies are not real. This is basic biology.
If only I had a time machine to go into the future to watch the last Christian imbecile carried away to an insane asylum in a straitjacket.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Agnostics are part of the problem.
They say "we can't be sure magic is not real." The terrorists and the bible thumpers love the agnostics.
Agnostics, magic is not real. Period. Please grow up.
Agnostics, magic is not real. Period. Please grow up.
The evolution denying business is pathetic and disgusting but there is an upside.
Evolution deniers don't understand the evidence. It's partly because they're not able to understand but mostly their problem is they don't even try to understand. They just without thinking go running to their favorite liars and then copy and paste dishonest bullshit. They don't even bother to understand the creationist nonsense they are copying and pasting.
The evolution denying business is pathetic and disgusting but there is an upside. The reason they are afraid of evolution is their religion. They know if evolution is true then all their religious fantasies are false. This is a good thing. It means all that's necessary to eradicate religious insanity from this world is to teach evolution and teach it competently.
The evolution denying business is pathetic and disgusting but there is an upside. The reason they are afraid of evolution is their religion. They know if evolution is true then all their religious fantasies are false. This is a good thing. It means all that's necessary to eradicate religious insanity from this world is to teach evolution and teach it competently.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
A question for evolution deniers
Creationists, did you know understanding evidence for evolution is a lot more interesting than denying it?
Creationists, I asked you this question because I'm trying to help you. You are not only failing to understand the most important fact of science, you are also missing out on how interesting and exciting evolution can be. I don't think you creationists have any idea what you're missing.
"The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality."
-- PZ Myers
What is most interesting is when biologists make predictions which must be true or else there's a serious problem with evolution. Biologists are constantly testing evolution this way. If they ever test evolution and it's shown to be a problem for evolution they would become famous for making this discovery.
Many creationists have the idea that biologists cover up any problems with evolution. That is just plain wrong. Any biologist who found something wrong with evolution would win instant fame. From the National Academy of Sciences: "If there were serious problems in evolutionary science, many scientists would be eager to win fame by being the first to provide a better testable alternative. That there are no viable alternatives to evolution in the scientific literature is not because of vested interests or censorship but because evolution has been and continues to be solidly supported by evidence."
Always, so far, every prediction made about evolution has been correct. Evolution has passed every test.
Understanding why evolution always passes these tests is many more times interesting than just denying the whole thing without bothering to understand anything. Many of you creationists don't even understand the dishonest nonsense you love to copy and paste.
Here is an excellent example of predictions biologists made to test evolution: Human Chromosome Two. I have seen what the professional liars for the magic jeebus man have written about this evidence for evolution so don't bother to provide a link or copy and paste it. Any knowledgeable person would immediately know the liars don't even know what they're talking about.
This is the creationist problem. They make no effort to understand the evidence. They just automatically and without thinking, copy and paste the professional liar's nonsense.
I am asking you creationists to at least try to understand because you just might realize "Hey, this stuff is interesting."
The great geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote in 1973, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The more you study evolution the more you will agree with his famous quote.
When the complete genome of both humans and chimpanzees became available for biologists to compare DNA sequences of these two ape species, they noticed something very interesting. The human apes have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but the chimpanzee apes have 24 pairs. So biologists made two predictions. People must have a chromosome that is a fusion of two chromosomes, and there must be two chromosomes in chimps that match the fused chromosome in humans.
If these predictions turned out to be false, biologists would have to throw out 150 years of scientific progress and praise Jeebus.
Of course the predictions were correct, spectacularly correct, perfectly correct in every possible extreme detail. Evolution passed the test. We share an ancestor with chimps.
If you're interested in this evidence for evolution which Brown University biologist Ken Miller said is "lead-pipe evidence" please see Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q.
"So the case is closed in a most beautiful way, and that is, the prediction of evolution of common ancestry is fulfilled by that lead-pipe evidence that you see here in terms of tying everything together, that our chromosome formed by the fusion from our common ancestor is Chromosome Number 2. Evolution has made a testable prediction and has passed."
-- Ken Miller
"The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality."
-- PZ Myers
What is most interesting is when biologists make predictions which must be true or else there's a serious problem with evolution. Biologists are constantly testing evolution this way. If they ever test evolution and it's shown to be a problem for evolution they would become famous for making this discovery.
Many creationists have the idea that biologists cover up any problems with evolution. That is just plain wrong. Any biologist who found something wrong with evolution would win instant fame. From the National Academy of Sciences: "If there were serious problems in evolutionary science, many scientists would be eager to win fame by being the first to provide a better testable alternative. That there are no viable alternatives to evolution in the scientific literature is not because of vested interests or censorship but because evolution has been and continues to be solidly supported by evidence."
Always, so far, every prediction made about evolution has been correct. Evolution has passed every test.
Understanding why evolution always passes these tests is many more times interesting than just denying the whole thing without bothering to understand anything. Many of you creationists don't even understand the dishonest nonsense you love to copy and paste.
Here is an excellent example of predictions biologists made to test evolution: Human Chromosome Two. I have seen what the professional liars for the magic jeebus man have written about this evidence for evolution so don't bother to provide a link or copy and paste it. Any knowledgeable person would immediately know the liars don't even know what they're talking about.
This is the creationist problem. They make no effort to understand the evidence. They just automatically and without thinking, copy and paste the professional liar's nonsense.
I am asking you creationists to at least try to understand because you just might realize "Hey, this stuff is interesting."
The great geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote in 1973, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The more you study evolution the more you will agree with his famous quote.
When the complete genome of both humans and chimpanzees became available for biologists to compare DNA sequences of these two ape species, they noticed something very interesting. The human apes have 23 pairs of chromosomes, but the chimpanzee apes have 24 pairs. So biologists made two predictions. People must have a chromosome that is a fusion of two chromosomes, and there must be two chromosomes in chimps that match the fused chromosome in humans.
If these predictions turned out to be false, biologists would have to throw out 150 years of scientific progress and praise Jeebus.
Of course the predictions were correct, spectacularly correct, perfectly correct in every possible extreme detail. Evolution passed the test. We share an ancestor with chimps.
If you're interested in this evidence for evolution which Brown University biologist Ken Miller said is "lead-pipe evidence" please see Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q.
"So the case is closed in a most beautiful way, and that is, the prediction of evolution of common ancestry is fulfilled by that lead-pipe evidence that you see here in terms of tying everything together, that our chromosome formed by the fusion from our common ancestor is Chromosome Number 2. Evolution has made a testable prediction and has passed."
-- Ken Miller
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Is there powerful easy-to-understand evidence for evolution that people can see with their own eyes?
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12 more evidence for evolution posts:
Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q
Bible thumping retard in Idiot Tennessee is a science denier. What a surprise!
A whole bunch of fucking evidence for evolution
Evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes
Evolution deniers can't explain why their god fairy would use its magic wand to create the giraffe's laryngeal nerve 15 feet longer than necessary.
Science deniers, how do you explain Dorudon?
The Great Apes: chimps, people, gorillas, orangutans
Endogenous Retroviruses make Jeebus cry.
Some stuff I stole from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True
The ancestor of the Chihuahua is the wolf.
Lanugo makes Jeebus cry.
This is for the Christian assholes who say there are no transitional fossils.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
"Women were cursed with extreme pain in childbirth because of what we did in the garden."
For every scientific question a Christian idiot has a supernatural explanation.
For more burning stupid please see the question I asked on Yahoo Answers at Do you evolution deniers realize you are also Encyclopedia Britannica deniers?
You can write a comment there if you want.
The scientific explanation from National Geographic Magazine:
Why do we possess a birth canal of such Byzantine design? "The human female pelvis is a classic example of evolutionary compromise," Rosenberg answers. Its design reflects a trade-off between the demand for a skeletal structure that allows for habitual walking on two feet and one that permits the passage of a baby with a big brain and wide shoulders. Its unique features didn't come about all at once, but at different times in our evolutionary history, in response to different selective pressures. "The result of these different pressures is a jerry-rigged, unsatisfactory structure," Rosenberg says. "It works, but only marginally. It's definitely not the type of system you would invent if you were designing it. But evolution is clearly a tinkerer, not an engineer; it has to work with yesterday's model."
For more burning stupid please see the question I asked on Yahoo Answers at Do you evolution deniers realize you are also Encyclopedia Britannica deniers?
You can write a comment there if you want.
The scientific explanation from National Geographic Magazine:
Why do we possess a birth canal of such Byzantine design? "The human female pelvis is a classic example of evolutionary compromise," Rosenberg answers. Its design reflects a trade-off between the demand for a skeletal structure that allows for habitual walking on two feet and one that permits the passage of a baby with a big brain and wide shoulders. Its unique features didn't come about all at once, but at different times in our evolutionary history, in response to different selective pressures. "The result of these different pressures is a jerry-rigged, unsatisfactory structure," Rosenberg says. "It works, but only marginally. It's definitely not the type of system you would invent if you were designing it. But evolution is clearly a tinkerer, not an engineer; it has to work with yesterday's model."
Monday, February 25, 2013
Is it silly to think that Allah split the moon, or that an undead Christ flew into space?
The question is from Yahoo Answers at Is it silly to think that Allah split the moon, or that an undead Christ flew into space?.
One of the best answers was from a person named "John":
Both are exceedingly possible. Meanwhile, back to my medication.
This was my answer:
"Silly" is not strong enough a word. These fantasies require extreme stupidity, gullibility, and insanity.
The Muslim fantasy about the moon is ridiculous. The Christian fantasy about the resurrection of the stinking dead magic jeebus man is equally ridiculous but even worse it's disgusting. Unless of course a person likes zombies.
Christians will complain "Jeebus did not become a zombie" "Jeebus was not undead" "Jeebus did not fly into space".
Really? Then what would you call a decomposing three day old corpse that left its grave? Normal people would call it a zombie. Zombies are "undead". In the movies the solution is to shoot the zombie in the brain. Of course zombie movies are fantasy. The Jeebus zombie is also a fantasy.
According to the disgusting resurrection myth after the dead Jeebus became undead he went up to a magical heaven. How is that not flying into space?
Grow up Christian scum and stop disgracing my country. You idiots have made America a laughing stock. It's for a good reason civilized countries call the USA "Idiot America" and that reason is you sick-in-the-head Christians.
One of the best answers was from a person named "John":
Both are exceedingly possible. Meanwhile, back to my medication.
This was my answer:
"Silly" is not strong enough a word. These fantasies require extreme stupidity, gullibility, and insanity.
The Muslim fantasy about the moon is ridiculous. The Christian fantasy about the resurrection of the stinking dead magic jeebus man is equally ridiculous but even worse it's disgusting. Unless of course a person likes zombies.
Christians will complain "Jeebus did not become a zombie" "Jeebus was not undead" "Jeebus did not fly into space".
Really? Then what would you call a decomposing three day old corpse that left its grave? Normal people would call it a zombie. Zombies are "undead". In the movies the solution is to shoot the zombie in the brain. Of course zombie movies are fantasy. The Jeebus zombie is also a fantasy.
According to the disgusting resurrection myth after the dead Jeebus became undead he went up to a magical heaven. How is that not flying into space?
Grow up Christian scum and stop disgracing my country. You idiots have made America a laughing stock. It's for a good reason civilized countries call the USA "Idiot America" and that reason is you sick-in-the-head Christians.
Evolutionist, if evolution was true, why hasn't everything evolved into a human?
The question (from Yahoo Answers at Evolutionist, if evolution was true, why hasn't everything evolved into a human?) was written by a normal person pretending to be a Christian retard.
I answered the question:
The question is of course satire. But most likely a real Christian would ask the same stupid question.
Evolution is a branching process. One species becomes separated into two groups which sometimes evolve (it can take millions of years) into two different species, for example modern chimpanzee apes and modern human apes. It's called speciation.
Definition from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True:
speciation: The evolution of new populations that are reproductively isolated from other populations.
Human apes are not the big deal Christians think we are.
Some important quotes:
"You know, there’s this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It’s just evolved to a different niche."
-- Jeremy Niven
"Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale…there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything."
-- PZ Myers
I answered the question:
The question is of course satire. But most likely a real Christian would ask the same stupid question.
Evolution is a branching process. One species becomes separated into two groups which sometimes evolve (it can take millions of years) into two different species, for example modern chimpanzee apes and modern human apes. It's called speciation.
Definition from Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True:
speciation: The evolution of new populations that are reproductively isolated from other populations.
Human apes are not the big deal Christians think we are.
Some important quotes:
"You know, there’s this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It’s just evolved to a different niche."
-- Jeremy Niven
"Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale…there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything."
-- PZ Myers
What is a real Christian?
On Yahoo Answers at What is a real Christian? I answered the question.
"What is a real Christian?"
A real Christian believes the same nonsense the magic jeebus man believed. This means a real Christian must throw out 150 years of scientific progress so he or she can believe in magical creation out of nothing.
A real Christian must harass and threaten biology teachers to protect their children (and everyone else's children) from learning anything about the foundation of biology (evolution).
A real Christian will try to throw out and/or deny the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights so they can make America a theocracy like Iran.
Real Christians brainwash their children starting before they learn how to walk. The idea is when they take their first science class they will have already been trained to not learn anything.
When real Christians want to learn something about science they always depend on the professional Bible thumpers. They go out of their way to learn nothing. It's called willful ignorance. It's a disease and all real Christians are infected with it.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Real Christians are nutjobs, equal to Muslim terrorists.
From another comment a REAL Christian: "I believe being a Christian is having a relationship with him and being baptized with his Holy Spirit. It will lead you into all things and keep you sustained. There is no doubt you have met God."
Now that person is really a Christian because he's insane.
A real Christian believes the same nonsense the magic jeebus man believed. This means a real Christian must throw out 150 years of scientific progress so he or she can believe in magical creation out of nothing.
A real Christian must harass and threaten biology teachers to protect their children (and everyone else's children) from learning anything about the foundation of biology (evolution).
A real Christian will try to throw out and/or deny the Establishment Clause of our Bill of Rights so they can make America a theocracy like Iran.
Real Christians brainwash their children starting before they learn how to walk. The idea is when they take their first science class they will have already been trained to not learn anything.
When real Christians want to learn something about science they always depend on the professional Bible thumpers. They go out of their way to learn nothing. It's called willful ignorance. It's a disease and all real Christians are infected with it.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Real Christians are nutjobs, equal to Muslim terrorists.
From another comment a REAL Christian: "I believe being a Christian is having a relationship with him and being baptized with his Holy Spirit. It will lead you into all things and keep you sustained. There is no doubt you have met God."
Now that person is really a Christian because he's insane.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Abiogenesis
If you're interested in this subject:
Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory
"Was It the Origin of Life"? Biologists Create Self-replicating RNA Molecule
In Lab, Clues To How Life Began
Abiogenesis
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html
I'm very interested in evolution but I'm only a little bit interested in how the first simple living cells got a foothold on Earth almost four billion years ago.
One thing for sure, unfortunately for the theist idiots who are desperately looking for a hiding place for their god of the gaps, it was not a magical process.
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. They've all come to look for America.
Americans, when they're looking for America, they go to New York City. The photo, by the way, is obviously from before Muslim scum attacked the most important city in the world.
Simon and Garfunkel at Central Park in Manhattan
Simon & Garfunkel - America
"Let us be lovers,
We'll marry our fortunes together.
I've got some real estate
Here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
And Mrs. Wagner's pies,
And walked off
To look for America.
"Kathy," I said,
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
It took me four days
To hitchhike from Saginaw.
I've come to look for America."
Laughing on the bus,
Playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit
Was a spy.
I said, "Be careful,
His bow tie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette,
I think there's one in my raincoat."
"We smoked the last one
An hour ago."
So I looked at the scenery,
She read her magazine;
And the moon rose over an open field.
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said,
Though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and
I don't know why."
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike.
They've all come
To look for America,
All come to look for America,
All come to look for America.
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Pachelbel's canon in D Major - Romantic Modernized Version
Does Creationism have a practical application?
The question was asked on Yahoo Answers by a lady who calls herself She Devil at Does Creationism have a practical application?.
I wrote an answer:
She Devil, I just want to say thanks for asking a good question. Of course we both already know the answer. Magical creationism out of nothing could never have any value. It's a fantasy that contributes nothing to human progress. It just gets in the way.
Your "I would expect the bible, a book written by the super-intelligent super-powerful creator of the universe to be better than a bunch of nonsense about a talking snake, a talking donkey, a 40 day flood, a giant boat full of animals, and all of the other ridiculous stuff in the bible." is excellent. Many thanks.
And many thanks to Vinncent for this brilliant stuff: "Yes it is a great way to judge people's critical thinking skills and their overall gullibility level. Who do you want in your bunked during a zombie apocalypse a creationist who sees the zombies as herald's of the second coming or people who are going to do everything in their power not to get eaten? If you are asking if stories about magic and fantasy have a place in the real world you might as well ask if Harry Potter stories have some practical applications."
Jimbo wrote "You choose to believe whatever you believe and to denigrate another's belief simply because you disagree with it or think it preposterous does nothing to advance society."
Mr. Jimbo, after the 9/11/2001 religious atrocities against America, why should we not ridicule the insane fantasies of god-soaked idiots? Should we really show respect for religious violence (and the magical heaven fantasy which makes terrorism possible)? Should we respect uneducated morons who try to dumb down science education to accommodate their magic jeebus man?
I suggest it's immoral to respect stupidity, insanity, violence, and the brainwashing of innocent children. I will not stop ridiculing the religious fools who are destroying this world until every god fantasy is completely eradicated.
I wrote an answer:
She Devil, I just want to say thanks for asking a good question. Of course we both already know the answer. Magical creationism out of nothing could never have any value. It's a fantasy that contributes nothing to human progress. It just gets in the way.
Your "I would expect the bible, a book written by the super-intelligent super-powerful creator of the universe to be better than a bunch of nonsense about a talking snake, a talking donkey, a 40 day flood, a giant boat full of animals, and all of the other ridiculous stuff in the bible." is excellent. Many thanks.
And many thanks to Vinncent for this brilliant stuff: "Yes it is a great way to judge people's critical thinking skills and their overall gullibility level. Who do you want in your bunked during a zombie apocalypse a creationist who sees the zombies as herald's of the second coming or people who are going to do everything in their power not to get eaten? If you are asking if stories about magic and fantasy have a place in the real world you might as well ask if Harry Potter stories have some practical applications."
Jimbo wrote "You choose to believe whatever you believe and to denigrate another's belief simply because you disagree with it or think it preposterous does nothing to advance society."
Mr. Jimbo, after the 9/11/2001 religious atrocities against America, why should we not ridicule the insane fantasies of god-soaked idiots? Should we really show respect for religious violence (and the magical heaven fantasy which makes terrorism possible)? Should we respect uneducated morons who try to dumb down science education to accommodate their magic jeebus man?
I suggest it's immoral to respect stupidity, insanity, violence, and the brainwashing of innocent children. I will not stop ridiculing the religious fools who are destroying this world until every god fantasy is completely eradicated.
It's fair to say creationists are not too bright. What's their problem?
I asked this question on Yahoo Answers at It's fair to say creationists are not too bright. What's their problem?.
One of my hobbies is ridiculing Christian assholes and Yahoo Answers is a convenient place to do it. I wrote this post so I could publish the best answer from Mr. Lighting the Way to Reality who explains why creationist tards are a waste of time.
Their problem is that they mindlessly believe the lies put out by the promoters of creationism in their web sites and books.
I have found that their heads are encased in cement, because no matter how often I show that their arguments are nonsensical, baseless, and contrary to fact, they keep on repeating them.
One of my hobbies is ridiculing Christian assholes and Yahoo Answers is a convenient place to do it. I wrote this post so I could publish the best answer from Mr. Lighting the Way to Reality who explains why creationist tards are a waste of time.
Their problem is that they mindlessly believe the lies put out by the promoters of creationism in their web sites and books.
I have found that their heads are encased in cement, because no matter how often I show that their arguments are nonsensical, baseless, and contrary to fact, they keep on repeating them.
The intellectual dishonesty of creationists
One of the most basic facts of science is the development of whales from land animals. This is just one of thousands of scientific facts the evolution deniers must deny to defend their dead Jeebus who was a creationist.
Here is a fossil of a whale ancestor with useless rear limbs. What are those tiny limbs doing there? They are the last remnants of legs they no longer need, legs that belonged to the ancient land animals they evolved from.
Do you have an alternative explanation, creationists? Perhaps the magic jeebus man magically created those tiny worthless legs to test your faith. Perhaps you can invent an even more ridiculous idea to defend your childish insane belief in magical creation.
Of course you don't have to be dishonest about evidence even a child could understand. You creationists could instead grow up and stop living in the Dark Ages.
Take a very close look at those tiny rear limbs on this massive creature. Then try to tell me this is not powerful evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes.
A terrific popular article on the evolution of whales
Creationists often deny that these vestigial limbs are evidence for evolution, noting that they could function in copulation. But that’s ridiculous, for we not only see their gradual shrinkage over time, but—more important—why would the Creator make a “copulation guide” that had every bone homologous to those of the fully-functioning hind limbs of their ancestors, and of modern tetrapods? To deny that this is evidence for evolution shows the intellectual dishonesty of creationists.
Here is a fossil of a whale ancestor with useless rear limbs. What are those tiny limbs doing there? They are the last remnants of legs they no longer need, legs that belonged to the ancient land animals they evolved from.
Do you have an alternative explanation, creationists? Perhaps the magic jeebus man magically created those tiny worthless legs to test your faith. Perhaps you can invent an even more ridiculous idea to defend your childish insane belief in magical creation.
Of course you don't have to be dishonest about evidence even a child could understand. You creationists could instead grow up and stop living in the Dark Ages.
Take a very close look at those tiny rear limbs on this massive creature. Then try to tell me this is not powerful evidence for evolution you can see with your own eyes.
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| Look at how the forelimbs have become paddles, the tail has become long and flexible, and, especially, how the rear limbs have almost disappeared (they’re the tiny bones flanking the mid-section of the tail). But they’re still recognizable: rock-hard evidence that whales evolved from land animals—something amply confirmed by DNA sequencing. |
A terrific popular article on the evolution of whales
Creationists often deny that these vestigial limbs are evidence for evolution, noting that they could function in copulation. But that’s ridiculous, for we not only see their gradual shrinkage over time, but—more important—why would the Creator make a “copulation guide” that had every bone homologous to those of the fully-functioning hind limbs of their ancestors, and of modern tetrapods? To deny that this is evidence for evolution shows the intellectual dishonesty of creationists.
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