Tero's Atheist Ramblings

[Tero]

Same Fundie, whomper he used to be called:

Re: "your false belief in erroneous 'science' does not make them true

Whomper: "evolution did not happen
could not happen

"either God made everything and planned it
or none of this exists
cause it could not pop out of nothing and create a cell that evolved
with intelligence which you are clearly lacking"

Rational board member responds: Here we have it! The great amalgam of
all denial. Surely that silences all dispute!? How can anyone doubt
the truth of a claim stated with such clarity, such verve, such
tenacity? Oh, the careful reasoning! The detailed exposition! It's
irresistible! I'm drawn into the gravity well of this consummate
adumbration of meticulous concatenation, and will never again doubt
any declarations made by the miraculous mentalities of the Discovery
Institute!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"either God made everything and planned it or none of this exists"
He just proved his brain doesn't exist.

[Tero]

catch of the day

"Jerry Bergman has seven degrees, including in biology, psychology,
and evaluation and research, from Wayne State University, in Detroit,
Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and Medical College of Ohio in
Toledo. "

Why is it always creationists who have to boast of multiple degrees?
It's actually indicative of not being a scholar. Most real academics
have 3 degrees at most (bachelor's, master's, and PhD). Whenever I see
someone claiming that they have all these different degrees it's a
sure signal that they are a phoney.

I have two degrees. My wife has numerous but only had use for one.

[Tero]

Amazon one star review of Life Ascending

By Delta Pinie
This review is from: Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (Hardcover)
"When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore."

Well I guess flagging doesn't do very much then. This person wrote 15 "reviews," and every single one of them is either a clear admission she/he never READ the book, or spam promoting a book with a opposing viewpoint. It doesn't seem fair to the authors to have their ratings dragged down by some vandal with a 2% "helpfulness" rating. Funny how wikipedia would never let this stand, but amazon does.

[Tero]

A response to floodists
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/flood357903.shtml

[Tero]

catch of the day, review of Dawkins Letters

When Robertson gets on to the subject of morality he uses the type of
argument all too frequently trotted out in Christian literature, the
argument from consequences. He argues that without God there can be no
absolute morality and any form of relative morality will allow anyone
to justify any action however bad and thus lead to the type of
terrible attrocites that litter the history of the 20th centuary.
Since this is unattractive consequence of relative morality there must
be an absolute morality therefore God must exist. This type of
argument boils down to if A is true then B will happen, I don't want B
to happen so A must be false.

[Tero]

Yawn, Craig sillyness again. But it's good.
http://arizonaatheist.blogspot.com/2010 ... r-god.html

[Tero]

catch of the day:
"You'll never make it as an honest-to-god atheist."

[Tero]

One of our Amazon creationists is surely a Poe?

Mr Haynes is Operations Manager for a UHP rig at the Elm Coulee field in Eastern Montana. He is responsible for assuring the safety, compliance, operations, maintenance, and production goals for a 26 man team.

His education was concentrated on science and religious theory. He graduated from high school in 2006, and later completed his education at the Haliburton Environmental Corp's Drilling Technology Program. He has six years experience in operating and maintaining High Pressure Directional Tertiary Recovery and Hydrofraking Drilling Apparatus.

Along with his beloved wife Tammie Lee de Cortez Haynes, he is a Creationist Roman Catholic Christian. God has blessed Mr and Mrs Haynes with four splendid children, and as foster parents for three wonderful youngsters with special needs

Mrs Haynes is a full-time Christian Homemaker and Home Educator. She was twice elected Treasurer of her high school class. In her senior year she served as the school's official delegate to the 5 year anniversary of 9-11 in New York City. She has four years professional experience in Medical Technology, specializing in patient food service.

Mr and Mrs Haynes are Christian Champion Marksmen and avid Nascar LM series fans. Mr Haynes is facilitator for the Young Mens Marian Meditation Group. Mrs Haynes seeks to serve God as a choir member and lead soloist, and as Chief Range Officer for Future Homemakers.

[Tero]

Catch of the day

Here in Silicon Valley the average level of intelligence and of education is so high it can lead to us mistaking our social milieu here for the one in America's more backward areas, where people have many of the beliefs most folks had in European villages in, say, the 14th century. Reading these entries is like time travel. An archaeological dig where you can actually have conversation with primitives you wouldn't meet in Silicon Valley.

I think I have a good imagination, but it's still hard to wrap my head around the fact that people who agree with these primitives actually control the legislature of the most powerful country on Earth, and are close to controlling its supreme judiciary as well, and, scariest of all, might, this November, complete its trifecta of all the levers of federal power being in the hands of people who are openly contemptuous of both science and the religion they defile by claiming to belong to.

Their pathetic little 19th century arguments are so easy to refute, but so what? It is in the interests of America's richest to pander to them in exchange for their votes, and they're so easily duped that they do it while the billionaires they secretly worship dig around in their wallets for everybody's last fiver.

[Tero]

Re: Quote of the day

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Tero]

Must be a biochemist. F as in fluorine, A as in acetone.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Must be a biochemist. F as in fluorine, A as in acetone.

Acetyl... That A word is harder than "acetone".

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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