Comments on: Friends Of God. Strangers To Science

By: alcari

alcari — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:23:52 +0000

Kind of like this one:
http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-05-20–when-im-king.html

But I totally support creationists not breeding, that might solve some problems.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:39:35 +0000

I have three simple requests of all creationists: If you truly feel that evolution doesn’t have any basis in reality, then you must never:
1) Go see a modern physician. Modern biology is founded upon evolutionary theory and the Germ Theory of Disease. You are free to go see witch doctors and faith healers at will (faith healing, by the way, has been demonstrated to be a function of biofeedback at the neural/immune system interface, discovered in the 1990’s).
2) Do not use a computer. It is built upon elements which include quaantum mechanics, also a “theory.”
3) Breed. It involves using the genetic code, which Gregor Mendel first discovered, Watson and Crick explained, and Darwin postulated (a “mechanism of inheritance”).
I make these requests because for Creationists to do otherwise would make them hypocrites. No one wants to be a hypocrite.

By: bill plumer

bill plumer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:21:36 +0000

I almost couldn’t stand to watch the entire video as short as it was. People proclaim that every word in the Bible is literally true but they conveniently ignore the contradictions that leap from the page to the eyes of the truly enlightened!
People eat shrimp, they eat pork, etc,etc,etc when the good book explicitly prohibits such. What hypocrites they are!

By: The Danish Atheist

The Danish Atheist — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:44:25 +0000

The girl at the end says that, the journalist(believe in evolution) has not been reading the fact good enough. The only thing the girl had ever read i the bible! one book that is many thousands years old, which is factless besides all scientists today! who is it who have not read the facts well! :D

By: Cesar

Cesar — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:59:49 +0000

America is becoming a nation of idiots.

Some lunatics are happy to see nuclear explotions in NY just because in their crazy minds that is the apocalypsis and the arrive of god.

This is disturbing for the rest of the world, every day is more importan to enforce law to avoid another insane man like Bush in the White House, for the best interest of the american citizens and the hole world.

Good Look.

By: DeusExMichael

DeusExMichael — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:43:31 +0000

Amen sidfaiwu.

dousmile4jesus, we welcome open minds with open arms here. Pardon us when we bristle at those spouting Falwellesque rhetoric and extremist right-wing nonsense.

I personally used to use a similar explanation to the one you use to meld my Christian beliefs to my scientific knowledge. In my case I one day realized my rationalization to explain my beliefs could not truly hold up to the light of scientific scrutiny. It was then that my faith in God died and I realized that blindly believing something with no proof is in fact less a virtue and more a vice. When I was honest with myself I realized my beliefs were a product of years of indoctrination, not of any “Holy Spirit”.

In closing, we welcome you and all willing to speak with an open mind and rational argumentation. As sidfaiwu said, we respect your right to believe anything you want, not necessarily the belief itself, and only ask the same from those who post here.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:43:53 +0000

Do you really beleve all of this…?
It is real FUN, you are my personal “Stand Up Comedians”
Applause and thanks to you all!!!
Still laughing.

By: sidfaiwu

sidfaiwu — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:10:42 +0000

Hello dousmile4jesus,

Many of us know people like you are out there, trying to reclaim Christianity’s (especially Protestantism’s) liberal roots. I just wish your voices where a lot louder. We’re having trouble hearing you over the Jerry Falwells and Anne Coulters of the world.

I think almost all of us want a plurality of beliefs so that our ideas can be shared. What we don’t like is the lack of acceptance of non-Christians prevalent in the US. We also don’t like the privileged status that religions receive. We want to end the social pressure to respect everyone’s beliefs. Everyone should respect everyone else’s right to believe what ever they want, but not the beliefs themselves.

By: dousmile4jesus

dousmile4jesus — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:52:44 +0000

I am a minister who fully believes the Bible to be the Word of God. There are many things that we can’t understand and I think that many people try to hard to make the wondrous works of God fit into a tiny box that my human mind can understand. I think it VERY sad and dangerous to teach simply evolution or creationism. There is a place for evolution within the story of creation. Because God created time for us, we don’t know how long a “day” in was for God. I salute those who work hard to use the science to prove God and vice versa. I hope that you all will not bracket all Christians into a this group. There are many of us who are dedicated to fixing things like this that are corrupting our churches.

Dancin’ with Jesus,
Dousmile4jesus

By: sidfaiwu

sidfaiwu — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:30:30 +0000

Thanks DeusExMichael, but I cannot take full credit for it. I first heard a version of this from Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society, of which I am a member, speaker, and author of Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule, and How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, among many others.