From the That Answers That Department: I was coming back from the store and flipping the dial on my radio, and came across this (paraphrased): … that ETI could actually be responsible for the destruction of all life on this planet. Now think about that. Aliens. Who would create them? (*chortle*)An alien god? Isn’t this …
Monthly Archive: August 2012
Aug 10 2012
More state-sponsored malware discovered.
Having problems with your computer? You may have a virus paid for by taxpayer dollars. A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers. The malware, which steals …
Aug 09 2012
Dawkins and Mormons (follow-up)
Looking over the comments from yesterday’s post, it seems that some people understood my point about Dawkins’ Mormon quote, and others didn’t. It’s an important point, though, so I want to follow up and try to make it clear for everyone. The problem I see is not that Dr. Dawkins is impugning the sanity of …
Aug 08 2012
Well darn.
PZ Myers has a post up that has my feelings a bit mixed. It’s a quote attributed to Richard Dawkins: Yes, America STILL manages to reach Mars despite half the country preparing to elect a man who believes he’ll get a planet when he dies. It is all the more to the credit of the …
Aug 08 2012
4th Amendment protections officially moot
Wired magazine reports the depressing news that we now officially have fewer constitutional rights than we did under Bill Clinton. The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President …
Aug 07 2012
Violence and lack of belief
With the recent shootings at the movie theater and the Sikh temple, a lot of people are pointing fingers at unbelief, and saying that the reason we have so much violence today is because we’ve lost the faith that used to guide us, that sense of supernatural reward and punishment that helped us resist evil …
Aug 06 2012
Plants vs. the Gospel
Via PZ Myers at Pharyngula comes this delicious tidbit from veteran creationist Henry M. Morris. Obviously, animal and human life are different from plant life. In fact, the Bible uses the Hebrew word chay (life) and its derivatives 763 times in the Old Testament, never applying that term to plants or vegetation. No place in …
Aug 05 2012
The proof that wasn’t.
Over at Evangelical Realism, we’re looking at the First Apology of Justin Martyr, and in this week’s installment, Justin presents us with a Messianic prophecy that somehow manages to be almost, but not quite, entirely unlike anything he says it is. And yet believers today still use that verse as proof that Jesus is the …
Aug 03 2012
Taking God at His Word
A while back I pointed out one of the sayings of Jesus that seems to put him firmly in the hell-is-eternal-suffering camp, because he said it was better to go to heaven blind or maimed than to go to hell with a whole body. That’s an advantage that only makes sense if you stay in …
Aug 02 2012
Magic Story Syndrome
Back in the good old days, I once watched an episode of Candid Camera in which Alan Funt gathered a bunch of people with a sub-par sense of humor, told them a joke, and then recorded them trying to re-tell the joke to other people. The bit was pretty comical, because the people tended to …
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