Stupid people attend Liberty University

Falwell’s funeral was yesterday, and apparently there were demonstrations — which seems highly inappropriate to me, now matter which side they were arguing — and a Liberty University student was arrested for bringing homemade bombs to the funeral. Bombs. To a funeral. There’s just something insanely religious about that.

Worse still was his excuse: “to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service.” Yeah, people waving signs and chanting slogans at a funeral is tacky and disruptive, but you don’t enhance the solemnity of the moment by setting off explosions. Replacing chanting with the screams of the maimed isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the event. Well, except maybe in Falwell’s case…but hey, let’s not stoop to his level.

It’s not even clear who attended that funeral. The Republicans snubbed him. Was it just Liberty University drones and the Rev. Godhates Phelps and his crew? If so, maybe a pitched battle with a little bombthrowing would have left the world a better place.

It’s still going on?

I was interviewed on a website over a month ago, and unfortunately John A. Davison and his infected polyp, VMartin, took over the comments there and went on and on in their ridiculous way.

They’re still going at it. Even more absurdly, the droning duo are bragging on ISCID, in an awesome example of pretentious self-delusion:

658 comments and going strong again. Are there any brave souls here that are willing to join Martin and myself in this incredible demonstration that there are still those who believe that life in all its manifestations was an accident? Are Martin and myself the only ones who reject that by publicly challenging the two major exponents of that bizarre philosophy, Richard Dawkins and P.Z. Meyers, both of whom have remained silent? So it would seem. I am sure Martin agrees with me that we welcome any or all to join in this most fundamental of discussions at a venue which was arrogantly introduced by the author of the thread on which he is now afraid to speak.

Opportunities like this do not occur every day and they should not be ignored. They reveal a philosophy without foundation that deserves to be thoroughly exposed and One Blog A Day presents a rare opportunity to challenge the Darwinian fantasy and its two most vocal supporters in a reasonably neutral venue. Perhaps others can produce a response from the two most prominent atheist biologists of the present time. Martin and I can’t seem to achieve that most desirable result.

Uh, “incredible demonstration”…of what? Somebody sure has an over-inflated opinion of his “most fundamental of discussions” … and obviously, I’m not afraid of them. I do have to apologize to the poor owner of the OneBlogADay site, though; I’m sorry a couple of parasites piggy-backed on my interview to infest you, but hey, here’s a link and a little more traffic to make up for it, I hope.

Davison has made a revealing comment:

In the meantime Martin and I have scored another conquest by being banned at The Loom.

Someone cut their ISP cable, quick, and reward them with a complete victory over the whole of the internet.

That hair-thin line between satire and insanity Republicanism…

I know everyone is talking about this demented blog supporting Brownback’s candidacy that, among other things, denounces heliocentrism. I honestly can’t decide whether it’s satire or genuine—I’ve met a few people who sincerely believe ideas that stupid. It’s just that they usually lack the technical competence to put a website together.

But then, of course, all you have to do is read Brownback’s official campaign site, or his official blog colony, which is almost as looney, and you have to wonder how crazy an idea would have to be to be rejected by a Republican presidential candidate. After all, Brownback looks like a guy who went into politics because his first career choice went kaput when he failed the balloon animal test at the clown college.

A new creationist argument

It’s always so exciting to see a new creationist argument…until you actually look at it and see how silly it is. And they’ve been getting more and more desperately absurd as the years go by and the flaws in the old arguments get harder and harder to support. Once upon a time, they could just say it rained really hard for 40 days to flood the earth. When it was pointed out that you can’t wring that much water out of the atmosphere, they had to contrive all kinds of elaborate conditions for earth prior to the flood, with deep reservoirs and a “vapor canopy” of crystalline hydrogen to keep huge volumes of water under pressure above the earth. That was awfully silly, so now this new argument tries to rescue it with “evidence” for some mighty weird conditions on God’s earth.

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Ray Comfort won the debate

At least, that’s what he says. He’s a good Christian, so he wouldn’t lie to us, would he?

You know those parts in the debate where they sat there looking poleaxed, not knowing how to reply? They were praying. That’s the ticket; when the Rational Response Squad said something rude about god, they had to stop for a moment to beg god to forgive them. That’s how good a Christian Ray Comfort is. It was an unfair edge to the skeptics, because they could blaspheme without having to pause to have a chat with The Lord.

The most important battle in the history of mankind!

The most important battle in the history of mankind!

A bit more than a week ago, I mentioned this interview I did for a site called One Blog A Day. The comment thread on the interview has grown in a peculiar way — John A. Davison and his pet sycophantic monkey, VMartin, are babbling away in a most painfully lunatic fashion, cruelly egged on by wÒÓ†. It’s hard to beat this comment for delusions of grandeur:

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Dang, I’m slipping

George Shollenberger is not happy with scienceblogs. He sent an email to the scienceblogs website (whatever that means) with a complaint:

I started to inform ‘the people’ on my website that our mathematicians are practicing atheism. Then, after I investigated the website, ScienceBlogs, I concluded that all sciences also practice atheism. So, my website is now informing ‘the people’ that mathematicians and scientists are practicing atheism.

However, I am dismayed to discover that the overwhelming godless influence on scienceblogs is not me, but Mark Chu-Carroll! I feel so inconsequential now, and clearly, Mark is better at driving men mad than I am.

We can’t pick on George too much, though … he reveals the true source of his problem.

However, by 1993 I experienced brain damage from a carotid artery blockage.

I’m sorry to hear that. To my shame, I still find this hilarious.

With my personal mind over body experience on my brain damage and my retirement in 1994, my attention shifted permanently to the theory of God and the sayings of Jesus Christ.

Not everyone can use brain damage to explain their religiosity.

The soulless atheists exist at VT!

Has anyone heard from Dinesh D’Souza lately? He ought to be offering a humble apology now that the atheists he thought were invisible are turning up on the faculty and in the student body.

Oh, wait … he admits that there were “undoubtedly atheists among the mourners”, but considers his point that atheists have nothing to offer “unrefuted”. So I guess the unbelievers are there, they’re just heartless robots. Thanks, Dinesh! You’re a peach!