Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 175 Editor's Choice: 9
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Giberson failed to move me.
[Read the article: Can't Darwin and God get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nope. Still don't believe in god, spirits, afterlives, heaven, hell, whatever.
He did, however, convince me that to be a scientifically literate christian one has to be able to look at the bible and decide that certain parts are "myth" or make more sense "in the original Klingon" or whatever. Does the bible come with color coding so you know which parts are the Word and which parts are what some guy wrote?
The answer to that is not just no, but HELL NO.
And to be a good christian scientist, one has to look at the shockingly robust theory of evolution and see unbridgable "gaps".
Ugh! Such cowardice!
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All kinds of nice all of the sudden
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, Brute, let me see if I'm following this right. After creating an account soley to comment on this article, you attempted to discredit the author of the article, cut 'n pasted an entire AP article on psychology of the AGW believer (which, as I pointed out, you did because you were losing the fight with the real research behind climate studies), cut 'n pasted alarming early 70s eco rants, failed to understand the difference between climate and weather, were soundly and repeatedly called out for mis-construing, mis-interpreting, or simply not understanding the data you actually quoted-- and now all the sudden you want to play nice?
Now you want encourage people to TRY, for the love of the children TRY to cut down on the condescension.
Yeah, you're the voice of reason and restraint in all this.
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Dyson's reviews
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Xlp Thlplylp, was it just me or did Dyson himself come of as a bit of the anti-science camp. Especially when talking about the fact that the British government, having looked at the evidence and the research, has decided to make combating AGW a priority-- in Dyson's view they suddenly become "dogmatic" and "anti-discussion".
And I'm always a little worried when someone says they don't trust the science behind climate research, but that biotech will magically cure any problems with the climate (and not create any new ones).
It all seemed a little odd to me.
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Speaking of Safewords...
[Read the article: The end of men]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- is MerelyMortalMale's incoherent rambling just a desperate cry for help? Or is it time for him to take his meds?
And now to talk to the grown-ups:
I kinda agree with the author of this article, save a I take exception, EXCEPTION, sir, to this: "But "Y" isn't an argument about what really would happen if the men were all transported far beyond the Northern Sea, or even a bildungsroman-
Ummm... actually, that's pretty much exactly what "Y" is about. Somebody has to drive those trucks and pick up those bodies. It ain't a man's world anymore so... the job (all the jobs) go to the ladies.
And, as time and experience have proven, once you let a woman do a man's job they do them quite well.
Victoria is an unconvincing character because she's a cartoonish caricature of what insecure looooser men think that feminists really are. But again, somebody has to take on the job of crazy cult leader and with the guys all dead, well, she does a pretty decent turn at it.
Speaking of insecure males... I guess I wasn't done talking to MMmale after all.
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Where to begin?
[Read the article: Religion is poetry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a good place: I don't care how good the poetry is, I'm not gonna worship it. No matter how good the poetry is, it does zero to prove that there is a god.
Here's another place: "To be an atheist, you have to be very clear about what god you're not believing in."
Well, no, actually.
Yet another: "[R. Dawkins and S. Harris are]very smart people, but they are not historians or scholars of religion. Therefore, it's too easy for them to pass off a quick notion of what religion is."
Dude. DUDE! Carse dodged the "what is religion" question on each page this interview. You want 'em to define something you trumpet as undefinable before they can criticise it? C'mon! The history and scholarship of the ancient Greeks in no way shape or form lends credibility to thier gods.
Here is a delicious irony: Right after the "scholar and history" comment, Carse says this: "To be an atheist is not to be stunned by the mystery of things or to walk around in wonder about the universe." Clearly showing his ignorance of the scholarship and history of athiesm.
That's like a pot throwing kettles at a house made of black glass.
There is more that can said, of course, but this is a pretty good place to begin.
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Arkham Asylum-
[Read the article: A thousand and one knights]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- is probably one of the creepiest things I've ever read. The whole thing just drips with a horrible kind of madness. The artwork really brings this across, though. The smeared colors, the fact you never see batman's eyes, just his mouth.
Funny thing, I've talked to a lot of people who read Frank Millers DKR back in the day, and then re-read it later. Most of us agree that on a second read, Batman totally goes off the deep end at the end.
And, of course, the 1988 BATMAN movie is probably my favorite. I thought Keaton did a great job of playing this kind of warped, intense, character. Plus the batsuit is bulletproof, which makes perfect sense 'cause he knows he's going to get shot.
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This is like the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan"
[Read the article: Religion is poetry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The theists are getting mauled upon the beach of Walter-map's razor-sharp postings. It is terrible to behold! I feel... I feel STUNNED by the scene of page after page of the fray. I feel a sense of WONDER at the countless attempts to distract and re-direct the thread.
Go get 'em, Walter!
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No problem, Walter,
[Read the article: Religion is poetry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If we don't stick together we'll end up among the first against the wall when the Xian Dominionist revolution comes.
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Been out of pocket-
[Read the article: What's wrong with science as religion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]- so I haven't even read this article yet, much less the comments.
But I want to give a pre-emptive shout-out to Walter-map, Droogoy, Ellydog, and the other skeptics who have no-doubt had to take to the trenches once again.
Keep the confidence!