Letters to the Editor
-
Is this War Room material? I don't care -- I like it
This is an amusing little story. I agree, you've got to love the irony of removing anyone from the audience who might have a skeptical point of view. Imagine if there were a movie about evolution, and the producers carefully screened the audience to make sure there weren't any fundamentalist Christians?
-
The evolution of the apostrophe
It's (or should I say, Its) such an interesting article, I hate to nitpick, but -- and I quote -- "last year he was interviewed by it's producer.... Meyers, who calls the films allegations nonsense...."
If you don't (or do I mean "dont"?) see a problem here, then, well, never mind.
-
XH
Imagine if there were a movie about evolution, and the producers carefully screened the audience to make sure there weren't any fundamentalist Christians?
Like fundies would go to a movie about evilution..
I'm reminded of the old joke:
Jews don't recognize Jesus as the Son of God.
Protestants don't recognize the Pope as the Ruler of the Church.
Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
-
DLF - I hope you are kidding
If you are going to police people's grammar, you should know...grammar.
The word "it" in the possesive form should never carry an apostrophe. Only when using "it's" in the form of a contraction for "it is" should an apostrophe be used. It is a common mistake.
-
Gee, Daniel, ar eyou okay over there?
I said "I like it," what more do you want?
-
I'm Sorry, but...
...how, exactly, is Intelligent Design a hypothesis? Isn't a hypothesis subject to testing? And isn't testing (a.k.a. proving) the polar opposite of simply believing and isn't simple belief the whole point of ID?
I always thought Ben Stein was an ass. Now I think he's a moron too.
-
A compliment
A compliment is a compliment no matter how back***ed it is.
I wouldn't waste five minutes of my time with an ID or creationism advocate. I once told one who wanted to have it taught in school that "if you want to molest a child, why not just put your hands in his underpants?"
-
Daniel_28, I wasn't kidding...
I was quoting from the text as it originally appeared. The eagle-eyed editors silently corrected the text (it's > its, films > film's) after my snide little snipe. Say la vee.
-
"Meyers"
DLF, I feel your pain, only I'm more worried about the fact that PZ's last name is "Myers" with one "e".
-
AS long as we don't end up like Afghanistan, I think it's cute
Hardline atheists against hardline religionists: Afghanistan from 1973 until Najibullah was hanged to death while trying to bridge the gap in 1992.
At least in America they're not fighting with guns, thank God.
I'm not really religious, by the way, except there are times when the gesture of thanking God or asking God to bless someone feels so linguistically natural and appropriate that no other gesture will do.
I suppose this is how religion shows up in my life -- out of gestures of appreciation with semi-infinite boundary conditions.
-
Ah, yes
The thrill of writing blog posts quickly: misspellings. Myers it is.
-
the evolution of stupidity
but what more would you expect from someone who wrote for nixon and ford.
-
Scopes over and over and over and over.....
Again we are dragged by our heels into to a debate about the devine nature of Man. Creationism and Intelligent design is not science, because science demands EVIDENCE. Creationism is OPINION, not science. Anyway, this is easy solved. Science answers the "How" question and Religion answers the "Why" question. So, I ask, if God created the universe and Darwin described how she did it, then what is this argument about.
-
Unformed
But what did Dawkins say after he saw this masterpiece or is this so predictable that we don't need to know. (Bit like the creationists - ears wide closed).
-
This is what editors do?
They correct at least two errors and respond on the letters page?
Where were they when people were begging them to explain wtf with Kansas O'Flaherty?
-
@ Prytania
I feel your pain. Editors- please reply.
-
One good Baptist joke deserves another
Jews don't recognize Jesus as the Son of God.
Protestants don't recognize the Pope as the Ruler of the Church.
Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
Reminds me of another joke.
Q: How do you keep a Baptist from drinking all your beer on a fishing trip?
A: Take two Baptists!
-
idodialog
Unlike the creationist fundies, Dawkins at least admits the theoretical possibility that he could be wrong.
Dawkins and I think the possibility is infinitesimal.
But infinitesimal is greater than zero.
Now, your task is to find a fundie who will admit that there is a non zero chance of there being no God.
There is your difference, one side will admit no possibility of error whatsoever while the other admits that there is a non zero chance, however small, of them being wrong.
-
myers
When we would misspell Paul's name as Meyers, he would explain that the first extra e was redundant.
-
religious jokes a go-go
In honour of the first two Baptist jokes:
Q: Why don't Calvinists have sex standing up?
A: It looks too much like dancing.
(wakka wakka wakka)
-
DLF - it's "c'est la vie"
DLF if you're going to be the grammar police, at least learn to spell it's 'c'est la vie' not 'say la vee'.
-
Devolution not evolution.
Evolution is just as bogus as Genesis and it's believers are every bit as delusional as the jhvh sycophants in fear of the fires of hell. It's a religion, stupid. No proof, no evidence, just belief based on an some bones that have been fossilized.
There are lifeforms that have been around for 200 million years without evolving one bit. Sure, there is variation and natural selection, but there is no progression from a simpler form to a more complex one. The evolutionists have there mystical and supernatural periods of "speciation" which are just as tight as saying "let there be life".
Scientists are pretty good at expelling and ostracizing people too - JUST LIKE RELIGIOUS NUTS.
BTW - The Big Bang is BUNK. So are secular religions even if their hocus pocus is scientific.
-
Barring Somone Who Contributed Content?
Can you imagine asking someone to provide an interview for a film and then not let him see it?
These people aren't just dishonest and ignorant. They're rude.
-
jayackroyd
These people aren't just dishonest and ignorant. They're rude.
I rather enjoy asking people when the last time the Atheist Witnesses came trespassing on their property uninvited and unwanted in order to try to convert them to the atheist way of thinking.
I haven't had anyone answer me yet, even those who clearly hate atheists.
Faith, or lack of such, in a supreme being is a personal matter and deliberately trespassing on someone's property in order to try to change their mind about that personal matter is the height of both rudeness and hubris.