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I trawl the ‘net researching and often just plain exploring.
I often wish there was an educated theist to be found that can postulate a convincing argument in support of his or her beliefs - if only to challenge the free-thinkers a little.
I never really expect to ever find any, but well, it’s worth continuing the quest!
On the other side of the coin there’s thousands like this chap’s website. His ‘Top Evidences Against the Theory of Evolution‘ would be good for a laugh if it wasn’t just so pathetic. The worrying thing is that millions of americans actually agree with him…
I spent a depressing half-hour wading through his diatribes on everything from his obvious homo-phobia and his rants about other religions and his belief that ‘No genuine born-again, Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Christian believes the nonsense of Evolution. It’s the Devil’s crowd–the whoremongers, warmongers, atheists, and Communists–who adhere to the lies of Evolution.’
Well, according to him I and millions of others who share similar beliefs are all headin’ for the fires of hell. If heaven means having to listen to friggin idiots like him then great… I’m hell-bound.
Ok, enough videos for now. Time for some blogging.
I was watching a response to the ‘Blasphemy Challenge’ on a news show today (watch the Fox News channel one) and it struck me how christians really do love the idea that they are the only ones with altruistic attitudes and actions don’t they?
Sure, many are - and I’d have to say that it’s mostly what I call the ’soft’ christians that have the best attitudes - like the Sallie’s (Salvation Army) and St Vinnie’s (Saint Vincent de Paul) - no, I’m not joking. It’s an aussie thing this shortening of names, display an admirable caring for their fellow man that translates into reality. They just get on with it, with a lot of help of course from non-believers like myself who donate to them.
Human beings like to join groups and this is one of the reasons that organised religion is so successful - so why doesn’t a non-religious group start something similar that is completely non-secular? I would guess that we are going to need an alternative to ‘going to church’ or ‘doing the lord’s work’ for many people when eventually religion just fades away. No mistake, it is fading away - certainly in New Zealand. Don’t believe that? Here’s the documented proof of the fact from official census results.
Considering that NZ has a large polynesian population (who are avid church-goers) the results are surprising - especially if you believe what the crazy fundies like the ‘Destiny’ church will have you believe. Similar trends are occurring in most western countries including Australia. Note the 27.5% increase in the ‘no religion’ census answer! And as for the Poms, well over there religious belief is ‘falling faster than church attendance’. But I’ve gone off on a tangent again…
An alternative ’structure’ (for lack of a better word) that enables like-minded altruistic people to contribute back to society would be a good thing. We have secular groups like parent-teacher associations, volunteer organisations, Red Cross and the Hands On Network for example - do we need something more universal maybe?
As I mentioned Bill in the last post, I just had to share one of my favourite clips of him from a great DVD that I received as a pressie a while ago. Luckily someone else thought it was great too, and posted the excerpt on YouTube.
I am a huge fan of Billy Connolly, but even he is (was? hopefully he’s aged even more irreverently now) sometimes a bit soft on poking the stick at religions and their stupidness.
Edit 9/1/08: He sure has aged more irreverently.
Now, Ricky Gervais has little or no regard for pandering to the fairytale believers.
“Testing the mental capabilities of chimps tells us important things about our own capacity. What we often find is that antecedents of human behavior and reasoning exist in chimps in a more primitive form, suggesting that we humans have elaborated on the mental abilities of the common ancestor we shared with chimps, rather than developing totally new capacities.
Often lost in these considerations is the possibility that chimps have actually elaborated some mental abilities more dramatically than humans.” from John Timmer’s article on ars technica.
Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of what appears to be the world’s most intact dinosaur mummy: a 67-million-year-old plant-eater that contains fossilized bones and skin tissue, and possibly muscle and organs.
Preserved by a natural fluke of time and chemistry, the four-ton mummified hadrosaur, a duck-billed herbivore common to North America, could reshape the understanding of dinosaurs and their habitat, its finders say.
“There is no doubt about it that this dinosaur is a very, very significant find,” said Tyler Lyson, a graduate student in geology at Yale University who discovered the dinosaur in North Dakota. Read the whole article at Wired.
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I trawl the ‘net researching and often just plain exploring.
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