Since I Can’t Write My Professional Ethics exam anyway…

A friend of mine asked for my opinion on this article, and since I ended up writing so much, I felt I ought to share. Essentially, it is a Christian response to the “How can there be a God if there is so much evil in the world!?” question. My own opinion is that the [...]

Quote of the Week: the Inevitability of Original Sin

[God] puts an apple tree in the middle of [the Garden of Eden] and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don’t eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting “Gotcha.” It wouldn’t have made any difference if they hadn’t eaten it…Because if you’re dealing [...]

Objective Reality, Rationalism and the Nature of Belief

I was in the middle of an utterly normal conversation with a friend when it suddenly veered off into a discussion of whether beliefs are a matter of choice. I said, obviously not, and she said, “of course they are!”. And then we quickly got into a tangential discussion which ended with her comparing me [...]

Dangerous Dungeons and Dragons

So, I was reading these, which are truly, amazingly fantastic, and I got really excited about Dungeons and Dragons, and then I went and found I had a complete collection of the rulebooks for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2, and then I found that it’s really, really tedious. Which made me give it up.
And then [...]

Quote of the Week: The Anti-Testicle-Grabbing Clause

I mean, come on, how could I possibly resist this?
“If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off [...]

Quote of the Week: Oh, for Pete’s Sake…

“So many of them are living in fear of spirits, of malign and threatening powers. In their bewilderment they even end up condemning street children and the elderly as alleged sorcerers”
–That guy with the direct line to the Big Guy.
Like Mathew said, this is seriously wearing out my irony meter.

Put Your Mouth Where Your Belief Is

Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.

Creationism: My Speech

A slightly modified but not necessarily better version. Crippled by all the f**king shivering. I did NOT know I had that much stage fright! I don’t! I don’t balk from going on stage, like the majority of people I know. In fact, I even particularly relish the idea of speaking out for something I already [...]

Quote of the Week: An Experiment

So, this is more on the religion theme, except in a totally different way. I opened up the Bible(yes, I HAVE a Bible, a nice, leather-backed(leather-covered?leather-bound?) red letter version, it was a gift from my great-aunt before I left for college, and I think I’m supposed to keep it till I get married or something, [...]

Quote of the Week: Absurdity Week!!!

“Just because something lacks scientific support doesn’t seem to me a sufficient reason to omit it from a science lesson”
–Quote by Times of India:Reverend Michael Reiss, Biologist and Director of Education at the Royal Society
Screw neutrality: what a MORON!!!Obviously, the issue here is creationism. I still can’t get over the quote, particularly who it represents: [...]