Remember banana man?


 

According to Phil Plait, he has a blog! It's only a little stupider than the banana video, which leads me to wonder if Ray Comfort is actually an actor who's a closet evolutionist making creationists look stupider than they actually are. Creationists can't be that stupid, can they? Oh… I am so tempted to invoke Poe's law on Ray Comfort.

Right then, from his latest blog post on the Phoenix lander…

Pasadena scientists rejoiced recently when their robot landed on Mars. Their expedition cost $420 million, took years to plan, and required an amazing ten months for the flight. The robot will collect soil samples and look for evidence that Mars could support life. Does the red planet have the "building blocks of life"?

            Where did language come from?  Why do we talk?  Why does there exist such a mosaic of languages around the world?  These questions may be the most central and awe-inspiring in all of linguistics.  They are also the most important, because without some general understanding of these fundamental questions all other endeavors to understand the complexity of language will ultimately fail.  Thus, we should courageously ask the tough questions, regardless of where the answers may take us.  In other words, we must look at language scientifically, shedding ourselves of all prejudice, bias and desire for a specific outcome.  With this view, it shall be noted that the origin of language is as yet still a mystery which beckons to be answered, however, a strong theory, known in biology, called Evolution, by means of Natural Selection,  seems to answer and explain the aforementioned questions with, in the words of Carl Sagan,  “systematic grace”.

Where Language Came From

This is a blog written and submitted to us by Splendid Elles, one of our members.  Let her know what you think.  She is the only person who volunteered to go see expelled, so I asked her to give us her review.  You can find her normal blog at http://splendidelles.wordpress.com/.

Expelled

April 19, 2008

I don’t know what masochistic tendency within me compelled me to sit myself down in a theater and watch Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed!

I think that the best way to describe my experience of viewing Expelled is… so much stupid, so little caffeine.

The RRS@MSCD Paranormal Challenge

The Rational Response Squad at Metropolitan State College of Denver is issuing a paranormal challenge similar to James Randi’s famous million dollar challenge, with the exception of a million dollar award.

Are you psychic, telekinetic, or otherwise endowed with a paranormal or supernatural ability?
Have you mastered some untapped potential of human knowledge and understanding such as astrology or tarot cards?

If so, the Rational Response Squad at MSCD is giving you the opportunity to prove it by subjecting your claim to rigorous scientific analysis.

In the interest and pursuit of truth, knowledge, and understanding we are willing to look at such phenomenal claims seriously and critically, and we hope you are too.

The demonstration of a previously unknown, uncharacterized, and unexplained phenomena could shatter the very foundations of science and forever alter our perception and understanding of reality.

If you’re interested in confirming your ability and demonstrating a phenomenon currently unrecognized by science then contact us at metroatheists@hotmail.com, http://www.
myspace.

com/metroatheists, or

President: Joel
Vice President: Chalmer, 303-916-2318
Representative: Brent

HOW MANY HOSPITALS HAVE ATHEISTS BUILT? 

By Doug Ittner, found through RRS MSCD via Christian Pwnage site, reposted by Sapient in RRS MSCD blog. (isn't information great?)   

Cloned Meat and Social Paranoia

Why Christians can’t disregard The Gospel of Thomas

In a recent debate with a Christian, he told me that The Gospel of Thomas is “simply a heretical forgery, much the same as the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Philip.” After an extensive amount of research, I have found that his statement has some profound ramifications. I went through all 114 sayings in The Gospel of Thomas and found that approx. 84%* of the sayings are contained within the Canonical Gospels, either verbatim or slightly changed in wording. Some of these sayings are the “important” ones. (Examples of this are below¹) Ones that most Christians themselves point to about how compassionate Jesus was, such as “turn the other cheek” and “love thy neighbor as thyself”, are in the Gospel of Thomas. (Sources and characters are at the bottom)

When was the Gospel of Thomas written?

Adam and Eve…and Lilith

A Contradiction in Terms.

Genesis 1:27- "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." You will notice that god creates man and woman AT THE SAME TIME and this woman’s name in never mentioned.

Let us now examine and consider the second verse, which is the contradictory and yet most well known story of the creation of man and woman.

Genesis 2:21-23-“21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’, for she was taken out of man."

This is the story most are familiar with known as “the rib story”. This woman is then named Eve, however she is NOT the FIRST woman and not the first wife of Adam.

Midrash Explained.