Chelvendra Sathieaanandha
Somewhere down below in bold is a comment that I really liked on the post “Oedipal Atheists” found on the Religious Write blog. The post looked at a new study:
Oxford University researchers will carry out a £2 million ($4.3 million) study into why people believe in God. The three-year study by anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and other academics will consider whether belief in a divine being is an inherent part of human nature.
Project director Roger Trigg, acting head of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, says anthropological and philosophical research suggests that faith in God is a universal human impulse found in most cultures around the world. “One implication that comes from this is that religion is the default position, and atheism is perhaps more in need of explanation.” (more…)
Even Intrepid Eighth Graders Can Outargue Darwin « Blogs 4 Brownback
What’s with this guy? I am glad though that he has a blog, because if I’m feeling a tad down, or stupid, I just click on Blogs 4 Brownback and laugh it up. More often that not the ridiculousness of many of his posts leads to an all out personal battle between him (and the few people that support him) and the rest of the blog community that manage to find the post. (more…)
Science vs. God: A layman’s opinion « Ideas from free minds
The second quote from this blog-post is really disturbing. Strange experiments that support scripture but are scientifically flawed seriously shouldn’t be encouraged. If anything, if science and religion disagree on a matter, children should be taught to question it – but not tricked into thinking that science and religion agree. They’ll be made into fools and ridiculed when they become older, and they’ll not have a leg to stand on when challenged by similar ideas by people who have different beliefs. They will not be taken seriously. Perhaps it will cause confusion in a child to be taught one thing in religion, and another by science, however it will allow them to come to conclusions that aren’t merely fabricated.
Filed under: Morality, Religion, Science, Spirituality, TS, meaning..., stupid crap
Heliocentrism is an Atheist Doctrine « Blogs 4 Brownback
This is the funniest post I’ve ever read. I hurt from laughing. Oh, the humanity. You have to read it. The comments are somewhat amusing too. Apparently, the Earth doesn’t move because, for one reason at least, we can’t feel it moving.
What’s the difference between this fool, a Christian fundamentalist, who believes that the world doesn’t move and some of the Muslims fundamentalists that don’t believe (or do not acknowledge) that Israel exists. It’s funny and fascinating how people come to believe SOMETHING or anything. This blog post about heliocentrism must be a joke though.
The 222th comment, by packerwatch, on that blog post read: you’re stupid. just because we can’t FEEL the earth moving doesn’t mean its not you inbred dumbass. when you fly in a plane you don’t feel like you’re moving at 400 mph, you feel like you’re standing still. according to your ingenius observations, that means that the sky is actually flying past the stationary airplane. you are so stupid. and since we’re taking everything in the bible literally here, did you know that eating at Red Lobster is evil? and slavery is ok. you are a perfect example of why siblings shouldn’t have sex.
The Last Visible Blog » Blog Archive » God kills
A blog post that talks about medicine that helps prevent a sexually transmitted disease for females, and the debates that surround the implementation of the vaccination in programs for women wanting the protection. I find it a bit arrogant to block vaccination programs based on a conservative view that is not shared by many in the community. The moral view of something like sex (as opposed to something like violence) greatly varies between people; therefore such a decision to block the implementation of vaccination programs to push a certain value system regarding such a morally hazy matter is unacceptable. The decision is supporting some communities within the larger American community and discriminating against other smaller communities who share different beliefs. So, is medicine a temptation which aids in giving way to other temptation?
Brain Injury Affects Moral Choices – SpiritSeeker’s blog
Article found in this blog post is interesting when associated with ideas about right and wrong, if you bring it down to how the brain operates and facilitates such avenues of thought. So many ways to think about it – I mean if morality is down to how the brain functions, perhaps people need religion to give morality grounding (however brain function will impact interpretation in the same way, so again, right and wrong, and morality start to become hazy); similarly, given that brains are different, it is extremely unlikely (I want to use the word, impossible) that everyone will accept one ultimate system of belief. So, how will there ever be unity? Can there even be some sort of unity through acceptance?
Also interesting, a link to Wikipedia found in the comments to this blog post.
‘Exercise pill’ switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat « Biosingularity
This is hilarious (and exciting). No doubt chunky people like me are waiting for stuff like this to hit the market, no, arrive in our mailboxes (because we’re lazy right) so that we can just sit on our bottoms and lose weight. I wonder what side effects this could produce… and if they can simply “switch on” and hopefully “switch off” (when you’re done losing weight). Permanently changing the genetic makeup of a newly born is cool, I’m curious how it could work as a tablet.
From GrinningPlannet.com
