Opinionated, polemical, biased... with none of the cussing!
Saturday, 19. January 2008, 00:21:25
Wednesday, 17. October 2007, 17:09:07
WAITER: And what might you be having this evening?Read and enjoy his/her full post.
MCGRATH: Yes. Well, it’s important to distinguish between the various choices that a dinner menu offers. On the one hand, yes, there is a Chicken Cordon Bleu, and throughout the years it has been very satisfying to those who would choose to partake of it, as it is their right and wont to do so. I myself have been partial to such dishes, and I believe you would be too, were you to be one who enjoys partaking of such dishes as one is partial to.
But again, I caution that I mean to make no special claims to knowledge as to the superiority of one dish over the other, and so I must also be willing to consider, as St. Augustine frequently did, the Vegetable Korma, with its variable array of rich and exotic spices, the aromatic delights of different vegetable textures, not to mention its ethnic appeal, which is truly cross-cultural in its glory. To choose either would be a disservice, and again, it is not a question of which gastronomic delicacy is most satisfying to me, but rather, a reminder of the cause we have to celebrate, that this restaurant has chosen to offer to us so many choices, which I consider with delight and an open heart.
Wednesday, 10. October 2007, 00:28:24
I just watched the documentary Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. I saw Michael J. Behe, an Intelligent Design Creationist, at his duplicitous best. In Flock Behe says that:No, Intelligent Design isn't a religion, it doesn't depend on any religious presuppositions, any more than your ability to determine that Mount Rushmore was designed is a religious conclusion, or detecting radio messages from outer space, say from some space alien. That wouldn't be a religion either. It's a conclusion based on the physical evidence.But he also wrote:
So far I have assumed the exitence of God. But what if the existence of God is denited at the outset, or is in dispute? Is the plausibility of the argument to design affected? As a matter of my own experience the answer is clearly yes, the argument is less plausible to those for whom God's existence is in question and is much less plausible for those who deny God's existence.I also got to see some of the critics of evolution in the Kansas Board of Education. Kathy Martin, Connie Morris, and John Calvert are portrayed in the most sympathetic light. They're not mendacious liars or uneducated hillbillies, but your everyday people who are merely misinformed by the IDC people and further energized by their blind faith.
What if the existence of God is in dispute or is denied? So far I have assumed the existence of God. But what if the existence of God is denied at the outset, or is in dispute? Is the plausibility of the argument to design affected? As a matter of my own experience the answer is clearly yes, the argument is less plausible to those for whom God's existence is in question, and is much less plausible for those who deny God's existence.
(Reply to My Critics, p705. Biology and Philosophy)
Monday, 17. September 2007, 22:45:55
Saturday, 3. June 2006, 15:23:17
This is an oldie but a goodie. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart featured creation "scientist" Carl Baugh and his crackpot ideas. They visited the good "scientist" at his "Creation Evidence Museum," where he proudly showed off his prized discovery, the Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track", which he thinks proves that man and dinosaurs co-existed. He also gave his opinion on the Flintstones (warning, do not watch when consuming liquids).
This is a great video, well worth watching. I give it two opposable thumbs up! YABBA DABBA DOO!
Thursday, 23. February 2006, 01:43:39
My first post with embedded video, it's really funny (if you like sacrilegious humor).
BTW, this is my 100th post! w00t! 
(Via Pharyngula.)
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