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Psalms 14:1

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”  They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

This is the basis for this little montage below.  I’ve already mentioned this before but I thought this video expanded on it a bit.  Get ready for a bit of enlightenment.

Arthur C. Clarke was my favorite science fiction writer and I own virtually all of his fiction. He was a strong influence on my logical and reasonable approach to understanding the world and provided me with countless hours of enjoyment and mental stimulation. Some of my favorite of his books are probably Rendezvous With Rama, The Songs of Distant Earth, The City and the Stars, A Fall of Moondust, and The Fountains of Paradise.

Clarke once said, “The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” This, I believe, is probably the most profound statement he ever uttered.  It supports the crux of my arguments concerning the so-called “necessity” of religion.

An atheist and humanist, a scientist and thinker, Clarke showed me what we have the potential to be if we employ education, reason, and open-mindedness. In a world permeated with sinister fundamentalist extremists bent on dragging the rest of the world down into a new dark age, Clarke’s example of human potential is a guiding light. Although he never knew me he taught me a lot and I hope that one day he’ll teach my children and their children as well.

Ben Stein is back for more, this time again blaming the Holocaust on Darwin and accusing science of murder. Here’s a tidbit from his interview with TBN founder Paul Crouch:

Stein: Love of God, compassion, and empathy leads you to a very glorious place; and science leads you to killing people.

Crouch: Good word, good word.

Sound too stupid and irresponsible to be true? See for yourself:

I do find it odd that Ben was on TBN, a Christian network, since the Jews killed Jesus and all. Maybe what they have in common are their extremist, fundamentalist viewpoints. Fundamentalist Christianity hates science as we’ve seen from the persecution of Galileo to the preposterous idea that Darwin is responsible for the holocaust. If science differs from scripture, they reason, then scripture wins out, regardless of the facts. At least the Catholic church is behaving just a little better lately but it’s primarily because they don’t hold the power they once held. If they did I’d wager we’d see a significant rise in witch burnings and heretic killings. The Dark Ages 2.0, so to speak, but that’s my opinion.

Even the Anti-Defamation League doesn’t want to be associated with this lunacy. They’ve issued an official statement denouncing the association of Darwin to the Holocaust as presented by Stein in his film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. From the ADL’s site:

The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory.

Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler’s genocidal madness.

Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.

I have two schools of thought on how to handle delusional and potentially dangerous people like …read more »

Ben Stein is quite possibly the smartest idiot in the world. I just can’t figure this guy out. He was a Nixon speech writer and he’s obviously intelligent; I’m familiar with his credentials and have witnessed his remarkable memory at work. But the same guy who graduated at the top of his class at Yale said the 911 attacks were the result of “atheistic evil” when we know inconclusively that the people who planned and executed that attack were anything but atheists; they were devout and pious Muslims. Those attacks were a shameful example of “religious evil”, and were not atheistic in any sense of the term.

He’s either stupid or a liar and, as I said, I don’t think he’s stupid.

So the same guy who brought us the catch phrase “Bueller” and blatantly misrepresented atheism is now apparently doing the same thing with evolution and science. His film …read more »

I was driving past a church in my neighborhood a week or two ago and I noticed their sign. I normally read the signs on churches, mostly because they can sometimes provide some comic relief. I have a few favorites from the years past, most notably a couple churches in West Virginia. One church had a bright red scrolling sign which read “Big Bang Theory: Yeah Right!”. Another had created an acronym for the word Bible which read: “Bible: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”. At least that one was clever. I’ve also seen a few bumper stickers worth mentioning: “Evolution is Science Fiction”, “Big Bang Theory: God said ‘Bang!’ and it happened”, and “Eternity: Smoking or Non-Smoking?”.

As impressed as I am with the seemingly overwhelming idiocy of this …read more »

I was driving through West County today and saw a bumper sticker that read “Evolution is Science Fiction“. Right beside it was …read more »