Genetics is AMAZING ... and freaky

If only Christians responded this way when I mention that I'm an atheist ... it would be much more entertaining than the usual response where they inform me that I must have nothing on which to base my morality.



Also - the men who stare at goats is coming out. I'll go see if someone wants to see it with me.

I don't get it

The Skeptic

Maybe if I knew Jesus was so cute I'd have no problem believing in 'the boy'.

Sex Determination

A friend just sent me a link to this paper concerning the field we study:


Let me know if you actually want to read the article and don't have subscription access.

Sell

I <3 Sarah Silverman.

Faith

So, isn't the Christian god supposed to be able to save his chosen leader without the aid of human technology?

Soda Shop

After watching Shortbus I found more music from Jay Brannan. Here's the song, Soda Shop, that he performed in the movie. Totally hot.

Mr. Deity

God explains to Jesus how prayer works:

Too bad it's not a candy cane

Ahhhh Malaysia, hailed as a moderate Muslim nation. Where attempting to have sex with your FIANCEE can be punished by up to three years in jail. Fortunately for one couple, they're getting off light with only a £1,000 fine each and a public caning.

Islamic religious police caught Mohamad Shahrin Abdul Majid, 29, and Nadiah Najat Hussin, 24, wearing only their underwear in a car at an office parking area in May.

They pleaded guilty to trying to have sex out of wedlock and were sentenced to six strokes of the cane. They were also fined £1,000 each.

Where is the Muslim outcry? Are the moderates concerned? I'm sure they're telling us that it's just a misinterpretation of the text. Or maybe they'll handle it the way many contemporary Christians regard the bible, "Oh, that text was meant for a different culture and it's not necessary today any more." Who decides that? What critical thinking skills did you use to cut off that excess moral depravity and go instead with your evolutionary intuitive moral compass??? Isn't the whole text holy and divinely inspired (if not divinely verbatim/written)? What intuitive moral compass are you employing to claim that this section is out of date but others are not? Why not go a step further and question teachings that you think are fine but that someone else might come along and say are out of date, let's say, the idea of gay marriage?

Then again, when people live their lives by fairy tales it's futile to determine the arbitrary assumptions with which they choose to build their arguments and govern their conscious world. It's based on feelings, not on a pursuit of truth. And for that, I'm thankful to live in a country where *most* laws are not directed by religious teachings.

Shame on you, Malaysia.

Your Daily Dose of Stupid

Every thought about what it would be like to live in a society where murder isn't murder, but just vigilante justice? Apparently this is how it works for Pastor Steven Anderson: killing Barack Obama and executing homosexuals does not actually count as murder, rather a sense of diving justice. In fact, it's been reported that he petitioned his congregation to pray for divine intervention to kill President Obama.