Answers in Genesis, Team Athiest, and the FMA...

Answers in Genisis

I've actually been very interested in creationism and science. I've always liked how they can make it seem as if dinosaurs never existed, and tried to explain how Genesis can be explained with these little pseudo-answers.

I went on a site called "Answers in Genesis", a website which tries to use science to support the young Earth argument. Its a bit of a rofl, and some of the things sounded a little made up.

Apparently, this incidents happened in real life:

"A young man approached me at a seminar and stated, ‘Well, I still believe in the big bang, and that we arrived here by chance random processes. I don’t believe in God.’ I answered him, ‘Well, then obviously your brain, and your thought processes, are also the product of randomness. So you don’t know whether it evolved the right way, or even what right would mean in that context. Young man, you don’t know if you’re making correct statements or even whether you’re asking me the right questions.’

The young man looked at me and blurted out, ‘What was that book you recommended?’"

Now why would a man go up to someone and without saying anything, just blurt that out?
Seriously, how does that story not look made up?

Ok, now, heres the other story:

"On another occasion, a man came to me after a seminar and said, ‘Actually, I’m an atheist. Because I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in absolutes, so I recognize that I can’t even be sure of reality.’ I responded, ‘Then how do you know you’re really here making this statement?’ ‘Good point,’ he replied. ‘What point?’ I asked. The man looked at me, smiled, and said, ‘Maybe I should go home.’ I stated, ‘Maybe it won’t be there.’ ‘Good point,’ the man said. ‘What point?’ I replied."

Again, why would someone just blurt that out to a religious person? Never once during my times as a religious person did David or Olix come up to me and say:
"I am an athiest. I do not believe in God as God cannot do everything (See Omnipotence paradox). Because of this, I am unsure of what to make of life"

They also seem to dig the whole "Family values" thing, which is pretty awful.
I noticed a very hilarious article on "The root of all evil" by Richard Dawkins. You can guess what happens. It is worth a look though
www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0123root_dawkins.asp.

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Team Athiest

I'm actually going to start a comic/flash cartoon (Not sure how it'll be presented) about a team of athiests going round like a special forces team defeating these religious fundamentalists and such.
If you would like to know more, then send me an email at josephhq@msn.com, or contact me on IM.

I could do with a writer/artist mind...

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Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA)

Yeah, I know I'm getting a bit too involved with this religion and America thing, but I would like to point out a little gem of a quote from Wikipedia concerning the activities of the White House and the proposed ban on gay marrige in the Federal marriage amendment:

"Early in January of 2005, Bush told the Washington Post that although he still supported the amendment, he would not lobby heavily for the passage because he believed that until a federal court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, there would not be enough votes for passage.

On January 25, 2005, according to the New York Times, Bush told a privately invited group of African-American community and religious leaders that he remained committed to amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. [4] Over the course of the next two days, it was revealed by the Washington Post and USA Today that the Bush Administration had paid columnists to promote its views on marriage. The Department of Health and Human Services paid Maggie Gallagher $21,500, and Mike McManus $49,000, to write syndicated news columns endorsing the FMA. [5] [6] Additionally, Gallagher also received $20,000 in 2002 and 2003 to write a report on government initiatives to strengthen marriage. McManus leads a group called Marriage Savers that works with other organizations to promote marriage as defined between a man and a woman.

Vice President Dick Cheney (whose daughter Mary Cheney is lesbian) has declined to endorse or condemn the FMA, maintaining that constitutional amendments are an issue for the states."

Wow, thats depressing...

Anyway, toodles for now. Sorry if I'm laying into religion, it can be irritating, but I still have a lot of anger still...

But yeah, toodles...