The "Blind Lizard" argument

I know, it's been a while since I have posted anything. It's been a VERY busy couple months with moving suddenly (the house I was renting had black mold), having hernia surgery for the 3rd time and the holidays. I will say I made it through all of it without thinking I should pray to anyone or anything even once! I would like to take a second though and thank the good doctors and nurses at IMC for their care and professionalism. They were great!

Last Saturday as my son and I were getting ready to go to the archery range and loose some arrows at a few very deserving paper targets, we received a visit from an evangelical whackadoo. I am not sure what faith he was promoting specifically as he didn't identify himself with any organized group. He was an older man and had a young african american boy with him in tow. When I answered the door, he immediately asks me without introducing himself if "I would like to discuss god with him"?

Now, I very rarely turn down a good debate and would normally have invited he and his little buddy in for a spirited debate on religion and the existence of a supreme being. Since I was getting ready to go, (bow in hand) I wasn't really in the mood for a long discussion with him and politely said "No, thanks. I'm not a believer and this would be a waste of your time."

He stood there for less than 2 seconds and started into a tirade regarding creation and evolution. I am not sure why he went there, I didn't mention anything of the sort to him. I politely responded that there isn't a creator and that evolution proves itself, all he would need to do is examine any animal or for that matter human being and he could see evolution in action.

This is when he got weird on me: He looked at me and said "what about blind lizards?" then went on to explain how a blind lizard would die if god didn't give it eyes. I told him that there are plenty of blind animals and other life forms on the planet that do just fine. He insisted that if god didn't give blind animals eyes they would all die. At that point I knew I was dealing with a crackpot and realized that there was going to be no simple end to this conversation so I stood there mute for about three minutes as he rambled on about blind animals and gods link to them. He asked me if  that made me think that there could be a god, I simply said no it makes me think you don't know what you are talking about.

He then says "well we have stuff to do" and turned and walked away.

Has anyone else dealt with this before? I have no idea where he was going with the blind lizard argument. If it was to convice me of a creator it didn't work, it only convinced me that he was an idiot that had no idea what he was talking about.

It's good to be back. I will make sure to post more to keep you all entertained.

Humans really are still evolving, study finds

Humans really are still evolving, study finds

This is the kind of thing that EVERYONE should read and understand!

Hmmm. I wonder, how will the "Bible Thumping" folks argue this? Will they say it's false and of the devil? Probably, they would be wrong, they will insist on it anyway....

PROOF: One more link in the Evolutionary Chain!

This is absolutely AMAZING!

I wonder how Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron fight THIS PROOF!

Oh wait, I can guess...... The devil planted the ENTIRE civilization!

Do you think the Devil did it?

Do you think it's proof of Evolution?

Tell me, I really would love to know what you think.

Religious views in Public Education?

In Cape Town South Africa a Science teacher was forced to QUIT his job after being reprimanded for teaching evolution.

Let me repeat that:

 In Cape Town South Africa a Science teacher was forced to QUIT his job after being reprimanded for teaching evolution.


No, that wasn't a typo. You can read the story here.

This is just rediculous. Seriously?!? Teaching evolution, natural selection is a bad thing? What, we should only be educating our children in the ways of the force? What the hell is happening?

I suppose it makes more sense to teach our children that an all powerful, magical being that has NO beginning snapped his fingers and created a diverse world full of amazing creatures that EVOLVE and ADAPT over time (this has been PROVEN) and then this magical, omnipotent being makes sure to deny that evolution is possible. Plants dinosaur bones to confuse and confound the people of the planet in question and has crazy people write a violent poorly written book with conflicting information and instructions to follow which should you choose to follow it will have you sent to "hell" no matter what you do since there is no way to truly win.

That is much better than evolution and natural selection right?

Wow. All I can say is Wow.

I am happier now more than ever that I am an Atheist and can see the truth of things.

Evolution is a fairy tale?

Ladies and Gentlemen, the IDIOT Ray Comfort is at it again. You can read the article here.

This time he is attempting to attack Evolution as a fairy tale? Hmmm. I'm not an Evolutionary Scientist by any means so I am not going to try pretend to be one. It's interesting that he is saying that churches that are CHOOSING to celebrate "Evolution Week" should also have a "Cinderella Sunday" since they are celebrating 'fairy tales'.

Now THAT is ironic! I thought religion in general was about fairy tales. I thought every Sunday was a "Cinderella Sunday". Was I wrong? Don't people of all faiths celebrate their fantasies every Sunday?

“The only thing scientific about the theory of evolution is that it is science fiction,” said Ray Comfort. Really? Really? So all the decades of research and PROOF are for naught? The FACT that we can see evolution from one generation to the next in all sorts of organisms from the smallest bacteria to apes and let's not forget HUMANS! For example, it is undisputed fact that all human life came from the African continent some millions of years ago, yet there are diverse groups (races) of individual HUMANS all over the planet that have EVOLVED to have different traits from facial structure to skin pigmentation. How do you discredit this PROOF of evolution Ray? I will tell you how, by going to the most fantastic novel ever written and quoting it! Tower of Babel anyone? His ONLY proof to discredit this is an obscure story of people building a tower to heaven, a tower that archeology CANNOT find anywhere on the planet. A tower that would have been so incredibly tall that there would have to have been SOME remnants of it somewhere, but alas, NOTHING.

“The institutions that embrace the theory of evolution need to come out of the closet and stop pretending to be Christian. Either we believe Jesus when He said, ‘In the beginning God created male and female’ or we don’t. Biblical truth and the fairytale of evolution are incompatible,” Comfort said.

Given that the Bible was WRITTEN some 3,000 years ago and BORROWS many of the stories of creation etc. from the Mesopotamian cultures as well as Egyptian mythos, how is THAT fact? It's NOT Ray. Prove me wrong. The Mesopotamian culture wrote of creation LONG BEFORE the Christian Bible was even a thought! How can the Bible be factual yet you would have us believe that cultures that had the SAME stories PRIOR to the Bible's existence are false? Ray, WAKE up! You are an IDIOT!

“In recent years biologists have deliberately distanced themselves from that phrase and instead used ‘natural selection,’ because ‘survival of the fittest’ is easily linked to Hitler’s killing of the weak and letting the strongest survive. Atheism almost always embraces Darwinian evolution, which would have people believe that they are merely animals, and that there are no moral absolutes. I have been going to universities and challenging students to convince me that evolution has a scientific basis. No one can offer any proof, because Darwin’s evolution is scientifically baseless. All they have are theories that have to be received in blind faith,” he said.

So Ray is going to Universities and challenging the Students? What about the Professors? Oh, Wait! He wouldn't do THAT because a Professor of science WOULD discredit him and PROVE him to be the MORON that he is. He asks you to PROVE to him scientifically that Evolution makes sense, but then when YOU ask him to prove that God exists, he ASKS you to take it on "blind faith" his words, Not mine!

Hey Ray, you can't have it both ways.

I am issuing an OPEN CHALLENGE to Ray Comfort:

Come to my blog, post your thoughts and let me prove you wrong! I'm not an evolutionary scientist. I'm just a blogger! Oh, and I'm an Atheist. I would bet you that I don't hear from Ray, know why? He's chicken and doesn't have the BALLS to challenge me. Hell, I would be willing to be on his stupid little scare tactics show and be interviewed.

He won't though. I am sure of it.

Hey Ray. I dare you!