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  1. Alceste

    Babyhood to adulthood

    No, not exactly. There are a lot of intermediate stages Some "halfway breastfed" species are still extant, although I've forgotten the details. It was in an Attenborough documentary I saw years ago. I'm sure you could just look up "evolution of breastfeeding". :) in fact, I'm gonna do that...
  2. Alceste

    Failure to communicate?

    It means it's perfectly clear that Jesus thought he was a god, and that only his followers get to go to heaven or whatever, but it's not a very believable claim.
  3. Alceste

    Babyhood to adulthood

    The first "parents" of everything were not human. Or even mammalian. They were blobs of cells floating around in the sea that developed the ability to swap DNA. Their offspring also were. Blobs of primordial, sexually reproducing cells don't breastfeed. Problem solved.
  4. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    Quoted for truth. Even more unfortunate is the fact that his earthly ambassadors are so terribly unpersuasive.
  5. Alceste

    What are some good online resources for Political analysis?

    I like Gwynne Dyer. He has a number of syndicated articles on his site and has written several good books. His predictions are also quite accurate more often than not, which is a big sell, for me. Gwynne Dyer - Author, Historian & Independent Journalist
  6. Alceste

    Taking pictures of children in public is illegal

    Kicking the nutsack of a grown man who is creeping on your child up into his ribcage is actually a very rational reaction, for a parent.
  7. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    That's much more thoughtful than my reaction, which was thinking it's more like baby bunnies insisting there are monsters under the bed.
  8. Alceste

    Best book ever written!

    My top ten, in no particular order. Tao te Ching Einstein's Dreams (Lightman) Shipbreaker (Bacigalupi) Candide (Voltaire) Song of Ice and Fire series (Martin) The Hobbit (Tolkien) The Greatest Show on Earth (Dawkins) A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson) The True Believer (Hoffer) The...
  9. Alceste

    Why do people deny or have various doubts about God?

    I always suspected penguins were minions of Satan.
  10. Alceste

    Why do people deny or have various doubts about God?

    Day three specifically mentions grass and fruit trees. Funnily enough, mushrooms don't get a look-in at all.
  11. Alceste

    Why do people deny or have various doubts about God?

    It was ages ago. Sonofason asked me what the Bible got wrong, and I pointed out that genesis has god making plants on day three and the sun on day four. Rather than saying "Yup, that's a mistake alright", he came up with some convoluted business about plants being originally kept alive by God's...
  12. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    Oh, we get along fine. He's not even jealous I'm two timing him with Lao Tzu and Voltaire. He just wants me to be content.
  13. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    I don't think the god described in the bible sounds all that honest. He didn't make us out of dirt and ribs, he didn't make plants before the sun, he forgot to even mention the Precambrian, Cambrian or Paleozoic eras, he can't quite decide if he's Jesus or Jesus's dad... He seems quite a sketchy...
  14. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    Well, if we are talking about the offer of reward after death made by Christians, who claim it comes from god, there is zero evidence that god will ever pay up in the end. So to use the billion dollar analogy, there is no evidence that you can use the money when you're dead. You just have to...
  15. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    Exactly. There's a good reason whores ask for their payment in advance. I like to think I'm at least as clever as your average whore. :D
  16. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    We don't believe in heaven or hell, so it isn't a serious risk.
  17. Alceste

    The bright side of Atheism

    I didn't say I was a god, FYI. Let me put it to you this way. A man comes up to you and says "if you obey me and follow me for your entire life, I'll give you a billion dollars after you're dead." Good deal or crappy deal? Me, I say crappy deal. First, I only know for a fact that I will live...
  18. Alceste

    Taking pictures of children in public is illegal

    Maybe, but the CA creeper was charged with possession of child pornography. Whether they defined his low angle crotch photos of kids as pornography or whether they charged him for other images on his phone is unclear. Moral of that particular story is, if you don't want to be tackled by...
  19. Alceste

    Taking pictures of children in public is illegal

    Sounds like in the CA case, the police asked if he had child pornography on his phone and he said yes. Boom.
  20. Alceste

    Failure to communicate?

    His meaning is clear, but it seems likely that he was mistaken.
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