Before Adam signed on the dotted line...

This is hilarious!

Why I am 100% sure there is no God

Atheists are not supposed to be 100% sure that there is no God.

But I am.

The source of the strength of my conviction stemmed from my Christian training, where we were encouraged to have faith, despite a sore lack of evidence. The evidence for there being no God is so strong compared to there being a God that it hardly takes effort for me to believe that no God whatsoever exists. I have that much faith.

Richard Dawkins probably has less faith because he never went to church, which is why he is only 99% sure.

Christian comments

Ever since having had some discussions with liberal Christians, I've been getting lewd comments in some of my old blog posts.

What makes intelligent people Christians & Joyful atheist evangelism.

What can I say.

Bible Oops!

Atheist Pastors

Many of them are actually atheists, and but have to pretend to believe. That must not be a very good way to live. It's no wonder that so many of lead such distressful lives.

Many of us have to pretend, but only some of the time. These people have to pretend almost all the time, perhaps even to their own family members.

What if Darwin could blog?

Would he have published half-baked ideas?

Darwin postulated natural selection while Lamarckism postulated that parts of our body that got used more would grow more adept, and that adeptness would be passed down to the next generation.

In his last edition, Darwin started to say that those parts which were more used would be more evolved. He could have been mistaken as getting nearer to Lamarckism, but that is hardly the case.

It is a simple case of cultural evolution working hand-in-hand with natural selection. One or two ancient giraffes with short necks found that they could get extra food by stretching their necks towards higher branches in the trees. Those around them started to follow this trend, and before you know it, everyone was doing the same.

Over generations, those with longer necks did better by getting more food, using the same strategy of trying to get food from the higher branches. So they produced more off-springs, and hence the appearance of long-necked giraffes.

Another example. In the midst of a primate colony, a baby was born with a larger head than most, and she killed her mother during child-birth because of that. This lady started using brains to get food instead of brawn. Her off-springs followed her example. Before you know it, a tribe of primates with the same survival skills had been formed. And so you get a branch of intelligent primates now knows an humans.

The very first verse

I thought I was done with the first verse of the bible, but I'm not.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

The hebrew word for God is elohim, which is plural. It should therefore be translated as, "In the beginning, the gods created the heaven and the earth."

And if cosmology is correct, in the beginning, the gods caused the big bang to happen. He, I mean they, didn't create the earth immediately. The earth should have come about some time later.

Further, the word created can also mean cut*.

So perhaps it's more accurate to translate,"In the beginning, the gods separated the heaven from the earth."

*Notes:
Jos 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

Jos 17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.