So you think that if a sock fairy cannot separate you from your socks, nothing to worry about? Ha, naive and foolish mortal! Did you ever notice h_o_l_e_s in your socks?

Just a thought: could we harness the energy of stupidity to alleviate global warming? Perhaps the conversion to a usable form of energy could go like that: isn’t using fossils blasphemous? Aren’t fossil fuels just a temptation to get used to them and thus subliminally accept the message that the World existed long enough for them to fossilize? And, by the way, what did Jesus drive?

Also, if atheism is a religion, then I want all the breaks and perks churches get–everything from tax-exempt status all the way down to having reserved street parking.

As someone else once put it, atheism is a religion, but only in the way that not jogging is a hobby.

And I resent your mockery of my Sock Elf religion.

…in fact, once a person starts to believe, he can look back and see how all through his life while he wasn’t believing, God was yet doing all manner of things for the unbeliever.

In fact, once a person starts to observe, he can look up and see how all through the night while he wasn’t observing, the Man in the Moon was yet looking down in a kindly fashion on the man with no telescope.

Also, if humans evolved from apes, why is there still Mark Noonan? Gotcha, evilutionists!

“Okay, we’ll admit the Earth goes around the Sun, but we go no further than that!”

OK, we can give up on the “six days”, but no way we are giving you the six billions years thing.

I think the compromise he is talking about is something of this sort “you gotta give us some whiff of divinity in the primordial soup, and we are in no way taking this Humans-from-apes stuff, but we can probably accept a few billion years for plants, animals and other shit, you know as a good gesture… I wish we could give you more, but that’s the best we can do at this point…”

Great. You proved your point. I’m convinced. Now, get the fuck off it. Thank you.

I highlhy recommend it, especially, to anyone in with and interest in the debate between materialist/determinst Darwinism and Intelligent Design.

Perhaps the Nooner has been posting while sacued so much, he’s devolved into “All Your Base” Engrish…

Sock Elves, for fuck’s sake! Who the fuck ever heard of fucking namby pamby sock fairies? I SPIT! All your socks are belong to us FOREVER, you fucking unbelievers. Fairies don’t have the drive, the instinct, the fucking sheer, unsleeping dedication to separating you stupid humans from your fucking socks!!!1!! All fairies ever do is moon around and talk about the shit they could do if they wanted to–but they never fucking do it! Meanwhile, we’re out there, every wash day, stealing the motherfucking socks, OK? So fuck the fairies, they’re useless. Worse than useless, they’re annoying, twinkly little fucks. Who don’t do shit.

To be fair, it would be real tricky to prove that flowers exist.

Don’t be absurd. I ate one in my dinner salad tonight. An orange nasturtium. Quite nice. So there’s at least one that existed, but it doesn’t now, because I eated it. Find your own fucking flower to eat. And stay the fuck away from them socks!

So he’s doomed to repeat evolution?

Sorry for the editing error.

So he’s destined doomed to repeat evolution?

In fact, he has it exactly backwards. There is no way to falsify the concept that the universe WAS created by God, i.e., there is no way to devise an experiment that could prove that concept wrong. This is because no matter what results you come up with, the God-believer can always say “That’s how God designed it/did it/wanted it.”

On the other hand, you could devise an experiment to disprove the concept that the universe was NOT created by God. Virtually any scientific experiment could produce results that could only be caused by God, if God exists. For instance, the telescopic results of looking deeper and deeper into the universe (and hence back in time closer and closer to the Big Bang) could lead to an observation of a pulsar blasting out radiation in Morse code that translates to the statement “I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

If the observation were controlled in such a way that hoax and fraud were eliminated as possibilities, and capable of being replicated (with the same results), then atheists would have little choice but to conclude that their hypothesis — there is no God — is wrong. Hence, the concept that there is no God is tremendously falsifiable; all it would take is some direct and indisputable evidence of God’s existence.

Noonan is correct about one thing, though: scientists and atheists (two groups that may overlap but are not 1-to-1 congruent) all have “faith” that observation and reason will produce logical and correct explanations and thus are the most appropriate ways of parsing the universe; whereas revelation and superstition produce irrational and unpredictable — and often provably wrong — explanations. Atheism is not, as some desperate creationists and fundamentalists like to claim, a religion; but it does rely on the belief that humans are able to rationally analyze the world around us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism#Repercussions_of_Lysenkoism