Comments on: Texas: Doomed http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:37:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mariano http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-202687 Mariano Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:59:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-202687 CafeenMan, EvilBible.com is Dead Large portions of evilbible.com have been considered, dissected and declared fallacious on very many levels. Two examples of this fact are as follows: Whilst besmirching the Bible for allegedly commanding rape evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention the most relevant biblical text related to the biblical view of and law about rape. Why this omission? Who knows, but it would certainly have gotten in the way of a good session of emotive expression of prejudice—it would have discredited evilbible.com to reference this most important text. Indeed, those annoying little facts have an annoying way of getting in the way of good fallacious assertions. Whilst besmirching the Bible for allegedly commanding human sacrifice evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention that the Bible does not command but condemns human sacrifice. Evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention that when the Bible reports that human sacrifices did take place they were carried out by Gentile Pagans who were not worshiping the God of the Bible but various false gods. When “Jews” were performing human sacrifices it was only when they turned away from the God of the Bible and joined Gentile Pagans in worshiping various false gods. Yet, in typical militant activist atheist fashion, evilbible.com does not condemn Gentile Pagans but only condemns the Jews. Some of the resources provided in the original post are as follows: http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/07/evilbiblecom-is-dead.html CafeenMan,

EvilBible.com is Dead

Large portions of evilbible.com have been considered, dissected and declared fallacious on very many levels.

Two examples of this fact are as follows:

Whilst besmirching the Bible for allegedly commanding rape evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention the most relevant biblical text related to the biblical view of and law about rape. Why this omission? Who knows, but it would certainly have gotten in the way of a good session of emotive expression of prejudice—it would have discredited evilbible.com to reference this most important text. Indeed, those annoying little facts have an annoying way of getting in the way of good fallacious assertions.

Whilst besmirching the Bible for allegedly commanding human sacrifice evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention that the Bible does not command but condemns human sacrifice. Evilbible.com, for some odd reason, neglects to mention that when the Bible reports that human sacrifices did take place they were carried out by Gentile Pagans who were not worshiping the God of the Bible but various false gods. When “Jews” were performing human sacrifices it was only when they turned away from the God of the Bible and joined Gentile Pagans in worshiping various false gods. Yet, in typical militant activist atheist fashion, evilbible.com does not condemn Gentile Pagans but only condemns the Jews.

Some of the resources provided in the original post are as follows:

http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/07/evilbiblecom-is-dead.html

]]> By: Unstrung Photo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-182455 Unstrung Photo Sun, 10 May 2009 00:11:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-182455 @sower TL; DR @sower

TL; DR

]]> By: Unstrung Photo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-182454 Unstrung Photo Sun, 10 May 2009 00:10:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-182454 for some reason, whenever I try to do a "thumbs up" I just get sent to a blank page: "...stumbleupon.com/submit" anyone have any idea why? for some reason, whenever I try to do a “thumbs up” I just get sent to a blank page: “…stumbleupon.com/submit”

anyone have any idea why?

]]> By: "Nothing made a spider out of a rock" - The abiogenesis thread - Religion and Philosophy - City-Data Forum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-175251 "Nothing made a spider out of a rock" - The abiogenesis thread - Religion and Philosophy - City-Data Forum Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:39:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-175251 [...] but still quite understandable. It gives a good idea of what abiogenesis hypothesis look like - not a spider out of a rock nor lightning strike in a mud puddle forming a complete modern cell, but something a bit like a [...] [...] but still quite understandable. It gives a good idea of what abiogenesis hypothesis look like – not a spider out of a rock nor lightning strike in a mud puddle forming a complete modern cell, but something a bit like a [...]

]]> By: Texas: Bored of Education? « Atypical Guy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-43501 Texas: Bored of Education? « Atypical Guy Mon, 26 May 2008 20:26:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-43501 [...] I’ve talked before about the guy that’s the head of the State Board of Education. His name is Don McLeroy, and [...] [...] I’ve talked before about the guy that’s the head of the State Board of Education. His name is Don McLeroy, and [...]

]]> By: Heathenz » Blog Archive » Texas Really Doomed http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-43500 Heathenz » Blog Archive » Texas Really Doomed Mon, 26 May 2008 07:29:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-43500 [...] worried that the perfect storm is brewing here. Here is why Phil Plait thinks that Texas is doomed: I’ve talked before about the guy that’s the head of the State Board of Education. His name is Don McLeroy, and [...] [...] worried that the perfect storm is brewing here. Here is why Phil Plait thinks that Texas is doomed: I’ve talked before about the guy that’s the head of the State Board of Education. His name is Don McLeroy, and [...]

]]> By: Ursus Pacificus » Blog Archive » The fat lady is in the green room warming up. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/comment-page-7/#comment-43499 Ursus Pacificus » Blog Archive » The fat lady is in the green room warming up. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:29:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/#comment-43499 [...] Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer posted this a while ago [...] [...] Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer posted this a while ago [...]

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