Saturday, September 30, 2017

Charles Darwin was a Christian creationist but he threw out Jeebus and of course he threw out magical creationism. After that he virtually never talked about religion. After his favorite daughter died he would not go in the church for her funeral.

Private
Nov. 24 1880
Dear Sir,
I am sorry to have to
inform you that I do
not believe in the Bible
as a divine revelation
& therefore not in Jesus
Christ as the son of God.
Yours faithfully
Ch. Darwin

Smithsonian.com - A Letter About Darwin’s Belief in God Just Sold for Nearly $200,000 Just 41 words long, it provides a missing link for historians who have long wondered what the naturalist thought about religion

This blog has 3,088 posts. I recently discovered what I think is the best post I ever wrote, from September 4, 2013.

This blog has 3,088 posts. I recently discovered what I think is the best post I ever wrote, from September 4, 2013: The incurable stupidity of creationist assholes

Human apes are not the big fucking deal they think they are. From Wikipedia: "An eagle in flight can reputedly sight a rabbit two miles away. Talon–eye coordination is a hunting imperative. From its perch at the top of trees, the eagle can dive at speeds of 125–200 miles per hour (201–322 km/h) to catch its prey by its talons."



In the 2nd video an eagle destroys a drone.

Lots of violence on this planet all thanks to evolution by natural selection.

The 1st video shows eagles attacking human apes. We are not on the top of the food chain.

Where Do Humans Really Rank on the Food Chain? We’re not at the top, but towards the middle, at a level similar to pigs and anchovies

1964

Friday, September 29, 2017

The Christian war against science education will never end until the Christian death cult goes extinct.

"South Dakota’s Senate this week approved a measure that prohibits school boards from preventing teachers from questioning established scientific theories. Similar bills are making their way through legislatures in Oklahoma and Indiana."

New wave of anti-evolution bills hit states

In South Dakota incompetent biology teachers who know nothing about biology can tell their students evolution is wrong. These are Christians of course. They should be fired but the brain-dead students and the even more retarded parents never complain.

The students learn how to be morons. This is child abuse.

These are public schools so this a violation of the Establishment Clause.

The stupid, it burns in Idiot America.

I highly recommend a post I wrote 4 years ago: The incurable stupidity of creationist assholes

Also this is very good: two short videos about Charles Darwin: "It's like confessing a murder." -- Charles Darwin

A big part of being successful is not blowing yourself up. Muslim scum don't understand. They blow themselves up every day.

September 29, 2017

KABUL—Just days before Afghanistan’s Shiite Muslims mark the most important event on their sect’s religious calendar, a man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up near a crowded Shiite mosque in central Kabul on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 14 others, Afghan authorities said.

If a magic god fairy was real (it's bullshit) then why would it be a loving god and why would it be interested in this tiny insignificant planet in a universe of countless trillions of solar systems. I have asked religious morons this question but they're too dense to understand.

A quote from the famous scientist Richard Feynman. He was talking about the Magic Jeebus Man. 

"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of god came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."

An interesting fact: The dictator of Germany and the Pope were good friends.

“Believers are supposed to hold that the pope is the vicar of Christ on earth, and the keeper of the keys of Saint Peter. They are of course free to believe this, and to believe that god decides when to end the tenure of one pope or (more important) to inaugurate the tenure of another. This would involve believing in the death of an anti-Nazi pope, and the accession of a pro-Nazi one, as a matter of divine will, a few months before Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the opening of the Second World War. Studying that war, one can perhaps accept that 25 percent of the SS were practicing Catholics and that no Catholic was ever even threatened with excommunication for participating in war crimes. (Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, but that was earlier on, and he had after all brought it on himself for the offense of marrying a Protestant.) Human beings and institutions are imperfect, to be sure. But there could be no clearer or more vivid proof that holy institutions are man-made.” 
― Christopher HitchensGod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Biologist Ken Miller has done more than anyone to prevent Christian assholes from dumbing down the teaching of evolution. There is one problem. Ken Miller pretends or really is a Catholic, aka idiot.

This is from Jerry Coyne's website. This is very interesting. Jerry Coyne writes about Ken Miller and how he pretends to be a Catholic even though he doesn't believe in most of the Catholic bullshit.

I don't know what Miller's problem is. Maybe he thinks it's lucrative to pretend to be a god-soaked idiot. He does have a nice income from his book about evolution which sucks up to the Magic Man.

Catholic biologist Ken Miller talks about God and evolution

I just started watching this interview of Ken Miller. Miller is totally full of it. He invokes his Magic Man to invent natural processes like evolution. No evidence provided. He is a scientist so what the fuck is his problem? Real scientists do not stick a magic god fairy into science.


The human race is infested with assholes who throw their plastic garbage in the oceans.

"According to a 2015 report in Science, over 10 million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean each year, and that figure may increase 10 times by 2025."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170928142101.htm

The god of the gaps has run out of hiding places.

American fucktards are constantly invoking their god of the gaps. Their idea is science can't solve every problem therefore the Magic Man did it.

The problem for the religious idiots is there are no more hiding places. Three examples:

1. The development of new species. This has been figured out in great detail. See my 210 posts about the evidence for evolution at evidence for evolution.

2. How life got a foothold on Earth four billion years ago. It's been figured out. See Protein-like structures from the primordial soup.

3. What came before the universe and what caused the Big Bang? It's been figured out. See What Came Before the Big Bang?

Every branch of science will always have research opportunities. We know a god fairy's magical powers were never required for anything and the science that shows this will grow forever. Meanwhile religious bullshit remains permanently stuck in the Dark Ages.

Why do religious scum continue to think their fairy of the gaps is required? Also why don't these morons look things up and educate themselves?

Their problem is they're cowards. They can't exist without their ridiculous childish magical-2nd-life fantasy. Reality makes religious scum cry. So they look for any excuse to pretend their loving god fairy is real. It's not real. A god fairy who never had anything to do is a fairy that doesn't exist.

Interesting song.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_(song)

Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace discovered natural selection which is the most important mechanism of evolution. This post is about their different ideas.

Natural Selection: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace.

A cut & paste job then my comments:

This is from https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/zAnon1906CurrentLit.pdf

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DARWIN AND WALLACE

The fact is well known that the theory of evolution as developed by Darwin was discovered independently and almost simultaneously by Alfred Russel Wallace. The latter, in the course of his newly issued biography, complains that his differences of opinion with Darwin are so construed as to imply that he has now abandoned the most essential parts of the theory of natural selection. This, he says, is far from being the case. He proceeds to enumerate these differences and to explain their significance, as it appears to him. First and foremost among his conflicts of theory with Darwin he places that relating to the origin of man as an intellectual and moral being.

On this topic Dr. Wallace states: "The belief and teaching of Darwin was that man's whole nature-physical, mental, intellectual and moral was developed from the lower animals by means of the same laws of variation and survival; and, as a consequence of this belief, that there was no difference in kind between man's nature and animal nature, but only one of degree. My view, on the other hand, was and is that there is a difference in kind, intellectually and morally, between man and other animals; and that while his body was undoubtedly developed by the continuous modification of some ancestral animal form, some different agency, analogous to that which first produced organic life, and then originated consciousness. came into play in order to develop the higher intellectual and spiritual nature of man.

"These views caused much distress of mind to Darwin, but they do not in the least affect the general doctrine of natural selection. It might be as well argued that because man has produced the pouter pigeon, the bulldog and the dray horse, none of which could have been produced by natural selection alone, therefore the agency of natural selection is weakened or disproved. Neither, I urge, is it weakened or disproved if my theory of the origin of man is the true one."

The next most important conflict of views between these eminent scientists related to the subject of sexual selection through female choice. Darwin's theory of sexual selection, Dr. Wallace observes, consists of two quite distinct parts-the combats of males, so common among polygamous animals and birds, and the choice of more musical or more ornamental male birds by the females. The first, he says, is an observed fact, and the development of weapons such as horns, canine teeth, spurs, etc., is a result of natural selection acting through such combats.

The second is an inference from observed facts and "an inference supported by singularly little evidence." The first he still holds as strongly as Darwin himself. The latter he at first accepted; but he soon came to doubt the possibility of such an explanation, at first from considering the fact that in butterflies sexual differences are as strongly marked as in birds, and it was to him impossible to accept female choice in their case. As the whole question of color came to be better understood he saw equally valid reasons for the total rejection of the theory even as to birds and mammals.

The presence of arctic plants in the southern hemisphere and on isolated mountain tops within the tropics developed the third difference of standpoint between these brethren in an identical field. Darwin accounted for the phenomena by a cooling of the tropical lowlands of the whole earth during the glacial period to such an extent as to allow large numbers of north temperate and arctic plants to spread across the continents to the southern hemispheres, and as the cold passed away to ascend to the summits of isolated tropical mountains. Dr. Wallace says of this view: "The difficulties in the way of Darwin's view are twofold. First, that of lowering temperature of inter-tropical lowlands to the required extent would inevitably have destroyed much of the overwhelming luxuriances and variety of plant, insect and bird life that characterize those regions. This has so impressed myself. Bates and others familiar with the tropics as to render the idea wholly inconceivable; and the only reason why Darwin did not feel this appears to be that he really knew nothing personally of the tropics beyond a few days at Bahia and Rio. and could have had no conception of its wonderfully rich and highly specialized fauna and flora. In the second place. even if a sufficient lowering of temperature had occurred during the ice age. it would not account for the facts, which involve, as Sir Joseph Hooker remarks, a continuous current of vegetation from north to south, going much further back than the glacial period, because it has led to the transmission not of existing species only but of distinct representative species, and even distinct genera, showing that the process must have been going on long before the cold period. The reason why Darwin was unaffected by these various difficulties may perhaps be found in the circumstance that he had held his views for so many years almost unchallenged."

Pangenesis and the transmission by heredity of acquired characters were subjects regarding which debate between Darwin and Wallace was keen. Says Wallace now: "Darwin always believed in the inheritance of acquired characters. such as the effects of use and disuse of organs and of climate. food. etc., on the individual. as did almost every naturalist. and his theory of pangenesis was invented to explain this among other effects of heredity. I therefore accepted pangenesis at first. because I have always felt it a relief (as did Darwin) to have some hypothesis, however provisional and improbable. that would serve to explain the facts; and I told him that 'I shall never be able to give it up till a better one supplies its place.' I never imagined that it could be directly disproved, but Mr. F. Galton's experiments of transfusing a large quantity of the blood of rabbits into other individuals of quite different breeds. and afterwards finding that the progeny was not in the slightest degree altered, did seem to me to be very nearly a disproof, although Darwin did not accept it as such. But when at a much later period. Dr. Weismann showed that there is actually no valid evidence for the transmission of such characters. and when he further set forth a mass of evidence in support of his theory of the continuity of the germ-plasm, the 'better theory' was found. and I finally gave as pangenesis was untenable."

MY COMMENTS ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENT IDEAS:

This was written by Wallace and it's bullshit: "My view, on the other hand, was and is that there is a difference in kind, intellectually and morally, between man and other animals; and that while his body was undoubtedly developed by the continuous modification of some ancestral animal form, some different agency, analogous to that which first produced organic life, and then originated consciousness, came into play in order to develop the higher intellectual and spiritual nature of man."

When he wrote "some different agency" he was invoking the childish Magic Man fantasy. That's bullshit. It's definitely not science. Wallace also seems to be invoking magic for this "analogous to that which first produced organic life". That's bullshit. Interesting fact: The crackpots at Crackpot Central, aka the anti-science god-did-it Discovery Institute, love Wallace thanks to his moronic "some different agency" fantasy.

Sexual selection was Darwin's idea and he was right. Wallace wanted to throw that idea out.

There are other differences. I will let another person (if someone actually reads this) write a comment about what I left out.

Wallace's natural selection idea was the same as Darwin's idea. Darwin was probably the 1st person who noticed it but he did not want to talk about it until his book was written and he was no hurry to write that book. When he realized Wallace had the same ideas he got that book finished and published. On the Origin of Species changed the world.

"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science."
-- Jerry Coyne

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One more thing: Charles Darwin Autobiography

The breathtaking stupidity of Christian scum

"Jesus was born of a virgin mother. In his maturity (early thirties or late forties) he gathered twelve close followers, preached to multitudes how to be good by being humble, loving and forgiving, bearing no grudges, and returning kindness for unkindness. He performed miracles of healing, brought a dead man back to life, catered miraculously at a wedding (turning water into wine) and at an outdoor religious convention (making a few loaves and fishes stretch to feed five thousand), walked on water, calmed a storm with a command." Believing the unbelievable

Virgin mom? Impossible.

Twelve close followers, all males, Jeebus only liked guys and little boys.

The magical miracles: Brought a corpse back to life, making wine from water, bread and fish to eat, all magically created, walked on water, changed the weather to be more pleasant. Everything on this list is bullshit. Not one shred of real evidence. Totally impossible.

Then of course there was the magical resurrection of the dead Magic Jeebus Man. That never happened because it's impossible.

But Jeebus can do anything because he has unlimited magical powers. That's bullshit.

Christianity is the most ridiculous death cult ever invented. The retards who believe the whole thing are way beyond insane, not to mention extremely gullible and just plain stupid.

Evolution deniers (Idiot America's bible thumpers and Muslim terrorists) go out of their way to know nothing about the science that makes them cry.

"It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is they are opposing."

-- Richard Dawkins

Curiosity is what makes scientific progress possible.

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Embryology makes the Magic Jeebus Man cry.

From Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne: 

"The blood vessels of embryonic humans start out resembling those of embryonic fish, with a top and bottom vessel connectedly by parallel vessels, one on each side ('aortic arches'). In fish, these side vessels carry blood to and from the gills. Embryonic and adult fish have six pairs of arches; this is the basic ground plan that appears at the beginning of development of all vertebrates. In the human embryo, the first, second, and fifth arches form briefly at the beginning of development, but disappear by four weeks of age, when the third, fourth, and sixth arches have rearranged themselves, looking much like the embryonic vessels of a reptile. In the final adult configuration, the vessels are rearranged still more, with some having vanished or transformed themselves into different vessels. The aortic arches of fish undergo no such transformation." 

"All vertebrates begin development looking like embryonic fish because we all descended from a fishlike ancestor with a fishlike embryo. We see strange contortions and disappearances of organs, blood vessels, and gill slits because descendants still carry the genes and developmental programs of ancestors. And the sequence of development changes also make sense: at one stage of development mammals have an embryonic circulatory system like that of reptiles; but we don't see the converse situation. Why? Because mammals descended from early reptiles and not vice versa."

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I highly recommend this post which has numerous evidences for evolution:

http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/2016/12/this-post-has-cut-and-paste-jobs-of.html

"Turkey rolls out new school curriculum - without Darwin"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-education-curriculum/turkey-rolls-out-new-school-curriculum-without-darwin-idUSKBN1A31EZ

In Turkey biology teachers are not allowed to teach the foundation of biology, aka evolution. This is child abuse. Students are learning how to be morons.

Of course the Muslim retards of Turkey never did accept the established truth of evolution. They have more science deniers than Idiot America. And like America most of their science teachers probably don't know anything about evolution which might explain why everyone else doesn't know anything.

Always the problem is religion. Religious cults like Islam and Christianity contribute nothing to human progress. They just get in the way.

The Koran and the Bible have one thing in common, bullshit. How many millions of people have been murdered thanks to these two ancient disgusting books? The stupidity is out of control and getting worse.

Muslim scum treat women like farm animals because they're afraid of women.





RIYADH—Saudi Arabia on Tuesday lifted the world’s only ban on women driving, removing a restriction in the deeply conservative kingdom that had become a symbol of women’s oppression.

A comment at the Wall Street Journal I thought was excellent:

"They can use the same photo on all of their licenses."

Women will be allowed to drive cars but they are still required to wear a black tent when they leave their homes.

Muslim scum are cowards. They're afraid of women.

Are there moderate Muslims? Of course not. There is nothing moderate about belonging to the world's largest terrorist organization, aka Islam.

Even worse than Muslim scum are the wimpy wimps who suck up to and defend Islam.

Islam is brain damage. It has to be completely eradicated.

Should we nuke Mecca? That would be wrong but it would be fun to watch.

Virtually all of America's Bible thumpers are evolution deniers. Why does science make them cry?

Virtually all of America's Bible thumpers are evolution deniers. Why does science make them cry?

If you think American stupidity is interesting then click the link. The stupidity is overwhelming. The USA is called Idiot America because we are a nation of idiots.

UPDATE: A bible thumping moron wrote "Where on the earth today can you find any one form of life in between stages of evolving into another form of life?"

I wrote this which he will never understand. Extreme stupid can't be fixed.

We have numerous fossils that show the transition from fish to land animals, to whales from land animals, to human apes from ancient apes. The most powerful evidence is from DNA sequencing which shows chimpanzee apes are more closely related to human apes than gorilla apes and orangutan apes. Look things up. There is tons of information out there. Google is your friend.

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Why are countless millions of Americans so fucking stupid? The problem is of course religion. Religious brainwashing can cause permanent brain damage.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

A totally insane and extremely stupid Christian retard wrote this bullshit:

Death leads to heaven or hell, and the only way to get to heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ as your Savior. No one can be saved by doing good works. The Bible teaches that eternal life is a FREE GIFT received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. 

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast" (Eph. 2:8-9). 

Jesus loves you so much that He died on the cross to pay for all your sins and rose from the grave (1 Cor. 15:3-4). The moment you trust in Him alone as your Savior, ALL of your sins (past, present, and future) are totally forgiven and you are guaranteed everlasting life. Simply believe in Him alone to save you, and you will go to heaven no matter what!
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According to this fucktard an axe murderer can have a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise as long as he sucks up to his Magic Jeebus Man. That's what he was brainwashed to believe. Evidence not required. Faith is good enough. The stupid, it burns.

Of course there is no magical 2nd life. Besides being ridiculous the fantasy is impossible. Christians say nothing is impossible because Jeebus has unlimited magical powers. Again no evidence provided.

This is Easter Bunny stuff. Christians are Christian retards because growing up and facing facts makes them cry.


Monday, September 25, 2017

Three reasons why I love evolution: Evolution is the strongest fact of science. Evolution is the most interesting branch of science. Evolution kills the childish magic-god-fairy fantasy.

Evolution is the strongest fact of science.

There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as extensively tested and as thoroughly corroborated as the evolutionary origin of living organisms. -- Encyclopedia Britannica

This blog has 205 posts about the evidence for evolution at

Evolution is the most interesting branch of science.

What could be more interesting than the four billion years history of life on this planet? A nice thing about evolution is it will always have research opportunities. We already have a strong knowledge about how evolution works and the evidence for it grows everyday. This scientific progress will last forever. It's very interesting how biologists can make predictions about what must be found if evolution is true. So far evolution has passed every test.

Evolution kills the childish magic-god-fairy fantasy.

We know how new species develop and we know a Magic Man had nothing to do with it. No supernatural magic required. No magical inventor, no magical user, and most certainly the god fairy doesn't guide evolution. Magic is not a mechanism of evolution. There is nothing theistic about any branch of science, especially not evolution. I know what I wrote is obvious but in Idiot America where I live the vast majority of our moron population either denies the whole thing or they stick their Magic Jeebus Man in there somewhere. The stupid, it burns.

If a god fairy's magic wand was not necessary for something as complex as the evolution of new species then it's fair to say its magical powers were never necessary for anything else. A god with nothing to do is a god that doesn't exist.

How to kill a chicken

Chickens are dinosaurs. This is a scientific fact.

Dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago when a huge asteroid crashed into Earth making it possible for mammals to evolve into several species, including human apes.

However one branch of dinosaurs, the small dinosaurs who are the ancestors of the birds who live today, survived. Thank goodness that happened because l love to eat chickens, especially the thighs.

My mother was born and raised on a South Dakota farm. In the 1920's when she was girl she was occasionally required to kill a chicken for dinner. She would carry an axe, chase and capture a chicken, then cut off its head. Not many little girls get to do that today.

By the way my father was raised on a Minnesota farm, a not very successful farm and they were very poor. When my father was a little boy in the 1920's his job was to go fishing at a lake on their property so the family could eat dinner.

These days this the best way for a farmer to kill a chicken:

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Musical Interruption - Carol Of The Bells - Must See Santa Claus Day Video!

This post is about America's Christian assholes who want to throw out our constitution so they can make America a Christian theocracy.

The USA is called Idiot America thanks to our extremely god-soaked idiots. All 50 states are infested with Christian idiots but some states have a much higher percentage of Christian scum. That would be the Bible Belt which is most of the southeast part of the country from Alabama to Texas. The Bible Belt is infested with millions of evolution deniers and theocratic assholes. Science makes them cry. Our constitution makes them cry.

In Idiot America we have something called the Bill of Rights which are the first ten amendments to our constitution. The first clause of the first amendment is called the Establishment Clause which requires religious stupidity to be kept completely separate from the government including the federal, state, and city governments and public schools. This is it: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". This clause was originally only for the federal government but another amendment which came later made it apply for all governments and government schools.

Our founding fathers in 1789 did not want America to become a theocracy. If they were politicians today they would never get elected in our Bible Belt because Christian assholes want to throw out our Bill of Rights so they can stick their Magic Man anywhere they want, including praying to Jeebus in our public schools and forcing biology teachers to give their moronic magical creationism fantasy equal time with evolution. I'm not making this up. The stupidity is out of control in Idiot America.

Our theocratic Christian scum never get away with anything because they always lose in court but they never stop trying because they're stupid fucking assholes.

One of these theocrats for the Magic Jeebus Man is now hoping to be elected United States Senator. The election will be in Alabama which is one of the most Christian infested states of the Bible Belt. The moron for Jeebus is of course a Republican, a political party that is unfortunately infested with millions of Christian scum. This dipshit for Christ has a long history of throwing out our constitution. If it was up to me this flaming asshole would be locked up forever.

The rest of this post is a cut & paste job from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore:
On October 30, 2001, the ACLU of AlabamaAmericans United for Separation of Church and State and the Southern Poverty Law Center were among groups which filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, asking that the monument be removed because it "sends a message to all who enter the State Judicial Building that the government encourages and endorses the practice of religion in general and Judeo-Christianity in particular."
The trial, titled Glassroth v. Moore, began on October 15, 2002. Evidence for the plaintiffs included testimony that lawyers of different religious beliefs had changed their work practices, including routinely avoiding visiting the court building to avoid passing by the monument, and testimony that the monument created a religious atmosphere, with many people using the area for prayer.
Moore argued that he would not remove the monument, as doing so would violate his oath of office:
[The monument] serves to remind the Appellate Courts and judges of the Circuit and District Court of this State and members of the bar who appear before them, as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building, of the truth stated in the Preamble to the Alabama Constitution that in order to establish justice we must invoke 'the favor and guidance of almighty God.'[9]
On this note, Moore said that the Ten Commandments are the "moral foundation" of U.S. law, stating that in order to restore this foundation, "we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs...[by] recogniz[ing] the sovereignty of God." He added that the addition of the monument to the state judiciary building marked "the beginning of the restoration of the moral foundation of law to our people" and "a return to the knowledge of God in our land."[9]
Additionally, Moore acknowledged an explicit religious intent in placing the monument, agreeing that the monument "reflects the sovereignty of God over the affairs of men" and "acknowledge[s] God’s overruling power over the affairs of men."[11] However, in Moore's view this did not violate the doctrine of separation of church and state; as the presiding judge later summarized it, Moore argued that "the Judeo-Christian God reigned over both the church and the state in this country, and that both owed allegiance to that God", although they must keep their affairs separate.[9]

Judgment and appeal[edit]

On November 18, 2002, federal U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued his ruling declaring that the monument violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and was thus unconstitutional:
If all Chief Justice Moore had done were to emphasize the Ten Commandments' historical and educational importance... or their importance as a model code for good citizenship... this court would have a much different case before it. But the Chief Justice did not limit himself to this; he went far, far beyond. He installed a two-and-a-half ton monument in the most prominent place in a government building, managed with dollars from all state taxpayers, with the specific purpose and effect of establishing a permanent recognition of the 'sovereignty of God,' the Judeo-Christian God, over all citizens in this country, regardless of each taxpaying citizen's individual personal beliefs or lack thereof. To this, the Establishment Clause says no."[9]
Judge Thompson's decision mandated that Moore remove the monument from the state judicial building by January 3, 2003, but stayed this order on December 23, 2002, after Moore appealed the decision to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. This appeal was argued on June 4, 2003, before a three-judge panel in AtlantaGeorgia. On July 1, 2003, the panel issued a ruling upholding the lower court's decision, agreeing that "the monument fails two of Lemon's three prongs. It violates the Establishment Clause." Additionally, the court noted that different religious traditions assign different wordings of the Ten Commandments, meaning that "choosing which version of the Ten Commandments to display can have religious endorsement implications."[11]
In response to the appeals court's decision, Judge Thompson lifted his earlier stay on August 5, 2003, requiring Moore to have the monument removed from public areas of the state judicial building by August 20.[12]

Protests and monument removal[edit]


Rally before the Alabama State Capitol, August 16, 2003.
On August 14, Moore announced his intention to disobey Judge Thompson's order to have the monument removed. Two days later, large rallies in support of Moore and the Ten Commandments monument began forming in front of the judicial building, featuring speakers such as Alan Keyes, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and Moore himself. The crowd peaked at an estimated count of 4,000 that day,[13] and anywhere from several hundred to over a thousand protesters remained through the end of August.
The time limit for removal expired on August 20, with the monument still in place in the building's rotunda. As specified in Judge Thompson's order, the state of Alabama faced fines of $5,000 a day until the monument was removed. In response, the eight other members of the Alabama Supreme Court intervened on August 21, unanimously overruled Moore, and ordered the removal of the monument.[14]
Moore said that Thompson, "fearing that I would not obey his order, decided to threaten other state officials and force them to remove the monument if I did not do so. A threat of heavy fines was his way of coercing obedience to that order," an action that Moore sees as a violation of the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.[4]
On August 27, the monument was moved to a non-public side room in the judicial building.[15] The monument was not immediately removed from the building for several reasons—pending legal hearings, the monument's weight, worries that the monument could break through the floor if it was taken outside intact, and a desire to avoid confrontation with protesters massed outside the structure. The monument was not actually removed from the state judicial building until July 19, 2004.[16]

Removal from office[edit]

On August 22, 2003, two days after the deadline for the Ten Commandments monument's removal had passed, the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) filed a complaint with the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ), a panel of judges, lawyers and others appointed variously by judges, legal leaders, the governor and the lieutenant governor. The complaint effectively suspended Moore from the Chief Justice position pending a hearing by the COJ.[17]
The COJ ethics hearing was held on November 12, 2003. Moore repeated his earlier sentiment that "to acknowledge God cannot be a violation of the Canons of Ethics. Without God there can be no ethics." He also acknowledged that he would repeat his defiance of the court order if given another opportunity to do so, and that if he returned to office, "I certainly wouldn't leave [the monument] in a closet, shrouded from the public." In closing arguments, the Assistant Attorney General said Moore's defiance, left unchecked, "undercuts the entire workings of the judicial system.... What message does that send to the public, to other litigants? The message it sends is: If you don't like a court order, you don't have to follow it."[18] Moore had previously stated his belief that the order was unlawful, and that compliance with such an order was not an enforceable mandate.
The next day, the COJ issued a unanimous opinion ruling that "Chief Justice Moore has violated the Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics as alleged by the JIC in its complaint." The COJ had several disciplinary options, including censure or suspension without pay, but because Moore's responses had indicated he would defy any similar court orders in the future, the COJ concluded that "under these circumstances, there is no penalty short of removal from office that would resolve this issue."[19] Moore was immediately removed from his post.
Moore appealed the COJ's ruling to the Supreme Court of Alabama on December 10, 2003. A special panel of retired judges and justices was randomly selected to hear the case. Moore argued that the COJ did not consider the underlying legality of the federal courts' order that the monument be removed from the courthouse. The Alabama Supreme Court rejected this argument, saying that the COJ did not have the authority to overrule the federal courts, only to determine whether Moore violated the Canons of Judicial Ethics. Therefore, the Court reasoned, it was enough to show that a procedurally-valid order was in place against Moore. Moore also argued that the COJ had imposed a religious test on him to hold his office, and that the COJ's actions had violated his own rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.[20]
The Supreme Court of Alabama rejected each of these arguments as well, and ruled on April 30, 2004 that the COJ had acted properly. The court also upheld the sanction of removal as appropriate.[20]

Saturday, September 23, 2017

A question I asked at Yahoo Answers: Christian creationists, why do you deny the established truth of evolution even though the evidence is overwhelming and growing every day?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170924002225AA2BaPO

One of the answers was a link to the anti-science Discovery Institute which has never discovered anything. It's a Christian creationist organization. The morons who work there are constantly trying to dumb down science education to accommodate their Christian fucktard customers. Biologists call the Discovery Institute "Crackpot Central" and of course they ignore the dipshits who work there.
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One of the answers was written by a normal person. He explained why creationist retards are disgracing their religious cults with their breathtaking stupidity. His internet name is "Lighting the Way to Reality". I had to look something up: LSoS means Lying Sack of Shit. Here it is:

When you ask Christian creationists why they deny the established truth of evolution even though the evidence is overwhelming and growing every day, the only thing you will get in response is nonsensical crap. 

You could present evidence for evolution that would be overwhelmingly accepted by anyone who would be open to looking at that evidence objectively. 

But creationists hate evolution because it contradicts the ancient myths and superstitions that they have been brainwashed into believing, and they will reject any evidence that contradicts their beliefs no matter HOW overwhelming it is. 

They are abetted in their rejection of the evidence for evolution by being gullible in believing the crap they find in the LSoS creationist web sites they visit, and they regurgitate that crap here on Y!A. 

But the evidence for evolution still exists regardless of whether they choose to believe it or not. And even more evidence is found as time goes by. 

And that accumulating evidence confirms even more the words of evolutionary biologist, and Eastern Orthodox Christian, Theodosius Dobzhansky when he said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in... 

But what might be really ironic is that the creationist Christians, by being so adamant in tying their anti-evolution rhetoric so closely with their religious beliefs, to the extent that those beliefs are weighed down by that rhetoric, might eventually cause the downfall of their religion. 

When the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate and becomes even more convincing, those who might have otherwise been swayed toward accepting the Christian religion will see how wrong the vociferous anti-evolution creationists have been, and they will be convinced that the religion that motivated the vociferous anti-evolution creationists is likewise wrong.

Index to Creationist Claims

Jerry Coyne is a biologist at the University of Chicago. This is a cut & paste job from Jerry Coyne's website which he wrote 6 years ago. I suggest click the link to see the rest of it. This is about the atheist wimps who suck up to religious scum.

I swear, sometimes I think that fellow atheists who want to foster the acceptance of evolution by making nice with religion are completely blinkered. Their goal is to get people to accept any kind of evolution—including that driven or guided by gods—even if it conflicts with the notion of non-theistic and materialistic evolution held by scientists. God made natural selection? That’s fine. God guided the process so that the evolution of god-worshiping humans was inevitable? That’s okay too. God inserted—as Catholic dogma asserts—a soul in the hominin lineage somewhere between Australopithecus and Homo? We’ll just keep quiet on that one.
And although those accommodationists are atheists, presumably aware of the the many destructive aspects of religion, you won’t hear them talking about that. Nor will you hear them admit the obvious fact that the main impediment to accepting evolution in this world is not scientific ignorance, but religion. Every anti-evolutionist I know, with the possible exception of David Berlinski, is motivated at bottom by faith. Instead, faitheists yammer on about how important it is that Americans accept evolution, because otherwise, you know, we’ll fall way behind India and China. (So what?, I ask. A rising tide lifts all boats.) They claim without proof that that evolution-acceptance will come only when atheists shut up about the incompatibility between science and religion, and when we get line with those accommodationists who osculate the rump of faith. They assert that religion will always be with us and it’s useless to fight it—despite the fact that faith has largely disappeared in Europe.
They worry far more about an Alabama schoolchild accepting evolution than about an Afghan girl defaced with acid for daring to attend school at all. For an atheist, that is a clear case of misplaced priorities, and it sickens me.

This is just one of numerous reasons why Muslim scum must never be allowed to enter civilized countries. This asshole for Allah at age 34 married a 14 year old girl after he was let into Australia. There are many things wrong with Muslim scum, for example the extreme stupidity and the total lack of any moral values.

"A MYANMAR asylum-seeker was yesterday sentenced to 18 months behind bars for marrying an underage girl in Australia in what is believed to be the nation’s first such prosecution. The man wed the 14-year-old at an Islamic mosque in the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park in September last year when he was 34."
In the article it says the mother of the young girl had no problem with a pervert marrying her daughter especially since she got more than a thousand dollars out of it.
I can't say this often enough: If you're a Muslim get off my planet you fucking retard.

Another thing about Muslim morons: They are evolution deniers, especially human evolution. They prefer "Allah did it". Islam is a violent cult and a very anti-science cult. Muslim scum hide in the Dark Ages because the 21st century makes them cry.

The stupid, it burns.

The ridiculous word "Islamophobia" is used by Muslim scum and liberal morons to suppress freedom of speech.

“Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else,” Trevor Phillips, a former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, writes in an op-ed for the The Sunday Times, “We now know that just isn’t how it is.”
Among the new survey's findings:
  • 39% agreed “wives should always obey their husbands;”

  • 31% said it was acceptable for a man to have more than one wife, which is illegal in the U.K.;

  • 23% said they supported the introduction of sharia law in Britain;

  • 5% said they sympathized with “people who take part in stoning those who commit adultery”

Friday, September 22, 2017

I answered the question "Christians: How come you can't prove that Jesus resurrected?"

"Christians: How come you can't prove that Jesus resurrected?"

Christian retards have 500 dead witnesses who were probably invented. In any case dead witnesses are not evidence for anything. Their ridiculous resurrection of a stinking decomposing corpse never happened because it's impossible, not to mention disgusting. And of course there is not one shred of real evidence for it. 

Without the magical resurrection of the Magic Jeebus Man Christianity would have to be thrown out. It's time to throw it out now. This is the 21st century. We know things these days. 

One more thing: Christianity completely depends on a work of fiction, the New Testament, which is bullsh!t. 

For more information about Christian retards I recommend 
http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/search/label/Christian%20retards

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20170923035543AAMisYV

Christianity (the most ridiculous cult ever invented) completely depends on a work of fiction.

The New Testament is a work of fiction, based on the life, death, and oral teaching of a Jewish hasid (pious man) who, according to its chronicles, lived between the reigns of the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius.

For the rest of it see Review: The New Testament.

President Trump did something right. The North Korean asshole now has some serious problems that can't be fixed.

From the September 22, 2017 Washington Times at Trump’s financial strategy persuades China to put screws to North Korea:

President Trump persuaded China to freeze all financial transactions with North Korea and ordered a new round of U.S. sanctions Thursday, closing out his first U.N. General Assembly with a major diplomatic victory in his efforts to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and missile programs short of war.
In a carefully choreographed strategy deployed from the shadow of the United Nations headquarters in New York, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin called the head of China’s central bank very early Thursday to alert him that Mr. Trump was preparing an executive order to sanction any financial institutions doing business with North Korea. He asked for the cooperation of China, the main source of North Korea’s cash.
Hours later, the People’s Bank of China announced it was directing all other banks in China to halt financial transactions with North Korea.

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The Pope who likes to wear an expensive dress and a funny hat finally figured out what the problem is with their out of control sexual child abuse.

"Pope Francis Says Church Was Slow to Respond to Sex Abuse"
No shirt Sherlock.
Fortunately I was not an altar boy so there were no problems when I went to a moronic Catholic school where the ugly nuns didn't know anything about science so they never taught it.
Typical nun: "Duh, duh, Jeebus died for your sins, duh. You must have faith, duh."
One asshole nun spent an entire hour explaining why all the young children in the classroom were going to hell. Catholics are terrorists.
Anyone who is still a Catholic has no moral values at all.

VATICAN CITY— Pope Francis criticized the Catholic Church’s record on child sex abuse and its history of protecting abuser priests, even as the Vatican faced scrutiny over its handling of a priest suspected of violating U.S. laws against child pornography.
In remarks to his advisory panel on child protection Thursday, the pope said the church woke up to “these crimes in a delayed manner.”
“Maybe the old practice of moving people around, of not facing the problem, put our consciousness asleep,” he added.
The pope did not address the case of an Italian priest whom the Vatican recalled after the U.S. State Department notified it on Aug. 21 about a “possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images.”
The Vatican’s statement last Friday announcing the recall didn’t name the priest, identifying him only as a Holy See diplomat accredited to Washington. But a person familiar with the situation said he is Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a longtime diplomat.
An attempt to reach Msgr. Capella through the Vatican wasn’t successful.
The case has raised concerns among U.S. bishops that it could undermine a decade and a half of efforts to regain public trust on clerical sex abuse.
The Vatican statement said the priest was in Vatican City and under investigation by the Vatican prosecutor, who had “already commenced international collaboration to obtain elements relative to the case.”
According to a person familiar with the matter, Msgr. Capella has submitted to house arrest and has surrendered all his electronic devices to Vatican officials who will examine them for evidence.
Shortly after the Vatican announcement, the head of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy openly pressed the Vatican to handle the matter with transparency and rigor. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement Friday that Msgr. Capella’s recall and investigation were a “serious issue,” and urged the Holy See to be “forthcoming with more details.”
The cardinal cited the U.S. bishops’ procedures for dealing with sex abuse allegations—adopted in 2002 amid a nationwide scandal over clerical sex abuse of children—and said that, as in all such cases, an “immediate, thorough, and transparent investigation should begin in cooperation with law enforcement.”
The U.S. bishops’ leadership was frustrated by the Vatican’s failure to consult them before recalling Msgr. Capella, according to a person familiar with their thinking. Depending on the strength of evidence, the bishops might have supported waiving his diplomatic immunity, allowing him to be investigated and tried in the U.S., the person said. 
The U.S. State Department did not provide the Vatican with any evidence against Msgr. Capella prior to his leaving the country, according to people familiar with the matter. A State Department official didn’t comment on the evidence question, but outlined procedures for charging diplomats and said the Vatican didn’t waive immunity. 
The U.S. bishops hope the Vatican deals with the case more quickly and transparently than it did that of Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, Holy See envoy to the Dominican Republic, who was recalled in August 2013 following reports that he had sexually abused boys in the Caribbean country. After being defrocked, the former archbishop was still awaiting a criminal trial in the Vatican when he died of a heart attack in August 2015.
Pope Francis has spoken strongly against sex abuse by priests—likening the practice to a “black Mass”—but his pontificate has been marked by criticism, even from his own advisers, of the Vatican’s performance.
One of the two abuse survivors on the child protection commission, which Pope Francis established in 2014, was forced to take a leave of absence last year after criticizing the pope’s record on clerical sex abuse. The other survivor on the panel resigned in March, complaining that Vatican officials—though not the pope himself—were hindering the body’s work.
On Thursday, the pope told the commission that he regretted extending leniency to one Italian priest who was later convicted by a civil court. “That was the only time I did it, never again,” the pope said. “I learned my lesson.”
The highest Vatican official to be criminally charged with sex abuse is Australian Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis ’ finance chief, who was charged in June on multiple counts by prosecutors in his native country. He has taken a leave of absence from the Vatican and returned to Australia to face the charges.
Msgr. Capella, a priest from the diocese of Milan, has been an official at the Holy See’s mission to the U.S. since last year. He earlier served in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State with special responsibility for dealings with Italy.