Like yours, for instance.

Don't be too hard on those who believe in free will. They can't help it.

lol. That makes just about as much sense as anything I could come up with.

Lol. Exactly.

A free society has to have a basis for rational discourse and debate. If that basis can't be science then it becomes authority by force of arms or religious scripture (which is interpreted by the powerful). In other words, if scientific evidence can't establish a common ground for debate, then might makes right. …

Dunno. Something about the sky on fire, Russian prostitutes, magic gas, submarines talking to each other, Al Gore, and creationists inventing electronic industrial space ages.

Have you ever heard the term "anecdotal evidence"? Have you also ever heard that it doesn't amount to much?

It didn't help that these thinkers were supported by an intellectual climate that was either directly or indirectly dominated and controlled by the religious institution. Up until recently, the Church had a total monopoly on all education and scholarship (not to mention many other parts of the infrastructure of early…

That is hilarious. I'm sure that in the eyes of her former peers she fell victim to the evolutionists' insidious brainwashing unawares.

Brilliant idea! Let's bring biology and medicine back to the 19th century where it belongs. All those advancements due to knowledge of "evolutionary processes" are pure rubbish! Who needs them!

Law and Science. This is a category error. No where is it said that having a sex endows an organism with the legal distinction of being a "person".

And I'm sure they'd appreciate people calling their dead child a coward. That should make them feel so much better. And surely the shame of being called coward will deter future people from committing suicide. Oh yeah. None of these things are true. So, what possible point could there be of calling suicides…

I love how people who venture into the greatest unknown in all of life, something we are instinctively supposed to be terrified of more than anything else, are characterized as cowards. They may be foolish and negligent, but calling them cowards is actually kinda cowardly. Every time there is a publicly known…

"suicide is the ultimate act of cowardice" Unlike making callous comments about the deaths of people you never knew over the internet. That must be bravery.

I guess I can appreciate it (with some irony), but I've always attributed that to the fact that I liked the stories and was willing to accept the technique because of that. Lovecraft is a character in his own right, and I often can't help but see him as such. :-p I love Tolkien, Lovecraft, and Howard, but their…

The Dr. Seuss classification of emotions theory?

Silly Lovecraft. We didn't love you because of your overuse of purple prose, but because you dreamed up a really creepy and engrossing mythos that inspires many to this day. We enjoyed the fantastic and dreadful world you created for us in SPITE of your overwrought style.

I honestly can't see how biblical theology isn't conservative politics. Yeah, I get the part where Jesus was nice to people, but most of the Bible is just one conservative political manifesto after another.

"I get yelled at regularly on io9 for saying science is just people doing stuff, not some serious ritual to be treated as TRUTH." No one is making that claim but a straw man you constructed. I know exactly what that means.