The 'Virgin Birth'.... Really!?!?!?

Now this is supposing that Jesus may have actually existed, I just wanted to hear peoples take on the supposed 'virgin birth'... Leave comments on what you think!

My idea is that since Mary obviously became impregnated before her and Joseph were married, and in those times, such an act called for the stoning to death of that woman. I think Mary was just trying to save her ass by saying "OH WAIT! I didn't have sex.... NO..... God must have impregnated me.". Nowadays if a pregnant woman said God impregnated her, and claimed she was still a virgin, we would call her a liar, psychotic, and probably schizophrenic; but back then, people for some odd reason didn't use logic and reason, and believed her; hence spawning the supernatural beliefs of Jesus.

A Little Bit On Intermediate Fossils

I once had a creationist argue with me that fossils are all fraudulent fakes, made to cause disbelief in God. This guy really didn't deserve an explanation, since his brain already seemed to made up of the same material found in McDonald's french fries, likely from all the brain washing about bearded magic men and whatnot he received while he was a child.

Anyways, here are a few intermediate Skulls that have been found, arranged from Primate to modern day human. Pretty cool to see the evolutionary steps it took us to get from our primate ancestor, to how and where we stand today (upright, and smart *except for creationists*)

How the average, run of the mill, creationist debates the existence of these fossils even baffles me, but at least the rational bit of us have the common sense to realize that, yes, evolution is in fact, a fact.

~Bob

Scientists Create Life In A Lab!

Well folks, it has finally happened! For the first time, scientists created a living organism from inanimate matter! They did this by creating a replica of DNA of the M. mycoides bacterium, and although they used a few small pieces of original DNA to act as 'watermarks'; this living organism contains almost all synthetic, man-made DNA, which was inserted into an emptied cell of the bacterium, and booted up. The cell has now multiplied to form over 1 Billion cells.

To read up more on this awesome scientific breakthough, head to Live Science and read the full story there.

This seems to prove that a God isn't necessary to create life, so Creationists, stick that in your Bronze age pipe and smoke it with your imaginary friend.

Funny Atheist Picture of the Week

All Hail the Omnipotent, Omniscient, and forever loving FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!

If you haven't already checked out he Church of the flying spaghetti monster, I really recommend it, its quite a funny place, just google it. And yes the church of the FSP is a joke, it was created by a young Physics student to poke fun at that Bronze age story book that we love and know all too well *sarcasm*; the Bible.

An Argument with a Creationist (One of MANY)

So a few weeks ago I was just about to leave the house, when my mom, a rather skeptical person herself said, for no particular reason: (and yes I still live at home since I'm a college student)

"Bobby, why don't you believe in God?"

The question kind of stunned me, because the night before we had a nice long dinner table discussion, and my mother is the only one out of the family who still somewhat believes in a deity, but expressed why she understood our disbelief that night. Now I just told her:

"Mom, I don't believe in any God, because there is no evidence to prove or demonstrate that one ever has ever, or currently does exist."

While I was saying this, my Dad's secretary came out of the in home office, heard me, and exclaimed:

"How can you not believe in God!?!?!"

To which I replied:

"Again, there is no evidence to even support the existence of a God."

Her reply to this really blew my mind. I mean, I have heard some DUMB stuff before, but this really took the cake (any maybe even the Icing). Any way, she asked/yelled at me:

"How cant you believe in him! Just look at the Air your breathing!"

So apparently now AIR, that life supporting combination of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and many other gasses, is some sort of exclusive evidence that God exists (I'm not sure which God this was supposed to prove however). I replied to her by stating that the air all around us, is a mixture of gasses, such as Nitrogen and Oxygen, which has been formed by fusion in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and in no way proved the existence of any sort of deity. She began to debate with me that Air couldn't possibly be formed from stars, because the stars are up in the sky, and still contain their matter.

I really felt like I should just give up at this point. Obviously she had no idea that every star eventually dies in an intense supernova, and throws its matter many light years, and eventually reforms into planets and whatnot, and in the process of the actual supernova, through a fusion reaction called nucleosynthesis, the star produces some elements heavier than Iron, since those elements cannot be formed in the typical nuclear fusion that occurs in stars.

I tried explaining how elements such as hydrogen and other elements can fuse in stars, and produce new atoms with new properties, but it seems that she didn't want to hear it, and just sat there with that dazed and glazed creationist look on her face. Eventually she just said:

"Well then where did the universe come from!!!!"

Ahh, the oh so common argument that every creationist makes! i was kind of expecting a bit more from her, since she is actually a pretty smart woman, but clearly she lacks in the area of science. So then I told her:

"We do not currently know how the universe formed, although there are many good theories right now. But even in that case that we do not know how it formed, why does that mean that some magic man up in the sky had to make it? You are using the same logic that the Greeks used over 3000 years ago to explain how the sun moved around Earth! They didn't know why the sun seemed to rotate around the Earth, and science back then could not explain it, so they came up with the explanation that some God named Apollo must have been pulling the Sun around on a magic Chariot. Eventually, we discovered gravity, which explains this occurrence, and we now know how and why the Earth orbits the Sun. You are using that same reasoning that the Ancient Greeks were using that assuming that just because science cannot explain something, a God must be responsible!"

After I said all this, there was really no response from her, and I figured I might have finally talked a bit of sense into her, although I knew it didn't change her mind about her good ole' magic man up in the clouds. Overall, I deemed this debate a win for science and rationality, although I still wish i made a few more good points.

So now that you hear a good story of mine, post your Reason (you) VS. Idiocy (creationists) stories!

Bob