Comments on: John West can Play the Violin But Not the Fiddle

By: Greg iwasthereyouwerent Laden

Greg iwasthereyouwerent Laden — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:43:56 +0000

meshuggah: Well, to be fair, I could compare this event with other events held on the same campus before or after by a matter of weeks, organized by the local student atheist groups.My observation that the kids at this event were trained monkeys is just that .. an observation. They were prepped, glassy eyed followers. You, My Jewish friend, would have a lot more cousins had it not been for their progenetors in Nazi Germany (or are yous a Holocaust denier?).In comparison, the kids at the Atheist events are bright eyed intelligent progressive thoughtful helpful caring loving people. They are the people who would have been the ones to volunteer to join the armed forces to liberate Europe back in those days.I love them all, although they did taser me once.meshuggah: You are on the wrong team. Don’t be crazy.

By: meshuggah

meshuggah — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:44:32 +0000

“And the audience was about half full of trained monkeys. These were the Christian Youths of the student organization that sponsored the talk..”This comment alone makes a good case for the link between modern Darwinism and Nazism.Replace “Christian Youths” with “Jewish Youths” in the above sentence. Sounds quite tolerant and PC, doesn’t it?And there you have it folks; your modern day Brownshirts have found a home in sophomoric atheistic American undergrads – hating anything and everything that savors of theism (all in the name of tolerance of course) while at the same time believing that the biological equivalent of a super computer can be made by water, rocks, and a whole lot of unobserved time.All Hail Darwin. No, wait, scratch that… since we’re talking about the magic of time and chance: All Hail Vegas.-Yours truly,A Jew

By: Kristjan Wager

Kristjan Wager — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:28:49 +0000

‘half-cousin’ is a different name for ‘second cousin’

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:24:58 +0000

From the cousin calculator http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/cousincalculator.htmlHalf CousinFirst cousins are the children of siblings; therefore, half first cousins would be the children of half siblings. Half-cousins would have one common grandparent instead of two common grandparents.

By: Monado

Monado — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:26:27 +0000

What the hell is a “half-cousin”? Someone whose cousin’s parents aren’t cousins?

By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:19:31 +0000

I've a sneaking suspicion that "Ed" has been blathering on about eugenics before as "Darwin Youth" and "Christiansen" here.

By: PZ Myers

PZ Myers — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:29:41 +0000

Actually, no. Modern evolutionary biology makes it very difficult to be a eugenicist. At the time of the neo-Darwinian synthesis, you would have found people like Dobzhansky and Muller pointing out the importance of genetic diversity in any selection in populations, and that eugenics was a process that encouraged the artificial reduction of diversity in a population.I’d give more credit to agriculture for the promotion of eugenics. Eugenics was very popular in the Midwest — all that farm country, you know — where people were familiar with the power of selective breeding. This was knowledge that preceded and was independent of Darwin, you know.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:16:03 +0000

Lorax, I am sorry, but no, you are not close. I am Jewish for one thing, and I feel we should be more conscious of the bad uses to which science can be put…it has been too easy for scientists to pass ethical issues off to politicians, and now we have a world that could be exterminated by this evening if all the tools irresponsibly provided to the governments of the world were employed. So, unfortunately, you have now become a liar.A rather judgmental liar at that.And Damian, the last I heard, a half cousin is still a cousin.And you are certainly correct that a form of Eugencis has been around since Plate. But to borrow from Dawkins, “Darwin makes it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled Eugenicist.”

By: bipolar2

bipolar2 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:38:49 +0000

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKN2922875820071129?sp=trueCheck out the URL — it reports the frightening results of a survey on Americans’ beliefs.You’re braver than I; my only thought is emigration.

By: MPW

MPW — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:31:06 +0000

*on the parts…Sheesh.