Come with us into a world of Evo-Believers whose faith far outweighs their facts, and a team of PhD’s who have dedicated themselves to Darwinism when in fact they can’t even clearly tell you what it is. Welcome to Evolution 101 (Or, how to make every living thing, from Wolves to Cabbages,
using just the tools and bacteria you’ll find around the house).
A Critical Review and some snarky comments by Rent A Friend 2000
Original material including text and images comes from from http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ The site I am reviewing is called Evolution 101, and will be presented by me with no editing (though plenty of editorials) and in those few places where parts were cut out for brevity, I make note of it being done. The original site is a collaborative project between Berkley, the University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education. That it took this many PhD’s to make this web site will become either unbelievable or incredibly sad later on. Their words will appear in normal font. My words in BOLD, with BOLDNESS nearly approaching ZESTY BUFFALO RANCH BOLD! Nearly.
Everyone LOVES Frozen. It’s a beautiful movie with likable characters and VERY catchy songs that your kids will sing over and over and over and over until you catch yourself thinking about drinking rum strait from the bottle like you were Jack Sparrow. Don’t do it. When you regain consciousness they will STILL be singing “Let it Go” but it will seem a LOT louder.
When I first saw Frozen, I liked it a lot, as most of us did, but I was bothered by the departure from the traditional princess narrative, not because I have some attachment to a damsel in distress being saved by a man, but because I always felt the stories were a strong presentation of the Gospel. A princess (the bride/church) is under the curse of evil- often because of a foolish choice of her own which she was warned about (sin/forbidden fruit). She is dead to the world, unable to help herself, and it seems that evil has won. But then, the son of the king arrives, does battle against the powers of evil, and raises his beloved from the sleep of death and takes her to be his bride in his kingdom.
That’s the Bible in a nutshell. The old stories were great because they were creative retellings of the only story that is worth telling over and over and over- the story of Jesus.
I know I keep saying this, but I have no interest in making this one of those blogs that talks about Calvinism Vs Arminianism all of the time. First, because it’s a false dichotomy and I am neither. Secondly, because it’s just not my thing. I have LOTS of other opinions that make people uncontrollably leave comments telling me that I am an idiot.
But, well, sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do, and this is one of those times because I enjoy laughing at other people. Haven’t you ever watched Fail Army? Don’t judge me.
The only thing funnier than your own jokes is someone else’s pain.
So THIS VIDEO is an archive of a podcast from Leighton Flowers from Soteriology 101. This podcast is a master class in trolling from a man who is much too polite for his own good. Leighton is not a troll, but he shows here that he could take a professional swing at it.
Rent-A-Friend 2000 recounts the conversations he has with his friends at the local bar and grill, talking about Evolution.
What is it? Is it science? How does it work?
As they wait for their weekly pile of Nachos to arrive, the friends discuss the science and evidence in this sometimes complex issue and divide truth from fiction. If you want to see exactly what evolution is, and how Darwin fails the test of science, then this is the book for you! Enjoy!
I wrote the article Fart In a Car (An Honest Critique of Atheist Communication Skills) about the perplexingly many atheists which have forced me to ignore their questions so I can teach them how to make an argument or simply not be a total jerk. These people show up here, at my blog, and leave short comments about my perceived character flaws and are gone like a fart in a car (and every bit as enjoyable). You’ve seen them in a lot of my Feedback Fridays. They leave a sentence fragment about how stupid or bigoted or stupid I am, but never with enough content to tell me WHAT they think I’m wrong/lying about (they LOVE to call me a liar) or why my position is wrong. They don’t make a case or try to teach me anything, and they certainly won’t involve evidence or facts that can be used to support their position because, well, YOU have a character flaw. That’s sort of like an argument, right?
So Clubby is a crazy cat lady who fits this mold to a tee, and I have asked her (like I ask all of the others) WHY do you come here and leave these comments? Here’s what I said to her after a collection of her latest, pointless hit and run style fart in my car comments:
I’m not trying to be insulting, Clubby. I’m doing you the favor of being optimistic enough to think it possible that you can justify why you come here to leave dumb comments. For example, I don’t think you’re stupid enough to think you have made any points to address. You know better. I mean you said “always lovely to see a Christian lie so hilariously.”
Did you say WHAT I lied about? No.
Did you explain WHY something I said was inaccurate, let alone intentionally so? NO.
But you got the “hilarious” part right, so you squeaked by with a passing grade.
I want you to explain to me why you do it. WHY do you bother? Why come here and say something stupid that communicates NOTHING except your own hostility and ignorance? you make NO POINT. you offer NO ARGUMENT. You only, in this case, show up to BE THE THING I’m writing about. YOU are the fart in the car, Clubby.
Do you not have any hobbies? Can’t you find a bowling alley? Do you not own golf clubs? Does your laptop not come with solitaire?
Just explain to me why you think it’s worth it to show up here and leave a comment which can do nothing but make you look like an idiot. I really want to know why you do it, because I cannot begin to guess as to why you and other people come here to fart in my car. I await your thoughtful explanation with eager anticipation.
A Bit of Orange (edited for brevity)
Being apparently incapable of understanding the question I wanted her to answer (i.e. Why fart in my car instead of doing something else) she apparently thought I wanted her to critique the article she was commenting under, and so she left BY FAR the longest comment she has ever left me, which sadly/humorously was only because she failed to understand the question. But instead of letting it go to waste, I thought I could use her to demonstrate the fart in the car.
Stand back, Mittens! A Christian on the Internet is about to be called a LIAR! MANY TIMES!!!
You think I am kidding. But I have actually seen one of these with my own eyes while eating sushi. Robot cats are becoming waitresses, and you don’t even need to tip them.
Our good friends on the increasingly Socialist Democratic Left have been talking about EVERYONE earning a “living wage,” by which they mean you should be able to make enough money to have the streaming service of your choice in your own apartment while making monthly payments on your electric car, all the while working a job that requires no more education or intelligence than could be expected from the average cocker-spaniel. The number that keeps being thrown around as a “basic human right” is $15 per hour. And if you’re a mop pushing high school drop out with no ambition outside of video games and smoking weed, this sounds GREAT. But then, the robot cats roll in.
Let’s do the math together:
$15/hr, working an 8 hour shift is $120 per day. Now, these robots can cost $9,000, so if you’re like me you’re thinking, NO WAY is someone who runs a little mom and pop restaurant going to buy one of these. But then you do the math.
$9,000/$120 per day = 75 days.
Assuming the wait staff take off two days per week, this means you are getting 12 hour shifts for seven days a week for the same cost as 8 hour shifts for five days a week, which pays for itself in less than three months. In fact, if you consider the full 12 hours, it pays for itself in just under two months.
In short- More Work for Less Money.
Robot Cats are coming for YOUR JOBS!!!!
Robot Cats are CHEAP. No medical or dental. No smoke breaks, lunch breaks, vacation or sick days. No bad attitude. No showing up late or stealing from the till. These robots are not better than a good wait staff in every way, but when it comes to the bottom line, these guys cannot be beat.
Look, I don’t have a lot of answers, because I can’t see the future. But one thing I do know- the more our millionaire (and yet perplexingly socialist) politicians keep increasing the minimum wage, the more small businesses (by which I mean almost all of them) will be forced to find affordable replacements for the waitresses, fry cooks, floor moppers and lawn mowers of today.
Demanding that businesses spend more money is not a long term solution. Having low wage, entry level jobs for some, and opportunities to learn and grow for all is going to present more good outcomes than politicians making the absurd assumption that all businesses can simply pay their employees more. Keep in mind that these are the same politicians who get to decide their own paychecks, their own debt ceiling, and whose answer to a lot of economic problems has been “Let’s just print more money!”
These socialist politicians have never worked real jobs and don’t understand how money actually works in the real world. Just as one example- even if you have a top of the line Hewlett Packard laser jet printer, you aren’t ALLOWED to print your own money. And you certainly can’t spent it at Target, even if you have coupons.
We can’t count on the socialist politicians to make business work for the little guy. Every time they try to “help” the little guy, the little guy ends up unemployed or closing his third generation family store. We need to make sure the little guys can all stand on their own two feet. That’s what makes America great.
Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, learning what other people think is not only easy, it’s nearly impossible to avoid! There was a time when people wrote their secret feelings and thoughts in a secret document called a “diary” which was sometimes locked and often hidden. If you read someone’s diary, they were angry at you for invading their privacy.
Thanks to the internet, people are now able to not only write their diary through electronic means, but they can also post it publicly for the whole world to see, and they will get angry at you for NOT reading it. But what enrages these people more than anything is when you don’t AGREE with all of their feelings. And it’s not enough to merely read what they think and feel, but you BETTER SAY that you agree. They have a phrase for you if you fail; “Silence is VIOLENCE.” And it must be true, because it rhymes.
That’s right. If you don’t say you agree with all of their feelings them you might as well just punch them in the face! And as appealing as that is, I am still legally obligated to suggest you not do so.
But all of that to say, that thanks to the internet, Woke, politically correct friends can now teach us everything we are supposed to think and feel unless we want to get accused of being hateful and violent. I’ve been paying attention to the political correctness of our friends on the Democratic Left for a long time now, and one of the things I am amazed that seems to keep escaping other people’s notice is how very WHITE Woke values truly are. The Woke left LOVES WHITE PEOPLE!
Atheism seems so complex that even the Atheists on the internet seem to have no idea what it is.
Despite their seeming limitless ignorance, those same internet Atheists have a LOT to say about… well, absolutely everything. How is one to understand them and respond?
This book makes all of it simple and clear, including WHAT Atheism is, the difference between knowing and believing, the Religion of Atheism (Including the 15 Core Tenets of Orthodox Atheism), Debunking the faith of atheism, and then applying the logic of atheism, which includes guest essays from our Internet Atheist friend PonyH8R.
Learn to answer Atheism with wit and common sense, and remember, Jesus Loves them too!
My main man John over at “What do YOU Meme?” posted this video recently, and I thought it was a thoughtful, compassionate, and Biblically wise take on the whole Transgender thing. As a lot of people have reported on, the incidents of violence from men who identify as women against people who don’t also pretend that they are women are many. But John here digs into the reasons why this may be the case, and I think his conclusions not only make sense, but might help us all find some compassion for those men. They need Jesus. Sometimes we can forget that, and it’s good to be reminded.
Welcome once again to Feedback Friday! In reply to this Post a faithful viewer had the following to say. You’ll note he spends a lot more time quoting me than he does understanding or answering me… in fact, it seems that I wrote more of his reply than HE did. None the less, he says (The parts in BOLD are him quoting me):
Nice strawman you are fighting there. You make the claim atheism is a religion. It is not. It is a lack of believing in an imaginary friend.
“Is it POSSIBLE that this person can KNOW that theism is “unsupported by good evidence”?” Yes. Your average atheist has done a lot of research, gone through many years of questioning the absurdities they have been told, only to finally understand religion is a lie. A con. An afterlife insurance policy they never actually have to deliver on.
“Is it possible that he knows enough to claim with certainty that theism is not supported by good evidence?”Again, yes. Your magic book is proof only that fallible individuals with a con to maintain, wrote a book. Nothing more.
“Is it even possible that he can say he knows all of the proposed or existing or possible evidence for God’s existence, and then be able to logically reject all of it as insufficient with justifiable cause?” I repeat. Your magic book is proof only that fallible individuals with a con to maintain, wrote a book. Nothing more.
“Could he ever prove, even to himself, that there IS NO GOOD EVIDENCE for God’s existence? None in all the universe? None in all of human history? None in existence now but simply absent from the conversations he’s had on FaceBook?”
Maybe you could show some evidence that your god actually exists. I’ll wait. But won’t be holding my breath.
The argument from elephants can do self portraits? What sort of buffoon are you?
Greetings ! Claiming Atheism is a religion is NOT a strawman. Maybe you simply don’t know the tenets of your own faith. Lucky for you I’ve made several great videos about it! Here’s one now! https://youtu.be/3nPUUbQlji0
A Bit of Orange 