Archive for May 10th, 2007
The ultimate Spamtrap
This is possibly the most awesome spam trap I’ve ever seen. As a fantastic piece of performance art, it accurately displays what a spam trap should do: get rid of the emails about Cialis. It’s a simple piece of art that can say quite a bit about the scourge of spam we face everyday.
Part 2 of the atheist debate is now online
May 10th, 2007 • 2 comments atheism, christianity, debate, tv
Just dug up the link http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3160648 from abcnews.com — although it was buried in the site.
Although the overall debate was poor, this second part is on the whole a bit better. Both sides skirt the issues proposed to them but tried to still make some point that people may link to whatever they were asked. Here’s some interesting things I found that the Christians ignored:
(Ray wants to state there were no people before the Bible)
(Kirk’s bizarre denial of evolution)
(Kirk is completely floored when Brian asks him “How can you not walk a mile without taking one step at a time?” and has absolutely nothing to say in defense. Instead he asks for the question again and skips to macroevolution)
(someone posed the question about Communist states acting as atheists)
(Kirk says it’s love of their faith and people, that’s why they’re killed. It’s in the audience questions segment).
(Ray skirts the entire issue by talking about light/darkness and ends up agreeing with the original question posed to him and could not explain why other than saying “It’s not true”. Kirk fumbles.)
(Ray talks about suffering instead of directly addressing the question. Uses distraction tactics to hinge upon fear mongering. Ray also says to not use “suffering” as a rejection of God although it has no basis in the question)
What the atheists missed or ignored:
(they share a great number of similarities but this is Kelly’s area of “expertise”)
(and I mean any godhead figure)
(other Atheists have postulated on this as well)
(Martin made the most salient point about this earlier in the debate)
Everything I think they missed were either questions directly asked to them or inferred by the questions asked to them. Believe me, some of this crazy stuff I could never make up.
Atheist debate, part 2
May 10th, 2007 • atheism, christianity, debate, tv
After last night’s sad attempt at showing the debate on Nightline, ABC is airing the rest online today. It was supposed to be on abcnews.com at 1PM EDT although I did not find any direct links. It should be on abcnews.com/abcnewsnow at 2PM EDT. I will post a direct link to the player as soon as I find one.
Although, what was shown on TV was merely about 20 minutes of the 90 minute debate and what’s been shown online so far has been far less than 90 minutes as well. In total, I’ve seen less than an hour of footage so what happened to the other 30 to 40 minutes worth?
