'Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, and his colleague Bill Sellers, a biomechanics expert, used a supercomputer to calculate the top-running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs.'
Apparently T-Rex's are slightly faster than humans (not sure about endurance figures which are a factor in long chases).
Here are some of the computer generated results:
* Compsognathus (6.6 pounds, 3 kilograms)—39.8 mph (17.8 m/s)
* Ostrich (144 pounds, 65.3 kg)—34.5 mph (15.4 m/s)
* Emu (60 pounds, 27.2 kg)—29.8 mph (13.3 m/s)
* Velociraptor (44 pounds, 20 kg)—24.2 mph (10.8 m/s)
* Dilophosaurus (948 pounds, 430 kg)—23.5 mph (10.5 m/s)
* Allosaurus (3,087 pounds, 1,400 kg)—21 mph (9.4 m/s)
* Tyrannosaurus (13,230 pounds, 6,000 kg)—17.9 mph (8 m/s)
* Human (157 pounds, 71 kg)—17.7 mph (7.9 m/s)
And here is a short video comparing humans to dinosaurs.
According to Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind), one of the leading "creation scientists" in the world (currently in jail doing a 10 year sentence for 58 tax offenses, obstructing federal agents and related charges), dinosaurs lived side by side humans from the beginning of the earth and the universe around 6,000 years ago to today. Yes, some dinosaurs are still amongst us according to Dr. Dino.
The problem is that many dinosaurs (at least those in the past who lived before the Flood wiped them out) had sharp teeth and liked meat.
How did humans survive the earth prior to the flood? T.Rex's could outrun us, and many other meat eating dinosaurs could easily outrun us. Here are a few possible excuses that creationist could use:
1) Maybe we don't taste good. (God made us give dinosaurs very bad stomach aches and they figured out that they better just leave us alone).
2) Humans of course, mostly hung out in caves. And T-Rex's and other dinosaurs were too big to get into the caves.
3) There is no proof that dinosaurs were nothing but herbivores.
4) From Raving Atheist member Kamikaze189: Adam didn't have to run faster than the T-Rex, he just had to run faster than Eve.
There. Easily explained.
And, um, god cloned her again later.
Any other ideas?
OK, here is a video that slams Kent Hovind and his idiocy:
August 24, 2007
August 22, 2007
Christiane Amanpour Should Go Back To Iran And Be A Weather Girl
I watched God's Warriors, "the Jews killed Jesus and would have killed Mohammed too if they had their way" version.
I really can't believe how one sided it was.
Look, I'm no fan of land promised by God, but I've made it clear that Israel was formed legally, and it needs to exist as a Jewish majority state as long as anti-semitism is alive in the world. I have compared radical Jewish settlers to Muslims on a few occasions here on this blog. It was embarrassing to see how they behaved towards the IDF and the state last year in Amona for example.
That being said, last nights documentary was despicable. The points that got to me were the following:
There have been less than 5 acts of terrorism carried out in Israel by Jews over the last 50 years. Of course, they were all mentioned....how else are you going to fill 2 hours on "Jewish terrorism."
But there was not a word mentioned about how the majority of the Jewish people were disgusted by the acts or attempted acts. There was no mention that the terrorists involved were jailed by the state for crimes either. Of course, imbecile Baruch Goldstein didn't live so he was exempt from jail.
The documentary focused on how the settlements are the major obstacle to peace. The documentary inferred that Israel does not want peace.
There was no mention that the settlements were not an obstacle at all between 1948-1967. There was no mention about the Gaza withdrawal. No mention of the aftermath of that event (the bombs being lobbed into Israel almost daily).
God's Warriors gave the impression that Israel is completely about religion, yet the majority of Jews in Israel are secular. 20%-25% are atheist, and up to another 25% are agnostic. Israel happens to be a place where Jews know they can at least be treated as equals, where no one will look at your name or face and think or say "are you a Jew."
If religious Jews are such a problem, why are they not a problem all over the world?
No, just Israel, where tensions are high. Lets look at Islam. Oh, that will be tonight.
Amanpour devoted a good chunk of the documentary to Aipac. Again, many secular, agnostic, and atheist Jews in America support Israel. Aipac is not about religion. Wrong show.
Then to lie and state that the settlements upset the Muslim world. Wrong. It is the existence of Israel that upsets the Muslim world. The existence of the Muslim world upsets me, but I'm not going to blow myself up over it.
Tonight the topic is Islam. If she spends more than 2 minutes apologizing for radical Islam or spends more than a second talking to "moderate" Muslims, she and whoever was associated with the show should be fired immediately.
Last nights piece really bothers me, because anyone with very little clue about the conflict will walk away from the TV set thinking Jews are as maniacal collectively as Muslims and that Israel shouldn't exist.
One thing is for sure: Jews don't control the media.
Youtube has last nights show up in parts.
Other takes on the show last night:
Elder of Ziyon
Sharon Cobb
Atlas Shrugs
And this quick and funny review from The Kevin and Patrick Blog
Camera.org chimes in on the documentary
I really can't believe how one sided it was.
Look, I'm no fan of land promised by God, but I've made it clear that Israel was formed legally, and it needs to exist as a Jewish majority state as long as anti-semitism is alive in the world. I have compared radical Jewish settlers to Muslims on a few occasions here on this blog. It was embarrassing to see how they behaved towards the IDF and the state last year in Amona for example.
That being said, last nights documentary was despicable. The points that got to me were the following:
There have been less than 5 acts of terrorism carried out in Israel by Jews over the last 50 years. Of course, they were all mentioned....how else are you going to fill 2 hours on "Jewish terrorism."
But there was not a word mentioned about how the majority of the Jewish people were disgusted by the acts or attempted acts. There was no mention that the terrorists involved were jailed by the state for crimes either. Of course, imbecile Baruch Goldstein didn't live so he was exempt from jail.
The documentary focused on how the settlements are the major obstacle to peace. The documentary inferred that Israel does not want peace.
There was no mention that the settlements were not an obstacle at all between 1948-1967. There was no mention about the Gaza withdrawal. No mention of the aftermath of that event (the bombs being lobbed into Israel almost daily).
God's Warriors gave the impression that Israel is completely about religion, yet the majority of Jews in Israel are secular. 20%-25% are atheist, and up to another 25% are agnostic. Israel happens to be a place where Jews know they can at least be treated as equals, where no one will look at your name or face and think or say "are you a Jew."
If religious Jews are such a problem, why are they not a problem all over the world?
No, just Israel, where tensions are high. Lets look at Islam. Oh, that will be tonight.
Amanpour devoted a good chunk of the documentary to Aipac. Again, many secular, agnostic, and atheist Jews in America support Israel. Aipac is not about religion. Wrong show.
Then to lie and state that the settlements upset the Muslim world. Wrong. It is the existence of Israel that upsets the Muslim world. The existence of the Muslim world upsets me, but I'm not going to blow myself up over it.
Tonight the topic is Islam. If she spends more than 2 minutes apologizing for radical Islam or spends more than a second talking to "moderate" Muslims, she and whoever was associated with the show should be fired immediately.
Last nights piece really bothers me, because anyone with very little clue about the conflict will walk away from the TV set thinking Jews are as maniacal collectively as Muslims and that Israel shouldn't exist.
One thing is for sure: Jews don't control the media.
Youtube has last nights show up in parts.
Other takes on the show last night:
Elder of Ziyon
Sharon Cobb
Atlas Shrugs
And this quick and funny review from The Kevin and Patrick Blog
Camera.org chimes in on the documentary
August 20, 2007
How Can You Argue With Pat Condell? You Just Can't.
Pat Condell is more popular than Jesus.......at least on Youtube. Here, he is telling the truth about Islam and Europe again:
Now for something less logical but guaranteed to make you laugh real good....unless you are an uptight Muslim:
Yeah yeah I know, many Christians and Fundy Jews are just as bad when it comes to homosexual bashing.
I'm really getting lazy with this blog. I need more different motivation. Things are pretty good right now in Canada when it comes to us atheist Jews.
Quick Edit. I just thought of a great joke for Leno or Letterman:
Michael Vick is writing a new book. It is called If I Did Kill Dogs.
Now for something less logical but guaranteed to make you laugh real good....unless you are an uptight Muslim:
Yeah yeah I know, many Christians and Fundy Jews are just as bad when it comes to homosexual bashing.
I'm really getting lazy with this blog. I need more different motivation. Things are pretty good right now in Canada when it comes to us atheist Jews.
Quick Edit. I just thought of a great joke for Leno or Letterman:
Michael Vick is writing a new book. It is called If I Did Kill Dogs.
August 16, 2007
Critical/Flawed Thinker Out To Lunch About Atheists
I was browsing through one of my favorite new resources, POPURLS, when I came across a post named Atheists vs. Agnostics vs. Religionists- Or Are They All The Same?
The post is full of flawed premises, half truths, and revisionist history. The blog writer of Duly Consider prides himself on being a Critical Thinker. He even taught Critical Thinking abroad. This self acclaimed intellectual calls atheism a religion. He is apparently an expert Flawed Thinker. But he invents meanings for words, so maybe critical=flawed to him just like atheism= a religion to him.
Without slaughtering the post line by line (the Hippie movement for example may not have been churchgoing, but they were all about "God Is Love; not Pacifist atheists for the most part), I've decided to just explain why atheism has gained popularity of late.
Up until recently, few would dare state they were atheist. Rob Reiner's character (Mike Stivic), was probably the first TV atheist, though very little story line revolved around it. Back then more than now, atheists tended to use the rejection of the God in the bible as a defense. Personally, I don't bother with that stuff, because as more evidence comes out due to scientific breakthroughs and archaeological discoveries, not only do all the bibles have nonsensical contradictions, but most of the events that supposedly took place could never have happened...like the Ark and the Exodus. The word of God is just the word of man written hundreds of years after the "fact."
TV was full of religious programs on Sunday mornings in the 60's. God was everywhere (though rarely mentioned in popular sitcoms like Gilligan's Island, Batman, Bewitched, etc.) How come they never prayed to get off the Island? OK, I'm getting off topic.
It was really television and real science that has created today's atheist movement.
Star Trek got everyone thinking about life on other planets and the size of the universe, and really the meaning of everything. In fact, for me, I can say that Marvin the Martian got me thinking too. As a kid, it got me wondering why is religion needed, what miracles did God perform on Mars? What church did Marvin go to?
Lets not forget that the Big Bang, is a fairly new theory that came about in the early 60's. Shows like Nova constantly contradicted the idea of any biblical God. As all the facts came about, including all discoveries that confirmed evolution throughout the 70's and 80's, more and more atheists were being created (I was probably agnostic until I hit my early 30's). I became an atheist because of information.
Atheists actually had evidence versus lack of evidence to make them feel more comfortable about their overall gut feeling about the bibles being fiction.
The Christian Right started to offend a more defiant group of non believers. The more they stated evolution didn't happen, the more I personally read about evolution, and the more sure I became that THEY ARE JUST PLAIN WRONG. And when they want to push their nonsense into schools and other public places, the more offensive they became.
The thing is that ATHEISTS KNOW THEY (me included) ARE RIGHT.
The article states that the religious war (Christians versus Muslims) Iraq war caused angry atheists to become outspoken today. Wrong. I'm an atheist, and I realize that the war with Iraq is not a religious one, but a cultural one. It was inevitable that the West was going to fight a Muslim country, just like it was inevitable that someone was going to use the A-bomb when it was discovered.
The reason atheists have become outspoken today is because of the internet. The internet has given us a platform to point out views, and the flaws of religious thought and most importantly, action.
The post is full of flawed premises, half truths, and revisionist history. The blog writer of Duly Consider prides himself on being a Critical Thinker. He even taught Critical Thinking abroad. This self acclaimed intellectual calls atheism a religion. He is apparently an expert Flawed Thinker. But he invents meanings for words, so maybe critical=flawed to him just like atheism= a religion to him.
Without slaughtering the post line by line (the Hippie movement for example may not have been churchgoing, but they were all about "God Is Love; not Pacifist atheists for the most part), I've decided to just explain why atheism has gained popularity of late.
Up until recently, few would dare state they were atheist. Rob Reiner's character (Mike Stivic), was probably the first TV atheist, though very little story line revolved around it. Back then more than now, atheists tended to use the rejection of the God in the bible as a defense. Personally, I don't bother with that stuff, because as more evidence comes out due to scientific breakthroughs and archaeological discoveries, not only do all the bibles have nonsensical contradictions, but most of the events that supposedly took place could never have happened...like the Ark and the Exodus. The word of God is just the word of man written hundreds of years after the "fact."
TV was full of religious programs on Sunday mornings in the 60's. God was everywhere (though rarely mentioned in popular sitcoms like Gilligan's Island, Batman, Bewitched, etc.) How come they never prayed to get off the Island? OK, I'm getting off topic.
It was really television and real science that has created today's atheist movement.
Star Trek got everyone thinking about life on other planets and the size of the universe, and really the meaning of everything. In fact, for me, I can say that Marvin the Martian got me thinking too. As a kid, it got me wondering why is religion needed, what miracles did God perform on Mars? What church did Marvin go to?
Lets not forget that the Big Bang, is a fairly new theory that came about in the early 60's. Shows like Nova constantly contradicted the idea of any biblical God. As all the facts came about, including all discoveries that confirmed evolution throughout the 70's and 80's, more and more atheists were being created (I was probably agnostic until I hit my early 30's). I became an atheist because of information.
Atheists actually had evidence versus lack of evidence to make them feel more comfortable about their overall gut feeling about the bibles being fiction.
The Christian Right started to offend a more defiant group of non believers. The more they stated evolution didn't happen, the more I personally read about evolution, and the more sure I became that THEY ARE JUST PLAIN WRONG. And when they want to push their nonsense into schools and other public places, the more offensive they became.
The thing is that ATHEISTS KNOW THEY (me included) ARE RIGHT.
The article states that the religious war (Christians versus Muslims) Iraq war caused angry atheists to become outspoken today. Wrong. I'm an atheist, and I realize that the war with Iraq is not a religious one, but a cultural one. It was inevitable that the West was going to fight a Muslim country, just like it was inevitable that someone was going to use the A-bomb when it was discovered.
The reason atheists have become outspoken today is because of the internet. The internet has given us a platform to point out views, and the flaws of religious thought and most importantly, action.
August 11, 2007
Fun With Generators
I like going to The Generator Blog once in a while to see what is new. After seeing a few fellow bloggers post their South Park character and Simpson's character, I decided to do mine.
I didn't see any way to make me an adult with the South Park generator, but I didn't look too hard, and apparently there is more than one site that does it according the sidebar on The Generator Blog, but then again, I wish I was 14 again anyway. I had perfect eyesight back then, so the glasses wouldn't have been needed, oh yeah, I almost forgot, I had hair then too.
I didn't see any way to make me an adult with the South Park generator, but I didn't look too hard, and apparently there is more than one site that does it according the sidebar on The Generator Blog, but then again, I wish I was 14 again anyway. I had perfect eyesight back then, so the glasses wouldn't have been needed, oh yeah, I almost forgot, I had hair then too.
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