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» 29/11/2018 6:11:32 AM One policy the Liberal Party could run on is repealing ridiculous laws. If they set a goal.....
» 2/06/2018 7:45:32 AM "Theology is the church's ongoing historically-shaped, critical, imaginative and cons.....
» 20/02/2018 5:23:19 AM "We want to bring bright, attractive, charismatic, persuasive people into government......
» 13/02/2018 7:44:07 AM "When people ask me, what work I have done and I explain that I worked as a neuroscie.....
» 12/10/2017 4:50:43 AM This is a little like going through The Lord of the Rings chapter by chapter, and telling .....
» 5/10/2017 5:30:28 AM Allowing the content of science to be dictated by ideological concerns inevitably produces.....
» 31/07/2017 10:04:47 AM Einstein certainly did not believe in any god that would be recognised as such by the Chri.....
» 10/07/2017 7:36:03 AM I am no fan of either Turnbull or Pell, but both of them have shown themselves capable of .....
» 27/04/2017 6:52:56 AM The only effective and humane way to disempower Islam is to educate, usefully employ, and .....
» 13/04/2017 6:28:00 AM Premiers are busy people. Daniel Andrews may consider that he's already in possession of a.....
» 13/04/2017 6:24:26 AM Any government which is serious about making public goods needs to reform copyright legisl.....
» 12/04/2017 6:24:05 AM It's nice to have it demonstrated once again that 'technological fixes' actually do work s.....
» 11/04/2017 6:54:16 AM So atheists are selfish and biassed. Got it. Next!.....
» 4/04/2017 6:32:24 AM I used to work in a section of the public service which produced recruitment reports, amon.....
» 17/03/2017 6:20:42 AM There are 1.7 million people living in South Australia. With $90 billion they could each b.....
» 14/03/2017 5:10:07 AM "How he knows that for certain is unclear." Presumably he knows that these peop.....
» 23/02/2017 6:04:14 AM If you don't believe the priests of your religion can communicate with the gods of your re.....
» 31/12/2016 5:27:12 AM I will vote for any party that promises to abandon its ideology and provide the best possi.....
» 16/11/2016 5:52:54 AM Trump's main problem is the same as Turnbull's -- he is beholden to a bunch of right-wing .....
» 8/11/2016 6:20:42 AM I wonder if you realise how revealing this actually is, Peter: "baptism initiates us.....
» 29/10/2016 7:09:30 AM If a bakery made it clear that its proprietors were gay -- or religious fanatics -- as par.....
» 27/10/2016 5:15:04 AM Fortunately South Australia has not yet closed its borders, and those who are out of work .....
» 5/10/2016 5:42:59 AM Jardine, if the Bible can be successfully re-interpreted as a message of peace and love, t.....
» 4/10/2016 7:22:25 AM Islam in the Middle East is currently in the position that Christianity in Europe was four.....
» 30/07/2016 10:22:50 AM The fact that Peter continues his swing towards conservatism is much more interesting than.....
» 15/07/2016 7:05:29 AM If anthropogenic climate change is happening at all, then every human alive is 'contributi.....
» 14/07/2016 6:14:25 AM Any agreements between the UK and Europe which are mutually beneficial can and will be kep.....
» 13/07/2016 6:11:14 AM The run-together words are unlikely to be the author's fault. Hopefully they will be corre.....
» 1/07/2016 7:03:54 AM The trouble with a cri de coeur is that it often bypasses the brain. If Scott or his anony.....
» 28/06/2016 10:17:04 AM If the benefits of trade and other agreements between Britain and Europe were as manifest .....
» 24/06/2016 6:02:16 AM I am no great fan of the US, but attacking a country because of the whackiness of people w.....
» 18/06/2016 6:05:31 AM "That there will most likely always be people who are excluded makes an ass out of an.....
» 9/06/2016 8:04:16 AM The single greatest source of welfare payments in history is the US government, which coll.....
» 28/05/2016 10:06:40 AM 'Twas ever thus. The great scientific discoveries that we now recognise in the eighteenth .....
» 28/05/2016 9:59:34 AM Naturally the scriptures of any successful religion will be written or rewritten in forms .....
» 26/05/2016 8:37:12 PM You try something. If it works for a few years, then the people who claimed it would be a .....
» 19/05/2016 6:14:08 AM So if your opinion is that your opinion is not an opinion, Chris's opinion is that you sho.....
» 9/05/2016 7:58:22 AM "This is why discussion about religion has virtually been eliminated in our time. It .....
» 5/05/2016 6:54:58 AM There are reasons why modern religious music is so awful: a) there are relatively few peop.....
» 4/05/2016 5:57:20 AM Now the Amazing Revolving Prime Ministers act is over, Australia may be reverting to its t.....
» 3/05/2016 7:50:53 AM Others have already pointed out that saying 'God did it by magic' doesn't make something a.....
» 29/04/2016 7:56:42 AM Secession movements are the natural outcome of a long period of peace, and the hopes for c.....
» 18/04/2016 7:40:16 AM This quote -- in various forms -- is usually attributed to Keynes, though it actually seem.....
» 22/03/2016 5:57:04 AM The various levels of the secular US government between them pay out over a trillion dolla.....
» 20/03/2016 6:19:00 AM Yuyutsu, are you saying that it's sensible to pretend our actions have some long-term resu.....
» 19/03/2016 8:54:13 AM Peter, you can't simply claim that your arguments make sense, you have to SHOW they make s.....
» 17/03/2016 1:27:44 PM I was registered with an employment agency for two years. All I had to show for it at the .....
» 17/03/2016 6:07:24 AM Well done, Peter! Now all you have to do is explain how something that doesn't exist can s.....
» 17/03/2016 6:03:39 AM Another solution -- use Linux. The inbuilt security is much better and it's not yet popula.....
» 11/03/2016 7:12:04 AM Ten-week-old babies are not in the womb; they have, by definition, been born ten weeks ago.....
» 11/03/2016 7:02:49 AM Given that we earn roughly twice as much in real terms per average hour worked as people d.....
» 9/03/2016 6:17:10 AM "To some this might have seemed like stepping back from the fray, but Goldstein would.....
» 3/02/2016 8:43:21 AM As an atheist I would like to see Islam (and every other religion) dissolve overnight, but.....
» 30/01/2016 6:15:11 AM "These are prohibitions that have existed since our laws were written and previously,.....
» 29/01/2016 6:08:25 AM Pendulums swing. There was a time -- less than ten years ago -- when the highest office of.....
» 23/01/2016 6:24:17 AM And how does the AMC demonstrate that its opinions about its god are better founded than t.....
» 5/01/2016 5:19:45 AM Executive summary: "People these days aren't buying my particular brand of snake oil......
» 11/12/2015 6:13:16 AM The answer may be that Abbott recognised his own difficulties in appealing to women voters.....
» 1/12/2015 6:36:55 AM Moderate religious believers can never put up more than a token resistance to religious ex.....
» 28/11/2015 7:00:20 AM Once again we see how the bar is lowered for commentators here who espouse the Christian c.....
» 26/11/2015 6:56:09 AM Unfortunately for the ALP, the 'precariat' now are better educated, more affluent and bett.....
» 25/11/2015 8:08:14 AM Only the desire to achieve a spurious 'balance' between views could justify the inclusion .....
» 30/10/2015 6:17:22 AM Actually there were three extremely unpopular Prime Ministers after Kevin Rudd, and one of.....
» 14/08/2015 7:39:55 AM Not much to add here -- except to point out perhaps, that China, which has never had a tra.....
» 22/07/2015 2:25:35 PM Financially speaking, the USSR was never in a position to compete with the US alone, much .....
» 17/07/2015 7:43:39 AM Globalisation spreads the wealth around. And inasmuch as wealth is a (very crude) proxy fo.....
» 11/07/2015 6:33:48 AM "This has largely been the product of research into the biblical sciences." Wha.....
» 11/07/2015 6:25:49 AM There's a missing clause in the argument: 1. Legalising homosexual marriage will cause pe.....
» 10/07/2015 6:50:55 AM "It is not a simple matter therefore of changing the definition of marriage to accomm.....
» 9/07/2015 6:31:40 AM "Why should they be excluded from such business opportunities particularly when there.....
» 6/07/2015 7:25:34 AM In your cherry-picking scan of the Bible, Chris, you forgot Leviticus 20:13 -- New Inter.....
» 1/07/2015 7:07:30 AM Peter, the people you visit in Western Sydney hospitals aren't watching the ABC any more. .....
» 1/07/2015 7:00:30 AM Is there an unbiased publicly-funded broadcasting agency anywhere in the world? I can't th.....
» 26/06/2015 6:21:00 AM I give up, Peter. Your compulsion to say 'our' and 'we', when you mean 'mine' and 'me' is .....
» 10/06/2015 7:32:54 AM Normally I leave theologians alone when they squabble among themselves, but I can't let th.....
» 6/06/2015 7:01:45 AM Since the places people visit (and retire to) are generally warmer than the places they li.....
» 6/06/2015 6:59:43 AM David, I'm sorry your property was vandalised. But perhaps people would have more respect .....
» 2/06/2015 7:32:14 AM So being expected to do your job is 'bullying'? Gosh, I've been bullied for years, and nev.....
» 2/06/2015 7:30:20 AM You're absolutely right. But it's not going to happen any time soon, is it? So while perso.....
» 1/06/2015 2:06:54 PM It is the job of politicians in a democracy to do what they are told by the electorate. Wh.....
» 1/06/2015 2:02:11 PM I don't see how increasing the number of people getting married under the Marriage Act can.....
» 27/05/2015 8:00:00 AM "A society in which people were compelled to perform actions that ran contrary to the.....
» 25/05/2015 7:46:42 AM I didn't realise this kind of dinosaur was still extant. David, report to your nearest mus.....
» 19/05/2015 7:19:31 AM "In the absence of theological thinking we give ourselves permission to do what we de.....
» 11/04/2015 8:35:43 AM Quite so. It's worth reminding ourselves that the people who suffer most from Muslim extre.....
» 9/04/2015 6:54:40 AM Let me just add, by the way, that although I am an Obama fan, 'humble' is the last word I .....
» 9/04/2015 6:45:45 AM The problem with modern politics in the west can be summed up in six words: people are now.....
» 2/04/2015 4:44:12 PM OK, we've got the traditional Easter wiffle over with, time to get back to serious matters.....
» 25/03/2015 8:15:15 AM Craig, what Peter thinks IS of supreme indifference to me. What is of concern to me, thoug.....
» 24/03/2015 6:48:05 AM Here you go again, Peter -- on and on and on about what 'we' think. How DARE you attempt t.....
» 15/03/2015 7:41:31 AM ConservativeHippie -- yes, I understand all that. But my point is that if the techniques a.....
» 14/03/2015 8:15:23 AM I know very little about Buddhism but everyone who does seems keen to tell me that it invo.....
» 5/03/2015 6:44:18 AM "In short, it is only the Church that stands against outbreaks of angelism and bestia.....
» 4/03/2015 7:15:13 AM "putting the needs of others on a par with their own..." Doesn't that mean lett.....
» 3/03/2015 6:14:45 AM One wonders how long these alleged 'conversions' will last should the prisoners succeed in.....
» 27/02/2015 6:35:01 AM I agree with the predictions but I think the author's historical view is a bit naive. Ever.....
» 26/02/2015 6:11:14 AM "Perhaps raw figures from Europol and the FBI database,concluding well over 90% of te.....
» 29/01/2015 6:56:03 AM "I have heard artists say that the market for art has collapsed. They relate how majo.....
» 14/01/2015 5:44:47 AM "There is nothing intrinsically violent about Islam." There is something 'intri.....
» 12/01/2015 8:17:22 AM The problem is not specific to Islam but endemic to all religions and all other ideologies.....
» 8/01/2015 10:13:11 AM So low oil prices due to an oversupply of fuel are an indication of high oil prices due to.....
» 7/01/2015 6:16:05 PM Matthew 6:6 -- Jesus speaking -- "But when you pray, go into your room, close the doo.....
» 7/01/2015 6:19:32 AM I've commented here before that as the electorate becomes better educated and more affluen.....
» 1/01/2015 5:34:52 AM Nobody has yet seen a major religious institution collapse from voluntary withdrawal of it.....
» 30/12/2014 5:44:52 AM I've recently returned from a trip to Italy, which is about ten years behind Oz in smoking.....
» 30/12/2014 5:32:22 AM Have we had the requisite number of religiously-themed Christmas articles yet? Can we get .....
» 22/12/2014 5:17:44 AM 'It could also be argued that no great discovery or innovation made in human history has b.....
» 20/12/2014 3:18:30 PM The obvious omission from this article is a demographic one: 'the bush' now houses a much .....
» 16/11/2014 7:26:49 AM Peter, if the responses to your articles are predictable, that's because the articles alwa.....
» 15/11/2014 6:06:11 AM Here's the executive summary: 1. Christianity is all lies. 2. But they're COMFORTING lies.....
» 8/11/2014 8:42:19 AM The relatively poor response to this article might well be due to the fundamental confusio.....
» 1/11/2014 5:00:41 AM "The great strength of the bible is that it incorporated contradictory ideas." .....
» 30/10/2014 5:49:30 AM "This is becoming ridiculous." No, it has BEEN ridiculous for over three decade.....
» 13/10/2014 3:36:10 PM "According to a new study from the World Wildlife Fund, the population of aquatic and.....
» 27/09/2014 6:21:08 AM "One way, much favoured by the left, is that government sees the need and acts decisi.....
» 22/09/2014 7:13:11 AM "History vindicated Whitlam..." Anyone who believes that Whitlam has been 'vind.....
» 19/09/2014 6:58:46 AM Nobody, as far as I know, uttered one word of public protest or concern about the gradual .....
» 18/09/2014 6:43:34 AM Breakaway smaller nations are a good sign of international peace; they indicate that the S.....
» 16/09/2014 11:11:16 AM Oops -- fusion, then. But as for global population, I believe that we're still on track to.....
» 16/09/2014 10:44:14 AM You forgot Scenario 4: Business as Usual. Things go on getting better; populations get ric.....
» 16/09/2014 10:36:30 AM Given that spouses of, say, deceased war veterans are entitled to government payments beca.....
» 16/09/2014 6:56:20 AM 'Danny Nalliah sat inside the fence with a megaphone and assured the ferals that "Jes.....
» 13/09/2014 7:33:31 AM "Those who hold 'traditional' values are unable to any longer look with certainty to .....
» 11/09/2014 1:25:23 PM We need a test case. Surely some bleeding-heart leftie can be found to testify that he or .....
» 10/09/2014 1:18:38 PM The old slippery slide! But why stop at preventing people from choosing to die with dignit.....
» 5/09/2014 8:15:32 AM Of course we judge the cost-effectiveness of power storage on the basis of current technol.....
» 5/09/2014 8:12:41 AM "Why don't you hear more about the revolutionary healthcare options and treatments th.....
» 1/09/2014 7:28:15 AM Proofreader, stat!.....
» 1/09/2014 7:27:18 AM "it would seem that self interest policies have not delivered for the social interest.....
» 19/08/2014 7:11:03 AM The whole Westminster system of government arose out of a situation of imperfect knowledge.....
» 11/08/2014 3:45:54 PM "After all, if we damned artists who did not live up to theological or moral standard.....
» 6/08/2014 7:30:10 AM George -- for the record I am quite happy to regard Stalinism, and Marxism in general, as .....
» 5/08/2014 7:53:20 AM You cannot simply impose 'tolerance' on a system which is constructed from the ground up o.....
» 26/07/2014 10:35:21 AM "from what looked like an atheists boot camp..." I have no idea what an "a.....
» 25/07/2014 7:35:18 AM The fundamental issue is simple: if a group of people (or even one person) wants to do som.....
» 24/07/2014 6:52:51 AM "But there is always hope; there is always some other solution." No, there isn'.....
» 24/07/2014 6:44:22 AM Expressing your grievances in an acceptable way is a fundamental requirement for acceptanc.....
» 23/07/2014 7:14:00 AM Who is 'we'? If you're talking about a few affluent Western nations where gays are already.....
» 23/07/2014 7:06:18 AM Yet another attempt to clothe religious objections to assisted dying in the garb of an ima.....
» 22/07/2014 7:24:39 AM "So the tax then is levied on those of us who subscribe to philosophies of human righ.....
» 18/07/2014 1:48:01 PM "Society should only ever change its ways because it is reasonable and logical to do .....
» 16/07/2014 7:33:58 PM The main point that is usually overlooked in articles like this -- and this one is no exce.....
» 15/07/2014 3:06:09 PM "We find it an irony that although art in the Latin West and Orthodox East found its .....
» 14/07/2014 9:47:58 AM There are certainly things to be said for reducing inequality; that's why we have progress.....
» 14/07/2014 9:40:24 AM Vilifying someone's name and work is a fairly natural reaction to the sensation that one h.....
» 11/07/2014 7:22:38 AM Perhaps if the people attempting to save the whale had been required to take it home and l.....
» 10/07/2014 2:13:17 PM "Neoliberalism seemed to work relatively well in Australia..." Not only seemed .....
» 10/07/2014 2:06:14 PM 'Marriage' 'equality', Chris? Is that the same as marriage equality? If not, how does it d.....
» 10/07/2014 7:50:28 AM "For example, if the search for ultimate truth leads to an individual believing that .....
» 8/07/2014 7:17:13 AM @JohnBennetts: Have you ever read WattsUpWithThat? If you have you will know that it takes.....
» 7/07/2014 1:02:49 PM Obama has recently announced a plan for radical action on 'climate change' which -- assumi.....
» 7/07/2014 12:53:01 PM As Tim Worstall has pointed out many times, the figures for income inequality are always q.....
» 7/07/2014 12:37:37 PM "If you bought a new car and there was only a one in twelve chance that it would work.....
» 3/07/2014 5:59:53 PM Let's imagine for one moment that MPs from Party X are invited to submit their own views a.....
» 30/06/2014 8:00:31 AM "It seems we have rediscovered a thirst for the mythical in the face of dull scientis.....
» 28/06/2014 8:22:07 AM So the Vatican has decided to cease labelling people on the basis of factors beyond their .....
» 24/06/2014 7:44:17 AM So 'solidarity' means handing over large amounts of taxpayers' earnings to other nations o.....
» 24/06/2014 7:41:03 AM So on sunny days, we'll be fine. At night, on rainy days, in fog, or when it's clouded ove.....
» 20/06/2014 3:23:24 PM The next US President will almost certainly be a Democrat; but the election does offer vot.....
» 20/06/2014 7:44:38 AM The basic principle is surely very simple: you can only claim a 'right' to do or be someth.....
» 18/06/2014 7:29:25 AM Coincidentally, just after I posted the previous comment I came across the following on Wa.....
» 18/06/2014 7:22:50 AM Yes, absolutely. At the moment the postgraduate researcher who has an interest in, say, ch.....
» 12/06/2014 11:54:39 AM 'False dichotomy' -- that's the phrase I was looking for. Writers' festivals are mass even.....
» 12/06/2014 8:03:42 AM Smaller government is never going to be achieved by government policy -- read Parkinson's .....
» 11/06/2014 4:39:22 PM "From now on human thought would be divided between two imaginaries, the analogical i.....
» 11/06/2014 4:36:26 PM The government had better hurry up and regulate ownership of newspapers soon, while there .....
» 11/06/2014 4:32:23 PM Bravo; an article which is far too sensible to get any media attention. It's also worth no.....
» 7/06/2014 7:17:13 AM It does seem odd that the author should be happy with Third World women doing backbreaking.....
» 3/06/2014 7:33:32 AM The bushfires in Winmalee were tragic, but they hardly 'smashed' the community. Most peopl.....
» 27/05/2014 7:11:02 AM Apart from the ethical reasons for allowing free speech which other commentators have list.....
» 23/05/2014 10:31:37 AM Perhaps the Victorian Liberals have learnt from the fate of the Republican Party in the US.....
» 19/05/2014 7:14:47 AM So your position is that we should force people into a particular type of marriage, even i.....
» 14/05/2014 4:32:52 PM "I am convinced it is the only way open to followers of Jesus." We are all extr.....
» 14/05/2014 7:17:34 AM The funds necessary to keep a community running don't necessarily have to be generated wit.....
» 14/05/2014 7:09:54 AM Science is rapidly reaching the point where any one of my skin cells -- and I have billion.....
» 13/05/2014 7:22:19 AM "As a Christian economist I think..." That we should sell all we have and give .....
» 13/05/2014 7:20:04 AM "Many men lack an emotional vocabulary- something known by medical people as alexithy.....
» 8/05/2014 7:21:51 AM Hi Peter, I notice that you haven't adopted my suggestion of saying 'I' rather than 'we' .....
» 6/05/2014 1:22:02 PM But, plantagenet, it IS an excellent example of how a wrong-headed government's commitment.....
» 5/05/2014 10:09:34 AM So the Sea Shepherd teaches us the importance of laws by breaking them? Someone's been rea.....
» 5/05/2014 9:53:42 AM @Leo Lane:"Marriage is between a man and a woman..." Or between a man and up to.....
» 5/05/2014 8:12:49 AM My elder brothers grew up in an era when it was considered normal for one's tonsils to be .....
» 2/05/2014 7:14:53 AM If you think you have good arguments against gay marriage, then make them. Nobody will sto.....
» 29/04/2014 6:59:05 PM Bearing in mind that you could take the entire population of Australia to China and rapidl.....
» 29/04/2014 6:54:22 PM Adam Smith pointed out long ago that artisanal pin-makers, working by hand and producing a.....
» 18/04/2014 7:07:13 AM This explains why those hard-working Godless Chinese, deprived of the benefits of Christia.....
» 17/04/2014 6:59:06 AM Not much to add here, but one of the few entertaining things left to watch on the ABC is t.....
» 17/04/2014 6:53:59 AM I'm with Hasbeen on this: anyone under, say, 25 who thinks they're worse off as a generati.....
» 15/04/2014 12:46:35 PM One figure I would like to see: how much does it cost the taxpayer to put one hour of ABC .....
» 10/04/2014 8:25:57 PM So, Peter, if we apply your principles to, say, rat-catching, the result would be that the.....
» 7/04/2014 12:10:07 PM I agree that a good deal of foolishness goes on at the UN, but what's wrong with advanced .....
» 7/04/2014 12:00:13 PM "And this is exactly in keeping with the true meaning of the Quran." Unfortunat.....
» 3/04/2014 9:02:20 PM @Brian of Buderim: "The second point is that it is very difficult to have a reasoned,.....
» 3/04/2014 6:59:44 AM @Candide: "You must not up-load, post, transmit or otherwise make available through.....
» 3/04/2014 6:05:17 AM Like Ken Ham, I believe the Noah movie is not realistic enough. For instance, Noah is supp.....
» 3/04/2014 6:01:54 AM "analysis of satellite data shows that between 1982 and 2011, 20.5 percent of the wor.....
» 1/04/2014 4:08:54 PM Consider the people of North Korea, and the disastrous tyranny under which they are suffer.....
» 28/03/2014 2:23:31 PM What this seems to boil down to is that most of those who profess to follow a religion mak.....
» 27/03/2014 2:49:13 PM @Jo59: If you can find more 'pro-choice' advocates who are not actively engaged in religio.....
» 27/03/2014 1:29:03 PM Not much point arguing with someone who cannot even comprehend there might be a rational c.....
» 26/03/2014 2:00:56 PM @Yuyutsu -- I certainly don't work as hard as my father did at my age -- or indeed any oth.....
» 26/03/2014 6:31:57 AM It really is all about you, isn't it, Peter? Never mind that 'modernity' has educated, clo.....
» 21/03/2014 5:02:58 PM All the animist societies that I know of did their damndest to control their environments;.....
» 21/03/2014 4:55:07 PM halduell, there are actual figures giving the current sea levels around Miami Beach, now a.....
» 21/03/2014 4:52:14 PM "If it taxed churches, the church would certainly be funding the state, which would a.....
» 19/03/2014 5:46:33 PM Speaking as someone who finds it extremely difficult to make rational decisions after midn.....
» 19/03/2014 5:40:31 PM Given that 'local' representatives do not 'represent' their electorates in any meaningful .....
» 18/03/2014 6:18:27 AM In general I agree, but what on earth is a 'family activist'? By 'gay activists' you presu.....
» 16/03/2014 6:44:07 PM Yuyutsu: 'unselfishness'? Really, is that all? It's a bit of a negative virtue, don't you .....
» 16/03/2014 1:10:16 PM But, George, if the 'God that contemporary educated Christians believe in is something qui.....
» 16/03/2014 6:53:37 AM OK, I was wrong -- it was close, and the outcome remains in doubt. Will SA be governed by .....
» 15/03/2014 6:26:25 PM 'Close election'? This is wishful thinking, surely. Sportsbet has already paid out on a Co.....
» 14/03/2014 4:03:48 PM Thank you, runner. Peter, there speaks a genuine Christian, one of the type that pays your.....
» 14/03/2014 1:18:08 PM Well, ABC is already taken care of for the left. Add SMH and AGE and that's a third of the.....
» 14/03/2014 1:14:18 PM Poor Peter, desperately trying to justify his beliefs and his paycheck by frantically sear.....
» 12/03/2014 11:20:17 AM "In fact, market thinking seems a perfect fit for a Darwinian universe. If humans are.....
» 11/03/2014 4:10:43 PM @Emperor Julian: "Trouble about the evidence, we don't have 2000 years to collect it......
» 11/03/2014 4:06:45 PM "Australia, one of the world's largest coal exporters, has its share of global warmin.....
» 5/03/2014 5:22:34 PM Sportsbet currently shows the LNP as firm favourites at 1.20 to 1, and Labor as an outside.....
» 4/03/2014 3:26:02 PM Leo, the 'Climate Change Authority' is no longer funded by the government but is acting pu.....
» 3/03/2014 3:04:59 PM I wasn't going to comment on this one, but yes, it's astonishing how quickly the liberal a.....
» 28/02/2014 10:32:49 AM I was on the books of an employment agency for about three years, and all I ever got from .....
» 27/02/2014 7:23:36 PM So there are a few that make a living from books and films. But most of those you list see.....
» 27/02/2014 6:27:41 PM @Tristan, just as a matter of interest, how many public advocates for Marxism can you name.....
» 27/02/2014 10:03:28 AM Is it really surprising that people who believe the government should redistribute wealth .....
» 27/02/2014 6:31:37 AM So because one child experiences a remission of unknown duration in one case of cancer, th.....
» 26/02/2014 6:20:27 AM I want MY children to live long and be healthy. Thus I have made sure they are vaccinated,.....
» 26/02/2014 6:18:23 AM But there are huge political gains to be made by legislating against 'offence', since one .....
» 21/02/2014 4:52:18 PM Hi George, What I have in mind by a 'flat contradiction' is, for instance, the contrast b.....
» 20/02/2014 6:32:32 AM Hi George, As a self-appointed authority on Divine intentions, can you enlighten us as to.....
» 19/02/2014 10:33:49 AM @DKit: 'I see [the Bible] entirely as a story with parts based on real people and facts.' .....
» 19/02/2014 6:49:30 AM "I get frustrated at the attitude still held by some that the Bible must be literally.....
» 5/02/2014 6:37:38 AM @James O'Neill -- James, if you want your contributions to the climate change debate taken.....
» 4/02/2014 6:48:45 AM Peter is rightly concerned over 'style', of course, because it represents the things that .....
» 31/01/2014 7:34:57 AM "The continued growth in independent school enrolments clearly indicates that parents.....
» 30/01/2014 1:09:15 PM I have no view on the Frontier Wars except to point out that everyone's ancestors have cer.....
» 30/01/2014 6:20:01 AM Well, let's just start by doing rational things that make people happy. Once we've got tha.....
» 29/01/2014 6:32:42 AM Truly, there is one born every minute......
» 23/01/2014 1:24:19 PM What's being presented in this article is not the mindless drivel that it looks. Consider .....
» 9/01/2014 6:14:15 AM There are far more people on the planet today who are ready, willing and able to analyse '.....
» 9/01/2014 6:06:04 AM "By focusing too much on (1) the accumulation of wealth (2) attempts to influence gov.....
» 7/01/2014 6:59:54 AM "The problems are real and vast, Simms argues, and an apocalypse does loom, but if we.....
» 7/01/2014 6:53:01 AM "Most importantly for the economy, it has reached the point where the environment can.....
» 31/12/2013 8:10:50 AM A Song of Attribution. To the tune of They Call The Wind Maria by Lerner and Loewe. Away .....
» 27/12/2013 6:05:05 AM What is a 'Christian society', Graham? Do you mean fundamentalist religious communities li.....
» 27/12/2013 5:58:38 AM '"I don't know" is a key part of the Christian/Jewish message.' Especially when.....
» 26/12/2013 9:39:13 AM @Jay: "How much of the state welfare budget is administered by Christian organisation.....
» 25/12/2013 6:44:06 PM Most organizations founded in the West between, say, 1700 and 1950 have explicitly or impl.....
» 25/12/2013 5:18:40 PM "Self-deception can be harmful, but it can also lift us to great heights and bring ab.....
» 17/12/2013 6:24:06 PM I can guarantee that if I started a firm of butchers, or solicitors, or hairdressers, or a.....
» 11/12/2013 11:08:32 AM Sorry, Everald, you can't get your God off the hook that easily. According to the official.....
» 28/11/2013 12:42:24 PM "There is a strong consensus amongst experts on climate that the Earth is warming at .....
» 27/11/2013 2:08:42 PM "Chelsea Pietsch is the Executive Officer of Freedom 4 Faith, an ecumenical religious.....
» 26/11/2013 6:06:47 AM "Natural theology has been described in its time as the sick man of Europe." By.....
» 26/11/2013 6:02:28 AM The article omits to mention that the major global temperature measures all show no signif.....
» 26/11/2013 5:58:30 AM So this is what passes for reasoned argument in Generation X? Well, that explains a lot........
» 23/11/2013 8:40:41 AM The 'two camps' are relatively easy to define. Camp A aspires to gain money, power and pre.....
» 21/11/2013 5:58:51 AM When did 'grown-ups' come to mean the same as 'credulous hysterics'? I must have missed th.....
» 19/11/2013 6:03:01 AM Why does this remind me of the scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian? "DEADLY DIRK.....
» 15/11/2013 6:19:25 AM "Those who have money and resources and opportunity are doing better and better, but .....
» 14/11/2013 6:20:03 AM "Every government since Whitlam's has been worse than the last." Your credibili.....
» 12/11/2013 4:17:35 PM I find it hard to believe that anyone from NSW could take Bob Carr seriously as Foreign Mi.....
» 11/11/2013 6:48:10 PM I'm quite serious: after forty-odd years of being told by god-botherers that 'we need this.....
» 11/11/2013 2:33:05 PM "So far, the link has not been made from the bush fire record in Australia. But these.....
» 11/11/2013 2:29:21 PM "We often find healthy and vibrant community existing in sports clubs and schools or .....
» 8/11/2013 5:08:51 PM It's significant that when the Climate Change Commission got the sack the ex-members grasp.....
» 8/11/2013 5:04:46 PM This is a very strange argument: "the global economy has been growing strongly for a .....
» 7/11/2013 6:27:44 AM So if I have three candidates for a job position, and I don't really like either of them, .....
» 7/11/2013 6:11:46 AM It's much better to have nasty people making their comments out in the open where they can.....
» 6/11/2013 2:25:35 PM I wonder how those 'theologians' who have been assimilated by Prof Borg reconcile the idea.....
» 5/11/2013 6:16:26 AM You missed the most important, Lyn: 51. Not actually get any warmer, as measured by all t.....
» 4/11/2013 6:23:37 AM Andrew is clearly trying out a variety of territorial claims here to see what he can get a.....
» 4/11/2013 6:19:24 AM "Humboldt, the founder of classical liberalism, his view was that education is a matt.....
» 1/11/2013 6:43:36 PM Five cents per person per day is a small price to pay to be rid of Labor; and ending the c.....
» 1/11/2013 6:39:50 PM Well, Jay, why not just move to one of the fifteen countries where gay marriage is legal? .....
» 1/11/2013 6:26:19 AM Catholic schools can pick and choose their students, whereas State schools are obliged by .....
» 1/11/2013 6:23:15 AM Here's a summary of the article: Kevin Rudd came out in support of gay marriage. Kevin Ru.....
» 29/10/2013 11:45:12 AM Labor is founded on adversarialism. It begins with the Marxist assumption that there is a .....
» 28/10/2013 2:28:47 PM Hmm -- smells like false humility to me, Peter. What would true humility smell like? Well,.....
» 24/10/2013 12:52:40 PM The signs are that, unlike his immediate predecessors, Abbott doesn't have a neurotic fixa.....
» 24/10/2013 9:57:16 AM "Our ‘D+’ grade on climate change can be improved..." Absolutely! Let's rally r.....
» 23/10/2013 8:23:06 PM Unfortunately for us, there is no longer any incentive for anyone with original ideas and .....
» 22/10/2013 8:32:06 AM I have a suggestion, Andrew; since the biggest obstacle to the AGW mitigation policies put.....
» 22/10/2013 6:10:01 AM Oh, mac! Lewandowsky?!! Really?!! http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=lewandowsky.....
» 21/10/2013 4:38:27 PM Poirot, the Rural Fire Service talks up every fire threat. It's their one chance to have a.....
» 21/10/2013 2:03:37 PM Leslie: "Is it possible to establish one basic "fact": that the polar caps .....
» 21/10/2013 1:54:52 PM "We need to talk about climate now." Quite so. Perhaps you should pass that on .....
» 19/10/2013 8:01:31 AM Because, Ludwig, I would be concerned that just about anything and everything about my mod.....
» 18/10/2013 11:07:58 AM I don't quite see how the idea of a loving, caring God and incontinent old people whose mi.....
» 18/10/2013 11:03:17 AM "Jesus, who instructed his followers to make disciples of all nations, taught that th.....
» 18/10/2013 10:57:19 AM I would gladly pay twelve dollars to rid my establishment of John Pilger, and consider it .....
» 17/10/2013 12:22:38 PM I suspect there will always be a higher proportion of churchgoers in politics than in the .....
» 16/10/2013 3:11:26 PM Editable comments. Retractable comments. Threaded comments. Article ratings. Comment r.....
» 14/10/2013 7:07:30 PM "It may do good science, but does it deliver what policymakers need?" Are we ta.....
» 11/10/2013 6:27:01 AM In summary: 1. I want other people to dislike the things I dislike. 2. I know people disl.....
» 9/10/2013 6:15:43 PM "The Director of one church aid group, Uniting World, (Dr Kerry Enright), has publish.....
» 7/10/2013 2:37:00 PM Is there any more convincing demonstration of the strength of the environmentalists' Reali.....
» 7/10/2013 2:29:24 PM But... but... but they were POLITICALLY correct! It must have been reality that got it wro.....
» 4/10/2013 2:24:43 PM "But I am sure that the gospel is a great consolation; that the cross of Christ is th.....
» 25/09/2013 9:40:39 AM A 'politically independent' public service is a public service which is dedicated -- even .....
» 25/09/2013 9:31:44 AM "Labor's downfall was based on a growing elitism within the party, the promotion of a.....
» 24/09/2013 12:19:06 PM Lewandowsky has had his payoff for acting as a useful idiot, and now someone else will be .....
» 24/09/2013 12:12:29 PM You may as well argue that increased suicide rates and the election of conservative govern.....
» 21/09/2013 7:49:47 PM "Now, why would the law firm seek an injunction? And why in a country which values fr.....
» 20/09/2013 7:15:41 AM "It is now the time to end, not extend, the privilege of the legal institution of mar.....
» 16/09/2013 10:10:56 AM ”if things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to ackno.....
» 13/09/2013 2:21:36 PM And which Greens are supporting 'science-based policy in relation to climate change'? I'm .....
» 12/09/2013 7:09:22 AM What is this supposed to be, Peter -- an anthology of tweets? This is even less coherent t.....
» 9/09/2013 6:39:35 PM Anyone who thinks we can 'future proof our communities' -- or anything else -- is so evide.....
» 9/09/2013 8:04:46 AM "Fundamentally, perpetrators of torture are terrified and they are particularly terri.....
» 9/09/2013 7:55:44 AM Yes, let's invade another Middle Eastern country, topple their government, destroy their i.....
» 8/09/2013 10:59:03 AM David, if that was Rudd's 'best', then it goes an awfully long way towards explaining why .....
» 6/09/2013 7:25:03 AM You know what they say -- if you don't want to be humiliated for holding ridiculous views,.....
» 5/09/2013 8:22:19 AM It's surely not a coincidence that the rise of AGW doctrine has coincided with the decline.....
» 5/09/2013 8:15:45 AM Well, Rudd had a choice -- be Christian or be rational. There's really not much you can do.....
» 2/09/2013 6:02:11 PM Bazz, according to this article South Australia has an estimated 437 TRILLION cubic feet o.....
» 2/09/2013 11:49:47 AM "Two outcomes are possible..." Many more than two outcomes are possible, but at.....
» 30/08/2013 1:07:37 PM Sophie, you don't tell us how much money your 'man' makes, but I'm willing to stick my nec.....
» 27/08/2013 7:01:35 AM "With enough votes like mine, we will at least have another hung Parliament and hold .....
» 23/08/2013 7:39:51 AM My favourite formulation of the Precautionary Principle is this: "When in danger or .....
» 22/08/2013 1:04:52 PM A surprising number of atheists DO believe in anthropogenic global warming. I say 'surpris.....
» 21/08/2013 7:09:02 PM Kathryn, if you care to make a wager on a Labor win, Sportsbet will take your money and gi.....
» 20/08/2013 10:20:35 AM "Bricks do not propagate." Neither do heterosexual people over sixty. Have you .....
» 20/08/2013 10:13:44 AM "So the future of our children and the planet is a concern outside the scope of this .....
» 19/08/2013 3:25:41 PM According to the Productivity Commission in 2007, the average cost of a hospital bed in Au.....
» 19/08/2013 7:18:06 AM "In fact, the study found that women were left feeling substantially less secure than.....
» 15/08/2013 9:34:34 AM "Most of the people who comment on my stuff are just angry rationalists that refuse t.....
» 14/08/2013 7:05:52 AM Valley Guy, The latest IPCC estimates for the projected temperature rise over the next 10.....
» 13/08/2013 1:32:59 PM I hear the feral unicorn problem isn't getting a whole lot of attention either... why is t.....
» 12/08/2013 9:45:14 AM The really amusing thing is that Peter and his apodictic chums don't even have an original.....
» 12/08/2013 8:08:59 AM Peter, here's a suggestion; if, as you claim, you can't say anything meaningful about God,.....
» 8/08/2013 2:59:21 PM It's a good sign when the major parties have similar policies; it may mean that some ratio.....
» 5/08/2013 10:39:19 AM The 'organised working class' is doing very nicely, thank you, having prospered under Howa.....
» 1/08/2013 12:35:36 PM "Adherence to a strict empirical/rationalist grounded theory approach is not necessar.....
» 1/08/2013 11:50:10 AM Peter, if we 'automatically assume' God is a 'kind of being like our own', that can only b.....
» 1/08/2013 11:25:16 AM Hi Aga -- substitute 'Mohammed' and 'Buddha' for Jesus in your first post, make a few mino.....
» 1/08/2013 7:26:17 AM "He is claiming that scientific knowledge is the only important knowledge." Rel.....
» 25/07/2013 7:29:35 AM But if prayer works, then God exists, and if God exists then witchcraft is a sin, and the .....
» 24/07/2013 7:45:55 AM Since all timber eventually rots and decays, returning its carbon to the atmosphere, this .....
» 23/07/2013 3:10:39 PM Curmudgeon, why do you think that sceptics will not 'mind' a low carbon tax? Speaking for .....
» 23/07/2013 12:45:08 PM As Barry O'Farrell in NSW has discovered, the way to stay popular is to keep out of the li.....
» 23/07/2013 12:42:48 PM "If anthropogenic emissions are warming the planet, this is a global problem requirin.....
» 21/07/2013 12:12:16 PM George, if you really think you have an empirical way to detect the existence of God, then.....
» 19/07/2013 7:28:37 AM Translation: If we rewrite 'religion' to remove any and all empirical content, we can make.....
» 17/07/2013 7:38:51 AM Nothing is 'sustainable' indefinitely. Continents move, technologies change, population fi.....
» 16/07/2013 5:25:30 PM Curmudgeon, when you climb to the top of a mountain and look around, most of the points ar.....
» 16/07/2013 7:43:17 AM "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is .....
» 16/07/2013 7:39:22 AM "Only societies, like those of Australian Aboriginal peoples, in which power is thoro.....
» 15/07/2013 8:05:47 AM Since Parliamentary sittings have ended, Kev is in the enviable position of being able to .....
» 12/07/2013 10:01:42 PM And once again we see the contemporary Christian's most common failing: the deliberate con.....
» 11/07/2013 1:36:44 PM "The language of human rights has come to dominate our world because we cannot any lo.....
» 10/07/2013 7:53:48 AM To be fair, the Greens are no more frivolous and unrealistic than any other minority party.....
» 9/07/2013 5:07:25 PM Obviously Summers and the sisterhood should demonstrate how pissed off they are by voting .....
» 9/07/2013 9:08:02 AM "Gillard was a prolific policy maker, 'responsible for legislating at the rate of 0.4.....
» 8/07/2013 1:18:50 PM Aside from the fact that there is no 'global warming' to worry about anyway, a shift away .....
» 8/07/2013 1:09:34 PM The notion of physically fronting up in an 'airless closet' -- or anywhere else -- so that.....
» 4/07/2013 8:33:57 AM But all that a Watson has to do is to find a reliable Holmes; and all that's necessary to .....
» 3/07/2013 5:44:03 PM It's quite true -- analysing someone's religious convictions may help to explain why they .....
» 3/07/2013 5:41:41 PM The real question is whether Gillard did anything that couldn't or wouldn't have been done.....
» 28/06/2013 10:26:39 AM "The list of adverse effects following Gardasil is extensive with many of the side ef.....
» 28/06/2013 7:26:02 AM Meanwhile SportsBet still lists a Labor victory in the coming election at odds of nine to .....
» 27/06/2013 8:34:50 PM Gillard's downfall was certainly related to gender, but not in any simple goodies vs baddi.....
» 27/06/2013 12:56:29 PM I for one welcome our new zombie overlords. And I wish them luck hunting for brains in the.....
» 26/06/2013 12:45:05 PM It's an encouraging sign, really: it shows that the AGW movement has given up trying to de.....
» 25/06/2013 4:33:48 PM I've gradually reached the conclusion that the real problem for Christian apologists and t.....
» 25/06/2013 4:28:54 PM No mention in the article that the true rulers of Iran are the members of a theocratic cou.....
» 25/06/2013 1:27:57 PM I have no idea whether I live a 'good life' or not, but I've never felt any 'desperation f.....
» 24/06/2013 9:43:12 PM How fortunate we are that people like Paul know what older citizens want much better than .....
» 24/06/2013 3:21:17 PM I remember the Wakadoo Cafe with great fondness, though I can't really say it taught me an.....
» 21/06/2013 7:18:56 AM Hey, Mark, 1955 just rang. They were wondering where you'd got to......
» 19/06/2013 7:34:43 AM Gillard's main problem is that she has allowed her emotions to interfere with her duties, .....
» 14/06/2013 4:53:50 PM And comments on comments on blogs are even more so......
» 14/06/2013 7:30:30 AM "lowest rate of ministerial sackings due to incompetence or corruption in the Westmin.....
» 13/06/2013 7:39:32 AM The only nice thing that can be said about the Western worldview is that it works: it lift.....
» 12/06/2013 7:30:47 AM "Despite conclusive evidence, some people still believe in an ongoing climate catastr.....
» 11/06/2013 1:53:27 PM One point the author has (deliberately) overlooked is that freeing up international trade,.....
» 7/06/2013 7:20:30 AM You can't really blame them: vague but hysterical claims of environmental naughtiness have.....
» 5/06/2013 7:26:32 AM Clearly the number of children deprived of a parent by heterosexual divorce is always goin.....
» 4/06/2013 7:43:16 AM The least polluted countries are the wealthiest countries, and the wealthiest countries ar.....
» 3/06/2013 5:11:24 PM "The way forward for the Church is not a retreat into a literal and hence historical .....
» 1/06/2013 12:46:03 PM Of course, the nice thing about the bounds of social conformity is that usually nobody tri.....
» 30/05/2013 7:34:47 AM I've pointed out before that at least five independent propositions have to be known to be.....
» 24/05/2013 7:41:06 AM I don't think killing people is necessarily any less humane than locking them up for decad.....
» 24/05/2013 7:32:13 AM It's a long slow process convincing fanatics, Don, and we all need patience, but I think w.....
» 23/05/2013 3:18:50 PM praxidice, there's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 23/05/2013 12:37:25 PM Part of living in a (relatively) free and open society is that all of get to do things tha.....
» 22/05/2013 7:26:11 AM "It ought to be made clear that I believe that marriage is fundamentally between a ma.....
» 20/05/2013 8:04:53 PM "Is there perhaps a double standard with regard to the political parties? Or women in.....
» 18/05/2013 8:04:42 AM It's worse than we thought! -- the Cook paper, that is: http://rankexploits.com/musings/2.....
» 17/05/2013 4:20:55 PM Not much to add here except to let Halduell know that the UQ 'study' he links to was utter.....
» 13/05/2013 1:45:15 PM Since I can read the news off a screen five times faster than I can listen to it being rea.....
» 13/05/2013 1:35:21 PM I swear, Daffy, if you didn't already exist it would be necessary to invent you. Are you s.....
» 9/05/2013 2:13:07 PM This is very disappointing, Peter. Thanks to your previous article I've already explained .....
» 9/05/2013 2:07:55 PM So what this all means is that Christians who want to maintain their right to object to th.....
» 8/05/2013 2:56:33 PM "Overall, what we know about same-sex couples suggests that their relationships are d.....
» 7/05/2013 4:16:47 PM Well, Daffy, the fact is that we have the weapons. We have the weapons because we have the.....
» 7/05/2013 7:29:10 AM Don’t let’s be beastly to the theists, Don’t let’s be rude about their faith. Though they .....
» 7/05/2013 7:28:42 AM The 'Islamophobia' canard is just the latest and most hateful attempt by the Left to try a.....
» 26/04/2013 6:28:41 PM I'm confused, Julian. How can we all be killed by resistant microbes when -- according to .....
» 23/04/2013 2:24:56 PM So how is 'strategic imagination' different from deductive reasoning, exactly? I've always.....
» 22/04/2013 4:59:06 PM New Zealand? Is that still there? I thought it would have been thoroughly smited by now. O.....
» 19/04/2013 7:29:58 AM In a momentary fit of madness we have allowed the government to tax the very air that we b.....
» 18/04/2013 7:09:12 AM "We often hear about fluoride benefits from dentists, but let's face it, the training.....
» 17/04/2013 9:04:59 PM Parkinson's Law still applies: as long as your salary and status depends on how many subor.....
» 16/04/2013 5:29:34 PM As noted by Raycom, Thatcher subsequently regretted her role in initiating the global warm.....
» 16/04/2013 12:55:29 PM The North Polar sea ice coverage is slightly below where it was this time last year, and a.....
» 16/04/2013 8:23:13 AM "If anything, the recent pause shows the model forecasts in a good light." And .....
» 15/04/2013 12:15:15 PM @halduell: "And today, what has our embrace of sexual immodesty added to our lives?&q.....
» 12/04/2013 6:55:33 AM I have no brief for the Teachers' Federation, but nonetheless it seems obvious to me that .....
» 10/04/2013 11:51:05 AM @RandomGuy: I don't have any trouble accepting the 'concept' of God. What I have trouble w.....
» 10/04/2013 7:30:29 AM PS: What's a 'scoffer of God'? If I point out to my son that Santa Claus doesn't exist, am.....
» 10/04/2013 7:28:33 AM Translation: let's pretend that 'supernatural' means something different from what we all .....
» 5/04/2013 9:09:03 AM I can't see why anyone would want to engage in combat, but if anyone DOES want to then I d.....
» 2/04/2013 3:44:37 PM No, individual, that would be discriminatory. Besides, people with genuine talent don't .....
» 2/04/2013 1:14:50 PM I rarely link personalities with political issues, but in Latham's case his own tendency t.....
» 26/03/2013 12:49:08 PM Oh, those wicked materialists! Now they want us to stop enjoying walks in the bush... Wha.....
» 24/03/2013 12:50:13 PM There is a kind of vicious circle going on; as the proportion of men reading papers declin.....
» 22/03/2013 4:26:00 AM I don't want 'new Australian drama'. I want good drama, and I don't particularly care wher.....
» 16/03/2013 4:58:59 PM Does anyone here really doubt that Alex would have found equally adulatory things to say, .....
» 16/03/2013 4:54:27 PM If the new Pope was 'humble' in any meaningful sense of the word, he would long ago have a.....
» 11/03/2013 2:35:13 PM PS: I certainly don't have money in a trust, and if I did, what would be wrong with legall.....
» 11/03/2013 2:33:53 PM @David G: "I'll guarantee that, to a man and woman, they all have shares in armament .....
» 8/03/2013 4:15:06 PM Everyone's beaten me to it this time, but let's just hammer home the point: any statistic .....
» 8/03/2013 9:27:08 AM If our party leaders were directly elected by the people it would be reasonable that they .....
» 6/03/2013 12:22:54 PM The trouble with linking saving paper -- or anything else -- to alleviating global warming.....
» 6/03/2013 12:18:35 PM "Indeed, we live and breathe doctrines all the time: in corporations, political parti.....
» 6/03/2013 12:11:50 PM Joe Hockey may be wrong in assuming that the US bears a smaller regulatory burden than Aus.....
» 6/03/2013 12:07:48 PM I have avoided non-compulsory superannuation as far as I possibly could; fortunately as a .....
» 27/02/2013 9:34:46 AM ALL monotheistic religions are 'totalitarian ideologies' -- how could they possibly be oth.....
» 26/02/2013 6:19:33 AM Interesting approach, Peter: "Our church has become so obscure and unpopular that you.....
» 25/02/2013 10:52:33 AM This looks like a trial balloon, sent up to see whether this issue can be whipped up into .....
» 24/02/2013 2:30:02 PM Yuyutsu: "If one's intention in circumcising their son (or daughter for that matter) .....
» 22/02/2013 5:34:12 PM It really is a remarkable record of abject failure: surely you have to go back to the McMa.....
» 22/02/2013 9:59:18 AM @ben: "for thousands of years circumcision is and has been used .over 50%of Egyptian .....
» 22/02/2013 6:26:13 AM The reason for the difference in attitudes to male and female genital mutilation is that o.....
» 18/02/2013 6:23:28 AM @o sung wu: "What I'm NOT comfortable with, is some little man, acting as the supreme.....
» 17/02/2013 6:02:49 PM @o sung wu: "You've alleged herein JON J, the Catholic Church has committed every ima.....
» 17/02/2013 6:51:26 AM @carnivore: Why the venom? Oh, I don't know -- how about institutionalized misogyny, chil.....
» 15/02/2013 7:38:06 AM So it's perfectly OK to be a hapless incompetent if your earliest predecessor was a haples.....
» 14/02/2013 7:39:05 AM 'The Pope cannot decide however to ordain women as priests, because most simply, Jesus did.....
» 13/02/2013 9:18:05 PM It must be time to point out once again that if the title of your article is a question, a.....
» 7/02/2013 6:19:33 AM Thanks, David -- I have plans for a few more. What do you think of 'Backward, Christian So.....
» 6/02/2013 1:36:28 PM "If only we used more popular tunes to sing." Not to worry, Peter -- I've writt.....
» 6/02/2013 1:32:10 PM Usual suspects, usual method: find a hooray-word and associate it with all the holy impedi.....
» 4/02/2013 12:22:13 PM Gillard has her own brand of irrational belief -- belief in her own destiny as a leader wh.....
» 4/02/2013 12:08:21 PM This is perhaps the longest and most discursive apology for telling lies I have ever read......
» 3/02/2013 5:24:18 PM My belief is that the long election campaign is in order to allow Gillard to keep trying o.....
» 31/01/2013 10:26:52 AM You're contradicting yourself, Syd: "As the world faces crises in energy, finance, f.....
» 30/01/2013 3:58:25 PM "The writers of the New Testament were certainly surrounded by pagan religions but th.....
» 30/01/2013 1:59:52 PM I have characterised Peter's apophatic faith in the past as "God doesn't exist, but h.....
» 24/01/2013 10:25:41 AM @ponde: "Can someone explain how a foreign company can come into Australia mine our r.....
» 24/01/2013 6:45:32 AM @RandomGuy: "1) It seems to me that a post like this helps reinforce those whose beli.....
» 23/01/2013 2:33:55 PM @Pericles: "I wonder why they bother, when the chances of actually having an impact o.....
» 23/01/2013 11:55:43 AM "Yes, these schools are supported by taxpayer funds but then why shouldn't they be ta.....
» 22/01/2013 2:14:00 PM @popnperish: "Last year was the hottest ever in the continental US. We broke all kind.....
» 22/01/2013 7:21:35 AM I'm sorry -- WHICH approach is supposed to be like paralysis? Going on with a growing glob.....
» 18/01/2013 9:29:42 AM But Julian, this is wonderful news! It means I don't have to worry about global warming, A.....
» 15/01/2013 2:42:03 PM Like everything else, 'high-impact grants' suffer from diminishing returns. The first few .....
» 14/01/2013 1:35:14 PM Well, fair's fair. Have you heard that the Greens plan to forcibly billet asylum seekers w.....
» 12/01/2013 7:47:12 AM My experience of group meetings is that they are 90% useless, so if 50% of the attendees s.....
» 12/01/2013 7:45:12 AM Alain de Botton's main project is the promotion of Alain de Botton by whatever means possi.....
» 11/01/2013 4:57:21 PM "Gillard’s frankness is encouraging." No, Gillard's ignorance is horrifying, as.....
» 3/01/2013 12:51:07 PM The Herald has become very reluctant to use the words 'Islamic' or 'Muslim' in connection .....
» 3/01/2013 12:45:23 PM According to Wikipedia, "Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which .....
» 3/01/2013 12:38:16 PM If I and my friends decide not to use the public road system and pay for the construction .....
» 29/12/2012 7:41:44 PM Ojnab, I have three relatives who have been in the military, and none of them are 'derange.....
» 29/12/2012 10:25:47 AM Most of the respondents here, like the author himself, seem to have missed an important po.....
» 29/12/2012 6:35:00 AM "The ACS quota and sub-quotas have been vital for the viability of the local audiovis.....
» 27/12/2012 6:22:50 PM Let's see now, Graham -- that would be Burma -- where Buddhists are burning Muslim villa.....
» 27/12/2012 11:22:02 AM I don't particularly care one way or another WHAT the decorations say. I DO care, however,.....
» 27/12/2012 9:47:16 AM Poirot, show us a 'projection' made before 1998 that predicts sixteen years of no global w.....
» 19/12/2012 3:24:31 PM So people run amok with guns because James Bond isn't heterosexual enough? That's an ... i.....
» 19/12/2012 2:57:18 PM "A rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over coming decades is crucial for us .....
» 19/12/2012 8:02:17 AM @Runner, Explain to me how an amorphous peanut-sized blob of flesh with a brain the size .....
» 18/12/2012 7:41:23 PM @Runner: Stalin believed in Stalin. Mao believed in Mao. Neither of them were in close tou.....
» 18/12/2012 2:59:05 PM 'Even in democracies such as the US and Canada, Christians can be fined or lose their jobs.....
» 17/12/2012 3:50:58 PM The Salvation Army has already been given preferential treatment in the UK, being awarded .....
» 13/12/2012 2:52:30 PM "Thomas Jefferson and Barack Obama, you are hereby accused of not being twenty-first .....
» 12/12/2012 6:25:57 AM Try Spotify, or some other streaming music service. Then if you hear and like a track -- '.....
» 12/12/2012 6:17:50 AM Nice one, but it will go straight over the heads of the Green Believers, for whom 'climate.....
» 12/12/2012 6:11:26 AM Let's see -- for around $140 I can buy and watch 70 hours of Colombo or some other quality.....
» 11/12/2012 4:09:27 PM Well, I guess Jesus is kind of a placebo for science; a pretend explanation that tricks th.....
» 11/12/2012 12:27:28 PM "Neither side of the global warming ‘debate’ has been well served by the media.".....
» 10/12/2012 4:01:08 PM Rhosty, do you agree that: 1. Based on the last sixteen years' figures, we are 'on track'.....
» 7/12/2012 7:03:36 PM @Julian: "If that had crossed a uranium mine on the way, and scooped up uranium ore m.....
» 7/12/2012 4:24:26 PM "Greenpeace East Asia official Li Yifang said that the Qiantang River had, in effect,.....
» 7/12/2012 4:18:30 PM Does the Plan for Affordable Energy include campaigning for repeal of the pointless Carbon.....
» 7/12/2012 4:16:27 PM @Rhosty: "There are places in the outback like around lake Eire, where the sun shines.....
» 5/12/2012 2:27:08 PM I live near a National Park filled with literally millions of trees. I haven't burnt ANY o.....
» 4/12/2012 9:58:55 AM "It is in Australia's national interest to ensure that once the first Kyoto period ex.....
» 3/12/2012 1:39:14 PM Ah, the good old Precautionary Principle! Or, as I like to think of it, "When in da.....
» 3/12/2012 1:32:42 PM "moral people with a well defined sense of right and wrong who feel, very passionatel.....
» 30/11/2012 11:10:41 AM The Australian government exists to implement the will of the people. That's its only offi.....
» 29/11/2012 6:26:09 AM If you're seriously claiming that Romney's religion lost him the fundamentalist vote, you .....
» 28/11/2012 3:26:02 PM "...it is far from clear how best an ordinary Catholic could and should respond to th.....
» 27/11/2012 12:12:40 PM NRMA Insurance was essentially a 'cooperative', as were many other financial businesses be.....
» 27/11/2012 12:05:51 PM Candide, do you realise what humungous amounts of money PriceWaterhouseCoopers and their k.....
» 27/11/2012 9:01:41 AM Well, when any of this stuff actually happens, I'll apologise humbly to Julian. Till then .....
» 24/11/2012 7:34:31 AM Isn't it fascinating, by the way, how the Catholic Church and its supporters have suddenly.....
» 23/11/2012 7:13:43 PM Oh come now, Dan -- with all the recent exposures of priestly child molesters the acknowle.....
» 22/11/2012 2:05:35 PM War will always get more attention than peace because it simplifies things; it turns the c.....
» 22/11/2012 1:54:54 PM What economic growth can buy is choice, and choice is power. Thanks to industrial and tech.....
» 21/11/2012 7:25:06 AM But surely our grovelling acceptance of insane UN climate predictions, and our government'.....
» 20/11/2012 12:32:13 PM But that's OK, Rhosty, because under those conditions about 70% of the population would al.....
» 20/11/2012 6:29:03 AM ""Try to think of any new data that would change your position on abortion, the .....
» 20/11/2012 6:26:22 AM @Suseonline: "While I support anyone's right to end their life under strict condition.....
» 19/11/2012 12:59:31 PM Religious believers will always be over-represented in politics, because the practitioners.....
» 19/11/2012 12:49:49 PM Let's not forget that Savile was an active Catholic; and the odour of sanctity around him .....
» 17/11/2012 4:38:44 PM @Daffy Duck: "The 8 years of the Bush mal-administration were of course easily the wo.....
» 16/11/2012 8:11:23 PM The only time Romney looked like getting anywhere near the Presidency was when he attacked.....
» 16/11/2012 6:09:01 AM @runner: "hard to know whether murdering the baby in the womb is worse than abuse.&qu.....
» 15/11/2012 6:41:23 AM Let me add that if Xavier or any of his co-religionists have any genuine evidence of syste.....
» 15/11/2012 6:39:33 AM And so it begins: having failed to head off investigations or limit their scope, the Catho.....
» 15/11/2012 6:34:32 AM If you think you need to appeal to a fictional character in order to show that child abuse.....
» 13/11/2012 3:29:58 PM Voting patterns tend to be relatively simple in the long run: those who are short of asset.....
» 12/11/2012 3:41:09 PM Funny, Jay, I was also going to point out that as long as Christians go on claiming that a.....
» 12/11/2012 12:23:56 PM Since the most obvious and cost-effective way to advance science and further human knowled.....
» 12/11/2012 12:14:54 PM Some years ago I developed a thyroid deficiency. The condition went undiagnosed for severa.....
» 11/11/2012 9:22:50 AM The problem with appealing to the 'sacrifice' of Jesus is that -- even assuming the accoun.....
» 8/11/2012 8:10:02 AM "I would like to raise the question of why more imagination is not going in to what m.....
» 7/11/2012 2:50:48 PM "In my heart of hearts the question was never far away: what would the Nazarene think.....
» 6/11/2012 8:58:38 AM @halduell: "So the Arctic sea-ice is not melting. That's good to know." The Arc.....
» 6/11/2012 6:24:56 AM "You are dumber than your parents." Actually, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 5/11/2012 3:04:05 PM "Note the first poster, he probably has no science training at all, yet he believes t.....
» 5/11/2012 10:52:30 AM @JohnBennetts: "Simply described, humankind is limiting its own capacity to survive a.....
» 5/11/2012 6:23:56 AM And this might also be of interest: http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/11/there-will-be-fe.....
» 5/11/2012 6:05:01 AM "American climate science is quite clear: Superstorm Sandy was not a freak occurrence.....
» 2/11/2012 6:21:44 PM "...Or start with people and the environment, as Senator Milne does, and ask how the .....
» 31/10/2012 3:13:29 PM One word: Spotify. If you're still wasting your time on broadcast radio (or television) yo.....
» 31/10/2012 3:10:28 PM In what might actually be a real -- as opposed to imaginary -- turning point for the clima.....
» 31/10/2012 6:05:40 AM So 'community capitalism' goes like this: I have a clever idea, it works, I make money fro.....
» 29/10/2012 12:10:38 PM Let me point out, by the way, that if the same rules are applied in Australia, then Tim Fl.....
» 29/10/2012 12:08:51 PM 'Scientists' -- real or self-proclaimed -- have now attained the same status in the public.....
» 28/10/2012 10:13:05 AM Well, the major international betting sites are still showing Obama as the favourite at ar.....
» 26/10/2012 5:56:08 AM Once the Australian government bites the bullet and gets an effective population control p.....
» 22/10/2012 4:56:03 PM "cohabiting couples are less likely to stay together; cohabiting couples are more lik.....
» 22/10/2012 2:19:42 PM "This is why I found it objectionable in the extreme that SBS television should choos.....
» 22/10/2012 2:09:50 PM Here's a summary: I don't like capitalism because it makes some people richer than me, so .....
» 21/10/2012 10:30:57 AM But Bugsy, why would they bother to come here, when the sceptics here are managing quite w.....
» 21/10/2012 10:10:14 AM @Mac: "Where are all the climate change sceptics who are qualified climatologists and.....
» 19/10/2012 1:24:09 PM Rhosty! "We have to hope that these changes are due to human activity! Why? Because i.....
» 18/10/2012 3:22:06 PM Kile might also have mentioned that the number of respondents to the Lewandowsky survey wh.....
» 15/10/2012 6:54:01 PM I think Houellebecq has hit the nail on the head here. I'm told that the average cost of r.....
» 12/10/2012 11:23:24 AM "@ Jon J, What's this thing with you always being the first to comment on these threa.....
» 12/10/2012 7:14:38 AM Fortunately it's not all Australian women involved in this silliness, just a vocal minorit.....
» 11/10/2012 9:32:08 AM When the Wisconsin government starts shooting protestors, then it will be appropriate to c.....
» 5/10/2012 6:18:45 PM As a man just on the point of leaving that vulnerable age group, I don't have any trouble .....
» 4/10/2012 10:06:30 PM Greenpeace has been raking in around $350 million dollars every year since 2003, and spend.....
» 3/10/2012 7:18:25 AM Does anyone remember BA Santamaria, who occupied the same position as Jones about thirty y.....
» 27/09/2012 10:18:19 PM "So to hold a different view about something, in this case homosexual marriage, is to.....
» 27/09/2012 9:03:59 AM "Gillard doesn’t appear homophobic." If voting against equal rights for gays 'd.....
» 26/09/2012 7:52:12 PM @Shadow Minister: "The ... pain of the procedure is minuscule at 4 days old" Ah.....
» 26/09/2012 10:26:44 AM "we need to ask: what are Muslims so angry about?; why have Muslims chosen to express.....
» 26/09/2012 10:20:12 AM Well, this is a new tactic! Take an article you don't like, and claim the writer is under .....
» 25/09/2012 4:06:52 PM As long as the Republican party feels they have to appeal to the Christian Right and the u.....
» 25/09/2012 1:16:30 PM If diver dan thinks "Christianity abandoned its crusade against immorality long ago i.....
» 25/09/2012 9:41:10 AM People who believe in things which they think are rational and can be supported by evidenc.....
» 24/09/2012 2:16:48 PM So your point is -- what? That women sometimes make false accusations of rape? Agreed, but.....
» 24/09/2012 12:53:43 PM Yes, bring out the usual suspects, give them a good thumping! No mention of the fact that .....
» 21/09/2012 7:02:49 AM I have no desire to learn to fly a plane; but I would be very annoyed if I was told that I.....
» 20/09/2012 7:40:22 AM There is no 'natural' definition of marriage: it is whatever our society chooses to regard.....
» 19/09/2012 10:56:39 AM I'd be very surprised to learn that non-judgemental teaching about homosexuality isn't alr.....
» 18/09/2012 1:38:43 PM But those that DO get to be four years old, Runner -- would you encourage them to carry ba.....
» 18/09/2012 1:29:13 PM @mralstoner: "Hume is correct: our emotions do drive us and reason is their "sla.....
» 18/09/2012 8:16:04 AM Theists just LOVE to play fast and loose with pronouns: "A big challenge for the New.....
» 18/09/2012 7:47:11 AM Imaginary problems lend themselves to imaginary solutions. Since rising CO2 levels will ha.....
» 14/09/2012 8:13:19 AM Fabulous, isn't it? You bash, persecute and abuse a minority group into misery and despair.....
» 12/09/2012 7:43:03 AM Does 'caring for this country' include burning off most of the original vegetation and kil.....
» 10/09/2012 4:24:49 PM "any politician who condones VAS risks ostracising the 8% of society who attend churc.....
» 7/09/2012 6:13:58 PM Sorry, just explain again how supporting gay marriage is going to ruin Tasmania economical.....
» 7/09/2012 5:57:37 AM @Agronomist: the '97%' meme has been exposed as nonsense so many times in so many ways tha.....
» 6/09/2012 5:11:07 PM @VK3AUU: "Can somebody tell me why there is so much venom being propagated by those w.....
» 5/09/2012 8:19:17 AM "Left wingers tend to judge a policy's value based on the effect it will have on thei.....
» 4/09/2012 2:03:04 PM "It is interesting that we now talk about "spirituality" rather than a rela.....
» 4/09/2012 7:42:48 AM "Persons suffering from mental illness emphasize that understanding one's problems in.....
» 3/09/2012 12:20:18 PM Politicians have always lied; the only difference now is that we have the tools to record .....
» 3/09/2012 7:28:25 AM @drab: Let's get your numbers right first. South Korea has a population of 50 million and.....
» 31/08/2012 10:54:09 AM The article seems to be saying two contradictory things: 1) The average age of people liv.....
» 29/08/2012 6:22:18 PM "Even so, according the annual reports, staff wages and associated expenses have drop.....
» 28/08/2012 10:47:39 AM I see the usual suspects are out fulminating in force. Oddly enough, I agree with them in .....
» 26/08/2012 9:09:43 AM ...Be honest. If you'd been around in 1974, would you would have been smart enough to see .....
» 26/08/2012 9:08:50 AM But Ludwig, nobody is 'doing nothing' as such. You're upset because we are 'doing nothing'.....
» 25/08/2012 8:58:00 PM Ludwig: So your idea of 'erring on the side of caution' would be even more disruptive and .....
» 25/08/2012 9:43:09 AM Ludwig, let me repeat my question: in what universe is imposing crippling taxes on product.....
» 24/08/2012 7:16:03 AM "They are also hastened by global warming..." Of course they are. Everything ba.....
» 24/08/2012 7:07:09 AM The pursuit of 'sustainability' is a mad fantasy based around the unsupportable notion tha.....
» 22/08/2012 5:19:36 PM @Ludwig "Surely you can see that it is eminently sensible to move forward cautiously,.....
» 22/08/2012 10:52:08 AM Ludwig, have you heard of the null hypothesis? It's an important part of science. It says,.....
» 21/08/2012 9:07:39 PM @Raison: A fertilised zygote has the potential to BECOME a human being. Many of them don't.....
» 21/08/2012 11:49:06 AM Nobody 'wants' an abortion, just as nobody 'wants' to get a tooth extracted or a melanoma .....
» 20/08/2012 7:36:21 AM Didn't you write this article about two years ago, Peter, because you had a friend who fan.....
» 18/08/2012 9:19:25 PM And yet another nail in the coffin for 'wind energy' -- power cut-outs are damaging equipm.....
» 18/08/2012 7:03:08 PM @Roses: Here are two official graphs from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, showin.....
» 18/08/2012 8:25:07 AM In the era of streaming audio, broadband, internet radio and MP3 files, nobody has any exc.....
» 17/08/2012 10:30:45 AM It's extraordinarily difficult to disrupt a two-party system, since the party that is out .....
» 17/08/2012 10:22:32 AM The UK House of Lords has reported on the uncosted, unanalysed, unexamined commitment to '.....
» 15/08/2012 12:41:56 PM Given that the population of China in 2011 is given by Wikipedia as 1,344,130,000, I can't.....
» 15/08/2012 6:51:49 AM But runner, why does God need diseases? Why doesn't he just smite a few of the major advoc.....
» 14/08/2012 3:26:47 PM Marriage was a recognised state in Greek and Roman times, runner, long before your God got.....
» 14/08/2012 7:17:41 AM Rightly or wrongly, the organised churches see the issue of gay marriage as a chance to as.....
» 14/08/2012 7:13:32 AM If you punish people for saying abusive things in public, then they will say them in priva.....
» 13/08/2012 1:39:03 PM "Labeling anyone who supports traditional marriage a "homophobe" or "b.....
» 11/08/2012 11:07:46 AM PS: The US taxpayer currently subsidises religions -- including Christianity -- in the amo.....
» 11/08/2012 10:48:05 AM @GrahamY: "Did you know that Christians are apparently the most persecuted religion i.....
» 10/08/2012 7:58:49 AM So the answer, as always, turns out in the end to be: "Because I can't help it.".....
» 8/08/2012 12:08:50 PM Hear, hear! Let's abolish the reactionary neocolonial apartheid-linked notion of 'women's .....
» 8/08/2012 10:54:39 AM Hansen, of course, was an enthusiastic advocate for the 'global cooling' meme for as long .....
» 7/08/2012 4:13:31 PM "Research is showing that loneliness and depression can't be changed by so-called 'ha.....
» 7/08/2012 2:27:32 PM The only explanation I can find for the fervour with which the Green Left clings to the AG.....
» 7/08/2012 2:21:27 PM "Such a confronting, personalised characterisation of the issue of euthanasia ignores.....
» 6/08/2012 11:12:49 AM "Climate change plays a part but is not the sole culprit." Do we really have to.....
» 4/08/2012 3:40:05 PM @Poirot: 'What's wrong with moderation?' Nothing: as long as you let people decide for th.....
» 4/08/2012 7:41:11 AM Poirot -- nobody is stopping you from being as 'moderate' as you like. But imposing your v.....
» 3/08/2012 3:15:13 PM @Saltpetre "And a 0.35 degree increase against a 0.4 forecast is not a bad correlatio.....
» 3/08/2012 7:10:30 AM Quite so: the balance has clearly shifted in favour of scepticism, and those who insist on.....
» 2/08/2012 5:55:37 PM "At what age do you think Tony Abbott might choose to retire as PM?" Getting of.....
» 2/08/2012 11:35:17 AM So Greer has predicted that things will get worse or better. And 'some' of his predictions.....
» 2/08/2012 11:31:22 AM The enormous efforts the ALP has gone through to entrench this ludicrous tax and protect i.....
» 2/08/2012 11:24:39 AM A good summary of how the ALP has piled this Pelion of stupidity upon the Ossa of its inco.....
» 1/08/2012 8:16:30 AM PS: I also take it that when medical science develops ways to create female gametes from m.....
» 1/08/2012 8:14:03 AM As others have pointed out, Peter, a consistent opposition to 'sterile' marriages would re.....
» 30/07/2012 1:39:56 PM "Christian, Jewish, atheist, Muslim, Mormon, Scientologist, etc. -- are free to engag.....
» 27/07/2012 10:31:59 AM When I am buying an item I don't give the country of manufacture a second thought. Why sho.....
» 25/07/2012 11:21:00 AM "it would be hard to argue that the Government was 'dishonest' in setting up the NSCP.....
» 24/07/2012 10:54:20 AM Any party can 'recover' if they're prepared to sacrifice their principles and leap on to a.....
» 19/07/2012 11:19:34 AM Nice idea -- what a shame that nasty reality intervenes yet again! Still, as a theist you .....
» 19/07/2012 11:15:09 AM I can predict with absolute certainty that anyone exposed to low-level ionising radiation .....
» 17/07/2012 9:13:29 PM "The planet is heating up. Now what are you going to do?" How about poking fun.....
» 17/07/2012 7:34:27 AM Of course politicians of both persuasions have endorsed AGW hysteria, since it appeared to.....
» 13/07/2012 8:00:06 AM That should be 'capital and corporal punishments', of course......
» 13/07/2012 7:59:36 AM But many, many more men die through acts of violence than women, by a factor of well over .....
» 12/07/2012 7:15:10 AM @Poirot: "Which "facts" did you have in mind for Turnbull to review?" .....
» 11/07/2012 7:26:42 AM One reason Australians are concerned and fearful is because they are at the mercy of a gov.....
» 11/07/2012 7:23:58 AM "Something sensible would have to be agreed on carbon pricing..." The only 'sen.....
» 10/07/2012 1:58:15 PM Fairfax has of course embraced the new religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming, which unf.....
» 10/07/2012 1:52:35 PM There's one important omission from the article -- the fact that in Muslim nations half th.....
» 10/07/2012 7:05:40 AM "play it safe and do a miniscule procedure (or adjustment) now" I don't know ho.....
» 9/07/2012 7:53:00 PM "It's not 'ethics'... it's life-or-death." But since the overwhelmingly vast ma.....
» 6/07/2012 7:48:32 AM With regard to 'global warming', Wikipedia's pro-AGW bias is well known and has led to edi.....
» 4/07/2012 7:50:14 PM @Yuri: "I don't believe that interFAITH dialogue is possible because there are totall.....
» 4/07/2012 7:47:55 AM "But the meaning of both Christianity and Islam as they are passed on across the gene.....
» 3/07/2012 7:38:11 AM "Ann Nugent concludes that she would feel safe if her final resting place were in the.....
» 2/07/2012 7:56:58 PM "Loneliness – the disconnect we feel when our desire for interpersonal relationships .....
» 29/06/2012 7:23:51 PM Here's a translation: "We were caught lying about climate change, so to avoid embarra.....
» 29/06/2012 7:25:52 AM The money-grubbing Rightists that you despise so much have merely stumbled inadvertently u.....
» 28/06/2012 8:56:52 PM "The more egalitarian countries took the top places." Since high scores on the .....
» 28/06/2012 12:20:42 PM Perhaps the Right is succeeding in Australia because it's -- well -- RIGHT. As in factuall.....
» 28/06/2012 12:06:00 PM "On the southern front, if Oz was invaded by aliens (of the UFO kind—or any other kin.....
» 28/06/2012 7:14:19 AM The best comment I have seen on Prometheus showed a screenshot of the screens on the space.....
» 27/06/2012 9:29:24 AM "As a retired minister of the Uniting Church I am saddened at the lack of compassion .....
» 25/06/2012 1:37:23 PM "So, overcoming cancer can be a life-changing, self-illuminating and positive experie.....
» 24/06/2012 8:03:41 AM @KAEP: "As long as Me and my kids can live a cosy first-world lifestyle to age 90 or .....
» 22/06/2012 12:01:06 PM 'Sustainability' is a myth based on the assumption that people will want to live the same .....
» 22/06/2012 11:51:59 AM When even Greenpeace can't put a positive spin on the Rio Conference, you know you're flog.....
» 21/06/2012 4:47:39 PM I propose a simple formula: whenever the number of departmental committees, councils, auth.....
» 21/06/2012 4:41:31 PM No doubt Archbishop Jensen's soul -- assuming he has one -- is renewed when he reads: Lev.....
» 20/06/2012 11:53:44 AM "I would also add the patriotic climate change campaigns that have recently emerged w.....
» 20/06/2012 6:59:16 AM The SMH is clearly biased on the climate change issue, but then so is most of the media. I.....
» 18/06/2012 6:28:16 AM Dan, do you want to explain how the legal institution of civil marriage with no-fault divo.....
» 17/06/2012 1:34:47 PM @Jon R: We're 'wasting time' over this precisely because it is a purely symbolic issue. It.....
» 17/06/2012 8:31:01 AM But grateful, who decides what's 'legitimate' and 'civilised'? In pre-Colombian Central Am.....
» 15/06/2012 7:11:20 PM @paul "Or perhaps some of the morals police could do an internal investigation and wo.....
» 15/06/2012 7:40:06 AM "The point of same-sex marriage is to give everyone an opportunity to marry. Polygyny.....
» 14/06/2012 5:23:58 PM I have a great idea for increasing food production: since plants love carbon dioxide, why .....
» 10/06/2012 9:02:18 PM 2/... As for belief in the divine nature of Jesus, the Anglican Church still, I believe, r.....
» 10/06/2012 8:59:23 PM Love your enemies -- and hate your family and yourself: "If anyone comes to me and d.....
» 9/06/2012 6:40:09 PM @Restless "There is more than one way to be a Christian;" The only way I know o.....
» 9/06/2012 9:36:07 AM @Pericles: "To me, it was a story about a theologian's journey from belief to pragmat.....
» 8/06/2012 8:05:16 PM Presumably if you are running a campaign targeted at schoolkids, you have to pick a spokes.....
» 8/06/2012 7:02:07 AM I've commented before that the representatives of major religions get a much easier run he.....
» 7/06/2012 5:58:51 PM runner, the worst child abuse in history took place in the Victorian era, when children of.....
» 7/06/2012 7:54:02 AM One of the more interesting things about the campaign for gay marriage is that the more pe.....
» 6/06/2012 7:10:00 PM 'Kiwis were "thirsty for programmes that tell our stories, and explore our issues.&qu.....
» 5/06/2012 7:29:23 AM "The day we cut marriage adrift from the rock of nature, from the mammalian order of .....
» 5/06/2012 7:26:41 AM "Gay marriage by definition denies a child either a mother or a father." Yes, y.....
» 4/06/2012 9:36:42 PM Not so much misanthropy, I think -- more like desperate boredom. These are people whose li.....
» 3/06/2012 12:38:24 PM That's 'Carroll', Dan. And let's not forget: "The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walk.....
» 1/06/2012 8:28:04 PM It's interesting that the opponents of both euthanasia and gay marriage are now doing thei.....
» 1/06/2012 8:01:51 PM @runner: "Just open your eyes to tribal living where kids rarely grow up with their n.....
» 28/05/2012 7:39:13 AM What?.....
» 27/05/2012 1:04:42 PM "Jon, all you need to do is to click on the 'temple' icon at the bottom of my comment.....
» 27/05/2012 8:05:10 AM David, all you have to do is provide some evidence of your long-standing and ongoing conce.....
» 26/05/2012 1:34:29 PM I would defend -- and have defended -- science vigorously as the best possible method of g.....
» 26/05/2012 1:27:54 PM @David G" "It is time that emotion was put aside and the gay marriage issue was .....
» 26/05/2012 7:18:38 AM @Atman: "In Australia last century the vast majority of Catholics voted for the Labor.....
» 25/05/2012 7:35:14 AM "Marriage is about children, including their education and upbringing. " I miss.....
» 25/05/2012 7:31:15 AM After Newman's triumph in Queensland he should have the LNP eating out of his hand. And ex.....
» 25/05/2012 7:26:55 AM If my daughter wants to watch something good she dials it up on YouTube. If I want to watc.....
» 24/05/2012 2:03:04 PM @David G: "Give me a break! Please!" It's incredibly easy to stop the 'gay lobb.....
» 24/05/2012 2:00:42 PM Tweet: does 'showing love' to people involve giving them equal rights? Because that would .....
» 23/05/2012 7:32:33 PM If only opposite-sex couples were allowed by law to buy cheese, rent DVDs or perform karao.....
» 23/05/2012 7:20:31 PM It's comforting to see that Pilger remains reliably wrong on everything, although he might.....
» 23/05/2012 7:17:11 PM The amusing thing is that your attempt at an outraged satirical diatribe actually sounds q.....
» 22/05/2012 7:03:53 AM Unfortunately ethical people are not always competent and competent people are not always .....
» 21/05/2012 7:43:36 AM In many countries 'curing' poverty is largely a matter of obtaining a democratic governmen.....
» 19/05/2012 10:38:37 AM Pericles: "I wish you unconfined joy - sorry, "powerfully exquisite joy" - .....
» 18/05/2012 11:02:16 AM So we have four opinions so far: 1. I'm an atheist who attended the conference and loved .....
» 17/05/2012 11:38:19 AM Hi Lexi, Would you also recommend a 'conscience vote' on whether women should receive equ.....
» 17/05/2012 9:41:04 AM "The gay movement has become too extreme, too demanding, too intolerant..." Yes.....
» 17/05/2012 9:38:57 AM Agreed. When the religious lobby starts to use arguments like "You are taking away ou.....
» 16/05/2012 3:41:06 PM So this is the new strategy by the Religious Right: if you criticise our demands to say an.....
» 14/05/2012 11:43:20 AM More importantly, perhaps, why are we spending taxpayers' money on sending any representat.....
» 14/05/2012 7:30:28 AM A wise person once said that if the title of your article can be answered with the one wor.....
» 14/05/2012 7:21:26 AM "In an article I wrote some time ago I suggested also that, rather than amend the Mar.....
» 11/05/2012 9:52:42 AM I hear that it's really hard to get good sushi in Redfern, too, or a really first-rate pla.....
» 11/05/2012 9:50:14 AM Or, let me add, her opposition to gay marriage, despite her declared atheism. Is that beca.....
» 11/05/2012 9:49:00 AM It is clear that there are 'significant humanitarian objections' to both the carbon tax an.....
» 8/05/2012 7:31:47 AM Here's Christopher Monckton reporting on similar events in the UK: 'When I visited the Ho.....
» 8/05/2012 7:27:40 AM I can't help wondering whether, if enough people burnt enough Korans, eventually all this .....
» 4/05/2012 7:22:12 AM @cohenite "I gave an example; YOU provide a citation of what you claim. And note I s.....
» 3/05/2012 9:03:31 PM @Progressive Pat: "Gay people are now viewed as heroes in pop culture, by academics, .....
» 3/05/2012 8:59:09 PM @cohenite: "That is a lie; one only has to look at the infiltration of Islam into Eur.....
» 1/05/2012 7:41:10 AM If 'sexual fidelity' is to be defined as not viewing porn, then why not go a little furthe.....
» 30/04/2012 7:31:42 AM "...the focus of the debate has been on the Catholic Church and its role in hiding th.....
» 27/04/2012 7:42:01 AM "The pre-eminence of the mundane, economic and expedient in our daily considerations .....
» 27/04/2012 7:36:08 AM Not to mention that even if AGW IS real, if China continues with its industrialisation, al.....
» 27/04/2012 7:32:00 AM "Finally, the government must step up to the mark - with competitions, funding and su.....
» 25/04/2012 2:37:11 PM "I was delighted to discover that we seem to have a much better understanding of our .....
» 24/04/2012 8:24:47 PM Asking "What is the meaning of life?" is like asking "What is the colour of.....
» 24/04/2012 8:38:56 AM Reason has given us: Planes, cars, trains, computers, the Internet, printing, vaccination.....
» 24/04/2012 8:32:32 AM We already have a mechanism in place to try and ensure that taxpayers get the policy they .....
» 23/04/2012 7:51:48 AM "Nannies are easy to spot. At private school playgrounds, the overweight and badly dr.....
» 23/04/2012 7:48:48 AM Australia's level of commitment to Afghanistan was far less than our level of commitment t.....
» 17/04/2012 8:57:45 AM According to my heraldic dictionary, 'rampant' means 'standing on the left hind foot'. I'm.....
» 17/04/2012 8:04:51 AM "The first exception when compared to a Christian gathering was the lack of children......
» 16/04/2012 12:28:08 PM I think I can save Peter some trouble, so in the spirit of amicable co-operation, let me h.....
» 16/04/2012 8:11:32 AM "The policy imperative is clear, however: just as the climate changes, so must we ada.....
» 16/04/2012 7:59:14 AM Oh, and by the way, it's "Hobbes", not "Hobbs", and "whether".....
» 16/04/2012 7:50:32 AM So if we act in accordance with the Gospels, then the Gospels must be true, because we act.....
» 15/04/2012 8:29:32 AM Lost something in translation there... here's what I meant to say: "Few citizens of .....
» 15/04/2012 8:27:49 AM "Few citizens of modern societies would utterly deny the possibility of some higher p.....
» 11/04/2012 5:17:54 PM Pat, atheist = 'no god'. Not men, not space aliens, not anybody. Why is that so hard for t.....
» 11/04/2012 7:29:26 AM YOUR life may not be for anything: my life is devoted to pleasing myself, pleasing other p.....
» 9/04/2012 7:10:03 PM Cuz, the trouble with Christianity -- and any other religion -- is exactly the same as the.....
» 9/04/2012 5:04:22 PM Cuz, are you attempting to deny that the faith you chose to endorse, or re-endorse, as a r.....
» 9/04/2012 3:33:29 PM "But the Easter story is related by multiple sources from different points of view;&q.....
» 9/04/2012 9:18:37 AM Cuz, YOUR moment of insight may unlock YOUR puzzle, agreed: but it's not an appropriate fo.....
» 8/04/2012 7:43:20 AM "But in place of the horror was a strange reassurance: buses depart from that place o.....
» 5/04/2012 6:16:07 AM But Poirot, our development IS ethical. Far fewer people die from violence in the develope.....
» 4/04/2012 11:18:17 AM Anyone who thinks that Labor under Rudd could have crept back into the hearts of the elect.....
» 4/04/2012 11:07:18 AM "But the madman sees what the jovial sceptics do not: what it would actually mean for.....
» 2/04/2012 3:55:52 PM Sorry, Peter, I must have missed something. Explain to me again how the execution of a car.....
» 1/04/2012 1:02:48 PM "Jon J, your understanding of a cooling trend is shown thus: http://www.skepticalsci.....
» 1/04/2012 12:59:36 PM Ludwig, we already have a very effective tool for planning ahead and changing people's beh.....
» 1/04/2012 7:59:40 AM "@ Jon J I see you have ignored the planet "squealing" article - head still.....
» 31/03/2012 8:59:45 AM Ludwig -- the best possible evidence for 'very significant anthropogenic global warming' w.....
» 30/03/2012 6:19:37 PM And of course the beauty of claiming there is a 'tipping point' is that you can't possibly.....
» 30/03/2012 12:49:10 PM Let me add the thought that since we already have more books, more films and and more musi.....
» 28/03/2012 6:29:45 AM Grim - while state-run socialist economies everywhere have been collapsing through financi.....
» 27/03/2012 6:05:59 AM "A disciplined study of Christian theology makes one aware that it is governed by a r.....
» 26/03/2012 9:13:43 PM Bonmot, the issue as I understand it is that these are not just adjustments to recent temp.....
» 20/03/2012 8:47:20 PM Not just one canned boilerplate response from the author, but two! I feel honoured -- spir.....
» 20/03/2012 8:43:57 PM So 'climate change' is a silent killer? I wonder how many of us will die tomorrow morning .....
» 15/03/2012 5:01:01 PM It's incredibly easy to get people to huddle together in families: just keep them poor, ig.....
» 15/03/2012 4:57:02 PM Hi 579, Here's some more 'previously published research'. I think it's about as reliable .....
» 15/03/2012 7:31:20 AM Returning to the article for a moment, as far as I can see it makes only two points: 1. .....
» 15/03/2012 7:10:21 AM Sturgeon's Law -- "Ninety per cent of everything is crap" applies to video games.....
» 12/03/2012 12:27:24 PM Gillard is not a feminist and has never claimed to be one, as far as I know. The fact that.....
» 9/03/2012 7:42:11 PM Poirot, if you have children in a State school then you already know the answer to that qu.....
» 9/03/2012 7:23:50 PM There's nothing wrong with our national education system that a few billion dollars wouldn.....
» 9/03/2012 7:16:29 PM I have a lot more faith in business leaders' capacity to make rational judgements for the .....
» 8/03/2012 3:43:15 PM Geoff, you'd better get ready to drop those citations about 'unprecedented Arctic ice melt.....
» 5/03/2012 6:11:52 PM David, can you explain what caused the Medieval Warm Period? Or the Roman Warm Period? Ass.....
» 5/03/2012 5:20:22 PM Really, 579: 'Every time the price of oil rises it never comes back to where it started fr.....
» 5/03/2012 5:13:51 PM Runner, if the Catholic Church did not employ homosexual priests they would have had to sh.....
» 5/03/2012 12:52:42 PM Well, I'm happy to give up porn when women give up romance novels, soap operas, chick flic.....
» 5/03/2012 7:58:47 AM 'Worst storms in history?' 579? Do you even bother to check the historical record? http:/.....
» 5/03/2012 7:54:49 AM Yes, it was fascinating to watch the media go along with Rudd's attempt to rewrite his fir.....
» 5/03/2012 6:40:56 AM As always, these apocalyptic 'studies' are based on models which have been shown to be una.....
» 3/03/2012 9:38:45 AM Don't get your hopes up, boxgum -- I suspect that Peter is just as much of a rationalist a.....
» 2/03/2012 12:16:38 PM 579 -- have you checked a news site lately? That's quite a spectacular own goal......
» 2/03/2012 11:46:59 AM It also just occurred to me that Frank Moorhouse is (or was) sexually active and openly bi.....
» 2/03/2012 9:27:59 AM PS: Any novel which depicts a 'torrid one night stand with a Canberra bureaucrat' is plain.....
» 2/03/2012 9:25:12 AM As others have pointed out, if Rudd really was so disorganised, with 'chaotic working habi.....
» 2/03/2012 9:16:40 AM Pericles has beaten me to it, but my point is the same: so what? If a Catholic writes fict.....
» 1/03/2012 10:17:55 AM Since nobody is advocating 'baby killing', your article is misguided from the start and yo.....
» 28/02/2012 2:54:09 PM It would be quite amusing to see AGW alarmists trying to prove their contentions in the Hi.....
» 28/02/2012 2:48:53 PM Oddly enough, though there is of course no evidence for anthropogenic climate change, I do.....
» 28/02/2012 6:43:34 AM The single biggest problem with our system is that our elected representatives don't do th.....
» 27/02/2012 7:18:46 AM Runner... you DO realise that lesbians can bear children, right? They are, in fact, biolog.....
» 25/02/2012 7:19:49 AM Well, I've never heard cherry-picking defended with such breathless audacity before........
» 24/02/2012 8:11:16 PM So Rhian, because you love God, you get to pick and choose which of God's rules to ignore?.....
» 24/02/2012 5:55:44 PM You quote Edser as saying: "I am going to take as truth that being gay or lesbian is .....
» 24/02/2012 5:45:50 PM Here's the best case scenario: Rudd wins, calls an early election to legitimise his positi.....
» 23/02/2012 9:52:58 AM ... you mean 'confidante'. Rudd is not confident of anything, except his right to lead; th.....
» 22/02/2012 7:31:36 AM Sir Vivor, You're asking me to believe that a man who stooped giving a false name in orde.....
» 21/02/2012 1:03:42 PM Sir Vivor: "The worst of them pay millions of dollars to undermine the work of climat.....
» 21/02/2012 6:52:46 AM "The 'free market', taken as a given by believers in the invisible hand, seems likely.....
» 21/02/2012 6:48:08 AM One million pounds in the City of London will buy you a couple of parking spaces. Either d.....
» 18/02/2012 8:19:37 AM Vanna, Reist is a public participant in an open debate. If she puts forward a position she.....
» 17/02/2012 4:34:27 PM The point of the issue is surely that if someone -- like Reist -- wants to convince me to .....
» 17/02/2012 6:39:32 AM Quite so. The fact that you can believe something so manifestly irrational is a pretty goo.....
» 16/02/2012 2:57:43 PM Admittedly there's not much to choose between Abbott and Gillard, but in the words of the .....
» 16/02/2012 2:54:10 PM But Minimus, you can't have it both ways -- at least, not forever. If parents choose to se.....
» 15/02/2012 6:41:49 AM Arguing for the existence of something for which there is no evidence is wishful thinking......
» 15/02/2012 6:36:26 AM "The carbon tax narrative was underpinned by moral relativism (advocates) and moral a.....
» 14/02/2012 4:53:26 PM Since 'cycles' are apparently the in thing among Buddhists, let's forget for the moment th.....
» 14/02/2012 6:30:44 AM It's good to see articles like this appearing here from time to time: they remind us that .....
» 10/02/2012 6:19:03 AM If I want healing, I'll go to a doctor. If I want to pay for love, I'll go to Kings Cross.....
» 9/02/2012 6:26:45 AM "But what's the principle? What is the rational, logical argument that carries suffic.....
» 9/02/2012 6:24:00 AM This is a spurious argument which comes up over and over again in religious apologetics, a.....
» 4/02/2012 7:55:49 AM Monckton has a new post on WUWT comparing the costs of carbon 'mitigation' with the costs .....
» 2/02/2012 4:56:13 AM As far as I can see, Abbott has only one quality that Gillard and Rudd lack -- he will lis.....
» 9/01/2012 5:55:22 AM Anyone who postulates that God intervened once in one bushfire to save one person has to t.....
» 26/12/2011 1:22:48 AM Dear Lexi, According to Wikipedia on Barbara Theiring: "In 1993 N. T. Wright, New T.....
» 24/12/2011 12:39:06 PM This is all a little disingenuous. What Roy perhaps means to say is that of the historians.....
» 24/12/2011 7:02:54 AM "I do not hear anyone yelling to change the names of our week-days." Nobody's y.....
» 19/12/2011 7:29:51 AM Not sure what this is about, but it seems to be naked wish-fulfillment by someone with som.....
» 14/12/2011 1:03:48 PM "After all, we know that the burning of petroleum, coal, and natural gas is primarily.....
» 14/12/2011 1:00:13 PM As long as your beliefs don't cause you to fly planes into buildings, protest against othe.....
» 12/12/2011 2:45:32 PM A 'death squad' that gives you the choice. What a sketch the Monty Python team could have .....
» 12/12/2011 2:42:33 PM Hopefully once the money transfers are actually tied to tangible events rather than being .....
» 11/12/2011 6:25:45 AM KenH has made a valid point: the standards you apply to articles supporting AGW claims are.....
» 1/12/2011 6:24:41 PM 579: "Even skeptics acknowledge there is change happening, they are skeptical as to t.....
» 1/12/2011 8:37:13 AM Sorry, that should be THIRD sentence......
» 1/12/2011 8:36:42 AM "Many believe we are enjoying the best of times. No doubt some are. To do this though.....
» 1/12/2011 8:31:33 AM "The official line, as far as I can tell, is that these veterans weren't exposed to s.....
» 1/12/2011 8:27:40 AM The current decline in CO2 omissions is of course largely due to economic recession. Count.....
» 29/11/2011 6:58:53 AM "We don't have thousands packed in protest in one of our busiest streets. Nor do we h.....
» 28/11/2011 12:29:40 PM Unfortunately for nations as well as individuals, glorious achievements in the past don't .....
» 28/11/2011 12:26:12 PM "It is clear that the size and extent of global energy use, which has provided the su.....
» 27/11/2011 10:03:22 AM "Some of the bold initiatives that Australia has taken over the last few years are in.....
» 24/11/2011 7:37:27 AM "The long-term prosperity of the human population on the planet is both a political a.....
» 24/11/2011 7:32:15 AM "Most people agree climate change should be understood through robust scientific evid.....
» 18/11/2011 11:57:56 AM It does seem to me that a female ex-Muslim with personal experience of the application of .....
» 17/11/2011 7:13:48 PM The way to get good leaders is to make leadership positions worth holding. This either req.....
» 17/11/2011 6:22:08 AM "The professional religious educator does not assume any faith position on the part o.....
» 16/11/2011 6:05:17 PM The carbon tax has succeeded in its only real objective, to buy the support of the Greens .....
» 15/11/2011 1:07:59 PM 50 million climate refugees? Name one. Besides, aren't they all supposed to be dead by 20.....
» 15/11/2011 1:04:41 PM "What a load of codswallop!" Well, there speaks an open mind... Nice to know th.....
» 14/11/2011 3:33:52 PM Oh that _wicked_ economic extremism, which has brought more wealth to more people more qui.....
» 14/11/2011 12:11:57 PM Fear is just such a wonderful way of persuading taxpayers to hand over their money without.....
» 13/11/2011 3:59:28 PM Hi, 579. Were you one of these people back in 2007 predicting four billion deaths 'by 2012.....
» 10/11/2011 6:28:42 AM "Beyond Zero Emissions is designing a comprehensive plan for Australia to transition .....
» 5/11/2011 8:30:44 AM My question to Ulis is: "who created the God whom you believe created the gasses, mol.....
» 3/11/2011 4:45:20 PM If the ONLY evidence-supported argument the author can muster against legal, regulated, mo.....
» 29/10/2011 9:58:49 AM "Jon J, The fact is My wife has fostered 153 neglected or abused infants taken by DOC.....
» 28/10/2011 6:20:32 PM Once again we see in the comments the attempts to rationalise unfounded ideological positi.....
» 27/10/2011 11:19:32 AM Well, Pericles, the London occupiers seem to have solved the problem of being cold and unc.....
» 26/10/2011 4:49:01 PM "In 2011, 22.8 per cent of Catholics versus 34.1 per cent of Anglicans reported holdi.....
» 24/10/2011 6:05:04 PM But the Spanish have already figured out how to run a solar plant 24/7 -- just use big arc.....
» 21/10/2011 3:13:58 PM Grey beat me to it! The reason there is a food shortage is because areas that were used to.....
» 19/10/2011 7:12:03 AM "However it is the vituperative style which Dawkins employs which I find most distast.....
» 19/10/2011 5:51:32 AM Does anyone else remember Brainspace, with the wonderful Tim and Debbie? As played by Mary.....
» 14/10/2011 12:50:22 PM "My reason for raising this issue is because there seems to be [a] view that agnostic.....
» 14/10/2011 6:17:00 AM There's this fantastic new invention called sound recording. I won't go into the technical.....
» 7/10/2011 9:09:42 AM "First, they can help articulate those questions that most of us have but that we fin.....
» 7/10/2011 9:05:51 AM The Bible is responsible for Western science in the same way that smallpox is responsible .....
» 6/10/2011 1:24:27 PM John McDonald's point, as I understood it, is that without specific guidelines as to what .....
» 6/10/2011 6:30:23 AM The important difference in today's West: we may have just as many lunatics, but they are .....
» 4/10/2011 8:18:27 AM Given the financial skills and acumen displayed by most believers, I suspect that the sche.....
» 30/09/2011 6:49:49 AM "As the distinguished climate advisor, Ross Garnaut warned, climate science uncertain.....
» 30/09/2011 6:45:16 AM MPs are elected to represent their constituencies, not their consciences and not their par.....
» 29/09/2011 12:52:50 PM "If the Australian people want Christians excluded from society why not just say it o.....
» 29/09/2011 12:48:52 PM As Randall points out, the issue is not how many gay people want to get married -- which I.....
» 27/09/2011 2:43:50 PM So who is the most incompetent, governments or private enterprise? It's a tough call, Bruc.....
» 27/09/2011 2:37:49 PM Tony Abbott's carbon plan has only one advantage over Julia Gillard's; it can be quietly d.....
» 26/09/2011 4:45:20 PM "If most people are going to be better off, why did the poll produce this result?&quo.....
» 19/09/2011 7:03:37 AM "Xenophon seems not to realise that the church’s behaviour is a desperate tactic in w.....
» 16/09/2011 2:43:26 PM Poirot, if your great-great-grandfather had said: "Our cities are being buried in hor.....
» 16/09/2011 2:13:25 PM Pretend for a moment that you have an infallible crystal ball, and it tells you that the o.....
» 15/09/2011 6:41:14 AM Remember the epitaphs and the funeral orations for the Liberal party in 2007, when the hig.....
» 14/09/2011 7:34:23 AM It's precisely because people now have access to much more information -- about, say, the .....
» 14/09/2011 7:29:33 AM Here we go again! If you really believe that children are central to the concept of marria.....
» 14/09/2011 7:22:39 AM You were doing so well up till the last section, when you felt obliged to drag out the tat.....
» 12/09/2011 2:43:59 PM Don't you love this quote: "...properly funded and autonomous non-government schools.....
» 6/09/2011 7:50:12 AM You want evidence of bias on Radio National? http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/.....
» 6/09/2011 7:44:40 AM I suspect that what people are reacting to is not stagnant living standards but ideologica.....
» 2/09/2011 2:44:32 PM Forty years to get the balance of power; twelve months to stuff things up completely and d.....
» 2/09/2011 2:41:58 PM "The Churches (and Australia's Labor Government) have to accept that marriage serves .....
» 1/09/2011 6:39:24 AM I will believe that Christian lobbyists are sincere in their opposition to gay marriage 'f.....
» 25/08/2011 1:06:30 PM "I was bullied into supplying all my data, so that someone could rerun my experiment .....
» 24/08/2011 4:31:28 PM As CKMurray points out, we have statistics to show that gay couples are just as good at pa.....
» 22/08/2011 11:35:07 AM The only response I have to bisexuality is amazement at the fact that anyone who has suffe.....
» 22/08/2011 11:20:36 AM It would be hard to find a better example of the self-loathing so characteristic of the Gr.....
» 17/08/2011 7:33:02 AM "John J "Sweden? Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France? Canada? Australia&qu.....
» 16/08/2011 9:31:26 PM "For the doubters, name an area of the world that has a high rate of children born ou.....
» 16/08/2011 7:35:27 AM "Without being in any way over-dramatic or alarmist, my prediction would be that the .....
» 15/08/2011 12:58:49 PM You do realise, I hope, that the office of President in Czechoslovakia is a figurehead pos.....
» 12/08/2011 12:50:48 PM The reason for declining interest in Radio National and the rest of the ABC is simple: eve.....
» 8/08/2011 2:20:18 PM "The Australian Democratic party isn't dead, just simply resting." What, just b.....
» 8/08/2011 7:42:15 AM So people who object to the Islamic religion are 'xenophobes'? Check out this site: http:.....
» 5/08/2011 4:51:55 PM For over a year I suffered from thyroid deficiency. As well as physical symptoms (dry skin.....
» 5/08/2011 7:21:02 AM "The pricing of carbon and the imposition of a resource rental tax have long been adv.....
» 2/08/2011 5:42:25 PM Paw -- you DO realise, I take it, that Breivik is a card-carrying Christian? And he's mana.....
» 2/08/2011 6:56:35 AM But none of the 'silver bullet men' are anywhere near as deluded as those who believe that.....
» 2/08/2011 6:54:26 AM There are roughly 100,000 fatherless kids in Norway. One of them went on a killing rampag.....
» 29/07/2011 7:42:18 PM I'm just amused by Philo's claim that 'marriage' is a scientific term. It makes me think o.....
» 29/07/2011 7:22:48 AM "Once it is established that God does not exist, only then does faith can finally ent.....
» 29/07/2011 7:20:40 AM Because, of course, there were no droughts in Africa before 'global warming' began: http:.....
» 28/07/2011 10:33:42 PM "I take it as accepted (otherwise let me know and I can elaborate on it) that: A: On.....
» 28/07/2011 5:02:13 PM "If that was possible to tell, then God would be reduced to the level of an object; i.....
» 28/07/2011 2:23:45 PM 'We should proclaim to the world that our God is not a divine being "out there" .....
» 28/07/2011 6:36:52 AM "to keep the support ratio of workers to dependents constant. South Korea, for exampl.....
» 27/07/2011 2:13:55 PM Reducing funding for private schools is one of the few Green policies that actually makes .....
» 26/07/2011 4:30:07 PM "I find it hard to justify a set of beliefs on the basis of whether your family is ha.....
» 26/07/2011 11:39:12 AM "Not only do you admit that atheism can be a religion JonJ, but it appears you believ.....
» 26/07/2011 11:37:00 AM "Jon J - If a Christian supported their faith with the statement you have (How do I j.....
» 26/07/2011 11:34:57 AM The fundamental purpose of the census is pragmatic: by asking your religion it aims to fin.....
» 26/07/2011 6:51:51 AM Perhaps I should have put 'religion' in quotes. But since people have asked me for a defen.....
» 25/07/2011 2:18:06 PM Eslake, of course. I should have checked. Mea culpa......
» 25/07/2011 2:17:24 PM Surely the first requirement for an economist costing a policy is to make sure the policy .....
» 25/07/2011 2:11:37 PM Now, if only we could get them to give up those silly environmental policies.........
» 25/07/2011 2:09:39 PM So we toss out all the silly God stuff, and the crazy Jesus nonsense and the ludicrous Moh.....
» 21/07/2011 3:24:25 PM When I was young I was very much in favour of the forcible redistribution of property. The.....
» 21/07/2011 3:17:12 PM Ideological positions are only necessary in a state of ignorance. You assume that left or .....
» 21/07/2011 7:09:47 AM The Greens may have represented 13 per cent of Australians at the last election, but I sus.....
» 19/07/2011 8:06:19 AM Nothing to see here but the usual vituperative self-loathing. Ooh, aren't we awful! Just.....
» 19/07/2011 7:53:15 AM I see alarmists have given up citing the wonderful example of European climate policy, whi.....
» 19/07/2011 7:46:04 AM And -- to answer the alarmists' frequently-asked question -- THIS is exactly why governmen.....
» 18/07/2011 10:59:51 AM Just to be fair, the efficiency of wind turbines can apparently be substantially increased.....
» 18/07/2011 10:56:16 AM "There is no "what do the polls say" politics." And this is exactly w.....
» 16/07/2011 8:19:00 AM But Neutral, if it will have no effect, then WHY DO IT? At the very least it will require.....
» 15/07/2011 7:57:44 AM Right, so if anybody says anything is 'like' something else they are quoting from the Gosp.....
» 15/07/2011 7:24:37 AM "Climate change won't be solved with a negative, won't-do attitude. The reality is we.....
» 15/07/2011 7:19:49 AM But Alex, don't you realise? The Green plan is to turn every other nation into a vast depo.....
» 15/07/2011 7:16:32 AM "Instead they have enjoyed and been inspired by an unforgettable story containing a s.....
» 14/07/2011 7:57:25 PM Ho Hum: "Yes everybody is religious including those that presume to be stridently ant.....
» 14/07/2011 7:23:04 AM Exactly. The modern Greens are not opposed to religion: they ARE a religion. They have the.....
» 14/07/2011 7:16:40 AM "We must recognise the virtual consensus in the global scientific community that glob.....
» 12/07/2011 8:24:20 AM It's a simple cyclic process really -- not unlike global temperature changes. Major partie.....
» 11/07/2011 1:16:27 PM Prediction 20: The Queen's Treasury will invent a new game, called "How many times ca.....
» 11/07/2011 1:12:19 PM "According to Australian ethicist Professor Margot Somerville, no procedure should be.....
» 11/07/2011 1:04:50 PM The difference between Green and left-wing parties is pretty simple really. Left-wing part.....
» 7/07/2011 12:55:08 PM And fifth, even if AGW theory is correct -- a most unlikely assumption -- what actual diff.....
» 7/07/2011 7:59:11 AM You missed two important questions: 1) Even if the AGW alarmists are correct, what effect .....
» 6/07/2011 7:49:33 AM Phase 1: Cite 'global opinion' as a precedent for taxing carbon dioxide. Phase 2: 'Global .....
» 4/07/2011 2:43:21 PM Well, according to Hansen himself in 2004: "...the current uncertainties in the TSI .....
» 4/07/2011 11:39:21 AM "What is really needed is something to convince everyone - one way or the other - tha.....
» 1/07/2011 7:26:41 AM Sorry, bitey -- that's far too sensible. No, let's continue to hurl taxpayers' money at th.....
» 29/06/2011 8:36:05 AM In dealing with the current crop of so-called environmentalists, one has to bear in mind t.....
» 28/06/2011 5:20:26 PM "I look at env degrdation all around me..." Where, exactly, Chris? Apart from r.....
» 28/06/2011 7:15:11 AM Good article, Mark -- although it's a bit too easy finding inconsistencies and logical fal.....
» 27/06/2011 1:11:47 PM Before you can achieve consensus about what is to be done, there needs to be agreement as .....
» 24/06/2011 2:06:10 PM "The Opposition Leader would not be so keen on a plebiscite if public opinion polls s.....
» 23/06/2011 1:40:01 PM As a fifty-something male, I am getting more and more sympathetic to Rumpole of the Bailey.....
» 22/06/2011 4:25:34 PM The same thing is happening to newspapers that happened to television: they are losing the.....
» 17/06/2011 10:02:00 AM Here's a solution: scale back benefits paid to people on the basis of how far away they ch.....
» 15/06/2011 7:08:32 PM "35 European countries have had a price on carbon since 2005..." You really don.....
» 15/06/2011 6:57:59 AM Herbert: before we ask your question "3. What can we do to moderate warming?" .....
» 13/06/2011 6:43:38 PM And has anyone actually checked Torres's log for 1606, to see if it contains an entry: &qu.....
» 13/06/2011 6:40:04 PM "Why would we want to save it as it is? Like saving an infestation of carp." Sq.....
» 13/06/2011 10:13:33 AM Far too sensible, Peter: prepare to be vilified by the fanatical devotees of the AGW death.....
» 13/06/2011 8:48:52 AM "Did that protective Spirit deflect Quiros, halting the Hispanic hegemony far to the .....
» 10/06/2011 3:43:59 PM Nothing about AGW for a change? Still, the argument is the same: steady as she goes, or cr.....
» 9/06/2011 9:48:00 PM Every Australian should have the chance to be President for a day. We could start with the.....
» 9/06/2011 9:41:43 PM "Why do the alarmists HAVE to exaggerate everything?" When the facts are with y.....
» 9/06/2011 5:37:20 PM "Cynics may not like what the author says but at least he links to the sources for hi.....
» 9/06/2011 8:24:48 AM Sorry, I missed the graph. What a superb illustration! -- of cherry-picking, that is. I no.....
» 9/06/2011 8:18:16 AM "The increased level of energy in the atmosphere/ocean system is resulting in a serie.....
» 8/06/2011 7:18:35 AM Quite so. The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Tax has acquired a new superpower, it seems -- a.....
» 7/06/2011 5:46:00 PM "The figures I have seen in the IPCC report, the Garnaut Report and the recent Garnau.....
» 6/06/2011 1:37:23 PM Gorofus: seriously now, who do you think is going to do a better job spending YOUR money t.....
» 6/06/2011 7:37:43 AM Hi Lexi: "Arthur Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through 3 stages - f.....
» 3/06/2011 7:32:08 AM If Gillard Labor wants to transfer money from the rich to the poor they have every right t.....
» 3/06/2011 7:19:28 AM So an unnecessary tax, designed to solve an imaginary problem, most of which is (purported.....
» 2/06/2011 5:52:21 PM In related news, Germany has announced they are thinking of scrapping Angela Merkel and mo.....
» 31/05/2011 2:59:17 PM The advantage of having marriages arranged by a third party is that it gives both partners.....
» 31/05/2011 2:56:44 PM My experience with bicycles is that it is much easier to fall off when moving than when st.....
» 31/05/2011 2:52:36 PM Runner, I have never had a secretary, but I was having deep, dark depraved fantasies about.....
» 31/05/2011 2:44:39 PM It's easy, really: just have a Muslim-approved scientist at the receiving port to check wh.....
» 31/05/2011 7:29:35 AM But Lance, you have admitted you hold an irrational belief, and you worship a deity who is.....
» 30/05/2011 6:19:27 PM Philo, I have two children who are happy, healthy, reasonably successful and fairly brigh.....
» 30/05/2011 3:18:53 PM Nicely said, Jane, and a real contrast to the appalling whiffle put out by Lance Lawton on.....
» 30/05/2011 3:12:26 PM "...it serves none of us well to lift an evocative phrase from a very specific faith .....
» 28/05/2011 12:18:30 PM Hi Pat, So you want games banned because there is no proof they are safe? Doesn't the sam.....
» 27/05/2011 1:11:25 PM Since all the arguments in favour of banning the burqua also apply to sunglasses, judges' .....
» 27/05/2011 1:05:13 PM "...under sustained pressure from commercial gaming interests and extreme civil liber.....
» 26/05/2011 1:31:24 PM Maybe you should ask Portuguese taxpayers about whether their businesses have 'come to an .....
» 26/05/2011 7:26:51 AM "My posting was an attempt at my "understanding", which I suppose is simila.....
» 25/05/2011 9:28:05 PM I can remember Ford being accused of not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time,.....
» 25/05/2011 3:42:05 PM Let's be fair: the same kind of charges were levelled against Bush Jr, against Clinton, ag.....
» 25/05/2011 3:36:12 PM "My interpretation may not satisfy everyone, that is their choice. I see universality.....
» 25/05/2011 2:09:05 PM "Us church folk take this seriously!" Well, there's your problem! "I main.....
» 24/05/2011 10:56:39 AM I'm beginning to think there is a prolonged economic cycle in a nation's history, which go.....
» 24/05/2011 10:51:36 AM It's odd to see an anti-porn crusader who is apparently not motivated by religious motives.....
» 24/05/2011 7:19:09 AM Hi Dan: here's my alternative -- I. Do what you want as long as it won't hurt somebody e.....
» 23/05/2011 2:56:55 PM To summarise: modern secular science owes a great deal to religion and the Bible, just as .....
» 23/05/2011 2:54:44 PM Pell is an idiot, but even idiots get it right sometimes. As for the claim that the 'Unive.....
» 18/05/2011 8:27:52 PM Well, if by 'climate change is real' you mean that we have a good reason to believe that g.....
» 18/05/2011 7:26:14 AM " to get Australia started on solving an issue that will not go away." You mean.....
» 13/05/2011 7:17:35 AM "It is this message from children I take this week to a United Nations conference in .....
» 13/05/2011 7:15:43 AM "It is now beyond doubt that climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity.....
» 10/05/2011 6:55:50 AM Hard to work out what is being said here, but it seems to be the familiar cry: "We n.....
» 9/05/2011 2:16:09 PM To my mind the point at which an ideology becomes a religion is the point at which people .....
» 9/05/2011 7:00:51 AM Saltpetre: "What's it worth to ensure global food security, to contain world populati.....
» 6/05/2011 9:23:46 PM It could be that the defiantly sceptical attitude towards 'anthropogenic global warming' a.....
» 6/05/2011 9:18:52 PM "As I see it there are four over-arching facts which are hard to argue with: 1. Gree.....
» 6/05/2011 7:28:15 AM "..finding that 97 to 98 per cent of those climate researchers publishing most active.....
» 6/05/2011 7:23:45 AM You can find a long, but far from comprehensive, ongoing list of the deaths, injuries and .....
» 4/05/2011 1:34:33 PM "If you accept the scientific view, which I do, then the need for every country to dr.....
» 4/05/2011 1:27:31 PM Mohammed, I'm sure you're a really nice person. But that's not the point. You are a really.....
» 1/05/2011 5:36:59 PM "...the gay lobby trying to cajole and bully-rag everyone else into according a like .....
» 1/05/2011 8:02:07 AM Lego, the response to your foolish blether is simple: anyone should be allowed to do anyth.....
» 29/04/2011 3:43:27 PM "“Some level of homosexual activity is a normal part of life for a large number of ma.....
» 29/04/2011 7:27:29 AM But homosexuality IS the norm. Some level of homosexual activity is a normal part of life .....
» 28/04/2011 7:43:41 AM OK, how about having a crack at Myth 5: there is no anthropogenic global warming, so there.....
» 27/04/2011 9:19:15 PM Hi runner! That would be the Stalin who went to a church school and trained for the pries.....
» 27/04/2011 9:13:37 PM So we are taking money away from people and giving it all back again in order to produce a.....
» 21/04/2011 6:46:47 AM "Why not do it now and suffer some short term economic pain, on the assumption that p.....
» 20/04/2011 6:37:27 PM "Second rule of debate (which comes after be excellent to one another) is: Check you.....
» 20/04/2011 7:55:37 AM Well, one way to become smarter would be to check the facts on 'climate change': if you do.....
» 15/04/2011 5:45:06 PM "Climatologist James Hansen who has been making mostly correct predictions for decade.....
» 15/04/2011 6:27:23 AM Never mind that 'renewable energy' in the form of firewood emits particulate matter when b.....
» 15/04/2011 6:20:56 AM Scratch a populationist, and you will usually find a xenophobe. Asian and African countrie.....
» 10/04/2011 7:56:36 AM New developments: after having their 'gatekeepers' sacked from Wikipedia, the alarmists ar.....
» 9/04/2011 10:00:48 AM "...claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and Japan is twice the s.....
» 7/04/2011 5:32:53 PM But why stop at Reagan? Shouldn't it be Nancy's astrologer who gets the credit? Seriously.....
» 6/04/2011 6:48:19 AM Once again theists have demonstrated their skill in building vast structures of nonsense o.....
» 4/04/2011 5:47:15 AM "JonJ, if that were the situation/case, how on earth would people learn, grow, love a.....
» 3/04/2011 4:41:51 PM But Philo -- isn't God all-powerful? Doesn't that mean that EVERYTHING is God's responsibi.....
» 3/04/2011 7:17:33 AM Hi Philo -- so people are allowed to choose to follow the forbidden desires that God has g.....
» 2/04/2011 9:16:08 AM But Philo, Wouldn't it be so much simpler not to make anyone homosexual in the first plac.....
» 2/04/2011 9:12:50 AM Philo -- one word: Jephtha. Same God, right?.....
» 1/04/2011 8:43:12 PM What's wrong with the Old Testament, Philo? Plenty of examples of lying, cheating, stealin.....
» 1/04/2011 11:47:07 AM Sorry, Runner, but experience shows that giving way to fanatics -- be they religious, Gree.....
» 1/04/2011 6:41:02 AM It's going to be interesting to see how Western religions react to their new Third World p.....
» 1/04/2011 6:31:36 AM Theists cannot be trusted, because they believe in a higher goal than achieving trust -- p.....
» 1/04/2011 6:26:26 AM We have had decades of gentle, thoughtful compassionate atheists who were careful not to r.....
» 31/03/2011 5:56:02 PM Oops -- that should be Lord Mayor of Brisbane, of course......
» 31/03/2011 5:55:31 PM Not that long ago the highest elected Liberal office-holder in the country was the Lord Ma.....
» 31/03/2011 4:45:01 PM To be fair, I think Julia Gillard has slowed down the introduction of a carbon tax for as .....
» 30/03/2011 6:27:01 AM It would be interesting to see a list of Western governments that are generally agreed to .....
» 29/03/2011 5:38:33 PM Christianity was a vital element in the development of a free and open society, just as sm.....
» 28/03/2011 6:20:59 AM "In agreement with Lord Deben, we should do much more to lower greenhouse gas emissio.....
» 25/03/2011 6:23:59 AM Nice one. It's obvious that the AGW alarmists are sticking to their own quarantined (but s.....
» 24/03/2011 6:22:09 AM "As for me, I share the view of Christian apologist Norman Geisler who once said he w.....
» 23/03/2011 5:30:16 PM "But the trigger for the electorate making the best informed decision rests with scie.....
» 21/03/2011 2:26:34 PM Whatever you think about federalism in general, it's hard to see how it can work effective.....
» 17/03/2011 3:49:35 PM popnperish -- we HAVE looked at the (not vast) majority of papers that support AGW. We hav.....
» 17/03/2011 6:01:28 AM I've seen this technique used in a Peter Pan pantomime. Apparently if everyone in the audi.....
» 17/03/2011 5:56:28 AM "The Earth climate is entering uncharted territory." Ah, that must be why on yo.....
» 15/03/2011 11:14:30 AM As I understand it, if Islam is correct homosexuality is a sin and punishable by annihilat.....
» 15/03/2011 11:11:27 AM "It is this adhoc handful of individuals who are trying to convince the Australian pu.....
» 15/03/2011 6:31:46 AM Rache, when Kevin Rudd and his counterparts overseas set the political response to AGW in .....
» 14/03/2011 11:41:26 AM Poor Labor! It seemed like such a good idea when everyone was running scared: attack the n.....
» 13/03/2011 6:39:43 AM Individual: Homosexuality is common throughout most of the animal kingdom. It is found in.....
» 11/03/2011 3:16:46 PM Jeremy -- here are 850. Take your pick. http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-rev.....
» 11/03/2011 9:24:42 AM Are you REALLY connecting bigoted opposition to homosexual marriage with opposition to the.....
» 11/03/2011 9:19:47 AM Give me a billion dollars and a couple of years and I guarantee to have a dozen peer-revie.....
» 9/03/2011 7:01:01 AM Let me also just point to Clive James's articulate -- and funny -- response to AGW: http:/.....
» 9/03/2011 6:41:39 AM "Climate warriors vidicated?" Hardly: the outcome of the case merely demonstrate.....
» 7/03/2011 6:18:33 AM "One of the essential lessons from first year economics is that the best way of addre.....
» 7/03/2011 6:09:18 AM So climate change science has all the compelling logic of cricket! Well, THERE'S your prob.....
» 4/03/2011 6:24:49 AM Agreed. If people are doing what appears to be a senseless and self-destructive act you ca.....
» 4/03/2011 6:17:03 AM The Palestinians clearly don't realise that God has sorted all this out well in advance, a.....
» 3/03/2011 6:15:03 AM "Targeting national consumption of emissions helps promote a global deal. Targeting e.....
» 2/03/2011 6:15:04 AM A perceptive observation. Providing scapegoats for unpopular decisions is an important fun.....
» 27/02/2011 7:38:43 AM In recent years the Family Law system has taken the position that children are better off .....
» 25/02/2011 1:23:25 PM They do say that bigamy is the only crime which comes with its own punishment. And of cour.....
» 25/02/2011 6:02:27 AM PS: But you get a gold star for not mentioning Global Warming......
» 25/02/2011 6:01:27 AM Bees are always good for a scare story, whether it's 'killer bees' migrating north or hive.....
» 23/02/2011 6:11:26 AM But.. but.. I thought Global Warming was going to INCREASE rainfall. http://news.national.....
» 22/02/2011 6:17:42 AM What's the best option? Er, find some real evidence of AGW first? No, too hard, obviously......
» 18/02/2011 6:27:31 AM But religion can only survive in mental isolation. Surround yourself with people who are c.....
» 17/02/2011 6:16:10 AM It's always easy to detect religiously-motivated objections to medical or political polici.....
» 17/02/2011 6:12:52 AM That should be 'hole', of course. But not a God-shaped one, as far as I know......
» 17/02/2011 6:12:06 AM "I think that it is helpful to understand Christianity as a religious antidote to rel.....
» 14/02/2011 12:15:24 PM "If it wasn’t coal; leaving in its wake destroyed farmlands and aquifers, lung cancer.....
» 11/02/2011 8:44:48 PM "Climate models are not intended to explain the past. They are meant to predict the f.....
» 11/02/2011 8:36:37 PM "The overdose experiment is invalid: 1. Taking more of a homeopathic remedy makes no.....
» 11/02/2011 3:43:30 PM So I have 'followers' now? Gosh! I just thought they were independent thinkers who had con.....
» 11/02/2011 6:36:55 AM Yes, we know about the models, we just don't believe them. Why? Because a) they do not ag.....
» 11/02/2011 6:29:27 AM Oh, you silly people! Don't you know that homeopathic medicine works better the less you t.....
» 10/02/2011 6:10:58 AM The trouble is that we AREN'T getting more critical weather events. The number of hurrican.....
» 9/02/2011 6:21:29 AM Another 'scientist' who took the 'shout louder' mantra to heart falls on his own statistic.....
» 8/02/2011 11:25:13 AM There are sceptical climate scientists, there are climate scientists who believe in AGW, a.....
» 8/02/2011 11:11:22 AM If I claim to have a divine revelation, and embrace a religion which advocates the compuls.....
» 8/02/2011 6:28:22 AM I started out with a good deal of sympathy for OLO but this dwindled over time as I came t.....
» 3/02/2011 8:21:13 PM "Put people to work to clean up the mess of unregulated capitalism." And who wi.....
» 3/02/2011 10:04:20 AM Translation: we made a lot of friends and gained political clout by supporting free aged c.....
» 1/02/2011 4:13:19 PM I don't agree with deliberately setting out to upset people: but I think a lot of what you.....
» 27/01/2011 2:28:00 PM "Global warming has been widely acknowledged to be responsible for more extreme weath.....
» 27/01/2011 2:25:29 PM "I am convinced that when anyone is inside “the Christian bubble of faith” it is almo.....
» 24/01/2011 6:31:06 AM An excellent summary of the facts. If only we could get alarmists to read it!.....
» 24/01/2011 6:27:57 AM "The correlation between climate change and extreme weather events has been agreed up.....
» 12/01/2011 11:57:58 AM Perhaps Babette would like to explain why Australia's hypothetical shortage of young peopl.....
» 10/01/2011 10:43:28 AM The clearest sign that the AGW side of climate science is broken is the persistent refusal.....
» 4/01/2011 6:30:40 PM Hi Poirot, Prince Charles also supports coffee enemas for cancer, homeopathic treatments .....
» 4/01/2011 3:25:41 PM "For most of its history Western civilization has been defined by a single story, the.....
» 4/01/2011 3:15:52 PM It's not that hard to see why the Left has embraced global warming alarmism: when it first.....
» 30/12/2010 8:04:03 PM "It is also interesting that there isn't public controversy about a host of other sci.....
» 30/12/2010 12:07:18 PM Ladies and gentlemen, I propose a simple experiment. We take something for which there is .....
» 27/12/2010 6:30:20 AM Ausjude: "Even Historians don't dispute the Gospel story is true..." The ones .....
» 26/12/2010 1:53:52 PM "Christians aren't perfect, but that doesn't stop the gospel message being true.".....
» 26/12/2010 7:22:15 AM Some Spanish entrepreneurs had the right idea: buy some huge floodlights and run them on n.....
» 25/12/2010 12:52:06 PM Agreed. One day of peace in four years of insane mayhem is hardly a recommendation for God.....
» 22/12/2010 6:55:03 AM You can find the details here: http://tinyurl.com/396szjk 'Official' may be the wrong wor.....
» 21/12/2010 9:03:15 PM The reason why 2010 was recorded as 'hot' was because the temperatures from weather statio.....
» 20/12/2010 6:42:45 AM Hi Al, Well, if there is good evidence for any of that then you had better get busy putti.....
» 19/12/2010 7:53:08 PM Cheryl -- EE Nesbit wrote it long before Herman Wouk. Michael -- "the IPCC says that.....
» 19/12/2010 7:58:22 AM "Ludwig is right to raise the precautionary principle. A world with less carbon emiss.....
» 18/12/2010 3:22:28 PM 579: Just a question. In what sense is carbon dioxide 'unclean'? You DO know plants breath.....
» 18/12/2010 7:34:47 AM Nice to hear a voice of sanity. Here's another one that actually made its way on to the BB.....
» 18/12/2010 7:30:28 AM Life bad, Christ good, no evidence -- got it. Next, please......
» 15/12/2010 6:47:26 PM When the last Christian turns the lights out in the last church and turns to take a look b.....
» 15/12/2010 6:41:00 PM I don't know whether Christians should oppose gay marriage, though from my perspective the.....
» 13/12/2010 5:55:25 AM "The “meteorological year” — December to November — was also the hottest on record. C.....
» 11/12/2010 7:25:57 AM "No credible climate scientist, ..." etc. And what makes a climate scientist 'c.....
» 10/12/2010 4:38:02 PM "In a long period of deep personal anguish, I turned to specialists in many different.....
» 10/12/2010 4:33:56 PM "Australians are fatigued by talk. They want their government to take ambitious steps.....
» 8/12/2010 4:17:23 PM Dan: the issue of gay marriage is important precisely because it is symbolic. There is no .....
» 8/12/2010 4:10:07 PM Would anyone like to speculate on what would have happened if Pell had directed his abuse .....
» 7/12/2010 6:18:37 AM Right, left, third way...? If you were in charge of a large company, would you seize on so.....
» 5/12/2010 1:02:19 PM 579: "My being wrong won't hurt anyone, your being wrong will be devastating." .....
» 3/12/2010 2:35:00 PM Note too that the highest alleged rise in temperature comes from precisely those places wh.....
» 3/12/2010 2:28:47 PM "Cancun is an opportunity that should be seized, not sabotaged." Well, the Japa.....
» 3/12/2010 7:10:11 AM Ozandy, since you raise the issue of modelling, take a look at the comparison of model ret.....
» 2/12/2010 6:15:32 AM "When the Pope speaks, people listen.." Well, THERE'S your problem!.....
» 29/11/2010 4:07:30 PM "the imaginary world in which believers live"... Well, you got that one right, .....
» 26/11/2010 2:24:08 PM It is relatively easy to do a rough and ready test of predictions about rising sea levels .....
» 24/11/2010 11:55:10 AM So can we take it that the Religious Right is now going to support the forcible sterilisat.....
» 20/11/2010 8:23:24 PM "..despite the noisy deniers, the science has tended to underestimate rather than ove.....
» 19/11/2010 5:05:49 PM "The first sign of climate change is increasing climate variability"... Er...wh.....
» 18/11/2010 6:24:46 PM Unfortunately even Royal Commissions can be stacked, as were the farcical British 'investi.....
» 18/11/2010 6:15:57 PM All the Coalition has to do is wait... the Republican midterm landslide in the US has fata.....
» 13/11/2010 5:26:27 PM "Get ready for Cancun to be another Copenhagen." You mean that Mexican airports.....
» 12/11/2010 6:13:27 AM So a former diplomat and career civil servant thinks that foreign affairs are very importa.....
» 9/11/2010 3:33:32 PM If Gilbert is, as the blurb says, 'expecting his first child', he is probably not of an ag.....
» 5/11/2010 6:29:20 AM I would have thought the best way to create a generation of potential terrorists was by as.....
» 4/11/2010 2:30:18 PM I have always thought there was a lot to be said for transportation. Violent serial offend.....
» 2/11/2010 6:36:57 AM "If our sins are stronger than we are, we cannot trust our choices. One of the choice.....
» 30/10/2010 8:54:13 AM James, your side is losing the debate. The expected Republican landslide will kill the AGW.....
» 29/10/2010 6:11:40 AM For an imaginary problem, imaginary data will do just fine. In fact, since the main aim of.....
» 29/10/2010 6:01:47 AM There is no magic, legislative or otherwise, that can change the value of a person's work......
» 28/10/2010 12:49:30 PM "I think the choice is between a national emissions consumption-based "cap and t.....
» 26/10/2010 7:09:41 PM The goal of a carbon tax -- apart from raising obscene amounts of money -- is to encourage.....
» 25/10/2010 11:10:24 AM OK, 'Progressive Catholicism' has been duly added to the oxymoron list, along with 'Milita.....
» 25/10/2010 11:05:54 AM I would like political decisions to be based on verifiable reasons and demonstrable eviden.....
» 21/10/2010 6:14:52 PM I don't mind people getting excited over Mary McKillop, although I can't personally find m.....
» 19/10/2010 4:59:53 PM PS: Rhian, Since you seem to know, can you explain exactly what God's point IS, and how a.....
» 19/10/2010 4:55:19 PM As has already been pointed out elsewhere, Mary McKillop has conspicuously failed to save .....
» 17/10/2010 6:09:59 AM Okay, before anyone else get in, chickens don't have teeth (but newborn chicks do). Otherw.....
» 17/10/2010 6:07:35 AM Do you eat meat, TTM? Lambs have teeth and eyelids too -- and far more developed brains th.....
» 16/10/2010 8:54:15 AM Hi Dan, Who peer-reviewed the Bible?.....
» 15/10/2010 1:10:11 PM Yes, it's scary that someone can not only adopt an irrational position but actually procla.....
» 15/10/2010 1:04:18 PM Godwin's Law proposes that in any internet discussion, a participant who mentions Hitler o.....
» 14/10/2010 6:15:31 AM The Australian Democrats grew in size until the point where they actually had some decisiv.....
» 13/10/2010 5:34:06 AM "...right when satellite data is showing accelerating melting of major icesheets in G.....
» 12/10/2010 6:05:53 AM When the Oracle said that Socrates was the wisest man in Athens he was astonished. "T.....
» 7/10/2010 2:35:01 PM One problem: how do you adopt an 'evidence-based process' when there is no evidence? Or --.....
» 7/10/2010 2:24:44 PM Gee, I wonder if this satellite is as reliable as the satellite which found that Lake Mich.....
» 1/10/2010 1:24:45 PM "What are the ISSUES ? ... And ultimately here, the issue is: do we choose life or de.....
» 1/10/2010 7:36:59 AM "Let's face it, you only need to con nine people in the ACT Assembly to get a majorit.....
» 28/09/2010 7:48:28 AM Others will no doubt point out the simple errors in science which this paper contains. I w.....
» 27/09/2010 5:51:47 PM Last time I checked, heterosexuals were allowed to get married AND divorced without attrac.....
» 27/09/2010 5:40:30 PM The problem with dialectic and its Marxian offshoots is that it is unfalsifiable. Since an.....
» 24/09/2010 2:30:02 PM @MindlessCruelty: I'm not advocating a national campaign, with our atheist PM at the head;.....
» 24/09/2010 2:14:37 PM Briar Rose -- what could possibly be more deserving of scorn than someone who puts forward.....
» 24/09/2010 11:53:04 AM "Jon J writes: <So you believe in God because you want to, just like everyone else.....
» 24/09/2010 11:44:44 AM "Burning books is NOT an act of rationality, but of provocation fuelled by ignorance .....
» 24/09/2010 7:13:33 AM So you believe in God because you want to, just like everyone else. But why do you think t.....
» 24/09/2010 7:10:38 AM I for one would love to see this nation burning 'holy books' -- whatever those are: it wou.....
» 24/09/2010 7:02:25 AM Yes, the logic is simple: heavily subsidise private schools and wealthier parents will ten.....
» 23/09/2010 4:09:45 PM "In a plural society people can challenge the harmful aspects of religion, and at the.....
» 23/09/2010 7:07:42 AM Thank you, Pericles: a beacon of common sense as usual. If the author had advocated that .....
» 16/09/2010 2:17:02 PM Funny -- no mention of the fact that Newman was also a homosexual, and was buried in the s.....
» 15/09/2010 2:17:08 PM "Australians are sick of our per capita carbon footprint..." Absolutely! I am s.....
» 13/09/2010 1:12:22 PM Bibles, Korans, Upanishads, Rig Vedas and Buddhist scriptures should all be burnt on a dai.....
» 13/09/2010 1:06:21 PM There are lots of beliefs that can help to make us happy and docile for a short while: for.....
» 9/09/2010 3:03:40 PM We all have our dogmas: some of them are based on demonstrable facts and some aren't. Gues.....
» 9/09/2010 2:59:55 PM When 'accredited' religions like Christianity stop getting tax breaks at everyone else's e.....
» 8/09/2010 8:33:00 PM "There is so much history packed into that one paragraph it aint funny. Now.. you cou.....
» 8/09/2010 5:48:54 PM "To say that before the Enlightenment men thought that the Bible was the only source .....
» 7/09/2010 5:28:01 PM "It seems that all of the other subjects taught in our schools require expertise but .....
» 6/09/2010 2:11:48 PM Does anyone seriously think that a parliamentary committee can't waste time just as effect.....
» 31/08/2010 2:15:18 PM And to put the icing on the cake, the IPCC has just been criticised by its own tame review.....
» 31/08/2010 7:23:33 AM "Light displaces darkness not vice verca. Hot gives of heat to become cold. Those two.....
» 30/08/2010 5:02:45 PM Thanks, Pericles. The best I can do in response is to record my own reaction to this piece.....
» 30/08/2010 4:59:07 PM When the two major parties agree on important issues, it is a pretty good indication that .....
» 29/08/2010 9:22:17 AM The irony is that we have brought the decline in the quality of politicians down on oursel.....
» 27/08/2010 1:03:49 PM The problem is that the rewards of power are much larger and easier to get in private ente.....
» 27/08/2010 12:56:36 PM Rudd's inadequacies in a leadership position are so glaring that one has to wonder why the.....
» 26/08/2010 6:59:59 AM Agreed, Dick. When the choice is between Liberal and Liberal Lite I can understand why peo.....
» 24/08/2010 12:59:13 PM "Three separate enquiries in Britain have failed to find any substance in the allegat.....
» 24/08/2010 12:51:05 PM Australians have a long history of putting their faith in minor parties up until the momen.....
» 23/08/2010 8:44:25 PM "My sister took her cat to the vet... ...they happened to go to exactly the right pl.....
» 20/08/2010 5:09:34 PM Like many conservative commentators, the author seems to want to have his cake and eat it .....
» 18/08/2010 4:15:04 PM Sorry, Runner -- most abortions take place before three months. Are those also 'murder', a.....
» 18/08/2010 2:58:30 PM "Moreover, it does very little good to carry on and on about social justice when we k.....
» 14/08/2010 5:56:53 PM Poll Clerk, you took the words out of my mouth. In fact I was just going to suggest that .....
» 12/08/2010 2:39:10 PM Far more Australians own shares in corporations than the combined membership of the Labor,.....
» 12/08/2010 2:36:34 PM Hi Ozandy, "The "Adjustment" is called homogenisation of data and it is ne.....
» 11/08/2010 9:24:43 AM Hi Ozandy, Gosh! weren't you among the people telling us six months ago, during the colde.....
» 11/08/2010 8:12:53 AM This sounds like a solution looking for a problem. I have no view on the economic merits o.....
» 11/08/2010 8:03:17 AM "Although there have been outbreaks of religious bigotry the United States has been f.....
» 11/08/2010 7:25:31 AM "Wisdom in the Judeo-Christian tradition is found in the person who knows how to “do .....
» 10/08/2010 9:28:05 PM But Vanna, where is your control group? What are the happiness levels of people who went t.....
» 10/08/2010 7:11:44 AM "The price of permanent love is unconditional commitment." You cannot 'buy' per.....
» 4/08/2010 7:37:06 AM Ken, if you really think the only evidence against AGW is 'one set of tree rings' then you.....
» 3/08/2010 7:22:34 AM Western governments only decided they had an 'obligation' to educate people after an expan.....
» 31/07/2010 2:50:57 PM Oops -- that should be 'the intellectual foundations of Christianity', of course......
» 31/07/2010 2:49:26 PM But Leigh, the intellectual foundations of Islam are exactly the same as the intellectual .....
» 30/07/2010 4:57:55 PM "...but it is about public leaders acting out of the wisdom that the church engenders.....
» 30/07/2010 4:47:53 PM "The Carbon Assembly is simply a short term strategy aimed at kicking the climate cha.....
» 27/07/2010 8:25:42 PM "a less carbon-satiated atmosphere?" I don't think that word means what you thi.....
» 23/07/2010 9:27:54 AM It would be interesting to see how many of the people who wanted to claim 'Weather is not .....
» 22/07/2010 4:56:55 PM It's worth remembering that the Coalition's blocking of supply was not what put a permanen.....
» 21/07/2010 6:36:19 AM "And that is what is absolutely wrong with our country today: America is in a complet.....
» 21/07/2010 6:31:28 AM "This is why the Australian Youth Climate Coalition’s membership grew by a dramatic 1.....
» 19/07/2010 9:25:20 AM I am hoping for great things from the Copper Lady once the election is over and the Christ.....
» 15/07/2010 3:06:32 PM Since Anthony Watts predicted the recent change in melting rates for the Arctic more accur.....
» 14/07/2010 6:55:59 AM If you read a few British and European novels from the 18th and 19th centuries you will se.....
» 12/07/2010 3:16:17 PM Well, they say that sociologists are people who discover the bleeding obvious! People have.....
» 9/07/2010 2:38:28 PM Unfortunately the happiness of fifty or sixty years living in peace with one's neighbours .....
» 7/07/2010 8:27:04 PM Each new article appears more feeble than the last as Peter's faith gradually collapses fr.....
» 2/07/2010 10:20:17 PM Since the position of head of state in a parliamentary democracy is a meaningless figurehe.....
» 1/07/2010 7:26:47 PM "We look at the Aboriginal inhabitants who in 40,000 years or more lived sustainably .....
» 1/07/2010 7:20:25 PM "Sacred" means, as far as I can tell, "I think this is really important but.....
» 29/06/2010 12:19:02 PM If democracy has any advantage over other systems at all -- and it does -- it is that it g.....
» 29/06/2010 8:27:27 AM Please, AGW alarmists, tell me: where do I queue up for my oil money? I've been blogging a.....
» 29/06/2010 8:15:34 AM Really, Protagoras, if you're going to wax eloquent over the fate of minks you should lear.....
» 24/06/2010 5:12:03 PM I don't know if the author's definition of 'the arts' includes writing, but phrases like: .....
» 15/06/2010 8:11:46 PM Point One: there is no such thing as 'the market', only lots of small specialised short-te.....
» 15/06/2010 7:56:46 PM "I have a great idea. All those people who want to proclaim/reclaim/retain their &quo.....
» 15/06/2010 2:47:55 PM "Sometimes people who have been visited by a Kadaitcha man get sick and die within a .....
» 8/06/2010 6:20:07 PM I enjoy imagining the back-of the envelope calculations that must be going on in Labor par.....
» 8/06/2010 7:51:55 AM "I would put forward that if a man made a suggestion to a woman and she welcomed the .....
» 7/06/2010 7:56:35 PM It was in the Maldives that a dissenting scientist was threatened with jail for announcing.....
» 7/06/2010 7:44:08 PM "People who sexually harass others are bullies." But the point some commentator.....
» 5/06/2010 11:17:01 AM "Even if the CSIRO is wrong, what is wrong with taking initiatives to lessen possible.....
» 4/06/2010 4:30:01 PM Where is all the ice going? It is going to Antarctica, as your readers could have seen for.....
» 3/06/2010 3:11:23 PM The real question is why people like Proxy and Diver Dan consider it is any of their busin.....
» 31/05/2010 6:46:21 PM "the overwhelming majority of the religious leaders with whom I interact regularly be.....
» 26/05/2010 8:02:04 AM The one thing that ties together the campaign against religion and the campaign against AG.....
» 26/05/2010 7:55:14 AM No need to buy any books at all: Project Gutenberg and Gutenberg Australia have tens of th.....
» 20/05/2010 6:08:27 PM It's not been a good week for alternative energy -- the Port Kembla wave power generator s.....
» 20/05/2010 6:02:21 PM "If we’re going to be true feminists, should this not mean upholding femininity? Shou.....
» 19/05/2010 4:09:48 PM "Ownership of Australia legitimately rests with the Aborigines and all those whose an.....
» 19/05/2010 2:45:01 PM Long on emotion, short on facts. After some initial successes, it's clear that the Green m.....
» 11/05/2010 7:39:31 AM Hi Tony, I would have more respect for AGW advocates like yourself if they even tried to .....
» 7/05/2010 5:50:38 PM Gosh! Stop the presses! A young person has discovered that life is not quite the way they .....
» 5/05/2010 8:07:58 PM Cold spells kill far more old people than hot spells, though this is conveniently forgotte.....
» 30/04/2010 6:55:01 AM DougtheBear, Let's say, for the sake of argument, that most of the human race was in the .....
» 29/04/2010 9:54:22 PM For once I agree with Peter. The original mad ravings on which most religions -- including.....
» 27/04/2010 7:34:05 PM As many commentators elsewhere have commented, if Ratzinger's systematic and well-document.....
» 22/04/2010 1:33:58 PM According to Wikipedia: "The Church teaches that its bishops, through apostolic succ.....
» 22/04/2010 7:21:20 AM Hi Trav, Please tell us which of these two assertions is more likely to result in scienti.....
» 21/04/2010 3:42:44 PM Your results are only as good as your data. Phil Jones's main mistake was taking the data .....
» 21/04/2010 3:23:00 PM Ah, so this is why Buddhist nations consistently lead the world in scientific research and.....
» 20/04/2010 9:41:27 AM What happens when green policy-making distorts rational economics? People shine arc lamps .....
» 16/04/2010 5:51:02 AM Richie 10: "The same evidence atheists use to disprove God proves his existance depen.....
» 14/04/2010 8:37:27 PM Summary: We can't prove AGW with science, so let's ignore the science and do something exp.....
» 6/04/2010 5:16:22 PM One useful exercise in science classes would be to call in a Western engineer, a Christian.....
» 6/04/2010 5:09:34 PM A first step towards restoring trust would be to send a memo to the ABC, pointing out that.....
» 6/04/2010 5:01:00 PM The failure of Copenhagen was simply a demonstration of democracy at work. Rudd and his fe.....
» 2/04/2010 6:01:40 PM "As the nails were driven into his hands he cried out, “Father, forgive them for they.....
» 1/04/2010 12:13:53 PM "How do I know what hydrogen can accomplish in fourteen billion years? I can’t.".....
» 1/04/2010 12:02:33 PM Ever since the end of World War II, Western governments have been looking for new ways to .....
» 30/03/2010 3:29:11 PM Gee, Ozandy, I wish I was as certain about what's for dinner tonight as you are about the .....
» 30/03/2010 1:13:55 PM Dan, My response to this version of the Argument from Personal Incredulity is simply this.....
» 30/03/2010 8:53:07 AM My point about the '100% certainty' is that it is usually used by believers as a debating .....
» 29/03/2010 7:57:03 PM Sorry, Peter -- you've been rumbled. You might as well go the whole hog and start talking .....
» 26/03/2010 1:46:53 PM We can expect much more of the kind of religious nonsense depicted in the article as Chris.....
» 25/03/2010 5:53:50 AM When the AGW community starts calling on us to apply the standards of legal proof, it's a .....
» 24/03/2010 6:12:36 AM The problem with State governments in Australia is the small number of states (does any ot.....
» 23/03/2010 4:49:34 AM "I imagine a world where humans believe in whatever makes sense to them. I dream of j.....
» 19/03/2010 8:27:04 PM Ozandy, thank you. You provide a wonderful example of exactly what I am talking about. You.....
» 19/03/2010 8:44:15 AM JP - you still don't get it, do you? We support atheism because atheists are nicer to be w.....
» 18/03/2010 8:19:04 PM ...So I am totally unsurprised that after spending $79 billion dollars looking for evidenc.....
» 18/03/2010 8:18:20 PM The amount of money spent worldwide on AGW research and 'prevention' is estimated at $US79.....
» 18/03/2010 12:20:47 PM "So why worry what anyone believes: it does not make any ultimate difference." .....
» 18/03/2010 9:38:19 AM Strident atheists are rude about the Pope's red Gucci slippers. Strident believers kill p.....
» 18/03/2010 8:19:29 AM "It’s clear that no self-respecting so-called atheist is 100 per cent sure that God d.....
» 17/03/2010 5:24:25 AM I don't expect our PM to always be right; but I expect them to be rational. Unfortunately .....
» 17/03/2010 5:13:33 AM An obvious response: if sensible people on both sides of the ideological divide agree that.....
» 15/03/2010 1:28:26 PM I will undertake to conclusively prove there is no God to Rowan Forster's satisfaction, on.....
» 14/03/2010 5:58:43 AM "How would you protect our children?" Protect them from WHAT? What possible har.....
» 12/03/2010 3:16:03 PM Stephen Conroy's aim in promoting the Internet filtering system is simple: to knock a few .....
» 10/03/2010 5:49:22 AM The only advantage of democracy is that it allows people to learn from their mistakes. Yes.....
» 8/03/2010 3:40:18 PM Nobody seems to have thought through the likely consequences of an immigration freeze: 20.....
» 4/03/2010 2:58:33 PM What do religious terrorists want? They want the approval of God. And since no scientific .....
» 3/03/2010 12:19:46 PM Unfortunately Roger didn't include the latest IPCC scandal: Pachauri's company Tata gets a.....
» 3/03/2010 12:11:06 PM "The IPCC concluded that the global temperature data and analyses are robust.." .....
» 2/03/2010 6:04:38 AM What I want to know is how Dr. Glikson can pinpoint so accurately what was happening 250 m.....
» 1/03/2010 2:29:24 PM "Further, even the apparently clear-cut issues have a Christian twist. For instance, .....
» 19/02/2010 8:25:03 PM "Why not eat pig? Why not eat oysters and lobsters? Not eating pig is a consequence o.....
» 18/02/2010 4:32:39 PM "The allegorical interpretation of parts of the bible is not some recent development .....
» 9/02/2010 10:44:02 AM "Without global targets and standards, all this may not be enough to head off climate.....
» 9/02/2010 10:38:29 AM The best antidote to this kind of scaremongering coincidentally appeared today as well: h.....
» 8/02/2010 7:31:58 PM "If miracles are seen as symbols, the questions about whether they really exceed the .....
» 5/02/2010 1:33:01 PM Unfortunately there is still a great deal of xenophobia tied up with this issue. If the go.....
» 4/02/2010 12:01:15 PM Perhaps the absence of (good) Christian art is due to the fact that artists prefer to thin.....
» 2/02/2010 1:43:35 PM Runner: What's it like in that evidence-free zone you live in? How many of the 5000 -- o.....
» 1/02/2010 6:09:34 AM "Imagine living in the 14th Century: and trying to explain spectrums of light - frequ.....
» 31/01/2010 7:13:58 AM Tristan: "Personally - I do not believe that God "created the world - literally.....
» 30/01/2010 10:49:43 AM "“Non-living molecules evolving into all life forms, including man, over millions of .....
» 28/01/2010 6:23:53 AM "...species continue to die out..." Which ones, exactly? http://wattsupwiththa.....
» 25/01/2010 9:07:46 PM "Al Gore powerful exposé forced people to acknowledge climate change and confront the.....
» 7/01/2010 11:36:01 AM "Over the next 20-30 years, maybe sooner, Saibai and Boigu in the Torres Straits will.....
» 7/01/2010 6:58:12 AM "A symptom of global warming is an increase in (and extent of) extreme weather events.....
» 6/01/2010 2:42:20 PM Anyone still wondering why many researchers apparently believe in AGW should read this and.....
» 6/01/2010 2:25:58 PM New evidence? No. New opinions? No. But articles like this are the creaks in the rigging .....
» 6/01/2010 6:26:56 AM Two clicks = 'research'? Oh, come now! Journalists who are paid for their work have a resp.....
» 6/01/2010 6:21:41 AM "Christians have a stake in atheism in that they do not believe in the existence of a.....
» 5/01/2010 7:09:50 PM "While only one-third of respondents are uncomfortable with Rudd holding religious vi.....
» 4/01/2010 8:13:04 AM "According to conservative climate change science..." Nothing conservative abou.....
» 1/01/2010 7:20:53 AM "We need to move on from whether climate change is real or not and ask, what can we d.....
» 1/01/2010 7:11:49 AM Unfortunately the AGW movement continues to distort facts for their own ends. A local exam.....
» 25/12/2009 2:36:04 PM 1. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal..." IF you believe their claim.....
» 24/12/2009 11:57:19 AM Okay.. so when does he sell off the Popemobile and the Gucci shoes, rent out the Vatican a.....
» 24/12/2009 11:53:57 AM As most religious apologists have found, this kind of 'interpretation' can be made to work.....
» 24/12/2009 11:46:02 AM Another nail was placed in the AGW coffin recently when the Wikipedia 'gatekeeper' for the.....
» 23/12/2009 4:48:02 PM "...for millennia, the deserts have been a fountainhead of innovation. Sciences such .....
» 18/12/2009 4:07:04 PM Only one word to say to this... "EVENTUALLY??".....
» 18/12/2009 3:55:55 PM "A fresh round of natural disasters would force politicians once again to be more act.....
» 17/12/2009 2:54:02 PM As several writers have pointed out, there never was any historical 'tragedy of the common.....
» 15/12/2009 9:20:34 AM The issue is not the emails. The emails are just the icing on the cake. The issue is the d.....
» 14/12/2009 3:06:48 PM Well, extrapolating on current trends, we can predict that the Anglican church in the west.....
» 11/12/2009 8:58:03 PM "Protect the planet"? The planet is a hell of a lot bigger than I am. Who is pro.....
» 8/12/2009 9:11:57 AM Yes, let's round up the usual suspects and see how much we can squeeze them for. Climate c.....
» 8/12/2009 8:58:38 AM "If the British group fudged their data, as alleged, it could not have been by much b.....
» 8/12/2009 6:55:42 AM Welcome to the beginning of the 'new line' on global hysteria-mongering. Having failed wit.....
» 6/12/2009 3:21:48 PM Crabsy: 'What I am trying to say is that you and everyone else really do have “emotions an.....
» 4/12/2009 9:06:27 PM "The logic of natural science dominates our understanding of what is true and what is.....
» 4/12/2009 8:56:15 PM "And yet the ice melts, the temperatures soar and the denialists winge, winge winge.......
» 3/12/2009 6:02:18 PM The 'Precautionary Principle' seems to be dying the death, and about time too, given the k.....
» 3/12/2009 2:25:22 PM As Bjorn Lomborg has pointed out, if sea levels really are rising then we can build seawal.....
» 2/12/2009 8:25:14 PM "There's no doubt that some parts in the Bible are influenced by the contemporary soc.....
» 30/11/2009 7:46:44 PM "A telling comment from a scientist recently was that those scientists who agree with.....
» 30/11/2009 7:39:24 PM "We have just come through a century in which this same belief system caused over a h.....
» 30/11/2009 7:34:36 PM And let's not forget the third 'fatal flaw': they are a solution without a problem. As the.....
» 30/11/2009 7:28:24 PM Well done, Peter! an amazing feat of intellectual gymnastics to link global warming -- whi.....
» 26/11/2009 7:27:03 PM Is this a "death train", a la James Hansen, or just an ordinary train? What step.....
» 26/11/2009 7:21:51 PM Copenhagen: what we must demand: 1. Public access to the datasets on which the fate of bi.....
» 26/11/2009 7:15:06 PM The reason people don't believe the world is getting warmer? Because it isn't. As Abe Linc.....
» 25/11/2009 6:37:01 PM Anyone with Google Earth can take a look for themselves at the low-lying islands that are .....
» 20/11/2009 12:34:01 PM Much of the 'evidence' for AGW has come from data supplied by the Hadley Climate Research .....
» 20/11/2009 12:33:09 PM Who would you rather have in control of your destiny: - Someone who makes rational decisi.....
» 16/11/2009 12:36:18 PM "Indeed, in 2009, nearing a decade after the turn of the new century, gender equality.....
» 16/11/2009 12:31:45 PM "Of all of the pressing international issues on Obama’s plate, global warming, unless.....
» 13/11/2009 6:13:33 AM The problem has very little to do with Aboriginality, and everything to do with remoteness.....
» 10/11/2009 6:28:35 PM This week's competition: spot ten mistakes in the following message: "it is obvious .....
» 10/11/2009 2:51:38 PM There are already plenty of laws to protect everyone -- women, children and men -- from vi.....
» 5/11/2009 6:56:20 PM Summary: "Democratic governments sometimes go to war. Therefore democratic government.....
» 21/10/2009 6:09:23 AM Middle Eastern (and central Asian) violence has a lot to do with demographics. There are a.....
» 19/10/2009 4:25:23 PM Well, it furnishes a boost to the domestic garment industries every two years when the var.....
» 19/10/2009 4:20:34 PM "I suggest a novel recourse. With problems like climate change (and other issues, Lik.....
» 18/10/2009 5:57:39 PM "Belief does not rest on evidence; it is a different way of knowing than that of scie.....
» 15/10/2009 6:55:16 AM "So, when the climate change sceptics can just get around to putting forward their ow.....
» 13/10/2009 8:50:23 PM ...plus the capacity to train our troops in real combat situations in collaboration with o.....
» 13/10/2009 8:44:28 PM Someone -- was it Churchill? -- once said "The art of leadership is to figure out whe.....
» 9/10/2009 8:53:04 PM Think of a fish... no, not that fish, some other fish. Are you thinking of a fish? That fi.....
» 8/10/2009 12:11:39 PM Luckily we currently have what's called a self-correcting system: Step 1: Banks fund gree.....
» 6/10/2009 7:02:43 PM Ah, theology! that peculiar blend of word salad, received opinion, and revelatory hallucin.....
» 5/10/2009 4:08:45 PM The author rules out transportation -- but why? There are plenty of uninhabited islands wi.....
» 3/10/2009 6:29:15 PM "It is no accident that the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads like an ex.....
» 1/10/2009 6:41:15 AM "It seems to me that those people who come to Australia from countries like Afghanist.....
» 30/09/2009 7:17:22 AM Any discussion of potential medical problems due to global warming should also mention tha.....
» 29/09/2009 4:57:32 PM Since huge populations of mosquitoes are found in Finland, it's hard to see why a few tent.....
» 26/09/2009 9:13:15 PM "Our only hope is a crash and burn. Maybe, just maybe, that will wake the sheep.".....
» 24/09/2009 9:09:51 PM Let's have a look... Evidence? No... Qualifications? No... New ideas? No... Move along.....
» 17/09/2009 5:53:05 PM The amount of taxpayers' money spent per Aboriginal on remote communities is enough to hou.....
» 17/09/2009 5:42:08 PM The assumption that all children born to believers become and remain believers is -- thank.....
» 14/09/2009 11:48:57 AM Here we go again with the old bait-and-switch: "However, a closer inspection of the .....
» 13/09/2009 5:28:57 PM "Yes I know your post was a joke but just in case someone is worried then they need n.....
» 11/09/2009 1:09:08 PM "It is time to stand up for science, indeed it’s our only hope for survival of our sp.....
» 11/09/2009 12:59:10 PM It was on a Tuesday afternoon in winter that the protesters finally achieved success and a.....
» 11/09/2009 12:47:26 PM "As we enter another round of negotiations in Copenhagen it is vital that we understa.....
» 5/09/2009 2:20:27 PM “Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists”. However, a theory .....
» 2/09/2009 7:05:32 AM It's 'damp squib', actually, not 'damp squid', although some of the elders of this increas.....
» 27/08/2009 5:28:29 PM And politicians wonder why we don't trust them! If they stopped talking nonsense that woul.....
» 19/08/2009 3:51:24 PM Obviously the responses to this are falling along ideological lines. Let me introduce some.....
» 17/08/2009 7:33:44 AM From now on, any time I hear the mantra: "Religion is just another way of knowing........
» 15/08/2009 7:54:18 AM What's wrong with this argument? "1. My beliefs imply that rationalists cannot marry.....
» 13/08/2009 8:43:05 PM "It really is that easy." Yes, because of course Asian and African nations are .....
» 7/08/2009 8:03:29 PM All religions are based on the axiom that it is reasonable and right to believe something .....
» 5/08/2009 10:27:13 PM Let's say that you went out in 1650s Britain to poll everyone's opinions on, say, the mona.....
» 4/08/2009 5:44:54 PM "Climate chaos, brutal economic inequality, and social disintegration are jointly pus.....
» 3/08/2009 9:35:10 PM The collapse of the Aztec Empire was due to the religious beliefs which made them regard t.....
» 22/07/2009 2:04:27 PM From the diary of a gentlewoman: "Will humanity ever come to believe that women are .....
» 22/07/2009 1:51:52 PM The problem: Polar bears are threatened by human activity. Maybe. Solution 1: spend trill.....
» 21/07/2009 5:22:32 PM Australian involvement in WWI was justified by the fact that Australia would have been del.....
» 20/07/2009 4:00:48 PM "Scientists might argue over the effects of, asymmetry during the Big Bang fifteen bi.....
» 20/07/2009 3:36:54 PM From the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs Guide; Travelling Women: -- In some cou.....
» 19/07/2009 4:48:46 PM Palin trained as a journalist but when asked in an interview couldn't name even one newspa.....
» 18/07/2009 4:09:53 PM 'Secondly, adopt the motor vehicle emission and mileage standards currently in place for C.....
» 18/07/2009 3:55:40 PM "...These people are not rational, they give a kneejerk response to anything that is .....
» 10/07/2009 10:55:23 AM "Given that it is now public knowledge that the interviews featured in the film are m.....
» 9/07/2009 9:31:23 AM "Why can we test Co2 in the lab like this? Watch from 1 minute 30. Eagerly awaiting y.....
» 8/07/2009 5:02:49 PM Aspring voter: "I don't want my kids to drink tap water. I want them to drink bottled.....
» 8/07/2009 4:47:57 PM Sorry, what are "the most important questions in science" again? In my innocence.....
» 8/07/2009 4:42:29 PM To summarise the article in ten words: the US is warmer than it was 30 years ago. OK, bu.....
» 7/07/2009 7:41:01 PM I propose a 'Fourth Way'. The Fourth Way is to objectively evaluate all proposals for soci.....
» 6/07/2009 8:13:11 PM Democracies have only one advantage over other forms of government: they can correct their.....
» 2/07/2009 11:31:19 AM Science is based on facts and hypotheses, so here are two facts and two hypotheses: Fact .....
» 30/06/2009 7:50:03 PM "My instincts tell me that the regularity of the seasons has changed and that the fre.....
» 26/06/2009 9:05:21 PM The Catholic Church in the west is rapidly reaching the point where radical changes will h.....
» 26/06/2009 7:56:41 AM "What should the Victorian Government be doing?" Well, here's an idea: how abou.....
» 23/06/2009 8:10:21 PM 1998: 'Our models show conclusively that rising CO2 levels immediately cause an increase i.....
» 23/06/2009 7:59:52 PM 'And “the message has to come clearly from a source that has moral authority,” says Columb.....
» 20/06/2009 7:07:11 AM I have no problem with politicians being paid more -- although I think it should be perfor.....
» 19/06/2009 2:40:11 PM Nothing new to see here. These AGW rants are getting as dull and predictable as Peter Sell.....
» 18/06/2009 2:13:01 PM This article goes a long way towards explaining why people are so fond of apocalypse scena.....
» 17/06/2009 3:23:39 PM Costello's tragedy was that he was never able to take politics quite seriously enough: unl.....
» 16/06/2009 2:29:43 PM Paint costs money -- less in bulk, to be sure, but still a considerable sum. It also requi.....
» 16/06/2009 2:22:03 PM The advantage of approaching this recession from a position of affluence is that we have m.....
» 15/06/2009 6:45:23 PM Let me put it this way: in an Islamic society, people like runner would be in charge......
» 15/06/2009 5:42:55 PM Unfortunately, Mikk, there are important differences between Christianity and Islam. After.....
» 13/06/2009 9:28:01 AM "United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there is a 9.....
» 11/06/2009 12:12:45 PM Plimer's point about previous warm periods should be simple and obvious to anyone but a di.....
» 9/06/2009 9:41:14 AM "But realistically, who is willing to take such a risk with their children?" I .....
» 9/06/2009 9:31:23 AM Many years ago, when Olivia-Newton-John was given a gong for services to Australian music,.....
» 4/06/2009 9:12:00 PM "So I would hand over all the civic arts centres to community elected Boards of Manag.....
» 4/06/2009 9:06:23 PM That bloody coral -- it just WON'T die off, no matter how the environmentalists keep willi.....
» 3/06/2009 7:22:13 AM * there is a greenhouse effect False -- see http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2009/04/on-t.....
» 2/06/2009 6:06:16 PM Sadder than the 'twenty lost years' is the fascistic and politically incorrect way that th.....
» 1/06/2009 8:04:24 PM Let's have a few figures, just so we know what we are talking about: these are from http:/.....
» 29/05/2009 7:59:52 AM I would enjoy "physical, emotional, social and cultural health benefits", too, i.....
» 28/05/2009 5:34:29 PM Who needs publishers? Put it up on Lulu and stop whingeing......
» 28/05/2009 5:30:42 PM "[Both sides] endorse whole-scale clear-felling; aerial spraying of catchments; wood .....
» 25/05/2009 5:25:00 PM "Yes the Catholic church has had many homosexual priests behaving like animals in con.....
» 25/05/2009 5:04:11 PM If you feel guilty about having engaged in group sex then there are two possible responses.....
» 25/05/2009 4:50:25 PM PS: readers who want to find out about some of the other things that religious believers a.....
» 25/05/2009 4:49:11 PM Sellick's modus operandum has become pretty clear over the years: 1) Pick something -- ca.....
» 20/05/2009 7:19:53 AM "There are several important claims made by some scientists as to why religious belie.....
» 13/05/2009 5:41:55 PM Gazing into my crystal ball, I predict the following headlines... "Green protests af.....
» 6/05/2009 6:00:28 PM Protagoras's arguments amount to: 1) The last few years have been hotter than the long-te.....
» 29/04/2009 5:00:08 PM "The most obvious losers are the many people with mental illnesses, broken relationsh.....
» 27/04/2009 2:49:48 PM "It’s curious that the most striking manifestation of the loathing they have for ever.....
» 22/04/2009 5:29:57 PM I suspect that the underlying factor contributing to both secularism and welfare is educat.....
» 20/04/2009 7:07:23 PM "Jesus, Son of God? Jesus, king of the Jews? Jesus, the fulfillment of the Jewish pro.....
» 18/04/2009 11:14:44 PM May I, as an average punter, for the time being, be sufficiently presumptuous to believe t.....
» 18/04/2009 7:34:38 AM Q&A - I've downloaded the figures and done the maths, and they show that 1998 was hotter t.....
» 17/04/2009 11:54:31 AM Since there has been no overall increase in global temperatures for about ten years now (s.....
» 16/04/2009 7:31:17 AM I agree with those posters who have commented that the real problem is with the legal noti.....
» 16/04/2009 7:15:48 AM "I really don't get people who cite modern scientific understanding as a reason for d.....
» 15/04/2009 3:13:20 PM 'Perhaps there are many “lapsed” believers who would gladly return to the fold if the acce.....
» 10/04/2009 7:35:52 AM The next believer who uses the words 'militant' and 'violent' in regard to atheists should.....
» 8/04/2009 9:23:38 PM The problem is not with right or left, but with the uncritical acceptance of received opin.....
» 7/04/2009 2:07:20 PM Make free speech illegal and extremists will no longer try and defend their views in open .....
» 28/03/2009 11:11:48 AM There is a kind of stabiliser effect here. The countries which generate the most CO2 emiss.....
» 26/03/2009 5:10:52 AM "Putting all the scientific stuff aside for a moment, I wonder what's more likely? T.....
» 23/03/2009 4:44:35 AM Perhaps Michael Cook can explain something to me: As I understand it, the Catholic object.....
» 22/03/2009 5:21:44 AM It's now Sunday morning and Labor has been returned with a handsome majority. Perhaps John.....
» 16/03/2009 2:22:25 PM Rather than imposing arbitrary limits on how much companies can pay their CEOs, it makes m.....
» 13/03/2009 4:40:23 PM And -- in this time of belt-tightening and economic crisis -- just what is the productivit.....
» 13/03/2009 4:26:09 PM The most drastic estimate of the effect of the recession I've seen so far is that we have .....
» 2/03/2009 4:33:57 PM Miranda took the words out of my mouth, or rather keyboard. I know it's considered polite .....
» 1/03/2009 12:03:52 PM Well, if your protests are successful, you won't have to worry about being arrested any mo.....
» 28/02/2009 12:12:54 PM "The rationality of theology includes a poetic/historic outlook that cannot be tested.....
» 20/02/2009 11:16:18 AM If step 1 is to abandon faith in the Pope, then surely step 2 is to abandon faith in God. .....
» 16/02/2009 2:16:16 PM The point of 'interpretation', as I understand it, is to make clear something that is obsc.....
» 2/02/2009 1:25:15 PM "Religion and philosophy are one and the same.." Well, no, because philosophy i.....
» 30/01/2009 3:16:10 PM We have a book out with a major global publisher and are very disappointed with their perf.....
» 29/01/2009 7:33:39 PM Peter -- you theologians like spiritual exercises, don't you? Here's a spiritual exercise .....
» 29/01/2009 7:11:18 PM "I have not read any of the recent books that attack belief in God because I sense th.....
» 20/01/2009 11:52:38 AM Let's pretend for a moment that the music companies are right and file-sharing actually pu.....
» 19/01/2009 4:03:48 PM The capacity to romanticise other species is -- as far as we know -- a uniquely human one......
» 14/01/2009 4:40:27 PM "Scientists warn that unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly and rapidly r.....
» 14/01/2009 1:31:35 PM How strange that Andrew Prior can recognise and repudiate the massive con job carried out .....
» 14/01/2009 1:11:40 PM Years ago I used to believe that humans were gradually getting smarter. Then they voted Ge.....
» 10/01/2009 7:20:41 PM "Human bodies, having been created by God, are evidence for an authentic sexual moral.....
» 5/01/2009 9:32:15 PM The trouble with arguments based on unpredictability (aka 'The Precautionary Principle') i.....
» 28/12/2008 8:41:31 AM Hi CJ, Unfortunately Runner belongs to the grand old tradition of this culture (and this .....
» 27/12/2008 8:12:09 AM Hi Runner, Don't you ever feel somewhat abandoned? I mean, here you are struggling to pro.....
» 26/12/2008 8:03:41 PM Hi Runner, Have you heard the expression 'King Charles' Head?' I think you need to look i.....
» 26/12/2008 7:26:56 AM Hi Runner, "It is not so much that God gets all the credit for doing the good stuff .....
» 25/12/2008 4:40:48 AM Dear Polycarp, Why do you believe that citing a verse from the Bible is going to impress .....
» 24/12/2008 12:18:37 PM Any theories as to why God made the tsunami in the first place? Oh, that's right - hundred.....
» 24/12/2008 12:16:05 PM New depths of incoherence in this one, even for Peter. What does "It is part of the.....
» 22/12/2008 7:15:05 PM Beliefs have consequences. I wonder if the belief that they were sending soldiers off to b.....
» 19/12/2008 12:36:12 PM Rather than banning some people from keeping their children, let's go the whole hog and ma.....
» 19/12/2008 12:25:25 PM Wise words. I wonder if it is entirely coincidental that the rise of global warming hyster.....
» 17/12/2008 8:53:02 PM "Christian, Hindu, Muslim and all other extremists in India resort to terrorism. So i.....
» 10/12/2008 11:58:31 AM Hi Runner, I had a dream last night in which you visited Osama Bin Laden. The conversatio.....
» 9/12/2008 5:54:45 PM Any criticism of one religious viewpoint from another religious viewpoint is just a way of.....
» 9/12/2008 6:12:00 AM "bad worldviews lead to bad consequences..." Still, it could be worse. Just ima.....
» 4/12/2008 6:54:54 AM Let's see what would happen - the sellers would try and charge more because the 1% is not .....
» 29/11/2008 5:49:54 PM "I am quite dismayed at some of the responses to this article. There appears to be a .....
» 28/11/2008 12:35:11 PM Part of the difference, perhaps, is that women are more emotionally dependent on men than .....
» 28/11/2008 12:27:51 PM The issue is not whether Islamic women should or should not be segregated in mosques: it i.....
» 26/11/2008 1:12:24 PM Television did not 'kill off' radio, but it removed it from the focus of public attention .....
» 25/11/2008 3:44:16 PM "Dogma is just theology that the church for more than 2,000 years has decided is a fi.....
» 24/11/2008 6:27:05 PM The article actually omitted two of the central doctrines of Catholicism: # Members must .....
» 17/11/2008 12:07:29 PM Pilger has built a long and successful career out of complaining about all the things he d.....
» 12/11/2008 5:36:05 PM The fundamental left-right distinction, it appears to me, is between those who consider th.....
» 11/11/2008 11:35:08 AM "Rights, cultural democracy and capitalism are all aspects of the great project of sp.....
» 11/11/2008 6:18:58 AM Inputs into political (or any other!) decision-making should be based on reason and logic......
» 7/11/2008 1:46:02 PM It's been fascinating over the last year or two to see the wheels starting to fall off the.....
» 7/11/2008 1:34:19 PM I know this is On Line Opinion, but an opinion that runs over three pages usually benefits.....
» 5/11/2008 5:06:41 AM Socialised banking? No thanks. Would anyone in their right minds seriously trust, say, the.....
» 5/11/2008 4:58:33 AM Here we go again, talking about 'immoral behaviour' without first defining our terms. What.....
» 4/11/2008 6:20:45 AM I looked into Internet dating sites for an article a few years ago. At that time they coul.....
» 1/11/2008 3:28:33 PM "Why does this person continue to be published?" Because he draws comments. If .....
» 28/10/2008 1:14:26 PM "But today's Islamophobes, like Hitchens, are not attacking the powerful in our socie.....
» 27/10/2008 1:32:06 PM wadaye - nobody is 'pro-abortion'. But most of us are pro-freedom and pro-happiness and mo.....
» 25/10/2008 4:47:18 PM Unfortunately for some of us, the prospective partners that we want to discourage at 8:30 .....
» 24/10/2008 6:43:34 AM Jay - did you control for the average wealth of the residents and the age of the city? It .....
» 21/10/2008 6:19:42 PM Interesting... Here are three more authoritative quotes from the Bible: 1. Matthew 19:2.....
» 18/10/2008 8:14:20 AM To be fair, it's not the free traders who have requested government intervention but the g.....
» 17/10/2008 1:29:01 PM Why should the state interfere with the pleasure the rest of us get from attractive faces .....
» 16/10/2008 9:42:55 AM According to Wikipedia there are roughly 70,000 Aboriginals in the Northern Territory, and.....
» 13/10/2008 7:33:40 PM "without the framework, how would you implement something like this? Who would know i.....
» 13/10/2008 7:23:19 PM Many studies show that women are more concerned with their looks than men are: I bet that .....
» 9/10/2008 6:31:01 AM Hi Tom, There must be some age which only about 365 Australians reach each year: 95 was m.....
» 8/10/2008 6:12:20 PM Unfortunately, if our figurehead President was selected by a lottery, then anyone who actu.....
» 8/10/2008 5:35:39 AM We have had our Palin. Her name was Pauline and her policies were objectionable but for a .....
» 7/10/2008 7:01:48 AM I can see that a tribal culture might consider it expedient to worship a local god. Where .....
» 27/09/2008 11:33:18 AM What about saving us from poorly-conceived science, biased 'research' and politically-moti.....
» 25/09/2008 11:08:49 PM james - for nearly a year I have had the following posted at the bottom of the Outrage Sco.....
» 25/09/2008 4:36:43 PM "Can't we all just get along?" asks james From http://atheistwiki.wikispaces.co.....
» 23/09/2008 4:23:14 PM The advantage of looking after one's own interests is that it's easy to see why we should .....
» 23/09/2008 7:42:46 AM Unfortunately as pressure groups dwindle in size they tend to become increasingly radical......
» 19/09/2008 11:42:26 AM I have a theory: like Londoners in the Blitz, people actually feel happier when they have .....
» 17/09/2008 8:00:55 PM When my brother was depressed the doctor sent him for a blood test and diagnosed thyroid d.....
» 17/09/2008 7:50:30 PM With the near-universal rollout of the Internet it is now technically feasible to record p.....
» 16/09/2008 8:06:38 PM "Why shouldn’t we do transgressive action X? he demands. X hurts no one. X is an expr.....
» 8/09/2008 5:21:27 PM Oh dear. The Great Green Hope, Prof Garnaut, has reneged on the global warming fanatics by.....
» 6/09/2008 10:03:30 PM "The throngs of joyous young pilgrims from all locales flocking to WYD events, was a .....
» 5/09/2008 7:36:10 AM HRS, Do you eat lamb chops? Are you sorry a lamb has to die to provide a dozen families w.....
» 4/09/2008 4:56:12 PM "When hearts are so hard that they suppress the fact they have murdered their child.......
» 3/09/2008 6:49:44 AM "The intangible benefits of investment into sport, and the arts for that matter, shou.....
» 30/08/2008 9:35:57 AM This article does give a wonderful insight into religious doublethink. From the premise: .....
» 29/08/2008 3:40:23 PM Peter doesn't realise that we already have a word to describe things which are not literal.....
» 28/08/2008 2:22:11 PM I would be interested in details of any eco-village that manages to be financially self-su.....
» 27/08/2008 9:58:29 PM "Figures such as Jim Cairns and Tom Uren were not only noted political leaders, but a.....
» 27/08/2008 9:45:02 PM Where there are no demonstrable economic or social reasons for government support, yet the.....
» 26/08/2008 10:06:21 PM Some years ago the Australian government gave an award to Olivia Newton-John for her 'serv.....
» 25/08/2008 11:24:37 AM "We dared not release the results of the study for fear of being howled down as envir.....
» 23/08/2008 8:17:37 AM "The planet's fevered condition".. oh, yes, that would be the reason why there's.....
» 21/08/2008 9:46:15 AM People like Greer have more than entertainment value. They also serve as useful touchstone.....
» 21/08/2008 9:38:45 AM This kind of anecdotal 'evidence' is worthless unless there is some comparison with a cont.....
» 19/08/2008 9:30:13 PM "Perhaps people should relocate to where there is more food instead." The cost .....
» 13/08/2008 8:41:57 PM George, "This is the problem with secularism: once you grant people a licence to beh.....
» 13/08/2008 10:20:04 AM "Does it really matter if Muslims believe Mohammed is infallible, based on their core.....
» 12/08/2008 4:48:14 PM The problem with this kind of 'modelling' is that there is simply no way to predict what n.....
» 11/08/2008 9:08:40 PM "Uneducated, opinionated morons ruining things all the time. Keep it up, guys. This i.....
» 11/08/2008 2:20:43 PM Obviously there is a deep psychological need for many people to envisage the world coming .....
» 11/08/2008 2:06:47 PM Barry Commoner is 81 years old and a political activist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr.....
» 5/08/2008 4:36:27 PM Gee, if we have to make our own moral decisions based on experience and reason, then what .....
» 4/08/2008 5:52:05 PM Here we go again with another desperate attempt to find some justification for Christian r.....
» 1/08/2008 12:17:36 PM Runner - what is 'normal'? Birds do it, animals do it, and for all I know even educated fl.....
» 31/07/2008 7:13:39 AM 'We have already had about a dozen blogs on homosexual paedophile priests. Why don't we ha.....
» 25/07/2008 6:41:29 PM The culpability of the Church lies in its refusal to recognise that forcing men into avowa.....
» 24/07/2008 9:47:34 PM Most of us reading this will be dead of old age before we have to cope with any of the pro.....
» 23/07/2008 9:34:36 PM Security is a wonderful business to be in because if nothing bad happens you can take the .....
» 22/07/2008 8:44:27 PM More Australians are killed every month in road accidents than have ever died from terrori.....
» 19/07/2008 1:42:53 PM The question is, why support marriage at all? If I want to cohabitate in the short or long.....
» 19/07/2008 1:32:07 PM One can say about the free market what Churchill allegedly said about democracy -- it is t.....
» 18/07/2008 9:26:11 PM Gee, fighting a war costs money -- how about that? Only an abysmally ignorant leader with .....
» 12/07/2008 6:39:01 PM Hi John, Re your circumcision 'authorities' -- one is a professor of molecular medicine a.....
» 11/07/2008 3:01:51 PM The nicest quote was from our own dear Peter Jensen, claiming that 'society is obsessed wi.....
» 11/07/2008 2:56:54 PM You lost me with the third sentence: "In contrast properly performed male circumcisi.....
» 10/07/2008 7:37:04 AM Chop up some prose into short lines. avoid capitals. Add Some gaps, and sprinkle with r.....
» 9/07/2008 10:07:35 PM Which Christ are we supposed to be imitating, then? The one who drove the moneylenders fro.....
» 8/07/2008 3:28:54 PM "There’s one iron law of global warming one can’t avoid: if we keep burning fossils f.....
» 7/07/2008 10:08:15 PM "It would seem to be a rather extraordinary occurrence if lifeless, unconscious matte.....
» 4/07/2008 5:25:29 PM Nobody _wants_ to have an abortion, any more than anyone wants to have their appendix take.....
» 3/07/2008 3:47:25 PM Hear hear, UsualSuspect -- other people are, by and large, unutterably boring. Some are ni.....
» 3/07/2008 3:38:42 PM Does Keysar Trad also advocate that women should be allowed to marry more than one husband.....
» 2/07/2008 9:49:29 PM My experience of the public service was -- thankfully -- many years ago, but the things th.....
» 27/06/2008 8:10:25 AM Rhian, I'm quite sure Irfan is a really nice bloke when he is making his own decisions. T.....
» 26/06/2008 5:18:20 PM Irfan, your article would benefit from some clear statements of your own beliefs and how c.....
» 16/06/2008 8:11:03 PM "The latest crop of Christian persecutors display all of the marks of enthusiasm as E.....
» 6/06/2008 8:04:21 PM 'Dignity' is just the latest theological buzzword put forward to try and take the place of.....
» 30/05/2008 7:07:16 PM But this just pushes the question further back. An embryo initially consists of just one c.....
» 28/05/2008 2:51:04 PM As I understand it, the religious objection to the use of stem cells is that potentially a.....
» 23/05/2008 3:36:24 PM Any movement in decline -- like political parties, like the Christian religion -- tends to.....
» 16/05/2008 4:23:24 PM Language teaching just doesn't work in a school context of two hours face-to-face teaching.....
» 13/05/2008 12:07:02 PM Making education fair... let's see, that would involve cutting public funding for rich pri.....
» 13/05/2008 12:01:59 PM "...materialistic humanism, something that promotes abortion, homosexuality, premarit.....
» 9/05/2008 9:37:55 PM Every totalitarian government and would-be dictator in history has been ready with a long .....
» 9/05/2008 9:24:58 PM All religion calls for special treatment for its beliefs and their proponents; that's what.....
» 7/05/2008 5:07:56 PM I have no particular opinion as to the rights and wrongs of the Haneef case. What I would .....
» 5/05/2008 5:07:29 PM From the fact that Jane Austen says nothing about God Peter Sellick manages to produce two.....
» 2/05/2008 5:28:28 PM Let's be honest: Islam is only doing what any religion attempts to do -- impose its worldv.....
» 26/04/2008 9:00:13 PM '...root out any remaining bureaucracies infected with climate sceptics - such as those in.....
» 23/04/2008 8:04:13 AM If Yamanaka's daughters really look like two-week-old embryos they're going to have troubl.....
» 22/04/2008 7:38:09 AM Has anyone done research into which Aboriginals end up happier, healthier and more fulfill.....
» 17/04/2008 5:36:20 PM When my wife and I tell someone that we both work from home we usually get the gushing res.....
» 11/04/2008 5:08:12 PM What was the point of this article? Other than Russell getting it all off his chest, that .....
» 11/04/2008 4:58:50 PM The residents of Redfern and Rooty Hill would be interested to learn that Canberrans are '.....
» 9/04/2008 8:48:27 PM Perhaps we should make a distinction between simple ignorance and wilful ignorance. Belie.....
» 8/04/2008 7:38:08 AM Just don't listen to it. Nobody's forcing you......
» 7/04/2008 6:56:34 PM George, I may not understand pure mathematics, but I can see its results in the physical .....
» 7/04/2008 3:57:22 PM "There are many clergy in the Anglican and Uniting denominations who proudly turn the.....
» 2/04/2008 7:04:41 PM Since it will require constitutional reform for us to become a republic, it would be sensi.....
» 31/03/2008 6:50:20 PM Let us be quite clear: it does not matter a brass razoo how many scientists say something .....
» 31/03/2008 6:04:23 AM But, Faustino, who decides what constitutes my spiritual 'harm'? If it's up to me to decid.....
» 29/03/2008 7:55:54 PM 'Sin' is a just convenient label for actions which we disapprove of but which do no harm t.....
» 29/03/2008 7:46:58 PM The smaller nations of the UN have been looking for a lever to extract concessions from th.....
» 28/03/2008 6:02:02 AM This is a classic example of the well-known fact that a tiny risk of apocalyptic disaster .....
» 26/03/2008 6:24:29 AM As Richard Dawkins has pointed out, the decision about which (if any) supernatural being r.....
» 23/03/2008 4:20:00 PM Businesses operate to make money. Money comes from satisfied customers. In the long term.....
» 12/03/2008 6:44:47 AM Let's not forget the protectionism that Howard extended to the private education sector an.....
» 1/03/2008 5:58:18 AM Does anyone else find, as I do, that the pro-religion posts on this site are considerably .....
» 1/03/2008 5:50:43 AM I have 150 music CDs and access to a MP3 download site which has several million tracks av.....
» 1/03/2008 5:44:04 AM I don't believe in fairies. I know, let's call monkeys 'fairies'. Hey, now I believe in fa.....
» 29/02/2008 6:45:51 AM The fundamental problem is the public adulation given to sporting stars. Let's teach our c.....
» 28/02/2008 8:32:16 AM As Ross Gittins has pointed out, subsidising private education (or anything else) puts up .....
» 28/02/2008 6:59:29 AM Predictable nonsense! My children are happier, brighter, better-informed and more resilien.....
» 26/02/2008 7:28:02 PM ..."Why would the scientists have any axe to grind ?" Er - funding, prestige, w.....
» 25/02/2008 4:23:33 PM There are plenty of pornographic sites that show women sexually abusing men. Where is the .....
» 25/02/2008 6:06:42 AM The Christian claims to believe that an act is moral if God has ordered it. In reality, th.....
» 25/02/2008 5:44:05 AM "...OK, so, people in the main have stopped beleiving in God. Which means people ther.....
» 14/02/2008 6:57:36 PM What an appalling display of homophobia! What are you people so scared of? Gibo, if gays r.....
» 5/02/2008 6:21:15 AM Unfortunately for Peter the only evidence for a loving history-creating God comes from exa.....
» 3/02/2008 7:50:42 PM What's the problem, SJF? The problem is that making a ridiculously inflated ambit claim .....
» 3/02/2008 7:42:39 PM Hi yvonne, The 'everyone REALLY believes in God' argument is fairly common Christian prop.....
» 3/02/2008 11:03:37 AM So Christianity doesn't encourge violence? Here's some of the actions committed by Christi.....
» 3/02/2008 10:52:51 AM Dear ASymeonakis, If most Muslims are inherently good - and they are - this is not becaus.....
» 31/01/2008 1:13:45 PM Speaking as the father of two children, I have to say that though I love them dearly my ow.....
» 9/01/2008 10:52:50 AM A new site which puts the global warming claims side by side with the sceptics' research: .....
» 4/01/2008 12:47:14 PM wizofaus says: "Even if I'm out by an order of magnitude (entirely possible), my thi.....
» 2/01/2008 11:04:30 AM Pericles says: "Logic says that the opposite is true. If we assume that subsidies - .....
» 1/01/2008 10:07:52 PM Anyone remember the Y2K bug? That was a similar panic, backed by a similar apparent 'conse.....
» 1/01/2008 9:49:22 PM Another point, Pericles, is that the people who benefit most from government subsidies for.....
» 23/12/2007 2:04:41 PM >Though they are not true or false in the way scientific theories are true or false, my.....
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