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things that keeps our form of government uniquely different from others around the world i think most of the objections to personal ownership of firearms stem from unfamiliarity with dangerous weapons i grew up with firearms of all kinds and am as comfortable with them as i am with a knife and fork around my thanksgiving turkey i made the expert rating in rifle competition and just missed the distinguished expert medal my college career interrupted my competitive rifle shooting so in reference to my correctional officer debating partner i have all those skills plus a doctorate think about that for a moment in effect i am generally in favor of the armed citizen note not just the hunting citizen and am hopeful that the supreme court will rule in favor of a personal right to own and bear arms yes i am also in favor of concealed weapons permits of course what this means is that i buy into the argument that armed citizens are a deterrent to all kinds of tyranny the problem is that most members of the nra probably consider tyranny in the context of liberal efforts to regulate the population personally i am more concerned with the potential for tyranny of conservative ideas more specifically theological based tyranny we already seem to have an infestation of christian soldiers in the military whose allegiance is to mythological beings and not the us constitution i would suggest that such people might ultimately pose a threat to civil liberties i certainly understand the arguments in favor of gun control but as i have always proposed let s not limit someone else s freedoms simply because we don t personally agree with it instead use that freedom to your own benefit imagine the response if atheists suddenly joined the nra in droves imagine if muslims buddhists and wiccans joined shooting clubs and for something really scary imagine if pz were not just eloquent educated atheistic and outspoken but also armed of course it will probably never happen but gee wouldn t that get the nra s panties in a twist of course i can hear the arguments now the second amendment was never intended to apply to atheists posted by christopher o brien at 8 03 pm 17 comments labels culture wars moral objections to medical treatment cnn has been reporting on doctors who refuse treatments based on moral grounds this is theocracy pure and simple a doctor who refuses a secularly legal treatment has placed his religious beliefs above those of the patent in doing so he she has determined that religious belief trumps secular law what are the limits of such an attitude and what happens when christian religious belief runs counter to another religious or non religious moral imperative if society accepts the principle that a doctor may refuse treatment on the basis of a religious belief a personal mental concept that cannot be verified by any accepted standard of inquiry then does that society not take a large step in the direction of theocracy it is very easy and very simplistic to consider this issue solely in terms of certain christian sects who see contraception or abortion as moral issues but consider every other medical procedure around the world associated with religious views we chose not to have our child circumcised i suppose that i should count my blessings that we did not have a fundamentalist jewish doctor as our physician after all if a catholic doctor can refuse to provide contraception based on a moral objection why should a jewish doctor not insist that his patioent s male children be circumcised based on a moral imperative shall we talk about female circumcision should a gay gene ultimately be discovered will christians start accepting perhaps insist upon abortion under special religious circumstances where does this lunacy end it ends with strict adherence to secular laws if it is legal you have an obligation to perform that action for someone else who insists upon it and your personal religious views be damned if you can t stomach it then get another job you coward if your religious viewpoint means that much to you then take a cut in pay and do something more menial and less lucrative and quit protecting your outrageously inflated salary under the guise of a moral objection posted by christopher o brien at 7 40 pm 81 comments labels culture wars thursday november 15 2007 exploring our matrix and why intelligent design forced me to leave the church dr james f mcgrath left a comment on my previous post regarding the recent pbs series judgement day be sure to read several posts mcgrath has on the series but more importantly visit exploring our matrix and read dr mcgrath s insightful posts on things scientific and theological consider for example the questions he poses to the id advertising team denyse o leary philip johnson and casey luskin in the same way people like you cause more people to lose their faith or to not come to faith than any darwinian biologist ever could you tell people evolution is nonsense and present it as incompatible with faith and some people who don t know any better actually believe you then when eventually the mountain of evidence finally gets their attention they lose their faith because people like you told them that was the only other option do you fear god if so do you think you will not be held accountable for putting unnecessary stumbling blocks in the way of the faithful and those who could believe if it weren t for people like you driving them away from god emphasis added dr mcgrath s point is well taken largely because i am a perfect example of what he is discussing i remember the day the nuns at st thomas more catholic school in paradise california allowed a number of us 6th graders to develop a class lesson on any subject of interest to us and were given time to teach the rest of the class my lesson was on paleontology using romer s vertebrate paleontology as a main source if i remember correctly and made no apologies for liberally invoking evolution the kids and the nuns loved it the concept of evolution was never a problem for catholics during my childhood the pursuit of science was actively encouraged by the nuns and during high school my biology teacher and mentor and agnostic used to comment that his best science students came from the catholic school fast forward 30 some years and we have catholics behe and o leary spreading misinformation about science and telling students they can t accept evolution and have faith cardinal schonborn telling lies about evolutionary theory most of my fellow knights of columbus couldn t give you a single fact about evolutionary biology but are convinced intelligent design is science even a significant number of my relatives have been fed enough false information through the church that they now ask me if it s true that all animals appeared suddenly during the cambrian or that scientists have abandoned radiocarbon dating the propaganda from the church and the gullibility of the flock got to be too much if i have to go against the evidence and believe that darwin was completely wrong or abandon the catholic faith well the faith just became meaningless and this didn t end with me the catholic church asked my wife and my kids to sacrifice too much in intellectual integrity to make it worthwhile to remain so we all left o leary luskin johnson and behe are so interested in protecting their own version of faith that they cannot even comprehend the impact they re having on the church it s no wonder young people have developed such a negative view of christianity posted by christopher o brien at 5 30 pm 21 comments labels science and religion wednesday november 14 2007 o reilly needs holiday cheer ok we all know that bill o reilly is resurrecting the war on christmas issue again and we can be assured of more false alarms and spin on the examples he will be presenting on his tv and radio shows so i suggest we all take note of his efforst and send darwin christmas cards to bill wishing him a happy holiday season of his choosing nothing provocative in the written messages just warm wishes to him and everyone else at fox posted by christopher o brien at 6 50 am 3 comments labels culture wars pbs special follow up i caught the late night showing of pbs s nova special judgement day intelligent design on trial in my hotel room last night both pz and greg laden have liveblogging comments on the special that are worth looking through lassen county teachers will find lots of good source material on evolution and the fallacies behind intelligent design at the pbs nova website if you haven t had a chance to see it judgement day will be shown online on november 16 lassen county school board member should watch this special as well it s a good lesson on overstepping bounds in science education i thought the special provided a great perspective on the strong explanatory power that evolution has as a scientific idea the clear weakness of intelligent design at explaining anything and more importantly just how fallacious both the school board and the id scientists were at presenting id as an appropriate challenge to evolution i was somewhat disappointed in the recreation of scott minnich s testimony and cross examination it ended with him apparently making a sound point on testing id versus evolutionary theory that could seemed to have stumped the plaintiffs the original transcripts of the cross examination are quite different and suggest a man doing some serious backpeddaling when confronted with the question of whether id is actually testable i found board member buckingham s response to judge jones decision infuriating this is a man who came a breadth s hair away from being tried for perjury during the trial and yet he as the hutzpah to lay into the judge for being an activist buckingham should thank his lucky stars that judge jones exhibited a far greater show of christian restraint than the original dover school board could posted by christopher o brien at 5 58 am 4 comments labels education science tuesday november 13 2007 lassen county educators pbs special tonight lassen county science educators should not miss pbs s nova special tonight judgement day intelligent design on trial which documents as a recent review in nature put it the feebleness of the intelligent design case during the dover trial the nature review further suggests judgment day gracefully avoids ridiculing intelligent design for the pseudo intellectual fundamentalist fig leaf that it is by simply showing how the protagonists shot themselves in the foot i only now got around to reading the review however that last statement was particularly telling in light of the current misinformation floating around at the pro id website evolution news and views a recent post by robert crowther suggests that the pbs special is engaged in some myth making but as usual when en v says the sun is shining you had better glance out the window you ll usually discover it is actually night in reference to crowther s myth 2 citing scott minnich as having conducted tests to show the bacterial flagellum was irreducibly complex i went to the original transcripts of minnich s testimony and cross examination at the dover trial via the talkorigins org dover files needless to say crowther s cocky assertions about the nature of minnich s research demonstrating intelligent design were shredded at the dover trial when minnich was forced to admit that no actual tests of irreducible complexity had ever been conducted by either himself or behe neither is there any actual mythology behind the other supposed myths that en v accuses pbs of fronting it s all just good old fashioned data gathering and presentation something the id crowd can t seem to accomplish crowther in good advertising fashion is repeating old arguments from id advocates that have been shown to be the smoke and mirrors they are in the hopes of getting the public to be suspicious of the pbs special tonight hopefully lassen county educators will ignore the pro id advertising at the en v and watch the pbs special i m sure we ll be hearing more about this issue in the area after the first of the year in february the pro id movie expelled will hit theatres including no doubt our own here in susanville i am sure the lassen county times will weigh in on this issue then as well never fear northstate science will be prepared posted by christopher o brien at 4 28 pm 2 comments labels intelligent design friday november 09 2007 yeah baby come to papa yes my providers of that morning salvation in a paper cup susanville starbucks has re opened its doors after re modeling which on the face of it didn t seem to change things all that much but man what a difference a venti brewed coffe makes in the morning i expect my blogging to pick back up now posted by christopher o brien at 1 05 pm 1 comment labels northeastern california some good news for the hadzabe hopefully i had a head s up on this a couple of days ago via friends in tanzania but i couldn t confirm the story however it now appears that survival international is reporting that the uae has withdrawn a deal with the tanzanian government to secure hunting rights in hadzabe lands the original deal would have effectively kicked the hadzabe out of their lands and forcefully ended their traditional way of life from the survival international piece the withdrawal is a great victory for the hadza a small tribe of hunter gatherers who live in northwest tanzania a hadza representative said today if it is true that the arabs are leaving our land then i am very very happy i know many indigenous rights organizations and several organizations and individuals in europe who contacted me on this issue were deeply involved and were able to bring world opinion to bear on this injustice however there can be no doubt that those of you in the blogosphere who frequently reported on the plight of the hadza gave this the steam necessary to be noticed by the larger organizations you should all pat yourself on the back for your efforts this is indeed a great day for the hadza however i have to remain just optimistic rather than downright overjoyed sorry i ve been working too long in federal government where overly optimistic publicity often precedes an actual decision if my unconfirmed email statement from the uae safari company is correct they are none too pleased the eshkesh safari company has surrendered the rights it had secured in 2006 to manage and sustainably utilise the yaeda chini lake eyasha region for hunting a commercially motivated misrepresentation of the company s intentions and activities has been continuously perpetuated by certain interest groups this has regretfully caused us to review the long term sutsainability of our planned program in the entire region resulting in our reluctant withdrawal of course they use all the appropriate buzzwords regarding their operation sustainable manage and accusingly invoke some kind of special 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