Comments on: Young pro-science/anti-Creationism activist wins TroubleMaker award http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jackie Donelso http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1659400 Jackie Donelso Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1659400 Dear Mr Kopplin,protect your back and run for high office.This old earth can use all the help and protection it can muster.Especially from those fanatics who couldn't practice logic to find their way out of a paper bag.I have never figured out how anyone born with a functional brain could believe in something that cannot be proven but consider it abhorant to accept a provable scientific fact. At 71, I have learned to accept that most creationists are so inbred that the" intellegent-gene" has been lost. I have high hopes that they will become extinct before I myself kick the bucket!! But then again,I'm an optimist. Please NEVER stop thinking,acting and speaking against MORLOCKS;...YOU and those like you, are humankinds only hope. JAD Dear Mr Kopplin,protect your back and run for high office.This old earth can use all the help and protection it can muster.Especially from those fanatics who couldn’t practice logic to find their way out of a paper bag.I have never figured out how anyone born with a functional brain could believe in something that cannot be proven but consider it abhorant to accept a provable scientific fact. At 71, I have learned to accept that most creationists are so inbred that the” intellegent-gene” has been lost. I have high hopes that they will become extinct before I myself kick the bucket!! But then again,I’m an optimist. Please NEVER stop thinking,acting and speaking against MORLOCKS;…YOU and those like you, are humankinds only hope. JAD

]]> By: Karl Priest http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1658240 Karl Priest Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1658240 Now Kopplin (DD#184 at http://www.lifescienceprize.org/ has the $10 K to prove if he is all huff and bluff. Now Kopplin (DD#184 at http://www.lifescienceprize.org/
has the $10 K to prove if he is all huff and bluff.

]]> By: Renee http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1658226 Renee Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1658226 He may have believed in God, but I'm sure he didn't believe in failing to teach science in school because of it. He may have believed in God, but I’m sure he didn’t believe in failing to teach science in school because of it.

]]> By: AnthonyC http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1658163 AnthonyC Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1658163 Based on his own writings and that of his biographers, Einstein was more of a deist or pantheist – his conception of God was not personal or anthropomorphic. Based on his own writings and that of his biographers, Einstein was more of a deist or pantheist – his conception of God was not personal or anthropomorphic.

]]> By: Ned Kelly http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1658020 Ned Kelly Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1658020 Michael - Sorry to inform you, but Einstein did not believe in 'God'. Albert Einstein is on record as saying that he did not believe in a personal God. He said: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Michael – Sorry to inform you, but Einstein did not believe in ‘God’.
Albert Einstein is on record as saying that he did not believe in a personal God. He said: “It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

]]> By: Ned Kelly http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1658010 Ned Kelly Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1658010 Go Zack Kopplin. Maybe your peers will more readily accept words coming from a younger mouth than those of the older generation's  Richard Dawkins.  I am hoping you also expose religion for what it is. Richard Dawkin's books 'The God Delusion' and 'The Selfish Gene' and 'The Magic of Reality' all being classics. Go Zack Kopplin. Maybe your peers will more readily accept words coming from a younger mouth than those of the older generation’s  Richard Dawkins.  I am hoping you also expose religion for what it is. Richard Dawkin’s books ‘The God Delusion’ and ‘The Selfish Gene’ and ‘The Magic of Reality’ all being classics.

]]> By: Michael http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657826 Michael Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657826 I heard some place that evem Einstein believed in God I heard some place that evem Einstein believed in God

]]> By: euansmith http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657527 euansmith Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657527 I hope he blows some of those 10gs on some dames and hooch. All work and no play... I hope he blows some of those 10gs on some dames and hooch. All work and no play…

]]> By: lulukittie http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657523 lulukittie Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657523 I am proud that this kid attends my alma mater. Go Owls! I am proud that this kid attends my alma mater. Go Owls!

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657498 noah django Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657498 ah, youth.  the kid is doing the work that I'm too lazy and jaded to do myself.  as such, I give him my wholehearted support and admiration. fighting bureaucracy is hard and tiresome.  getting a flashmob together to give a smack to his opposition is more something I can get behind--the immediacy, I guess.  ah, but I suppose that would ultimately undermine his position, no matter how richly deserving they may be.  go get 'em, tiger! ah, youth.  the kid is doing the work that I’m too lazy and jaded to do myself.  as such, I give him my wholehearted support and admiration.

fighting bureaucracy is hard and tiresome.  getting a flashmob together to give a smack to his opposition is more something I can get behind–the immediacy, I guess.  ah, but I suppose that would ultimately undermine his position, no matter how richly deserving they may be.  go get ‘em, tiger!

]]> By: spacedmonkey http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657479 spacedmonkey Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657479 I have nothing but respect for this guy.   I have nothing but respect for this guy.  

]]> By: Dave MacLachlan http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657451 Dave MacLachlan Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657451 One person's epithet is another's badge of honor. Definitely one to wear with pride. One person’s epithet is another’s badge of honor. Definitely one to wear with pride.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657424 Antinous / Moderator Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657424 Congratulations to him.  Of the many epithets that I've had hurled at me in half a century, troublemaker is my favorite. Congratulations to him.  Of the many epithets that I’ve had hurled at me in half a century, troublemaker is my favorite.

]]> By: Jeremy LaGant http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657422 Jeremy LaGant Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657422 This guy gives me hope for the future.  Also, I'm glad he can do this. He would be dead by now in many other parts of the world. This guy gives me hope for the future.  Also, I’m glad he can do this. He would be dead by now in many other parts of the world.

]]> By: Dave MacLachlan http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657400 Dave MacLachlan Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657400 He needs to be dubbed "The Zacktivist!" Good job :) He needs to be dubbed “The Zacktivist!” Good job :)

]]> By: commodork http://boingboing.net/2013/02/15/young-pro-scienceanti-creatio.html#comment-1657391 commodork Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=213270#comment-1657391 I see this guy being a future Secretary of Education or equivalent. He is definitely a trouble maker! I see this guy being a future Secretary of Education or equivalent. He is definitely a trouble maker!

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