False Sense of Maturity

I LOVE DRAMA! I woke up Friday and MS Windows Update had done a periodic ‘update’ and rebooted my system. (I have the setting turned OFF in Vista…trust me, it’s been an ongoing issue, and I’ve looked into it.) MS Vista doesn’t understand it’s own settings! Most of my companion software seems to be smarter than the OS is though…and I’ve always been fine and never lost data. It never irritated me to the point of calling Microsoft because I never lost data and I figured it was better to have the update finished anyway. And I’m not calling foul on Microsoft, but my history of trying to solve the issue twice, led me to the same setting. I’ve had other history with Microsoft software and owned a custom PC computer business for a while; so I’m no rookie.

It could be deemed sacrilegious, but an Irish bookmaker is taking bets that God exists. As the terms read, “scientific proof must emerge by 31st Dec 2009, to confirm his omnipresence in order for bets to be deemed winners.” According to the odds, the likelihood of there being a God has decreased dramatically thanks to Richard Dawkins:

Odds on the existence of God have shortened from 33-1 to a mere 4-1 since news emerged of atheist Richard Dawkins’ forthcoming bendy bus advertising campaign with the slogan: “There probably is no God.”

Irish bookmakers Paddy Power have already taken £5,000 on scientific proof emerging for the existence of God after the book opened at 20-1 earlier this year to coincide with the switching on of the world’s biggest halogen collider in Geneva. When scientists were forced to delay the £14 billion project for six months, odds on the existence of God lengthened to 33-1.

But the bendy bus campaign, to be launched on buses in the Westminster district of London in January, has led to a spate of betting that proof will emerge for God’s existence after all, forcing Paddy Power to shorten the odds to a mere 4-1.

Tonight, the first game of the World Series will be played between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. For the past decade, Tampa Bay has been a horrible team, and until this year, they were called the Devil Rays. Surely, the fact that the team has done well after dropping the “Devil” part is completely coincidental, but some people are saying that their success is the work of holy forces:

“I told my wife before the season started, ‘Whoever is in that organization made, to me, a very interesting decision,’” said Les Steckel, a former NFL coach and head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, an evangelical ministry. “Six months later, look what happens.”

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“You take the ‘Devil’ out of the Devil Rays,” said Boston shortstop Alex Cora, pointing to the sky, “and Jesus helps them out.”

A better theory would be that the Rays have had a good season due to the development of their younger players and because of savvy offseason trades. Besides, if God favors teams based on their names, why aren’t the LA Angels in the World Series?

If you have ever dreamed of suing God, this case sets a bad precedent for you:

A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served, because of his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God.

He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”

This is a great video series from tunderf00t on Youtube. I highly recommend watching this.

The only people so stupid as to not understand the answer are the creationists themselves.