I don’t know if I’ll make this a regular feature, but I’ve collected some comments from creationists and others over the past week that I thought I’d post, just so readers can see what the people say whose comments aren’t approved. At least they do get their views aired! (Note: I haven’t corrected grammar or spelling.)

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This comment is from “flora,” and it’s about the most popular post I’ve ever had (over 300,000 views): “A new exposé of Mother Teresa shows that she—and the Vatican—were even worse than we thought”:

i am so ashamed !! how can you speak ill of mother Teresa?she did her best,the people who were around her know what they did to the poor too!! atleast she put a shelter on those sick people instead of them dying outside the cold and dirt!

Ask yourself everyday you walk outside your house how many homeless or poor people even the junkies with empty stomachs have you passed?, the left over food you throw in your house,why cook less that can fill your stomach instead of eating and throwing food and there are many dying to go inside your bin to eat what you threw??why..?? FIRST REMOVE THE PECK IN YOUR EYE THEN YOU BE THE JUDGE IN SOMEONE ELSE EYE!
Now we have so many sisters of charity all over! she showed mercy,she did her work on this earth!we never walked with her nor sat with her to Judge her! LET God be Judge her..
worry what will happen to you when you die!

JESUS CAME TO SINNERS NOT TO SAVE THE CLEAN ONE BUT TO SAVE SINNERS.
if mother Teresa was helped by a corrupt man then good for the corrupt man he spent his money in kindness..

well worry about your hands when you die..start helping others instead of judging mother Teresa.Let God see your hands are not empty when you die.. am sure mother Teresa is happy because she helped many..
GOD BLESS YOU MOTHER TERESA..PRAY FOR ME TO HAVE A HEART OF KINDNESS AND NEVER LOOK NOR JUDGE OTHERS.!!

I get at least two or three comments like this a week: Mother Teresa obviously has her advocates!

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From reader “CRH,” on “Who won the big evolution-creation debate?“:

I thought the whole premise of the “debate” was stupid. Neither even tried to sway others – they simply danced on their soap boxes. But, I know it would be that way. I have a question, though, for the Nye supporters:

Can you name an actual piece of evidence that validates evolution?

I bought into that ideology for years until studying molecular biology I found that all of the “evidences” were patent lies, deceptions, etc. I still have yet to find anyone who can name even one evidentiary fact.

Oh, I know, you will point to the various forms of canon/radiometric dating. But all who have ever used those methods of dating know that they are not valid. 2 ends of the same bone can date millions of years different. The trees at the bottom of Spirit lake date millions of years old when they were not more than 50 years old, etc, etc…

So, what evidence can someone produce?

Thank you for your time…

This person obviously hasn’t read my book.  It’s amazing to me that he/she thinks that all the evidence favoring evolution is “patent lies and deceptions,” as if scientists are in some kind of conspiracy to hide the truth.

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From “Hoffman neighbor,” responding to the post “Bill Nye talks about his upcoming debate with Ken Ham”:

Philip Seymour Hoffman was a pathetic loser who failed to pick-up his children and if he hadn’t died, he would have picked-up his children high on 5 envelopes of heroin. What kind of city is New York City when you mourn the loss off a well-acclaimed heroin junkie who binged 5 of 8 envelopes of heroin found in his toilet in his boxers and t-shirt with a needle sticking out of his arm? We say let him die and let all others celebrity junkies in the business because we are sick of seeing these losers glorified as if there is an after life for impure celebrity junkies who have lived such pathetic lives taking advantage of life and the gifts his prestigious and portentous families bought him (judge mother and Xerox executive father). We say let that mess of a loser, Philip Seymour Hoffman, die! What a mess! Thank God for blessing us with the end of this mad mess in the penthouse of our building once and for all! Note to all other pathetic rich heroin losers: Die! Ask Joaquin Phoenix and Sam Rockwell where Philip purchased his Ace of Spades heroin and Ace of Hearts heroin from. They can tell you because they and other heroin junkie celebrities used Hoffman’s penthouse as their heroin shooting gallery! Hoffman and his place and his choice of celebrity junkie friends were and are all a glorified mess!

I’m completely appalled at this reader’s lack of sensitivity. Really, Let that “mess of a loser die?” Is there no understanding that drug addiction is a disease, not a sin or something that can be resisted?  It’s amazing what people will say under the guise of pseudonymity.

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From “Miller Meares,” a comment on “Darwin’s Dilemma: I watched it so you don’t have to”

There actually are not any transition fossils at all. There are a few “fossils” which, in general, were proved hoaxes. Can you name specifically any transitional fossils? or are you just taking someone’s word for it?

I could name many transitional fossils which were not hoaxes (Archaeoptyrx and Tiktaalik, to name only two). This person, who is suffering from Piltdown Man syndrome, needs to read my book. But what do you think the chances are that he (I’m assuming male based on the name) would roll over in light of the evidence?”

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From “AL verum,” on “Bill Nye talks about his upcoming debate with Ken Ham“:

To me one the most amazing thing is that “Recorded History” around the globe is recognized at about 4-6000 years BC. It is fascinating that with the millions upon millions of years we have with humans evolving in complexity we only have recorded events for the last 6- 8000 years.

Shouldn’t we have evidence of recorded history long before this or did human evolution not attain the necessary skill set until 6000 years ago. This would be millions of years after much of our cognative and social skills were set and reinforced throughout human culture and subcultures.

It does not make sense – at all. We should have a much longer documented and recorded history if evolution is fact.

If anything could be found that was 10-20- 100 thousand years ago then evolutionists would have a case, but they don’t. They have to admit that the oldest recorded history we have is under 10,000 years old. That up against millions of years complex human evolution doesn’t look good – at all.

I guess by “recorded history” this reader means writing that can be dated. But writing was only invented about 5200 years ago. Did the reader think that the human lineage had symbolic language from the outset? Presumably, then, we also had agriculture at the outset.  And, of course, we do have “anything that was 10-20-100thousand years ago”: they are dated relics: hammers, spear points, and bones. I suspect this reader doesn’t trust dating methods, either.

Do you suppose that, as Phil Plait argues, these people would become pro-evolution if they were only told that their religion was compatible with evolution?

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Finally, reader “Mark” chews us all out in an attempted post on “Who won the big evolution-creation debate?”

you all suffer from intellectual ignorance! Morons! I disagree with Ham’s complete picture and the tact he took! But both creationist and evolutionist are indoctrinated. Creationist believe things that can not be proven and so do Evolutionist.
For example the 6000 year time line is suspect. But so is that something came from nothing. While there is fossils that suggest things there is also the fact that there are questions about how anything survived millions of years ago when the moon would have been so close that massive tides would have swept the earth (fact that the moon is leaving earth so much every year) Or the fact that when the earth was young and the primordial soup alledgedly was created the young sun was larger in diameter and would have heated the earth like venus. fact that our sun when it was formed was larger and hotter, shrunk, and when it dies in 5 billion years will expand to encompass earth. There are serious flaws in both beliefs.

In other words, “I feel superior to both camps.” But it’s so incoherent that rebutting it is useless.

By the way, this is only about a fifth of the creationist/wacko religionist comments I’ve gotten this week.