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Amended the opening post. If we reach our goal before April 30, the thread will remain pinned. Anything that keeps coming in will be handled by Pawtucket. My belief is he should consider it a reimbursement for 16 years of doing this on his own. We do kind of owe the guy. But Paw says he'll just apply it to the monthly service fee and pay ahead. In other words, the more we raise now, the less we have to ask next time around. Imagine next year's fundraiser goal... ZERO! That would be nice.

We are at 60 percent!

Can't help you there, waysider. No idea what's going on. So far we're at or near $600, which is awesome. You have paid for the upgrades and taking the financial burden off of Paw for a few months. Our goal is to take the burden off him for a full year, which is why I calculated $1,500. (An earlier calculation of $2,500 was based on an error on my part, for which I apologize. The goal is $1,500. We are 40% of the way there! Pawtucket, by the way, is duly impressed and appreciative.

Deadpool.

Wow. I'm humbled. Thank you. I'll ask Paw for a tally. If he's online now, I'll have an answer shortly.

I wanted to add something here: Pawtucket did not ask me to do this. I did it because I offered to help and, when I found out what the numbers were, I realized that my ability to contribute would not be enough to make a meaningful dent. But if we all did, we could. We're not quite at $200 yet. We're aiming for $1,500. Let's see how far we can get today. I will say that $300 would pay for the new server and upgraded software (ie, fewer site crashes). So let's see if we can get to $300 by the end of the day. Thanks.

If you pledged support, we're counting on you!

Looks like I misunderstood what Paw said. Our fundraising goal should be $1,500, not $2,500. Will edit the opening post.

More! More! By all means, chime in once you've donated!

Guys, let's stay on topic and move this worthwhile conversation to another thread. Not that I have a problem with the digression, but it is an interesting conversation and no one would ever know to look for it on a thread called Atheist FAQ.

MRAP, Could you point to any posts that do not address the topic of the thread?

William H Macy

Since shedding my belief in God, I find that I am more troubled by acts of violence in general, especially when innocent children are the victims. And my heart absolutely breaks when thinking of natural disasters.

The Passion of the Christ

Isn't he the guy you get when you can't afford Willem Dafoe?

That would be Murphy Brown

I don't wish to be rude, but when you start a thread about science and Genesis, you kind of unhinged the door and threw it away.

Yeah. That's why the final episode was one of its most watched. But ok. Yes, the mother was not seen until the last moments of the last episode of season 8. The scenes with the daughter had all been filmed 7-8 years earlier. By the time the mother was cast, the daughter was nearly the same age as the actress playing the mother.

I think God passed gas to start the universe. How does science account for that assumption? It's a nonsense question.

MRAP, This thread has not gone off topic. Please stop saying it has.

Deep six the science. Yeah, you do that.

The title of the show refers to an incident audiences do not witness until the last episode of the series.

Of course. But Egypt existed independently of the false narrative contained in Genesis and especially Exodus. In Genesis, camels exist. In fact, they were domesticated in Genesis, which is a really neat trick because in real life, camels weren't domesticated in that region until centuries after the events asserted. If I wrote a novel in which Abraham Lincoln watched CNN, it would not be considered a documentary just because CNN exists. Nor does science have to account for the assumptions in Genesis just because Egypt and camels exist.

You're asking about science. In that vein, nothing you're talking about has a shred of evidence to support it. Science need not account for it because there is no "it" to account for.

The word is "legendary," interrupted by the words "wait for it." It's going to be legen.... wait for it... Next season: DARY!