I genuinely like David.
Of course, I also like Attila the Hun, Torquamada and Britney Spears.
He tells it like it was. I mean like it is. No, wait, like it ought to be.
Yeah, that’s it.
I particularly like it when he tees off on the fundies, especially the rabid ones. But I sense the beginnings of a mellowing out with him.
Pity.
As usual, I got beneath you…
I was lame and suffered from moon blindness.
DavidB examined me through the Spectacles of Scientific Supremacy and saw what was wrong. He then waived the Rod of Infallible Skepticism over me three times for redundancy while incanting the Chant of Replicability of Exerimental Data.
My illness flew from my body into the Irate Right Hand of Mikelikesit (which DavidB had produced from the bag where he keeps this evil and powerful totem.)
I was healed!
oh David B, i’m so honored to have gotten an email from you. even though it was in the SDMB moderator order of business, you have shown exemplory performance in your carrying out of such duties. You deserve the engraved silver Zippo! 
Job well done man.
Since a couple of folks have commented, I’d like to elaborate on my post. Religion is the maintaining of a belief which is not due to observations. Atheism is the belief that there is no God. The existance or non-existance of God has never been observed. Therefore, atheism is a religion. I’m not saying that atheism is any better or worse than any other religion, and someone like DavidB can be of great help in squashing the fundies-- I’d love to get my dad into a debate with him sometime. It’s still a religion, though, and he can come on rather strongly at times.
The term for lack of religion, by the way, is agnosticism. An agnostic does not profess to know whether God exists, there being insufficient evidence to reach any conclusion.
Atheism is not a belief system any more than bald is a hair color (yeah, somebody may have used it already, but it’s still true). If I say I have no apples, that doesn’t mean I have apples.
Now, “strong” atheism (the actual assertion that there is no god) is a belief system for the reasons you mentioned – it cannot be proven. However, very few people around here make such strong statements (I can think of one or two only).
Most of us who are referred to as “atheists” are more properly designated agnostics, though probably with atheist leanings. Better yet, “nonbelievers.” This has been discussed in great detail in GD, and that’s where we should go if you want to discuss it more.
Of course, nobody should be either an atheist or an agnostic. They should worship at the First Church of David B. For I am the only deity who actually comes to the masses and converses with them. That is the evidence that I exist, and that I am the one true God.
Now, get back to praising me!
What about Cecil oh wise one?
And I’ll praise ya…
Any one who, when clearing out the piles and piles of books that he has to review for his job, sends me “And Idiot’s Guide to Being Pyschic” is aok by me. (It’s great bathroom reading, btw, along with the Weekly World News!)
I’ve heard he’s hung like a horse.
Initial Entry: Cecil doesn’t converse with the masses as much as I do. But even I worship Cecil. Kind of like Zeus being the head of all gods.
Aha: Not this again. But I’ll welcome you if you send in your dues to the First Church of David B. How’s that?
I think David B is great.
Why, just add lemon juice, parmesean cheese, maple syrup and a dash of pepper, and buddy, you got yourself a meal!
Ha ha. Seriously, he’s one of my favorite posters. He articulates my exact stance damn near every time he posts. I think he’s a little too quick to anger on certain issues, but I guess there’s only so many times you can hear “Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics” without going insane. The most amusing threads on this board involve David B kicking some obnoxious creation scientist ass, IMO.
A new motto!
I would’ve figured “I’ve heard he’s hung like a horse” would have been the obvious .sig/motto pick, David.
Ah, but Gaudere, we know that DavidB. values truth above all else!
Good one, coosa. Maybe it’s just an Urban Legend…
::ducking and running::
you know what’s coming next…
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury (David B.), not to praise him.”
–Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene ii
Gaudere said:
I couldn’t comment, because I’ve never seen a horse up-close enough to know. (Nor do I want to!)