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Please, do this some more
There is a wonderful program in place at a bible camp in Massachusetts: the children get phone calls… from God . He tells the kids to proselytize for him, to be just like Jesus, and if they’re really, really good, that he’ll swoop in some day on his magic sleigh and harvest their souls to bring to heaven with him (OK, that last bit is an extrapolation). I like this plan, though.
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Got throat cancer? You must not have been breathing right
Here’s a swami with his magic breathing advice for coping with throat cancer.
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Got throat cancer? You must not have been breathing right
ICR surrenders in one battle
The Institute for Creation Research had been trying to get approval from the state of Texas to offer graduate degrees in science education — they failed. Now they have actually publicly admitted defeat , which is gratifying to see. So we won’t be seeing a wave of teachers with master’s degrees in science ed and absolutely no science training emerging from the state
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ICR surrenders in one battle
James Lee, Discovery Headquarters Terrorist and Atheist
It appears that a some nutball atheist has committed an act of terrorism. It is easy to imagine what would have appeared on atheist blogs if James Lee, who took hostages in the Discovery Channel headquarters, had issued demands that the station change its programming to provide more “creationist” or other fundamentalist religious programming. A substantial number of atheist blogs would have then written posts saying, “See how evil religion is that it is responsible for stuff like this.” However, it seems that James Lee was an atheist – somebody quite convinced that, on Darwinian and Malthusian terms, we are sewing the seeds of our own destruction and who wanted to put an end to it
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James Lee, Discovery Headquarters Terrorist and Atheist
Hawking can’t possibly be right until his results have been confirmed in an online poll
From the Guardian: Is physicist Stephen Hawking right that physics, not God, created the universe? 81.3% Yes.
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Hawking can’t possibly be right until his results have been confirmed in an online poll
I don’t like the Manhattan mosque, but they’ve got the right — as long as I’ve got the right to point and laugh
I’ve been in a bit of a fog for the last few weeks, and am just now catching up on the noise about the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”, and I have to say I’m a bit disappointed in Hitchens. He rightly points out that most of the opposition is base, stupid demagoguery and racism, but then he offers his own reasons why the construction is problematic . They are that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the building, holds odious and undemocratic views, and that encouraging Muslims leads to their attempts to impose their rather unpleasant moralistic views on their neighbors
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I don’t like the Manhattan mosque, but they’ve got the right — as long as I’ve got the right to point and laugh
Shouldn’t someone ask the Dakotans?
BigThink has been having a Month of Dangerous Ideas , in which each day they publish a pro and con for a provocative idea, like “Tax Fat People” or “Mandatory Bible Study” (promoted to make people more moral, believe it or not), from which you’d get the impression it was mainly a month of stupid ideas.
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Shouldn’t someone ask the Dakotans?
What is this abomination called knol?
I’d never heard of knol before, but apparently it was Google’s attempt at creating a competitor to Wikipedia . Wikipedia has its flaws, but wow, it was revealing to see the alternative: knol is awful . It was brought to my attention because it is infested with woo
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What is this abomination called knol?
“to qualify young men for the gallows, and young women for the brothel”
A reader, Sam, sent some fascinating excerpts from a court decision in 1824, Updegraph v. Commonwealth
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“to qualify young men for the gallows, and young women for the brothel”