In a great victory for history, a very rare 19th century MP3 has been recovered which documents a moment in Charles Darwin’s domestic life. It seems that there was a bit of unreported conflict between them… Read the comments on this post…
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Mmmm…boiled beef and cabbage…
Alayna Wyland is 7 months old, and she is suffering . The area started swelling, and the fast-growing mass of blood vessels, known as a hemangioma, eventually caused her eye to swell shut and pushed the eyeball down and outward and started eroding the eye socket bone around the eye. There are pictures at the link.
Wait, wait, this story makes no sense . A gay netball coach fired from a Christchurch Christian school has gained compensation and an apology
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Things that are backwards
A member of the studio audience has asked that I comment on the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life , a product of the World Atheist Conference: God and Politics. Today: Proposition 11: We support the right to secular education, and assert the need for education in critical thinking and the distinction between faith and reason as a guide to knowledge, and in the diversity of religious beliefs [9].
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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life – Part 11
There are now a few more details on the story of the dog given a communion wafer : the dog’s name is Trapper, the majority of the congregation was happy to see him get a cracker, it’s just one person who complained, and now dogs have been officially excommunicated from the church . And this is exactly why I despise the so-called “moderate” Christians
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Because even the moderate, liberal Christians think God is more important than a dog
As some of you know, there was a long-running contretemps at Chris Mooney’s Intersocktion blog — Mooney took a comment by someone named “Tom Johnson” as evidence that the New Atheists were inciting all kinds of destructive fury and ran with it, promoting it as a solid strike against the same targets he took on in his sad little book, Unscientific America . Then it turned out that much of the conversation on this topic at the Intersocktion was driven by this same fellow, who was posting under multiple pseudonyms
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“Tom Johnson” fini
Today it’s family day with a mob of Myerses hanging about and bickering opinonatedly at a picnic. You aren’t invited unless you can show evidence of a recent family relationship; showing evidence that all primates are related is nice, but won’t get you in the door.
We’re happier out of a straitjacket than in one. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
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Sunday Sacrilege: Unorthodoxy
This is disgraceful. A reader sent me a link to a Target catalog, and apparently they’re now selling a Li’l PZ Action Set
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Target teaches irreverence!
The participants in the exhausting thread are hereby ordered to explain this impossible phenomenon: rainbows. I don’t wanna hear any of your crazy Newton talk and refraction and water droplets, neither. (via The Skeptic’s Field Guide ) (Current totals: 10,691 entries with 1,066,521 comments.) Read the comments on this post..
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Episode LXXXIII: Rainbow. How the #$&* do they work?