"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." - P.J. O'Rourke
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There Are No Christians in Foxholes |
| It is an old adage that there are no atheists in foxholes. The idea plays well for theists who believe that in times of extreme pressure people will put their fate in God’s hands and fence sitters and atheists will join in prayer as a means of self preservation. Atheist soldiers have protested this charge and there are websites dedicated to atheists in foxholes. The reality of war, though, is that there are no Christians in foxholes. more... |
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Dissecting Creationism |
| Dissecting Creationism with Harry Tick more... |
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Judaism - Politics and Anti-Semitism |
| Why is it that if I despise Christianity Im just a heretic. If I despise Islam Im just an infidel. But if I despise Judiasm Im an anti-semite racist? Must I be a racist just because I dont subscribe to an archaic religious belief and a bunch of myths about a people chosen specifically by God? more... |
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Banning Evolutionary Theory in Schools: The Upside |
| A Dinosaur Saddles exclusive! Why banning the teaching of evolution in schools isn't always a bad idea. more... |
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Video: The Ten Commandments |
| Just another look at Ten Commandments... It does seem that for a world that uses the Bible as its moral compass, a lot of people don't know how to read the needle. more... |
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Ricky Gervais on Creationism |
| Video definitely worth a good laugh more... |
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Dinosaur Saddles Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame |
| Welcome to Dinosaur Saddles Hall of Fame / Hall of Shame. Some stories are too important to just fade away as the news cycle changes. This is our place to keep these stories alive. more... |
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Christianity and all it's Wonders |
| Yes mother, there are people this stupid. more... |
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Those Crazy Muslims |
| "A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, however selling the meat to the next door village should be fine." - Ayatollah Khomeini more... |
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So This Is Christmas And What Have You Done? |
| John Lennon once asked me in a song, "So this is Christmas, and what have you done?". more... |
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Slowly becoming less Christian (03-24-2009) |
 But "Mormons have increased in numbers enough to hold their own proportionally, at 1.4 percent of the population." That's the verdict of the latest American Religious Identification Survey, which found that "86% of American adults identified as Christians in 1990 and 76% in 2008." That's still 3 out of 4, but the trend is unmistakable. Mormon Metaphysics discussed some of the other findings: 69.5% believe in a personal God; 12.1% believe in The Force (i.e., an impersonal higher power); 4.3% said there is no way to know about God or The Force; and 2.3% said there is no God. That totals 88.2%. Not sure what the other 11.8% believe. Morehead's Musings also posted a very nice discussion of the survey results. more...
Just not fast enough
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Africa: Are World Media Fighting Pope Benedict XVI? (03-24-2009) |
A priest I spoke to last week was so incensed by the media's coverage of Pope Benedict's comments on condoms he wished, jokingly though, that the Vatican would next time bar reporters of a certain international news organization from the papal plane. more...
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Religious Leaders Debate: Can Evolution and God Coexist? (03-24-2009) |
 The Vatican is currently sponsoring a five-day conference on evolution, marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “Origin of Species.” more...
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Overview: The Conflict Between Religion and Evolution (03-23-2009) |
Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Americans are still fighting over evolution. more...
"63 percent of Americans believe that humans and other living things
have either always existed in their present form or have evolved over
time under the guidance of a supreme being."
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Is a Bad Economy Good for Church Attendance? (03-23-2009) |
 Contrary to recent media reports suggesting that the country's economic troubles have led to higher levels of church attendance, a Pew Forum analysis of polls by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has shed over half its value since October 2007, there has been no increase in weekly worship service attendance during the same time period. more...
Even prayers can't help us now.
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Pope in Africa reaffirms "no condoms" against AIDS (03-17-2009) |
Pope Benedict on Tuesday reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS as he started a visit to Africa, where more than 25 million people have died from the disease in recent decades.
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Any wonder why the Catholic Church is losing so many members?
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Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls 'Authors' Never Existed (03-16-2009) |
 Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all - a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship. more...
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Top scientist: don't trust politicians on climate change (03-10-2009) |
 Politicians were willfully ignoring and misunderstanding the science of global warming, a government adviser said today.
John Ashton, who is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's special representative on climate change, warned scientists that they could not trust in the honesty of politicians. more...
Politicians willfully ignorant. Go figure?
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American Religious Identification Survey 2008 (03-09-2009) |
Conducted between February and November of last year, ARIS 2008 is the third in a landmark series of large, nationally representative surveys of U.S. adults in the 48 contiguous states conducted by Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Employing the same research methodology as the 1990 and 2001 surveys, ARIS 2008 questioned 54,461 adults in either English or Spanish. With a margin of error of less than 0.5 percent, it provides the only complete portrait of how contemporary Americans identify themselves religiously, and how that self-identification has changed over the past generation. more...
This is the most complete poll on religion in America. Those calling themselves Christians have dropped from 86% to 76% since 1990. We can thank the idiocracy of the leaders of the religious right for this decline.
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America Is Becoming Less Christian, Less Religious (03-09-2009) |
America is still a predominantly Christian nation, but it's becoming both less Christian and less religious, according to the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey. more...
Just not fast enough
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Zoo chimp 'planned' stone attacks (03-09-2009) |
 A male chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on zoo visitors, according to researchers.
Keepers at Furuvik Zoo found that the chimp collected and stored stones that he would later use as missiles.
Further, the chimp learned to recognise how and when parts of his concrete enclosure could be pulled apart to fashion further projectiles. more...
That's one pissed off chimp. Too close to human emotions to simply dismiss.
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Does God truly exist? A critical review (03-07-2009) |
HE author asserts dogmatically (p.40) that ”it is a fact (universally undeniable truth) that there was an eternal being without whose existence and deliberate decision the universe would have failed to come into existence.” This claim is definitely false, because there is no iota of scientific evidence that supports the actual existence of an eternal being called Yahweh or whatsoever, let alone establishes that the Jewish god is the creator of the universe. As a matter of fact, an increasing number of scientists and non-scientists, with good reasons, believe that the best scientific theory of the universe available today, that is, the Big Bang theory, is closer to the truth than traditional theological accounts of the origin of the universe. more...
"God is my favorite fictional character" - Homer Simpson
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Vatican says Evolution does not prove the non-existence of God (03-06-2009) |
The Vatican has rejected the claim by Richard Dawkins, the biologist and campaigning atheist, that evolutionary theory proves that God does not exist, proclaiming that on the contrary Darwinian evolution and the account of Creation in Genesis are "perfectly compatible". more...
As long as you look at Evolutionary Theory while traveling in a car going 40 miles an hour, the two are compatible.
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Cardinal says atheist's theories "absurd" (03-03-2009) |
ROME (AP) — The Vatican sought Tuesday to show that it isn't opposed to science and evolutionary theory, hosting a conference on Charles Darwin and trying to debunk the idea that it embraces creationism or intelligent design.
Some of the world's top biologists, paleontologists and molecular geneticists joined theologians and philosophers for the five-day seminar marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "The Origin of Species."
Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the Catholic Church doesn't stand in the way of scientific realities like evolution, saying there was a "wide spectrum of room" for belief in both the scientific basis for evolution and faith in God the creator. more...
And the Vatican has been on top of the truth for 2000 years!
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Footprints show human ancestor with modern stride (03-01-2009) |
Footprints found in Kenya that resemble those left in wet sand by beach goers today show that 1.5 million years ago a human ancestor walked like we do with anatomically modern feet, scientists said on Thursday. more...
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James Robertson: Evolutionary theory discredited (02-19-2009) |
Regarding the Banner-Herald's Feb. 8 story headlined "Scholars to hail Darwin at university," Darwinian evolutionary theory has been long discredited. more...
Yes, Dorothy, there are people this stupid.
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Modern science doesn’t support theory of evolution (02-19-2009) |
I couldn’t help but notice the opinion letter published on Thursday, Feb. 12, in which the writer recognized and celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the 19th-century scientist. The recognition of any great scientist or thinker of the past is certainly a valid topic for such a letter and I have no problem with Darwin’s birthday being noted. However, it is disturbing that the “theory” for which Darwin is most recognized, that being the “theory of evolution,” continues to be touted as “fact” in the 21st century. more...
it's always the people who know the least about science that decide what science knows and does not know.
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Christianity and Evolution -- Seeing the Problem (02-16-2009) |
This month marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the debates over science and religion have only intensified over the last two centuries. In particular, evolutionary theory poses a direct challenge to the Christian faith -- if the dominant evolutionary theory and classical biblical Christianity are to be taken at face value.
The conflict between Genesis and evolution is not merely over the "how" as opposed to the "why" of creation. Evolution presents a direct challenge to the entire story-line of the Bible. Efforts to resolve this challenge generally involve a misunderstanding of biblical Christianity, a misunderstanding of evolution, or a misunderstanding of both. more...
This is a Christian who "gets it."
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Forbes gets slapped around some (02-13-2009) |
I was more than a little disappointed when Forbes magazine published the screeds of those ignorant doofii, Ham, Wells, Flannery, West, and Egnor. Now, though, they've also published a broadside from Jerry Coyne that demolishes the five creationists. His primary focus is on Egnor (but just as much could be said against any of them), and he doesn't hold back. more...
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We All Live in Darwin's World (02-11-2009) |
“Survival of the fittest” is helping us understand not only the origin of species but also love, politics, and even the cosmos. more...
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