The Dead Sea Scrolls

While at the library the other day, I saw a book titled, “The Dead Sea Scrolls. Questions and Responses for Latter-Day Saints”. I was curious, so I began flipping through it. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a bunch of scrolls found a few decades ago in Israel in some caves near the Dead [...]

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WND: Everything that is was created 6,010 years ago TODAY!

Quite a few people have been commenting on this article from the WND: “Everything that is was created 6,010 years ago TODAY!” (By the way, they just changed the title of the article to much more non-committal “Historian: World was created 6010 years ago”.)
I just think you need to read this article in its [...]

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Whales and Intelligent Design

We are surrounded by evidence of intelligent design. Take but one example: the suckling mechanism of the whale. The whale is a mammal which suckles its young underwater. It does so by means of a watertight cap around the mother’s nipple which fits tightly around the baby’s snout so as not to allow the entrance [...]

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Wealth and Religiosity

In a larger article on global attitudes, Liberally, Mirth has this graphic:

(Oil rich) Kuwait and the US appears to stand out from the curve as being wealthy and religious. One thing that I did note, though, was that they only have six nations in “West Europe” and six nations in “East Europe”. I [...]

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Conversation with Ismael (a Muslim)

There’s a guy who comes into one of the local coffeeshops – 40ish, a businessman, and speaks with a foreign accent. I had met him a few months ago. I didn’t know he was a Muslim until a few weeks ago when he mentioned fasting for Ramadan. Last night, I was working [...]

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Are comedians more likely to be atheist/agnostic?

I was just thinking about the number of comedians who are atheists or agnostics. I wonder if it’s significantly higher than the general population.
Louie CK: “Louis CK learns about the Catholic Church”

George Carlin: “When it comes to bullshit … you have to stand in awe of religion”

Bill [...]

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Mother of the Year

’nuff said.

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So, you’re a chi master?

You can hit people from a distance with mystical chi power, but, for some reason, it only works on your own students (resulting in an embarrassing loss to an MMA fighter who seems impervious to your attacks). Then, you use chi power to harden your skin against the strikes of a blade [...]

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Larry Moran, Dembski, and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

Larry Moran and The Pandas Thumb has some comments on a video of one of Dembski’s speeches.

It’s kind of hard to watch him speak because he just seems so uncomfortable and nervous. Maybe some of it is just the fact that he can’t talk about evolutionists without getting angry. [...]

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Dinosaur Denialist

There is a tension between straight-forward reading of the Bible and the Old-Earth, Evolutionary, Naturalistic explanations of life. Because of this, lots of religious people have gravitated towards explanations of the world which discredit evolution and support Biblical Literalism or God-Intervened-Here. Over time, religious people have tended to attach themselves to the more [...]

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