When Nature Attacks: Lake Nyos

We’re all familiar with the problem of “natural evil” and the problems it poses for a benevolent creator god. We all know about earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and so on. But, I recently heard about a bizarre natural disaster that happened back in 1986. Lake Nyos is located in central Africa. A pocket of magma leaks [...]

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Picture of the Day: Ants Attack A Centipede

[Via io9] This is a picture of an ant stinging a centipede. The stinger isn’t just randomly inserted into the centipede’s head. These ants are specialist predators of centipedes, and its venom paralyzes the centipede’s brain. The ant will then drag the centipede back to its nest where ant larvae can eat it. I can’t [...]

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Muslim Demographics

Common Sense Atheism linked to a video the other day about fertility rates in Europe and in Muslim countries. The point of the video is to say that Europe will be predominantly Muslim within fifty years or less, as a result of low birthrates among native Europeans and high birthrates among Muslim immigrants. I’ve seen [...]

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100 Days of Fair and Balanced

Fits quite nicely with the Daily Show clip posted a few days ago.

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