Thursday, November 29, 2007

Texas Education Agency director of science curriculum fired for announcing Barbara Forrest talk

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Chris Comer, the director of science curriculum for the Texas Education Agency, was forced to resign from her position. Her offense? Forwa...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Theists and atheists less depressed than agnostics?

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A letter in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine suggests that theism and atheism are both correlated with "fewer reported depres...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Sunday School for Atheists

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The November 21, 2007 issue of Time magazine includes a story titled "Sunday School for Atheists," about how the Humanist Commun...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Fake weeping Virgin Mary painting

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I wish I had seen this before my Channel 3 News interview about a similar painting coming to Phoenix . From Associated Press, September 19, ...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

The Rise of Pentecostalism and the Economist Religion Wars issue

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In 1901, Bible college students at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas prayed to be baptized by the Holy Spirit. ...
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"Surfer dude" comes up with unified theory

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The Telegraph reports on a "surfer dude" (who happens to have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. though he spends his time surfing an...
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Prohibition creates profitable black markets

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As this story from the Boulder Weekly shows . (This link is to a copy since the Boulder Weekly's website has a database issue at the mo...

Discovery Institute loses, gains a Fellow

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When law professor (and President of the Evangelical Theological Society) Francis Beckwith converted from evangelical Christianity to Catho...
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Discovery Institute steals content and presents it as their own

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ERV has found that William Dembski (and apparently other DI fellows) have misappropriated a computer animated video of the cell from Harvard...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Earth setting as seen from lunar orbit

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Some nice high-definition video images have been taken by the Japanese lunar orbiter "Kaguya," showing the earth setting behind t...