ScienceDaily (Feb. 29, 2008) — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of "handedness" in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry "handedness" in a larger number than previously thought. |
Friday, February 29, 2008
Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered
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Labels: Science
What has happened to the country Jefferson built?
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Labels: Christian Hate
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
How evolution works
So easy a child, or maybe even a fundy, can understand it. |
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Labels: Evolution
Monday, February 25, 2008
Death to Americans United for Separation of Church and State!
The occasion for Drake's calling the wrath of God down on AU and its staff was an AU complaint filed against Wiley's church for endorsing Mike Huckabee (also an SBC minister) for president -- on church letterhead in flagrant violation of the federal tax laws. Drake followed-up with his endorsement on his church connected radio show with a Huckabee representative on hand. Drake singled out Conn and Leaming because their names appear on the press release announcing AU's action. The bizarre and sensational actions by Rev. Drake are already making national news. In light of the recent attack from the enemies of God I ask the children of God to go into action with Imprecatory Prayer. Especially against Americans United for Separation of Church and State. I made an attempt to go to them via Matt 18:15 but they refused to talk to me. Specifically target Joe Conn or Jeremy Learing. They are those who lead the attack. (You can see their press release attack at www.au.org.) Here is part of the press release that caught Drake's ire:
In a complaint to the IRS, Americans United's Lynn said Dr. Wiley S. Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, issued a press release Aug. 11 endorsing Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. AU issued a further press release denouncing Drake's call for the death of its staff rather than deal with the substance of the issue. AU notes that Drake also left a mesage in Barry Lynn's voice mail box stating that he had been urging his supporters to pray for God to punish Lynn as well, and would continue to do so.
In a section of his press release called "How To Pray," Drake includes a long list of biblical citations that call on God to smite enemies. For example, the alleged enemies of God "shall be judged," "condemned," and "his days be few...." Additionally, supporters should pray that the enemy's "children be fatherless, and his wife a widow," and "his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek bread also out of their desolate places." It is worth noting that Rev. Drake has been associated with the violently antiabortion Army of God -- an association he now denies. However, his name appeared for years on the Army of God web site endorsing James Kopp's assasination of abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian. (It has since been scrubbed.) Drake also maintained a close relationship with the late Robert Ferguson, who the Army of God considers to be a "Hero of the Faith," along side James Kopp and other convicted criminals. While these involvements are not incidental, what Drake means by calling down the wrath of god against his "enemies" is the main question here. There is helpful discussion of what Drake might mean by his call for "imprecatory prayer;" written by a Christian reconstructionist and past president of the National Reform Association, the openly theocratic Jeff Ziegler, in a back issue of The Forerunner. In it, he discusses what is meant by the Biblical verses Drake invokes in his press release. Here is a brief excerpt explaining the verse highlighted by Drake -- who points to the imprecatory prayers uttered by King David in the 109th Psalm. Ziegler discusses:
...the lawbreaker as one who under the crushing weight of Divine wrath, becomes chaff driven by the wind, who cannot endure the judgement and will by virtue of his wickedness, perish from the earth. OK. So, Americans United files a complaint with the IRS alleging possible violations of the federal tax exemption by Wiley and his church. The IRS, of course, may or may not find against Wiley's church, and if they did, the sanction, if history is any guide, would no doubt be mild. Probabably a promise not to do it again. But those government employees who do their job and investigate the hubris driven actions of Wiley Drake will probably want to keep in mind that anyone who crosses Rev. Drake is, in his book -- an "enemy of God." |
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Labels: Christian Hate, Theocracy Watch
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Intelligent People Tend To Be More Secular.
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Labels: Answering Myths about Atheists
Bart Ehrman's New Book: God's Problem
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Labels: Bart Ehrman, Book Recommendation
Life in a Theocracy
Pakistan blocks YouTube website:
Its telecommunications authority ordered internet service providers to block the site until further notice. Reports said the content included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have outraged many. But one report said a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which portrays Islam in a negative light, was behind the ban. "They asked us to ban it immediately... and the order says the ban will continue until further notice," said Wahaj-us-Siraj, convener of the Association of Pakistan Internet Service Providers. "Users are quite upset. They're screaming at ISPs which can't do anything. "The government has valid reason for that, but they have to find a better way of doing it. If we continue blocking popular websites, people will stop using the internet." Other countries that have temporarily blocked access to YouTube include Turkey and Thailand. |
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Labels: Islam, Theocracy Watch
Friday, February 22, 2008
Brain cells tied to consciousness reported found
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Labels: Science
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Where are all the Black Atheists?
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Labels: Actvism
How they Deal with Muslim Radicals Down under
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CHILD EVANGELISM - SICK!!!
This film by BAFTA award-winning director Amelia Hann, follows these pint-size preachers as they go about their missionary work spreading the word to 'drunkards, adulterers and thieves' and uncovers the unsettling and often disturbing truth behind child evangelism. |
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Labels: Child Abuse, Crazy Fundies, Movie
Jesus found.... yet again - Got Wood?
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Labels: Crazy Fundies
101 Atheist quotes
1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw |
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Labels: Quotes
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Crazy Fundy goes nuts in coffee shop
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Labels: Crazy Fundies
Saturday, February 16, 2008
The "good" ole BIble
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Labels: Bible
Penn and Teller; The Bible is bullshit:
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Labels: Penn andTeller
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Real Difference Between Us
Christian beliefs vs. atheist beliefs
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Labels: Answering Myths about Atheists
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Richard Dawkins – “Growing up in the Universe“
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Labels: Movie, Richard Dawkins
Hitchens debates Rabbi Scmuli
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Labels: Christopher Hitchens, Debates
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Creationist “University” - Hovind's Alma Mater lol!!! Seriously
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Labels: Crazy Fundies, Creationism, Kent Hovind
DON'T let Jesus Take the Wheel
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Labels: Comedy Jesus, Humor
The Father of the American Revolution. Thomas Paine.
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Labels: Thomas Paine
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Richard Dawkins with Douglas Adams
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Labels: Humor, Richard Dawkins
Mormon Magic Underwear - lol
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Labels: Crazy Fundies, Mormonism
Monday, February 11, 2008
Dawkins on Genocide in the BIble
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Labels: Bible, Richard Dawkins
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Dangers of False Comfort - Everything's Cool
Everything’s Cool Directed by Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold Working Films 2007, 100 minutes Everything’s Cool, an award-winning documentary, is playing in New York and Los Angeles. If it’s not playing at a theater near you, find out how you can host a screening in your own community. About the Film After two decades of research, computer modeling, and miles of ancient glaciers melting away, most scientists around the world agree that human behavior is causing global warming and it is happening faster than ever anticipated. Policymakers around the globe are now more than ever looking incredulously at the United States and waiting for some action; if the U.S. as a nation and a government does not aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, the problem of climate change will eventually dwarf all other economic and social problems. Inaction by the U.S. places everyone else on the planet in jeopardy. The good news is that many leaders of the industrialized world are finally focusing on strategies for a low-carbon future. The bad news is that here in America, while Al Gore has certainly put a respectable dent in the impenetrable wall of American denial about climate change, there is still no federal strategy on the issue and the only energy bill on the table lavishes billions of dollars on the very industries that are the source of the pollution and problem. The people of the United States and millions of not-yet-born future citizens are in very deep trouble. Enter Everything’s Cool, a “toxic comedy” about global warming coming to America. Filmmaker’s Statement “For fifteen years now, some small percentage of the world’s scientists and diplomats and activists has inhabited one of those strange dreams where the dreamer desperately needs to warn someone about something bad and imminent; but somehow, no matter how hard he shouts, the other person in the dream—standing smiling, perhaps, with his back to an oncoming train—can’t hear him. This group, this small percentage, knows that the world is about to change more profoundly than at any time in the history of human civilization. And yet, so far, all they have achieved is to add another line to the long list of human problems—people think about global warming in the way they think about violence on television or growing trade deficits, as a marginal concern to them, if a concern at all.”—Bill McKibben, 2003 |
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Labels: Crazy Fundies, Documentary, Global Warming, The fruits of Christianity
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory
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Labels: Science