“BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS NOT FROM AMERICA, IS A TERRORIST AND A MUSLIM!” Shout McCain-Palin. Man, these guys have reached an all-time low, even for the GOP. They are trying to distract us from thinking about the economy. At a Florida GOP rally, a Sheriff in full black regalia announced…
Yes, John McCain. We know quite well who you are, and we don't want anyone with your ego and your temper to have the power to fire American nuclear weapons. While we're on the issue of violence, are you consciously trying to get one of your enraged followers to inflict…
Discussions in the comment sections of many posts on this site chaotically tend toward the strange attractor of one generally off-topic issue: Why does Creation/Evolution seem correct to you? It is usually a discussion between Creationists who believe that the scientific conclusions are based on faith, and Naturalists who believe that the Scientific Method is best tool ever invented to extract sense from chaos.
In the beginning, Natural Philosophers (now called Scientists) in the West all believed in the Bible. Bishop Ussher gave the final word on the age of the universe according to the Bible in the early 1600’s, and the Church had all the answers. But then the idea emerged that one can actually test Aristotelian conclusions (purely rational and based on “what everybody knows”) with observations. Copernicus demonstrated with careful observation and applied math around 1600 that only the moon itself orbited the Earth, and all the other planets circled the Sun. The church accepted this, as a philosophical observation, irrelevant to the place of Man in the Universe. Then Galileo made a gadfly of himself by publishing popular books mocking the Pope for publicly continuing in the preaching of Geocentrism when it was clear, with the aid of a telescope, that not only did the planets orbit the sun, but that some of those planets had moons of their own. Many moons, placed where Man couldn’t even see them without modern technology.
Well, it just snowballed from there. Newton, a devout Christian, developed math in …
There is a serious side to defecation--you know, "poop." This serious story has to do with both safety and disease. Did you know that diarrhea kills a child every fifteen seconds? All of a sudden, poop is not such a laughing matter. After you read this well-researched article by…
Remember, John McCain is the "maverick." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwNvSW1Ge4M&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/[/youtube] via Andrew Sullivan's newly redesigned Daily Dish.