The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra

Shermer and Chopra traded articles at Skeptic Magazine, but they really didn't communicate.  Shermer got me on board with comments like this: Here is the reality. It has been estimated that in the last 50,000 years about 106 billion humans were born. Of the 100 billion people born before the…

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“Rapture Wreaks Havoc On Local Book Club”

Anyone familiar with The Onion already knows the publisher of this sad story.  The headlines are often the best part of the story, and that's not to sleight the stories. Or check out this story:  "MLB No Longer Accepting New Players" I don't know how those guys do it so well…

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Carl Sagan on the failure of many religions to consider the rest of the universe

Carl Sagan's new article can be found in the March/April 2007 edition of Skeptical Inquirer.  It is titled "Science's Vast Cosmic Perspective Eludes Religion." Well, okay.  As you know, Carl Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996.  This "new" article was actually prepared by Ann Druyan, based on lectures Sagan gave…

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A brain? No thanks, God.

No further comment necessary, right?  Except that I'm publishing the above image with the express permission of Pixwit.com.   Oh, and one other thing.  Don't overlook your chance to earn $1,000,000 by participating in Pixwit's "Miracle Challenge."  If you win, just send me my 10% finders' fee.   Oh, and there's that…

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Electing a person of competence over a “person of faith”

Mitt Romney proudly stood up for himself today. He boldly told a large Florida crowd what kind of president we need to elect in 2008: "One of the great things about this land is that we have people of different faiths and different religions, but we need to have a person…

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