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Activists Protest Church of Christian Science

MEDICAL NEGLECT IS CHILD ABUSE! JOIN VICTIMS IN PROTEST!!!
June 8 from 11:30-3:30pm
200 Mass Ave., Boston, Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dr. Seth Asser, a pediatrician who is dedicated to the cause of protecting children from medical neglect, CHILD, Inc, the RI skeptics Society and the RI Atheist Society would like to invite you to protest the [...]

will | May 16th, 2009 | Continued

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Not a very bright idea

When Tony Blair first became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, the Sun newspaper, a British tabloid, took to calling him ‘Bambi’, presumably in the hope that the nickname would become established in the public consciousness. It did not, of course, for it lacked any kind of resonance with what people could believe about [...]

Admin | May 9th, 2009 | Continued

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How to Say You Don’t Believe

By Nica Lalli
writer, educator
With the recent publication of the new American Religious Identification Survey, we now know that there is a full 20% of the U.S. population that claims their religious identity as either a “none” (one who identifies as non-religious) or a “don’t know” (one who chooses to not answer the religion question or [...]

Admin | May 7th, 2009 | Continued

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Can robots ever be like humans?

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Can robots ever be like humans?
Simple tasks such as walking and picking up objects are part of everyday life for people, but such mundane tasks still present major challenges for today’s robots.
Researchers are using sensors, cameras and recognition to teach the machines to interact in a way that [...]

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Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
TOPEKA, KS–The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law [...]

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Is Our Brain to Blame If We’re Not Sociable? | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

Is Our Brain to Blame If We’re Not Sociable? | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com
There must be something deep in the human soul that makes us blame fate, birth, our parents and all sorts of other things beyond our control for how we turn out, and scientists are no less guilty of this. [...]

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Ancient termite spilled its guts in amber - Science- msnbc.com

Ancient termite spilled its guts in amber - Science- msnbc.com
One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut.
In what is now the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, the resin fossilized and was buried until it [...]

28May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Red Bull Faces German Ban Following Positive Cocaine Test

Red Bull Faces German Ban Following Positive Cocaine Test - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
BERLIN — Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.
The bans started Friday after [...]

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God is the Creator & Sustainer of Existence

God is the Creator & Sustainer of Existence
A very common attribute of gods in religious traditions around the world is that of creation — our universe, our world, and indeed our very selves often owe their existence to creative acts of the gods. In the Western traditions of philosophical theism, the existence of everything is [...]

26May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Woman who sees Christ in snack may put it on eBay | The Reason Project

Woman who sees Christ in snack may put it on eBay | The Reason Project
Preston Hollow resident Sara Bell recently stopped by this newspaper’s office with a unique discovery: a Cheeto that she thinks looks like Jesus.
Bell came across the strange snack a few weeks ago while she and her husband, Dan, were driving home [...]

26May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Does God Favor Sexual Predators?

Does God Favor Sexual Predators? | Psychology Today Blogs
If you take a look at The New York Post, Fox News, and The Weekly Standard, you’ll get a pretty good sense of who Rupert Murdock is and what he cares about.
Now imagine one very powerful figure is the CEO of three competing companies, each with thousands [...]

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Parents Fuming as Texas Schools Let Gideons Provide Bibles to Students

Parents Fuming as Texas Schools Let Gideons Provide Bibles to Students - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even [...]

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Mother knew diabetic daughter was gravely ill, sister-in-law testifies - JSOnline

Wausau - A mother accused of homicide for only praying while her 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes knew the girl was gravely ill at least a day before she died, her sister-in-law testified Monday.
Susan Neumann of rural Merrill was the first witness to testify in the trial of Leilani Neumann, 41, who is charged [...]

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French court tries Church of Scientology

PARIS - The Church of Scientology could be dissolved in France if it is convicted in a trial that opened Monday in a Paris court, where the group and seven of its French leaders stand charged of organized fraud and illegal pharmaceutical activity.
The group, considered a sect in France, has faced prosecution and difficulties in [...]

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Robot Fish!

A school of these fish that synchronize their movements would be really cool!!
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26May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fascinating Article about the Placebo Effect

Jane D. was a regular visitor to our ER, usually showing up late at night demanding an injection of the narcotic Demerol, the only thing that worked for her severe headaches. One night the staff psychiatrist had the nurse give her an injection of saline instead. It worked! He told Jane she had responded to [...]

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Myth: Religion is Central to Human Existence, Everyone Is Religious

Myth:
Everyone is religious and everyone has a religion because religion is central to human existence. So, atheists have a religion of some sort, even if they deny it.
Response:
For some religious theists, their religion and religious beliefs are so important to them that they can’t imagine anyone being without a religion of some sort. For such [...]

22May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Policing with Inappropriate Force

Evanston, IL— Last month, three police officers in this quiet university town were involved in a shooting incident that left one man, 32-year-old Desrick York, dead with 10 bullets in his body. Mr York was the father of school-age children and considered very much part of the community. He was, according to reports, caught up [...]

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Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan

(CNN)—Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air [...]

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Lawmaker wants to make 2010 ‘Year of the Bible’

When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31, 2009, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) hopes you’ll be ringing in “the Year of the Bible.”
It’s probably just wishful thinking.
Broun’s simple congressional resolution aimed at honoring the Good Book has produced a push-back of biblical proportion in the blogosphere, with critics dismissing it as either unconstitutional or a [...]

22May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Kindle DX

Amazon’s launch of its first dedicated e-reader for newspapers and magazines points to a future when digital and analogue publishing begins to merge.
Nearly double the size of the book giant’s existing e-reader, Amazon’s wireless Kindle DX has adopted a tabloid-like format for ease of reading newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and [...]

9May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Hubble’s new superpowers

When astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis open up the Hubble Space Telescope for its final extreme makeover, much of the work will be aimed at fixing what’s been ailing the world’s premier orbiting observatory. It’ll get fresh batteries and brand-new gyros, and if all goes well, Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope [...]

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‘Faith Fighters’ Developers Launch Sequel to Controversial Game

A team of game developers has put back on its Web site a video game that pits major religious figures such as Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha against one another in head-to-head combat.
On top of that, they have also added a sequel to “Faith Fighters” that “teaches the universal values of tolerance and respect,” though most [...]

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Christian Attorneys Urge Senate to Vote Against ‘Hate Crimes’ Bill

Attorneys at a Christian legal group are urging the U.S. Senate not to pass the expanded “Hate Crimes” bill, which the House this week voted 249-175 in favor of.
The attorneys at the Alliance Defense Fund insist that the bill, H.R. 1913, could severely impede Americans’ constitutional rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression [...]

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It’s Church not Prayer That Makes Us Good

Mike Gerson has a column up today laying out some of the key findings to be featured in Bob Putnam and David Campbell’s upcoming book, “American Grace,” that I mentioned on Wednesday.
In a nutshell, writes Gerson:
Against the expectations of hard-core secularists, Putnam asserts, “religious Americans are nicer, happier, and better citizens.” They are more generous [...]

9May2009 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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