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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 [...]
Islam, Christianity and Buddhism
As occasionally happens, someone has noticed that some people 1) don’t believe in god, and 2) some people buy books on the subject. This is, in the current hysterical climate of ultra-religious fervor that has swept the nation, newsworthy. (see here)
This article proposes to have a quick, inoffensive glance at a little ripple of atheism [...]
Atheists bond during ‘de-baptism’
Belief in God symbolically evaporated when more than a hundred atheists were “de-baptized” with a blow dryer yesterday.
Organizers of the event in Westerville, described as a “coming out party” for atheists, agnostics and humanists, served root beer and crackers with peanut butter and honey to top off the late afternoon ceremony.
“Do you agree that the [...]
Street Evangelist Saves 300 Souls From Enjoying Park
SAN FRANCISCO—Open-air preacher “Brother Sam” Hilson rescued more than 300 of God’s children from appreciating a cloudless spring day at Golden Gate Park Tuesday by informing them of their sins and the swift approach of Judgment Day.
A former building superintendent, Hilson said he was directly called by God to bring Christianity to San Francisco’s unholy [...]
War-Torn Middle East Seeks Solace In Religion
JERUSALEM—As an uneasy truce between Israel and Hezbollah continues, millions of average men and women in the Holy Land are turning to the one simple comfort that has always seen them through the darkest days of their troubled history: the steadfast guidance of their religious faith.
“I take solace in knowing that my faith is a [...]
Stranger in a Strange Land
LIFE ON THE FRINGE
I am a stranger in this curious land. The natives’ peculiar customs and inscrutable beliefs concerning supernatural entities are so strikingly different from my ways that much of what I now experience here I do not comprehend. It is as though I were entirely unprepared to live in this mysterious cultural environment [...]
Various Deities Still Sorting Through Victims Of Tragic Queens Bus Accident
NEW YORK—An emergency coalition of deities from several major world religions is still sorting through the wreckage of a tragic bus accident that claimed 67 lives Friday in the culturally diverse Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.
Enlarge Image Queens residents who, but for the grace of gods, could have been in that bus when [...]
Atheist sees image of big bang in piece of toast
For Immediate Release: Miracle Toast?
(ACPA-london) Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the big-bang in a piece of toast. atheist donald chapman, 36, told local newspaper, “the huddlesfield express” that he was sitting down to eat breakfast when an unusual toast [...]
Have they tried Monster.com ??
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
The Vatican is looking for more exorcists to fight the growing interest in Satanism. CNN’s Alessio Vinci reports.
Friendly Atheist » The Top 50 Atheist Aphorisms
Friendly Atheist » The Top 50 Atheist Aphorisms
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A Chameleon Sky
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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