Pope Benedict, tear down this wall BERKELEY BLOG, by Malcolm Potts, professor of population and family planning All the world knew when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, that a half century of Soviet tyranny was over. Last month Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that the use of a condom might[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Finding the lost tribe
The Book of Genesis has instilled wonder for 3,000 years, now it has been superseded by our ability to read the Deity’s own writing ……. Researchers Reconstructing Genome of Extinct Human Population Using 1000 Genomes Data By Andrea Anderson EXCERPTS MONTREAL (GenomeWeb New[...]
Judea Pearl … Turing Prize
Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. His work has enabled crea[...]
March 12th, 2012 - 8:39 am § in Hypocrisy
Obama’s Religion Still A Campaign Issue: Alabama, Mississippi Voters Believe President Is Muslim
Or ask Mississippi or Alabama voters, and find that less than 15% of Republicans believe Obama is a Christian.[...]
Video: American Hate Speech
[email protected] PLEASE DO NOT LET CHILDREN SEE THIS!! The video is shocking, truly worthy of Nazis. The two congressman show here joined in this Muslim hating spree. I have given you their email addresses, please use them and feel free to link your email back to this post! http://hand[...]
February 28th, 2012 - 12:49 am § in Religion, The Ave Scene
Reconciliation: Faust comes to science.
Scientific Spirit How romantics and technophiles can reconcile our love-hate relationship with scientific progress by Joseph Grosso Published in the March/April 2011 Humanist ShareThis In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, sca[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Turkey holds Bible hostage.
An early copy of the Bible seized in Gaziantep, Turkey. from Today’s Zaman. The book could be a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas — a controversial text which Muslims claim shows that Jesus predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad. The Vatican reportedly placed an official request to [...]
February 24th, 2012 - 12:07 pm § in America
Of Church and State
Mormon Church owns one of most active gun sale sites on web, according to Mayor Bloomberg report Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mormon-church-owns-active-gun-sale-sites-web-mayor-bloomberg-report-article-1.1018385#ixzz1mTjiLSla An undercover investigation released in December [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Article in Scientific American upsets basic theory of genetics.
Jeckyl and Hyde: Each Clone Has a Different Personality, Why? Until now biologists and even theologians have believed that the DNA was the same in all cells. A clone of my fibroblasts could be used to grow me … a twin! The idea is central to two major tenets. In biology we now believe in [&h[...]
Happy Waralda Day!
In this season of Republican extremism, the day after April Fools seems to me to be a good time to remember the myth that the Nazis were atheists. For more on their god Waralda, click here. “Atheism is the only world, or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS… I have not tole[...]