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This weeks music video goes out to you, my friends, my fellow wonder junkies:
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by DarkSyde on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 01:35:36 AM PDT
that's a keeper.
by eeff on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 01:59:34 AM PDT
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John McCain "Beware the terrible simplifiers" Jacob Burckhardt, Historian
by notquitedelilah on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 03:45:35 AM PDT
movie Expelled under the user comments at http://www.imdb.com/...
Perhaps the most shocking thing about this film is its blatant attempt to link evolution to the holocaust and the Nazis. Let's set aside for a moment the fact that eugenics and the tactics the Nazis employed were more reminiscent of selective breeding, something humans have been doing with domesticated animals and plants for many, many centuries, long before proper understanding of the mechanisms behind selective breeding came to light in the 19th century when Wallace and Darwin introduced theories of evolution via natural selection. This attempt to link evolution to the holocaust begs the question: WHAT on earth does this have to do with evolution as a valid scientific theory? If people misuse gravity to throw people off tall buildings with the intent to kill them, does this mean gravity itself should be rejected as science? It's merely a cheap tactic to sour people to evolution, and to see this and know that some people will be completely taken in by such shallow, emotional manipulation really disappoints me.
Thou shalt not kill except for a long list of good reasons is like saying you should not covet your neighbor's wife unless she's hot.
by FudgeFighter on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 03:50:51 AM PDT
http://atheism.about.com/...
Hitler invokes God throughout Mein Kampf
by bernardpliers on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 09:12:26 AM PDT
before and after him, was merely using religion to further his cause. It is unlikely that he was a true believer as apparently he had plans to wipe out traditional Christianity.
by Wings Like Eagles on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 11:03:01 AM PDT
before and after him, was merely using religion to further his cause. It is unlikely that he was a true believer
by bernardpliers on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 11:26:51 AM PDT
by Wings Like Eagles on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 11:39:21 AM PDT
it's 10am and I am still in bed!
New Frame: McCain thinks he is entitled to the presidency, and will say anything to get what he thinks he is owed.
by coigue on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 10:09:23 AM PDT
wide narrow
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