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• Ideas about humanity’s fate are still evolving

  Thu Mar 6, 2008
  • You think all creatures, include single-celled organisms, grieve for lost loved ones? A lot of creatures don't even meet their parents, and mate randomly. Even human children don't understand death at first; therefore they do not fear it.

• Obama's Nonbeliever Nod Unsettles Some

  Sat Jan 24, 2009
  • So Obama is criticized for being accepting of all Americans. And as for the criticism that he is redefining American culture to include all religions: Sorry, but this is not a Christian nation. We have no theocracy, only the fact that early settlers were Christians.

• Babies, Babies, Babies

  Sat Dec 27, 2008
  • "But who is there to do it? No successful teen mother, like Spears, would risk being viewed as an ungrateful mother, and lose her image as a happy, responsible parent, by coming forth and encouraging contraception and caution to avoid pregnancy"

• It's A Narnia Christmas

  Mon Dec 22, 2008
  • Yet even the Yuletide customs that are supposedly pagan holdovers must be taken with a grain of salt....In recent years, popular histories like “The Battle for Christmas” and “Inventing Christmas,” have shown that many of the holiday’s most hallowed …

• Student Who Created Facebook Group Critical of Teacher Sues High School Over Suspension

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • "She has the absolute First Amendment right to do this," Bavaro said. "The question is how far does the school's authority go to punish off-campus speech they don't like? If Katie had praised the teacher, would she have been punished? The school is judging what is appropriate speech."

• Response to Atheist Sign at Wash. Capitol

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Why not give Christians their holiday season to display their beliefs freely, and then post those signs of dis-belief at another time of the year. Equal rights to display your point of view doesn't mean it needs to happen at the same time, especially if they are conflicting.

• Response to Atheist Sign at Wash. Capitol

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Does anyone actually believe it was not put up to stir the pot? Try to keep a straight face when you say they genuinely wanted to put up a holiday display. Exactly, Justme, exactly.

• Mystery Pyramid Built by Newfound Ancient Culture?

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • While an exciting discovery, archaeologists have jumped to name new cultures before, and later realized the artifacts had been imported or misidentified with a particular time and place...

• Sally Kern's Husband: Force Gays into Re-education Camps!

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • Sickening. And also a cry for attention. "The gays are threatening me!" Please.

• Neurophilosophy : The body swap illusion

  Wed Dec 10, 2008
  • A long time ago, a children's science encyclopedia I had mentioned the effort of some biologists to include another sense among the usual 5: the body-awareness sense.