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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Merry Olde England!
I love reading things which take current historical and/or scientific knowledge and totally screw it up, and this fits the bill very nicely. “Flint tools found in an English village show ancient humans settled northern Europe 800,000 years ago, far … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Evidence, History, Science
129 Comments
Fundamentalists from the Inside
by VorJack There have been a number of books recently in which a person with little or no religious sentiment goes to a fundamentalist church or school, just to see what it’s like from the inside. The people involved rarely … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christianity, Fundamentalism
32 Comments
France says no to "cultural" gender suppression.
France’s upper house is set to debate banning the “Islamic” Burka (full face and body veil) in public places. I put “Islamic” in inverted commas because, while I know the Q’ran directs women to be “modest”, I don’t believe it … Continue reading
Myth of Monogomy
by VorJack Psychiatrists Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá have a new book out entitled Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. Ryan blogs about its thesis over at Psychology Today: Biologists distinguish sexual monogamy from social monogamy. As … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Psychology, Sexuality
45 Comments
Double Rainbow! What Does It Mean?!
This video has been circulating the Interwebs for a couple of days, and aside from my hysterical laughter, the only other thing you will hear in my house tonight is “what does it mean?” I’ll tell you what it means: … Continue reading
Another step towards the answer to life, the universe and everything?
Please welcome our friend custador, a long time outspoken commentator here at UF. This is an early result from six months of work from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck telescope – a map of the oldest light visible from … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Pictures, Science
Tagged Astronomy, Big-Bang, Europe, Planck Telescope., Science
24 Comments
Hanging Jesus
by VorJack Help me out here folks, because I’m not sure how I feel about this one. A Swedish scholar named Gunnar Samuelsson has successfully defended his thesis that the Gospels do not clearly describe a crucifixion that matches later … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Current Events, History
179 Comments
Levels of Idolatry
by VorJack Some Christians and former Christians are fond of pointing at the doctrine of biblical innerrancy and calling it idolatry – the act of taking something less than God and making it out to be God. Robert Price is … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Fundamentalism
62 Comments
