Video: “Evolution : Why Sex (PBS)”
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Daily Archives: 08.06.2011
Link: “NASAs Global Climate Change Website”
The following is a link to NASAs Global Climate Change Website. It is located under ‘Tiding Sources’ on the Main Sidebar to this blog; however, I thought it worthy of mention in a post. Way cool, enjoy!
Article: “Climate Change: How Do We Know?”
“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.”
~ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Poem: Homo sapiens
By Madison S. Hughes (02.28.2011)
No better than beast they be,
Those Homo sapiens, you and me.
Quote: Denis Diderot
The Christian religion: the most absurd in its dogmas, the most unintelligible, the most insipid, the most gloomy, the most Gothic, the most puerile.
Video: Richard Dawkins, “Should Doctors be Darwinian?”
Professor Richard Dawkins visited Science World 2011 and presented some challenging new ideas about medicine and evolution to a packed out audience. Professor Dawkins is Vice President of the British Humanist Association and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering.
Article: “Fox News Viewers Want to Kill Atheists”
If you’re an atheist, there are people out there in America–sincere, devout Christians–who want to kill you.They may be your neighbors. They may be your coworkers. They may even be members of your own family. […] The extremism among America’s conservatives is growing, not shrinking, and the threat they pose to their neighbors is also growing.
Video: “Barry Lynn Talks on MSNBC About AU’s Response to Rick Perry’s Fundamentalist Christian Rally”
AU’s Executive Director Rev. Barry Lynn appears on MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to comment on Rick Perry’s fundamentalist Christian prayer rally this weekend, and Americans United’s own inclusive event the night before — The ‘Family, Faith and Freedom’ Celebration.
Article: “House Of Representatives Appoints Catholic Priest To Be New Chaplain”
The new chaplain will he paid $178,000 annually, most of which, Conroy says, will be turned over to the Jesuits. […] Americans United and other organizations have argued that the chaplain’s position is a violation of church-state separation and have pushed to have it abolished.
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