(youtube video) Richard Dawkins: The Movie [Part I] April 29, 2008
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(Controversial Youtube Video) What Richard Dawkins doesnt want you to know about his future plans. Christians must watch! April 28, 2008
Posted by aegisofreason in atheism, evolution, richard dawkins.Tags: angel, answers in genesis, atheist, ben stein, bible, christianity, controversy, crusade, current events, evil, evolution, expelled, faith, funny, genesis, god, intelligent design, invasion, jesus, joy, life, lucifer, militan atheism, militant atheist, news, politics, recruitment, religion, richard dawkins, satan, science, video, war, youtube
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There is yet to be an official responce from Richard Dawkins or the Richard Dawkins foundation.
Current Science News: Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear April 28, 2008
Posted by aegisofreason in Uncategorized.Tags: anthropology, apes, biology, evolution, news, Orangutan, religion, science
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I love this picture.
A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.
It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.
The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers’ shops.
“Orang hutan” means “forest man” in one of Indonesia’s many languages and our long-armed cousins do indeed show a remarkable ability to mimic our behaviour.
This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.
Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.
The image is part of a series taken for a new book, The Thinkers Of The Jungle, which also includes the first photograph of an orangutan swimming.
Click HERE for the source.
Atheist Money: Richard Dawkins 20 Pound notes April 27, 2008
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(Video) Richard Dawkins volunteering to participate in Persinger’s experiment to experience god. April 27, 2008
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Dawkins- “If i were to turn into a deeply religious believer, my wife has threatened to leave me.”
LOL, Enjoy.
(Current events) Victory for Science Education in Texas: ‘Creationism is fine, just don’t call it science’ April 25, 2008
Posted by aegisofreason in news.Tags: atheism, austin, bible, biology, christianity, creation, creationism, current events, education, evolution, intelligent design, jesus, life, news, politics, raymund paredes, religion, science, secularism, texas
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Creationism is fine, just don’t call it science
Texas may not be the next Kansas after all. The state’s Higher Education Coordinating Board voted Thursday to deny a biblically based institution the right to offer online graduate degrees in science education.
We applaud the board for setting this precedent in what will surely be a long series of battles involving science education in Texas. After the wars over the teaching of both evolution and intelligent design that have splintered Kansas for the past nine years, Texans can breathe at least a momentary sigh of relief.
The Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research, which sought coordinating board approval for an online master’s degree in science, lacked many of the standards required of other universities to award degrees. Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes said that the institute, by insisting on a literal interpretation of Bible’s creation story, would fail to prepare students adequately for the field of science education.
The decision follows both Paredes’ recommendation and a unanimous vote Wednesday by a coordinating board panel to deny the institute’s petition. The proposed degree became an issue because a coordinating board advisory committee last year recommended approving the course of study. Paredes has said the advisory committee’s review process was flawed.
Dedicated learning in its many forms is generally wonderful. But course work must be labeled correctly. The state is right to require that a graduate degree in creation studies, which the Institute of Creation Research offers, be called what it is - a degree in religion, not science.
State education officials should continue to keep religion separate from science as they debate and make final changes to the state’s science curriculum this summer. Just as a graduate degree in science education shouldn’t have a religious base, creationism should remain separate from elementary, middle and high school science education.
Once the State Board of Education approves a public school science curriculum, it will begin selecting new science textbooks. Texas has immense power in the textbook arena because it is the second-largest state, after California, to choose its books on a statewide basis. Textbook publishers tend to sell a Texas version of their books, depending on what the state deems acceptable. Many other states, in turn, adopt the Texas books for their students.
Texas officials must use their power over course curriculum and textbooks in responsible ways to ensure that Texas students receive the best science education possible. Failure to do that diminishes the ability of Texas students to compete nationally.
Paredes and the coordinating board took a correct and principled stand in denying the creationist institute’s science course.
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These are wonderful news to hear from my state, Go Texas!
I am glad that we have people like Raymund Paredes Ph.D. as Commissioner of Higher Education in Texas.
Jesus Covets: When Christian Advertisement unexpectedly goes wrong April 24, 2008
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I used to be an Atheist.. This made me change my ways. (how to convert an atheist) April 24, 2008
Posted by aegisofreason in religion.Tags: apologetics, atheism, baptist, bible, catholic, christianity, convert, creationism, evolution, expelled, funny, god, hitchens, how to, intelligent design, islam, jesus, jewish, life, muslim, religion, richard dawkins, science, truth
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Is just a two minute video, but it worked so well, I mean the person who converted me was really inspired.
Current News :Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital April 23, 2008
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You cant make up stuff like this:
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
By Joe Bavier
KINSHASA, April 22 (Reuters Life!) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
“You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We’ve had a number of attempted lynchings. … You see them covered in marks after being beaten,” Kinshasa’s police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
“I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke,” Oleko said.
“But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it’,” he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
“It’s real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny,” said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station. (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/ ) (Editing by Nick Tattersall and Mary Gabriel)
I shouldnt be so angry at young earth creationists after all. ^_^
(Exorcism & psychological Abuse) This is your brain on Religion April 23, 2008
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