The Orca’s Thumb

A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol.
“We don’t have anybody else to turn to but God,” Mr Twyman told the BBC. “We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man.”
I guess they’ve selectively forgotten about all the [...]

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A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia this spring was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say “amen” after meals, police said.
Ria Ramkissoon, the mother of Javon Thompson, was charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the boy’s death, and [...]

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Really?
What most people cannot comprehend is that there is no one absolute make-or-break piece of evidence for evolution.
Shocker.
No, not so. Evolution is a conclusion from the totality of the evidence.
There are thousands of cases that demonstrate that the principles of evolution work and are useful for understanding the natural world; and there are no cases whatsoever where [...]

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Birmingham City Council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism. That’s their prerogative, of course. The following, however
The authority’s Bluecoat Software computer system allows staff to look at websites relating to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and other religions but blocks sites to do with “witchcraft or Satanism” and “occult practices, atheistic views, voodoo [...]

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Bill Donahue, writing in response to PZ, said,
It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.
Really? Perhaps molesting children and then covering it up. Repeatedly.
Wow, that wasn’t hard…

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Sad, but true…

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The wackaloons over at Spirit Daily currently have a new headline: LONG RIDICULED, WORRIES ON POTTER BEAR OUT IN AN EXPLOSION OF TEEN WITCHCRAFT.
Surely casting a spell over a cracker to change it into Jesus is magic akin to witch-craft.
Then again, I guess what worries the Catholics is that others are muscling in on what [...]

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Webster Cook, the guy who started Cracker-Gate by simply walking back to his seat with a cracker, now faces censure and possible expulsion from his university.
It’s a cracker. A silly symbol of superstition. Nothing more.
Then again, one shouldn’t be surprised. The Catholics used crackers before for providing a pretext to encourage massacres…

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