Fun with Religion – Who’s with me?

Get ready to LOL.

Which is the easier path?

Bass Ackwards

The religious enjoy asking you to prove a negative

Religion at work through the ages

A child is no more [...]

High Fructose Corn Syrup is not evil!

Finally the truth starts to emerge.  The masses are easily scared and difficult to nudge off their trajectory of mis-belief.  Here’s one person who woke up and decided to share the tale with her audience.

From SparkPeople.com…

If you had asked me five years ago if I thought there was something unique about high [...]

Thank God for Atheists. Wait! What?

I stumbled across a lot of excellent news from USA Today, and in particular, the American Religious Identification Survey 2008.

Atheists and the other unaffiliated make up 15% of the American population.  That’s 34 million of us.  And now for the really good news.  Atheists are the fastest growing “religious” group in America.  Finally [...]

Buying local food is better, right?

Generating delicious greenhouse gases

It depends, but in the most relevant case the answer is a resounding NO.  The first question you should ask yourself is this, “how do I define ‘better’?”  By “better” most people tend to put energy consumption at the top of the list.  I mean, why buy tomatoes from [...]

How many alien civilizations exist in our galaxy right now?

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The Answer:

17 – This means that seventeen civilizations are currently listening for extraterrestrial life within our own Milky Way galaxy right now!  They are waiting to hear from us.

Don’t believe me?  Why not find out for yourself?

It’s quite easy when using the [...]

$2.5 billion spent, no alternative cures found

An inefficient placebo

Finally the media at large dares to go non-PC and reveal that complementary and alternative medicine just doesn’t work.  The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an enormous money pit.  They (and by “they” I mean “you and I”) have spent 2.5 billion dollars over a decade with [...]

What does it mean to have an open mind?

This video is absolutely brilliant. Its author is my hero. If only we had more people with this much talent creating videos of this much clarity. And then, if we could only strap down those in need and make them watch videos like this… what a better world it would be.

You owe it [...]

Science Wins

Fairly low-brow video that is worth a watch just for the relative finesse of matching video to music.  Doesn’t really say anything, but I thought it was fun.

One of the most awesome (and pseudo-contradictory) things about science is its incredible predictive power. That alone blows any other system of knowledge away. The Bible [...]

Top 10 Weirdest Cosmology Theories

What exactly is our universe?  Are we part of one, infinite universe?  Are we in just one of many finite universes?  Do we actually exist as a speck of dust in somebody else’s universe?

Ancient Cosmology

New Scientist explores 10 of the strangest cosmology theories going for the moment.

It’s nice to see [...]

Should Vaccines Be Compulsory?

In the US children must have proof of vaccination before entering the public school system, although it is becoming easier in many states for parents to gain exemptions from this requirement. In the UK there is no such requirement. This distinction has allowed for a comparison of the impact of scaremongering about the safety [...]