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The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 18 (Special Report) - Through her, the aliens had given the precise date of an Earth-rending cataclysm: December 21, 1954. Some of Martin's followers quit their jobs and sold their property, expecting to be rescued by a flying saucer when the continent split asunder and a new

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"Climategate"

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Jess Henig - Dec. 10 (Special Report) - Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded.

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Who Needs God When We've Got Mammon?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By David Villano - Nov. 29 (News Report) - "Popular religion," Paul proposes, "is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment." Paul, who was criticized, mostly on statistical grounds, for a similar study published in 2005, says his new findings lend support to the belief that mass acceptance of popular religion is determined more by environmental influences and less by selective, evolutionary forces, as scholars and philosophers have long debated.

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Neocons Wage War on a 'Realist'

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - In today’s Washington, the city’s preeminent newspaper publishes a neoconservative attack on President Barack Obama’s choice to oversee intelligence analyses because the person is a “realist.”

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These are the Days spoken of by Daniel and the Lamb

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Michael Cheverie Dewey - Jan. 16 (Breaking News) - What would the world think if one of those olive branches killed by today's establishment was really Michael of Daniel 12:1? You would all say he was nuts wouldn't you. Good thing that in Guthrie talk; nuts is a good thing.

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Evolution battle flares in states

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Stateline - By Pauline Vu - Feb. 22 (News Report) - Creationism v. evolution in schools has been for many years a battle in the nation's culture war, and these days it's no different.

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God says you tinkle in the tub.

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:37:11 -0700

Salon - By Berkeley Breathed - Jun. 23 (Other) - God said Opus "wrinkles in the suds"!

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Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:40:06 -0700

News Bloggers Blog - By Dinesh D'Souza - Apr. 18 (News Report) - Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there is a public gathering there is talk of God and divine mercy and spiritual healing.

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Lesbian Clergy Recount Their Paths to Jerusalem

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:40:21 -0700

Women's eNews - By Michael T. Luongo - Aug. 18 (News Report) - The Rev. Pat Bumgardner, 53, remembers her sense of being called to religious work when she was in high school and visiting a rectory. When she told the clergy there her feelings, she said they responded, "No, that can't be true, you must be a nun. Consider that and take a vow of silence."

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