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An Open Letter to Ray Franz
by mikepence in(please reply to this message with your own signature and added thoughts.
then, we will make sure that this reaches ray.).
dear ray,.
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American Religious Identification Study
by mikepence insee http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/key_findings.htm.
some highlights.... jw's famous for their apostates ;-) almost 1/3rd leave!...
"some groups such as mormons and jehovah's witnesses appear to attract a large number of converts ("in-switchers"), but also nearly as large a number of apostates ("out-switchers").
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Evolution: First Genetic Evidence Uncovered...
by mikepence infrom http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mchox.htm:.
biologists at the university of california, san diego have uncovered the first genetic evidence that explains how large- scale alterations to body plans were accomplished during the early evolution of animals.. in an advance online publication february 6 by nature of a paper scheduled to appear in nature, the scientists show how mutations in regulatory genes that guide the embryonic development of crustaceans and fruit flies allowed aquatic crustacean-like arthropods, with limbs on every segment of their bodies, to evolve 400 million years ago into a radically different body plan: the terrestrial six-legged insects.. the achievement is a landmark in evolutionary biology, not only because it shows how new animal body plans could arise from a simple genetic mutation, but because it effectively answers a major criticism creationists had long leveled against evolutionthe absence of a genetic mechanism that could permit animals to introduce radical new body designs.. the problem for a long time has been over this issue of macroevolution, says william mcginnis, a professor in ucsds division of biology who headed the study.
how can evolution possibly introduce big changes into an animals body shape and still generate a living animal?
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Robert Scheer on Bush Spending
by mikepence infrom the inimitable salon.com:.
collateral damage.
by robert scheer.
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What Could Have Been
by mikepence insometimes, i try to be sad.. as the sun sets low, turning the rugged hills of arizona into soft, purple, fuzzy-looking rumpled cones, dappled in the red-orange reflections of failing sunlight, i stand upon a hill.
i try to reflect on what could have been.. i could have been part of a family that was close -- a family that hugged, laughed and cried together, always.
a family that strove not to take everything personally, but to see that even our attacks, especially our attacks, are projections of our own insecurities.
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Kierkegaard?
by mikepence ini keep seeing his name around.... mike pence.
reading: susan sontag's "in amercia".
listening: puddle of mudd
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Einstein's Religion
by mikepence inthe wts has misrepresented einstein's beliefs.
here is what the man himself had to say:.
"i cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
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What I am Reading, What I am Listening To
by mikepence inin the interest of getting an idea of what interests people here, use this thread to post what you are into right now.. i am reading.... susan sontag's "in america" ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0374175403/mikepence-20) what an incredible author.
this book won the national book award.
see the reviews on amazon.
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Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
by mikepence ingood read.... .
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/etexts/hume.superstition.html
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Why Religion?
by mikepence inwhy is human embrace of religion universal?.
e. o. wilson said something in this regard, which i thought worthy of sharing:.
the highest forms of religious practice, when examined more closely, can be seen to confer biological advantage.