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by Caedes inon the 6th of march there will be a "faith of britain" day where we can make our dreams come true using the power of faith.
with over 80 million people concentrating their mental energies at the same time on the same day, we will unleash an irresistible psychic force that will, quite literally, make our dreams come true.. .
why will this work?.
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How to reply to creationists
by Caedes inhttp://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/how_to_respond_to_requests_to.php.
why aren't members of your institute publishing their ideas in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as science, nature, or the proceedings of the national academy of sciences?
if you want to be taken seriously by scientists and scholars, this is where you need to publish.
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Why evolution is true
by Caedes incoynes chapter on the engine of evolution begins with a splendidly macabre example.
giant japanese hornets raid the nests of honeybees to feed their larvae.
a single hornet scout discovers a beehive and marks it for doom with a sort of chemical black spot.. "alerted by the mark, the scouts nestmates descend on the spot, a group of twenty or thirty hornets arrayed against a colony of up to 30,000 honeybees.
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Day of the triffids
by Caedes injohn wyndhams "day of the triffids" is going to have another tv series filmed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7883238.stm.
i loved the last adaptation, loooks like this will be big budget (well for the bbc!
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Fossil snake 'as long as a bus' found
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7868588.stm.
the discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world's largest snake has been reported in nature journal.. titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long - about the length of a bus - and lived in the rainforest of north-east colombia 58-60 million years ago.. .
the snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person's hips, say researchers, who have estimated that it weighed more than a tonne.. according to the report this thing might have eaten crocodiles and alligators!.
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Interesting article on evolution
by Caedes inhttp://open2.net/sciencetechnologynature/worldaroundus/evolution_p.html.
a very interesting article on the history of evolutionary theory which has three leading scientists talking about the idea that evolution has stopped or slowed down in humans.. .
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Patrick McGoohan Dies aged 80
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm.
sad news, what a great actor.
best known for the cult tv series the prisoner..
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Another fossil link found
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7736786.stm.
the earliest turtles known to live in water have been discovered on a scottish island.. the 164 million-year-old reptile fossils were found on a beach in southern skye, off the uk's west coast.
the new species forms a missing link between ancient terrestrial turtles and their modern, aquatic descendants.
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Child witches in Africa
by Caedes ini watched (with a growing sense of anger and disgust) a program on tv last night (dispatches - http://www.channel4.com/news/dispatches/ ) on the problem of children being accused of witchcraft in the niger delta.
these kids (even babies) are usually tortured, beaten and denied food until they "confess" if they are lucky they may be just abandoned, unlucky ones are buried alive.
the parents can purchase an exorcism quoted as being roughly a years wages, this seemed to entail further abuse of the victims.