April 2013
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When i found out Canada banned members of the...
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For details see: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2008/08/08/westboro-protest.html
March 2013
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Cancer risk lower than feared for Fukushima locals... →
CATCHING a flight out of Fukushima in the wake of the nuclear disaster two years ago would have given you a larger dose of radiation than staying put.
This is the upshot of a new report from the World Health Organization estimating that for residents exposed to the radiation leak, the risk of developing cancer has increased only slightly. Continue Reading
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What Kind of Thinker Believes in God? →
Psychologists who study the origins of religion say belief in God relies on several intuitions, including a teleological bias (the assumption that certain objects or event were designed intentionally) and Cartesian dualism (the belief that mind can exist independently of the body). So to become an atheist one must second-guess these automatic ways of thinking. And recently a number of studies have...
February 2013
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January 2013
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Study of the Day: Soon, You May Download New... →
SOURCE: The full study, “Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback Without Stimulus Presentation,” is published in the journal Science.
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December 2012
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Molten Salt Reactors
By Nick Touran, Ph.D.
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear reactors that use a fluid fuel in the form of very hot fluoride or chloride salt instead of the solid fuel used in most reactors. Since the fuel salt is liquid, it can be both the fuel (producing the heat) and the coolant (transporting the heat to the power plant). There are many different types of MSRs, but the most talked about one...
November 2012
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You cannot escape from a prison unless you know...
Religion is a prison, people just have to accept that if they want to be free
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Widower of woman who was denied an abortion to sue...
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AP: Praveen Halappanavar, the widower of an Indian woman who died in an Irish hospital after she was refused an abortion, plans to sue Ireland’s government in the European Court of Human Rights. His lawyer confirmed the decision.
Halappanavar’s wife, Savita, died Oct. 28 in Ireland, one week after being admitted to a hospital for severe pain amid a miscarriage. Doctors did not...
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I wish people actually understood the scientific...
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Or if they would just acknowledge that there’s a difference between the scientific definition and the colloquial one. I’ve taken to using the word “hypothesis” when normally I would use the word “theory” by the colloquial definition. It’s not strictly following the scientific definition of “hypothesis,” but it’s closer.
I agree completely and have actually been doing...
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coldforest:
I find it strange that the ones that say suffering is a test aren’t usually the ones being tested.
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assholeatheist:
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I have this friend, let’s call him Bob. Bob has no religion. Bob calls himself an atheist. Bob is somewhat ignorant because being an atheist means that you don’t believe in God or having Gods. Buddhists could be atheist but they are still religious. This is not brain surgery really.
So….what exactly is Bob ignorant of?
Can I point out that Buddhists,...
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Before Religion (?)
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Confused about what existed before religion, or is the actually universe 13.75 Gyrs old?
So Lets pick say Christianity as our calender seems to be based around it.
Now After 0 AD this religion seems to have become all the craze. (Well more or less around this time, but if this religion was true why was it not believed before-hand?* I can only speculate that it did not exist before...
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October 2012
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Best New Testament Bible quote to use in a debate →
Romans 1 :29-32
Those filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, hate for god, despite, proud, boasters, inventions of evil things, disobedience to parents,
Without understanding, covenant breakers, unnatural affection, implacable or unmerciful nature: Who knowing the judgment of God, that...
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Immune cells of the blood might replace...
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Blood-circulating immune cells can take over the essential immune surveillance of the brain, this is shown by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research in Tübingen. Their study, now published in PNAS, might indicate new ways of dealing with diseases of the nervous system.
The immune system is...
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“I do not believe we have the right to tell other people, women, what they can do...”
– Vice President Joe Biden on his faith in relation to the right to abortion and women’s health. (via kileyrae)
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ASKAP: 36-dish Australian telescope array opens...
The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is now standing tall in the outback of Western Australia, and will officially be turned on and open for business on Friday, October 5, 2012 . This large array is made up of 36 identical antennas, each 12 meters in diameter, spread out over 4,000 square meters but working together as a single instrument. ASKAP is designed to survey the whole...
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unworshipediety answered your question: Agnosticism: Descriptive term or philosophy?
If a person wants to say their just agnostic let em have it. After all language is fluid and changes over time. No need to be a slave to it.
That’s all well and good but if someone says they are an agnostic and no one has any idea what they mean by it or people misinterpret the statement then what is...
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