Another point raised in the thread I discussed yesterday is the concept of the supernatural. After saying that an atheist must believe in a multiverse, he OP makes this statements about other universes:

Second, because these alternative universes necessarily operate under different laws of physics, they are outside the laws of our natural universe ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I threw myself into a forum debate about atheism, science, and theism, with the OP claiming that atheists can be just as irrational in their beliefs as theists. Now this can be true -- any rigid worldview can form into an ideology, and atheism is certainly not exempt from that. But that wasn't the OP's point. His explanation was ( Read more... )

Governor Charlie Crist of Florida believes God has saved Florida from hurricanes this year:

Could it be divine intervention that's kept Florida safe from hurricanes since Gov. Charlie Crist took officeCrist told a group of real estate agents Friday that he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms ( Read more... )

My local politicians are a bunch of overinflated-ego Washington wannabes. Orac's old hometown has... this guy:

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LET'S GO LIVONIA. MOVE ZIG.He's... scary. I'm not afraid of the Holy Will of God, if I was a citizen Livonia, I'd be scared of him rabidly beating down my door shouting at me for babykilling, not working for the city for a dollar a year ( Read more... )

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I HAVE RIDDEN THE MIGHTY MOON WORM!
*applause*

Sanford's affair has added more fuel to the fire of the local politics in South Carolina, rendering the Republicans in twain and befuddling the Democrats. Sanford's term is up next year and he can't run again, so the field is awash with candidates and how they respond to the affair is telling voters ( Read more... )

As I'm sure everyone knows at this point, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been caught with his pants down. In Argentina. Without telling anybody. Not even his wife. So, like, since this is hurricane season, if one barreled up the coast and flooded Charleston, nobody would've been able to do anything. See, it's not so much the fact that he' ( Read more... )

Edit: BAH. Wrong picture. That's what I get when I use one as a placeholder while I write the post.

While reading through Chick's horror show, this panel jumped out at me (no, not as a zombie):


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I saw Angels and Demons the other day, and my advice is save your money. It's really unremarkable, with okay action and drama, some really nice special effects and music (Hans Zimmer ftw), but marred with poor acting and character development. Especially Langdon. He's become a gigantic Mary Sue, every single guess he says except once is correct, ( Read more... )

It's been over a month and I really want to devote more time to this. This is fun reading and commenting on the Good Book(s), and I want to give the same treatment to other works because I'm sure it'll be equally fun. But first, a little interlude...


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