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If it was up to the woo crowd, I wouldn’t have taken multiple vaccinations over the past several months. Not doing so would in turn prevent my trip to Tanzania.
Good thing I’m not hostile towards science.
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No scientist would ever reach the conclusions drawn by any religion if no religion ever existed.
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Since I posted about Paul LePage poking fun at Libby Mitchell’s vitality despite his own lack of fitness, I feel obligated to post his recent apology.
“If Elizabeth is offended by it, my deepest apologies, because it was certainly never meant to offend her,” LePage said on air. “She’s worked very hard and she’s had a good career and I just think that the issues should be brought up. My differences with Elizabeth Mitchell is on the policies.”
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Mary.
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There is probably a lot of non-Earth based life throughout the Universe.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is an excellent read. Or rather, listen. I have the audio version and I love it. I must be around the 8th or so time listening to it over the years and I’m nowhere near bored of it. Buy it. Listen to it. Love it.
(Skip the first minute or so to get to Bryson’s soothing voice.)
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The phrase “science and religion are compatible” is impressively dishonest. Not only is it blatantly false, but virtually no religious adherent would agree that all religions are correct. If it is recognized that not all religions can be correct, then the utterance of the compatibility phrase is inherently misleading – “religion” is not what the person espousing the view means at all. Instead he means science and his religion are compatible. Otherwise he’s claiming all religions are compatible, undermining the ultimate goal people have by using the phrase: to promote their own particular religion, hiding its obvious conflict with science.
It’s also worth noting that religion isn’t simply in conflict with the results of science; religion is also in conflict with the spirit of science. Whereas science offers methodology and a way to discover what is true, religion only offers faith – science’s biggest antagonist.
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Mammals came on the scene about 200 million years ago.
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Paul LePage is running a campaign that is obviously dishonest. He has a Facebook fan page to which his people link from his official campaign website. But on that page, there is the claim that policy questions cannot be answered because it is a fan run page. As it turns out, that isn’t true.
Since then, especially after LePage won the nomination, the fan page took off in popularity. Given that, the campaign uses it as an obvious resource to reach supporters (i.e. fans). Not long after I created the page, I made an official campaign employee one of the Admins. To date, I myself am still not a campaign employee.
This comes from Aaron Prill, a LePage supporter with strong ties to services for which the LePage campaign is paying or will pay.
So you got it all? Paul LePage is not responsible for what goes on at his page – like the deletion of questions about his strong support for creationism – but everyone can feel free to click the link from his official campaign website in order to get more LePage information from his campaign people. Who aren’t responsible for the page. Of course.
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Big cities are highly, vastly, crashingly overrated.
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For the Sake of Science 