Daily Archive: September 9, 2009

Sep 09 2009

Earning respect

There’s a study that shows that societies that are mostly religious do worse in a number of key indicators of social “well-being”. For instance: The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill …

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Sep 09 2009

Hubble and Discovery

Some space news — NASA has the retrofitted Hubble’s first pictures up on the intertubes presently. A teaser: Also, Discovery is undocking from the ISS. Video here: Hat tip on the latter (and probably the former, soon enough) to the ineffable Bad Astronomer. Update: Oh, and something else that should go in the space grab-bag, …

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Sep 09 2009

Unintelligible Design

I’m getting an education via Youtube today! I had no idea why, if we were intelligently designed, we have so many weird quirks that no engineer would ever build. It all makes sense now. Hat tip The Friendly Atheist, and thanks of course to NonStampCollector who came out of retirement for this one last video.

Sep 09 2009

Maybe the birthers are onto something

I just never had it explained properly before. That makes perfect sense to me. He MUST be some kind of pawn in an international power play long-game.

:)