I am late to the party on this one (mistakingly thought it was next week). I’m just pasting in the only info I have from an email I was forwarded. All online info I’ve been able to find on this comes from ID websites and is the same cut n’ paste job. (No link love [...]
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News & links in and around Pittsburgh
Wanted to pass along some links I’ve been sent this week of interest to those in and around Pittsburgh . . .
1000 Plaintiffs for Newdow v. Roberts — Friends of Mike Newdow, a group of PA Nonbelievers, has set up a website to assist Constitutional activist Mike Newdow “demonstrate that there is a lot of [...]
Storm Detour Disrupts Darwin Dinner
In an email this morning local CFI President, Chuck Bobich, updates us on last night’s monthly dinner meeting with special guest, David Campbell:
The recent high winds snapped a pole along Route 51 near Francesco’s Restaurant. This not only killed power to the restaurant, but created a hazard that forced the blockage and a detour [...]
Healthy skepticism in the news
City Paper reports that several local university newspapers, including The Pitt News, were targeted by Human Life Alliance’s annual advertising insert campaign. The full color advertising insert offers students 12 pages of misinformation about contraception, erroneously links abortion to breast cancer, and propagates the popular myth of “post abortion syndrome”. For more information on this [...]
Recommended Reading: Death from the Skies
What could be more perfect October reading than a book about all of the ways that the universe could destroy life as we know it?
Out this week is the much anticipated second book by Dr. Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) Death from the Skies: These Are the Ways the World Will End. I’ve added it [...]
Better Late Than Never
The Church of England is going to apologize to Charles Darwin.
It wants to distance itself from fundamentalist Christians, who believe in the Biblical account of the creation of the world in seven days.
Wow, the Church of England must be the only rational church in the world.
Dr Brown argues that there is nothing incompatible between the scientific theories [...]
If I was a betting man; I’d be Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking has bet $100the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) won’t find “God’s Particle.”
I hope he’s wrong, but either way I’m sure this experiment is going to result in a really kick-ass episode of The Universe.
Just in case all the scientists are wrong and universe does explode, I’m going to eat some trans-fats tomorrow (maybe Arby’s).
Incase you [...]
