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http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm Science achieves a consensus when scientists stop arguing. When a question is first asked – like ‘what would happen if we put a load more CO2 in the atmosphere?’ – there may be many hypotheses about cause and effect.

Unreasonable Faith: A reasonable blog on atheism, religion, science, and skepticism

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/ So the Pennslyvania House of Representatives declared 2012 the “Year of the Bible.” The Reps used this as an opportunity to explain just how gosh darn important the Bible is to this country. Then some atheists decided to point out one of the major flaws in the Bible: its pervasive acceptance of slavery.
Felix Baumgartner is attempting to break the world record for the highest skydive ever. He recently completed a test dive from 71,500ft (22km), putting him in the top three. The purpose of the dive was to test out all of his equipment before he attempts the record breaking dive of 120,000ft later in 2012. The current [...] http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

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Skeptoid: Critical Analysis Podcast

Skeptoid is a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality. Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred, politically incorrect though that may be. 178,000 weekly downloads. Read what people are saying. Receive this autographed DVD-ROM, FREE.
It was like déjà-vu. In 2008, in a traveling exhibition called “Vatican Splendors,” I had seen the Holy Mandylion, also known as the Image of Edessa, which was once held to be the miraculous self-portrait of Christ. Now, in Genoa the following year, I was seeing another such image... Last May, newspapers in Italy and abroad reported that the iconic image of a Madonna had wept tears in the Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in Milano. http://www.csicop.org/

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Quackwatch

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August 04 - We added some great new Conspriacies... Most of the new ones are part of a series from some Hitler worshipping, anti-semetic white supremasist. Read these and shake your head at the idiocy. The Time has come for The White Race to establish its own POLE STAR Rated J for Jewish Conspiracy Informed, Aroused and Organized, the White Race is overwhelmingly the most Powerful Force on the face of the earth (June 1985) Rated W for White Supremacy

Conspiracy Theories Ranging from Stupid to Inane - Conspiracy Bomb

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http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=50 For those who enjoy atheism vs. theism debates, here’s the most complete list you’ll find on the web ( 615 of them and counting). Please comment with additions or corrections; this page is updated often . (Last update: February 13, 2011 .) Apparently, there is a blog devoted to reviewing all the debates in this list: Agnostic Popular Front . You may want to start with those rated 5 stars and 4.5 stars .

Common Sense Atheism » 500+ Atheism vs. Theism Debates

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Why I Left Mormonism - the Mormon Church

Documentation on my reasons for leaving Mormonism is listed at the beginning of my story. These links are here so that it is clear I left Mormonism because Mormonism is not what it claims to be. I did not leave due to hurt feelings or "sin".
Mindful Elephants Don't Stomp on Grass Photo source. "There's an African saying: When the elephants fight, the grass suffers." Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim on the greatest challenge in global health, in a recent interview with Charlie Rose, pointing out that the "poorest of... A DFL Walking Caucus This is what a Democratic Party Walking Caucus looks like.

The Last 24 Hours

EDITOR’S NOTE: Because I am at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, between the meetings, working on a policy statement, working on a manuscript, and various other miscellaneous tasks, I alas was unable to produce a post worthy of the quality normally expected by SBM readers. Fortunately, Lorne Trottier, who’s done a great job for us twice before , was able to step in again with this great post about “safe” cell phone cases. Speaking of the manufactroversy over whether cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, there’s a session at the AACR that I’ll have to try to attend entitled Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer? Who knows? It might be blogging material. I also might post something later that those of you who know of my not-so-super-secret other blog might have seen before.

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Delightful Quotes

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Positive Atheism (since 1995) Join the Struggle Against Anti-Atheist Bigotry!

Positive Atheism is for atheists. Here we learn of the joys and hardships of being truthful about our own religion. We study our heritage as unbelievers, often finding that atheism is no big deal. Still, there exists a class of meddlers who seem unwilling to resist any opportunity to “tell those atheists a thing or two!” Do you wish to hold us accountable for what we think, do, or say?
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Atheism - Investigating Atheism

Since the publication of Sam Harris' The End of Faith in 2005, the English speaking world has seen a spate of books on atheism, most notoriously perhaps Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (2006). The publication of Christopher Hitchens' God is not Great (2007), and Michel Onfray’s ‘ Atheist Manfesto ’ (2007), among others, have added to and expanded on the debate. However, despite the popular success of these publications, the 'new atheists' have had a mixed reception, not only among the religious (as is to be expected) but also among fellow atheists and agnostics, who have often accused them of oversimplifying the issues.