Superstitious
Customers spot The face of Jesus on a toilet door in a Glasgow
branch of Ikea.
Posted 10/21/09
Are
We Alone In The Milky Way? 'Multi Or Rare' Earth Debate
"There are maybe 30
million species on the planet today—10 to 30 million. If we look
at the fossils, there are hundreds of millions of species in the
past. And one time on Earth has intelligence arisen to the point
where we can build a radio telescope (which is the definition of
intelligence to a radio astronomer). One time out of hundreds of
millions of possibilities. That's an astronomically small number of
intelligences that have arisen—just one." Peter Ward
-paleontologist and professor of Biology and of Earth and Space
Sciences at the University of Washington. The "Rare Earth"
hypothesis is the idea that life is a staggeringly unlikely event,
and that the reason we haven't seen hide nor hair (nor scale nor
weird gel-layer) of aliens is that there aren't any. It's had
some time in the spotlight, it makes us sound very important, and
it's wrong.
Posted 10/20/09
Church
Universal And Triumphant Leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet Doesn't Live
To See Armageddon
In the late 1980s, church members amassed assault rifles and armored
vehicles in preparation for a nuclear missile strike that Prophet
predicted was on the way. The plan brought national notoriety and a
federal investigation. The church's beliefs combined icons from the
world's major religions, mixing western philosophy and mysticism.
Despite her disease, videos and writings of Prophet continued to
dominate church teaching, transformed into a New Age publishing
enterprise and spiritual university. The church was still prepared
for Armageddon in recent years, and kept a bomb shelter stocked for
750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park. Gone are
the weapons amassed in the late 1980s that got church leaders into
trouble with federal authorities. The church declined in the 1990s,
after a doomsday prediction never materialized and Prophet's
charismatic presence faded, but lived on with a smaller group of
adherents and workers.
Posted 10/20/09
Lynn
Marzulli Calls New Fatima Movie "Deception A-Go-Go"
According to those who witnessed it, the Virgin Mary appeared to
three children on October 13. Upwards of 70,000 people had waited
for her appearance and the promised sign all morning. It had been
raining all day and most of the people were soaked as they stood in
the muddy field, waiting for something to happen. At one o'clock the
children cried, "There she is!" They then knelt in front
of the oak tree, as the apparition, which they alone could see,
appeared to them. While this was occurring the much debated
"Miracle of the Sun," occurred. According to witnesses the
sun descended from its place, in the sky and began to descend,
pendulum like, toward earth. People who were there thought it was
the en of the world. As the "sun" went slowly back to it
place, people noticed that there clothes had been dried and others
proclaimed that they had been healed of diseases.
Posted 10/16/09
Creationists
Say Science and Bible Disprove 'Ardi' Fossil Is Evidence of
Evolution
But despite the excitement from the paleontology community, another
group of researchers, many of them with advanced degrees in science,
are unimpressed by Ardi, who they believe is just another ape -- an
ape of indeterminate age, they add, and an ape who cannot be an
ancestor of modern man for a range of reasons, including one of
singular importance: God created man in one day, and evolution is a
fallacy.
Posted 10/14/09
God
vs. Science Isn't the Issue
When the poet Matthew Arnold wrote of faith's "melancholy,
long, withdrawing roar," the thought was that scientific
inquiry had forever undermined claims to certitude. In hindsight we
see Arnold was only half right. In place of Genesis we now have
scientism—the idea that science alone can speak truth about man
and his world. In contrast to the majority of scientists whose
wondrous discoveries seem to inspire humility, today's advocates of
scientism can be every bit as dogmatic as the William Jennings
Bryans of yesteryear. We saw an example a week ago, when the New
York Times reported that many scientists view "outspoken
religious commitment as a sign of mild dementia." The reporter
was Gardiner Harris, and the object of his snark was Francis
Collins—the new director of the National Institutes of Health. Dr.
Collins is perhaps best noted for his leadership on the Human Genome
Project, an effort to map the genetic makeup of man. But he is also
well known for his unapologetic talk about his Christian faith and
how he came to it.
Posted 10/14/09
Calling
Michael Heiser! Old Testament Scholar Says God Not The Creator
According To The Bible
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and
author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning
God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation
of the Hebrew. She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis
that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to
suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was
already there when he created humans and animals. Prof Van Wolde,
54, who will present a thesis on the subject at Radboud University
in The Netherlands where she studies, said she had re-analysed the
original Hebrew text and placed it in the context of the Bible as a
whole, and in the context of other creation stories from ancient
Mesopotamia. She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb
"bara", which is used in the first sentence of the book of
Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially
separate". The first sentence should now read "in the beginning
God separated the Heaven and the Earth" According to
Judeo-Christian tradition, God created the Earth out of nothing.
Posted 10/13/09
Bishops
See "Divine Plan" Operating Behind Obama
African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking
about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms—putting them
very much at odds with many of their U.S. counterparts. Archbishop
Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana said Wednesday that
there was "a divine plan behind" Obama's election.
"It's like the biblical story repeating itself," he told
reporters, citing the Old Testament figure Joseph, who after being
sold into slavery in Egypt ends up becoming a top official.
"We believe God has his own plans. God directs history,"
he said of the U.S. election. "We pray that it (Obama's
presidency) brings blessings for Africa and the whole world."
He acknowledged that Obama has earned the wrath of many conservative
American bishops because of his support for abortion rights. Earlier
this year, dozens of U.S. bishops denounced the leading U.S.
Catholic university, Notre Dame, for giving Obama an honorary
degree.
Posted
10/9/09
Wife
Of Japanese PM Brings UFOs, Aliens Into Global Affairs
There was a happy face lost in Friday’s hubbub over
President Barack Obama’s complete whiz down his leg of America’s
efforts to snag the 2016 Olympics. While Oprah trashed her hotel
room after the International Olympic Committee told her and Mrs.
Obama to go pound sand, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama was
still on hand to lobby Tokyo’s case for the games. Brazil walked
away the winner last week, but the event gave the entire world its
first up close and personal look at a woman who’s been
entertaining the Japanese people for years. Hatoyama Miyuki is the
wife of Japan’s PM — a former actress whose comments and
behavior seem more appropriate for a woman in a tinfoil hat with 42
cats than the wife of a head of state. In several interviews written
up just after her husband’s recent ascension to power, Hatoyama
explained that she has met with aliens who transported her spirit to
Venus while she slept. She offers a full account of the experience
in her new book, Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered.
Posted
10/9/09
Mprize
Temptation: Your Children Could Be Immortal
If living forever
isn’t enough motivation to get scientists to study longevity,
maybe $3.8 million will work instead. That’s the current size of
the Mprize, a special fund put forth by the Methuselah Foundation
that seeks to encourage research into extending healthy human life.
The prize is awarded to those scientists who can increase the
lifespan of lab mice in the hopes that work performed on that
species can be readily applied to humans. Can we live longer? Do we
even want to? When will the average human life expectancy start to
increase by more than a year each year? The Methuselah
Foundation’s answers are yes, yes, and much sooner than you might
think. Check out Aubrey De Grey’s discussion of longevity at TED
2005 in the video after the break. He’s very enthusiastic to say
the least. The history of offering a cash prize to help motivate
research has a long and successful history. Mariners were finally
able to determine their longitude at sea thanks to the aptly named
Longitude Prize offered by the British government. Lindbergh’s
transatlantic flight was in direct response to the Orteig prize. The
modern day Xprize is inspiring new achievements in genomics, space
flight, lunar exploration, and transportation efficiency. With the
Mprize, the Methuselah Foundation may very well bring about a surge
in the interest in increasing human lifespans within the next
generation.
Posted 10/8/09
The
Secret Mysteries Of Dan Brown: Guess Who's Been Watching This 3-Part
DVD Set
“The Lost Symbol,” which is the latest book from Dan Brown
(author of the DaVinci Code) has been long awaited. In fact,
it has been reported that this book would be forthcoming for several
years now; yet it’s been delayed a number of times. Why?
Is it possible that Brown encountered information that caused him to
rethink his overall storyline? Some researchers, having seen our
series, “Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings,” are
starting to think Brown based his book, in part, on our
documentaries. Normally, I would be more skeptical about the
suggestion, but there is more to this than just the fact that Brown
mentions Sir Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, Aleister Crowley,
Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Hermetic Maxim (‘as above, so
below’) and many other details that we include in our films.
Certainly, these are themes that he could have obtained elsewhere.
But then, the Associated Press reported in an article on Brown’s
new book that: “The plot centers in part on an ‘unfair’
anti-Masonic video that ‘conspiracy theorists would feed on …
like sharks,’…”
Posted 10/6/09
Scientists
find path to fountain of youth
The fountain of youth may exist after all, as a study showed that
scientists have discovered means to extend the lifespan of mice and
primates. ...Scientists from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at
University College London (UCL) extended the lifespan of mice by up
to a fifth and reduced the number of age-related diseases affecting
the animals after they genetically manipulated them to block
production of the S6 Kinase 1 (S6K1) protein.
Posted 10/5/09
Dawkins
& Sagan: "Will the Universe Be the New Religion?"
In his classic on the place of planet
earth in the universe, Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan asked how is it that
hardly any major religion has looked at science and said "This is better
than we thought. The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander,
more subtle, more elegant. Instead they say, 'No. no. no! My god is a little
god, and I want him to stay that way." Carl Sagan dreamed of a world where
a new religion that stressed the wonder and awe and magnificence of the Universe
as revealed by science "might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence
and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths." In a similar vein,
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins debates physicist Lawrence Krauss
("The Physics of Star Trek") asks and answers some of the big
questions about religion and our existence on Earth. A key focus is the
impact of Darwin and "The Origin of the Species" on modern thought.
Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science
at Oxford University. He first came to prominence with his 1976 book The
Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution and
introduced the term meme into the lexicon.
Posted 9/15/09
The
Degenerating Human Race
Many people have a view of evolution as a
progressive, upward movement toward perfection. Evolution, they feel,
means that everything is getting better over time. Serious evolutionists
would disagree with that interpretation. Instead, they see evolution as
simply the process by which organisms become better adapted to their
environments, whether or not that adaption looks like a step
upward.
Posted 9/14/09
Freemasons
Look To Build Presence On College Campus
A new fraternal organization is surfacing on GW's campus, and this time
there will be no Greek letters involved. A group of GW alumni that
believe in the teachings of the Masonic people are looking to start a
Freemason Lodge on campus, said Paul Nadeau, a 2004 graduate of the
Elliott School of International Affairs. A Freemason Lodge is not a
literal building, Nadeau said, but rather it is a chapter of Freemason
people, similar to a fraternal organization.
Posted 9/14/09
Fatima
And The Turbulence Of Our Times
It was the afternoon of
the Sunday before the Feast of Ascension, and the three children —
Lucia Santos and her younger cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto —
had just attended Mass and enjoyed a picnic lunch. Lucia, a rather
plain-looking ten year-old, and her two cousins came from typically
pious, hard-working, hardscrabble rural Portuguese backgrounds.
Their lives and their Catholic faith were closely intertwined, as
had been the case for countless generations of Portuguese farmers
before them. It is unlikely that they had been much affected by the
revolutionary, anti-religious posture of the government in Lisbon;
in those days, the militant secularism that has become the signature
characteristic of our age was mostly an urban phenomenon, both in
Portugal and elsewhere. Life in Aljustrel and Fatima in 1917 was
little different than it had been a century, or two centuries,
earlier. According to the children’s later report, their play was
interrupted by a flash of brilliant light.
Posted 9/9/09
Scientists
Propose New Hypothesis On The Origin Of Life
Armen Mulkidjanian of the University of Osnabrueck, Germany and
Michael Galperin of the U.S. National Institutes of Health present
their hypothesis and evidence in two papers published and open for
review in the web site Biology Direct. The scientists suggest that
life on Earth originated at photosynthetically-active porous
structures, similar to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, made of zinc
sulfide (more commonly known as phosphor). They argue that under the
high pressure of a carbon-dioxide-dominated atmosphere, zinc sulfide
structures could form on the surface of the first continents, where
they had access to sunlight. Unlike many existing theories that
suggest UV radiation was a hindrance to the development of life,
Mulkidjanian and Galperin think it actually helped. “The problem
of the origin of life is such that you have to answer a set of
different questions to explain how life has originated,” says lead
author Mulkidjanian. “We just provide answers to the problem of
energetics of the origin of life.”
Posted 9/7/09
Is
Detection By An Exo Civilization A Threat To Us? World's Experts
Debate
Mankind has always been
driven by contradictory drives. The relentless curiosity that
pushes us forward and is directly responsible for our progress from
caves to cities. The fear of change that tells us
"hang on, these caves/cities are really nice, we don't want to
risk losing them." There isn't any greater potential
threat to the status quo than the discovery of extraterrestrial
life, which is why some people would prefer we didn't try. There has
been some outrage recently over attempts to contact intelligent
aliens, where instead of hiding in the corner and listening real
hard some astronomers beamed intense directional messages up up and
away. Critics decried these actions as dangerous, though their
fears reveal more about us than any eventual ETs. They assume
that they would be similar to humanity, so their first response to
finding a more primitive culture would be to exploit the hell out of
it. While such a fate might be pleasingly ironic (for anyone
who isn't human, at least), others contend that any species that can
make the journey here has advanced to a point where their goals are
rather higher-minded than "Shoot us".
Posted 9/2/09
The
Next 200 Years: Are Modern Humans Evolving Faster?
In a fascinating
discovery that counters a common theory that human evolution has
slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, a study
examining data from an international genomics project describes the
past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change,
driven by exponential population growth and cultural shifts. The
findings may lead to a very broad rethinking of human evolution,
especially in the view that modern culture has essentially relaxed
the need for physical genetic changes in humans to improve survival.
A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist John
Hawks estimates that positive selection just in the past 5,000 years
alone -dating back to the Stone Age - has occurred at a rate roughly
100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Many of
the new genetic adjustments are occurring around changes in the
human diet brought on by the advent of agriculture, and resistance
to epidemic diseases that became major killers after the growth of
human civilizations.
Posted
9/2/09
Scientists:
Your DNA Connected To Your "Inner Reptilian"
About that hissing sound in your ear? In the early 19th century a
startling discovery was made that proved Darwin's theory of
evolution before he ever dreamed of joining the voyage of the
Beagle. This discovery was made by a German biologist, Karl
Reichert, who to his great astonishment found that two of the ear
bones in mammals are the same thing as parts of the jaw bones in
reptiles. In short, two of the ear bones in mammals -including homo
sapiens- came from the gill arch that formed the jaw of a reptile.
In his brilliant bestseller, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the
3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body, paleontologist,
Neil Shibun, by examining fossils and DNA shows how our hands
evolved from fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct
jawless fish, and how major segments of our human genome look and
function like those or worms and bacteria.
Posted 9/2/09
LIGO
Listens for Gravitational Echoes of Birth of the Universe
An investigation by the LIGO ( Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory ) Scientific Collaboration and
the Virgo Collaboration has significantly advanced our
understanding of the early evolution of the universe. Analysis
of data taken over a two-year period, from 2005 to 2007, has
set the most stringent limits yet on the amount of
gravitational waves that could have come from the Big Bang in
the gravitational wave frequency band where LIGO can observe.
In doing so, the gravitational-wave scientists have put new
constraints on the details of how the universe looked in its
earliest moments.
Posted
8/28/09
Planet
Of The Apes? Pondering Advanced ET
Charley Lineweaver, a cosmologist with The Australian National
University, believes the science behind the movie "Planet
of the Apes" is based on a flawed notion of evolution, a
notion that could have serious implications for our search for
intelligent life elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Lineweaver
calls this notion the "Planet of the Apes Hypothesis"
-a theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the astronomers
involved with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI),
that human-like intelligence is a convergent feature of
evolution -- that there is an intelligence niche, into
which other species (apes in the movie) will evolve if the human
species goes extinct. Let's take a quick look at the plot of the
1968 movie, "Planet of the Apes," with Charlton Heston
playing the role of Taylor, an astronaut on an interstellar
journey. After traveling for over two thousand years at nearly
the speed of light (during which the astronaut crew ages only 18
months due to time dilation), the spacecraft crash lands on a
planet that has oxygen comprising 20 percent of the atmosphere,
and a 23 hour 56 minute sidereal period.
Posted
8/28/09
Zeroing
In On How Life Arose From Nonliving Molecules
How did life on
Earth begin? An giant step toward solving this puzzle was taken
in the 1980's with the Nobel Prize–winning discovery by
Tom Cech and Sidney Altman that RNA, the sister molecule of DNA,
can catalyze certain chemical reactions inside cells, a job
previously thought to be the exclusive domain of proteins. Until
their discovery, RNA was thought to have just one function:
storing the genetic information cells need to build proteins.
This new revelation about RNA's dual role suggested to some
scientists, including Harvard's Jack Szostak, that RNA likely
existed long before DNA or proteins because it might be able to
catalyze its own reproduction. Their discovery made it easier to
think about how life began, Szostak says. "They inspired me
to try to think of ways to make RNAs in the lab that could
catalyze their own replication."
Posted
8/28/09
Romans
didn't destroy Temple
we may very confidently conclude that the 'Roman'
soldiers in the Eastern provinces that destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple
were in fact Eastern peoples ? the inhabitants of Asia Minor, Syria,
Arabia and Egypt," Richardson writes. "Again, they were the
ancestors of the modern-day inhabitants of the Middle East."
Posted 08/22/09
New
York Post: Obama Has Turned "Faith Healer"
Repeatedly invoking the Bible, President Obama yesterday told religious
leaders that health-care critics are "bearing false witness"
against his plan. The fire-and-brimstone president declared holy war in a
telephone call with thousands of religious leaders around the country as
he sought to breathe life into his plan for a system overhaul. Without
naming anyone specifically in the 10-minute conference call, Obama said
opponents had been spreading lies. "I know that there's been a lot of
misinformation in this debate and there are some folks out there who are,
frankly, bearing false witness," Obama said.
Posted 8/20/09
The
Universe In A Test Tube?
"In effect, we have made a universe in a test tube," Richard
Haley -Lancaster University. A "universe in a test tube" that
could be used to prove theories of everything has been created by
physicists using liquid helium and a magnetic field to build a
finger-sized representation of the early cosmos. The low-temperature team
at Great Britain's Lancaster University may have found a laboratory test
of the ‘untestable’ string theory, made popular by Brian Greene at
Columbia University. Within string theory, a brane is a large surface
embedded in higher dimensional space — our Universe could occupy such a
brane. The findings of the Lancaster University team according to
nature.com could help string theorists to refine their models. A
popular theory amongst string theorists is that inflation was caused by
the collision of two 'branes'. A brane (derived from the word 'membrane')
is a three-dimensional object suspended in a higher-dimensional space. One
tenet of string theory is that a collision between a brane and an
antibrane could have triggered the Big Bang itself and drove inflation of
the universe.
Posted 8/20/09
Big-Budget
Legion Also Hopes To Confuse, Prep For Antichrist
The
trailer for an upcoming fantasy-thriller film on the Apocalypse hit the web
this past week, presenting movie fans with the question “What if God lost
faith in mankind?” “The last time God lost faith in man, He sent the
flood. This time, He sent angels,” states the archangel Michael, played
Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code”). Directed by visual effects guru
Scott Stewart (“Iron Man,” “Night at the Museum,” “Superman
Returns”), “Legion” pits mankind against a horde of the devil’s
minions – fallen angels, whom God allows to have their way with humanity
after having lost faith in it. Also thrown in the mix is Bettany’s
character, who apparently decides to break the chains that bind him to God
and take a stand with mankind while protecting one woman’s unborn child
– “the only hope humanity has of surviving.” “It’s part action
movie, it’s part supernatural thriller, it’s part horror movie.
There’s some good character drama in it. It’s about some big ideas,
about some scary stuff...
Posted
8/19/09
Building
Block Of Life Found On Comet
The
amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found
in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of
life arrived on Earth from outer space, scientists said on Monday.
Microscopic traces of glycine were discovered in a sample of particles
retrieved from the tail of comet Wild 2 by the NASA spacecraft Stardust deep
in the solar system some 242 million miles (390 million km) from Earth, in
January 2004. Samples of gas and dust collected on a small dish lined with a
super-fluffy material called aerogel were returned to Earth two years later
in a canister that detached from the spacecraft and landed by parachute in
the Utah desert.
Posted
8/19/09
Israelis
hunt for local mermaid
Northern coastal town offers $1 million to
anyone who can prove that reported local mermaid really exists
Posted
8/12/09
Will
Americans follow orders to take flu shots?
Alarmist
language over possible outbreaks of swine flu as well as a
series of moves by the federal government are fueling fears
federal
agents will soon be forcing citizens to be vaccinated –
prompting one political party to launch a pre-emptive defense
against any such effort.
Posted
8/12/09
Snopes.com
is a Scam'
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FEATURE!!!
Posted
7/20/09
Just
96 months to save world, says Prince Charles
The price of
capitalism and consumerism is just too high, he tells
industrialists
Posted
7/13/09
Messiah
will come from Tel Aviv
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FEATURE!!!
The
salvation will come from Tel Aviv. Not from Jerusalem, Safed or
Brooklyn. It will come from our true holy city.
Posted
7/13/09
Police
Sergeant reports seeing three very tall blond haired beings - Silbury Hilv
- Unexplained Phenomena Alert <-
FEATURE!!!
This is the same location where on the 23
May 1994, four researchers (including one nuclear scientist)
visiting a crop design in this field, witnessed intense military
presence moments before they each experienced 45 minutes missing
time and within a short while a further period of missing time.
Each had red marks appear on their necks and had severe
nose bleeds hours later. A full account is held in CPR Archive.
Posted
7/13/09
'Elixir
of life discovered'
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FEATURE!!!
An
"elixir of life" biochemical has been discovered in
the soil of Easter Island, prompting suggestions that an
"anti-ageing" pill could soon be produced.
Posted
7/10/09
Episcopal
Bishop calls individual salvation 'heresy,' 'idolatry'
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FEATURE!!!
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine
Jefferts Schori says it's "heresy" to believe that an
individual can be saved through a sinner's prayer of repentance.
POLL: What's your reaction to this? VOTE
Posted
7/10/09
Oxymoronic
'homosexual Christians' focus of Barna report
The new
Barna survey of homosexual adults finds that 27 percent qualify
as born-again Christians and 43 percent have an "orthodox,
biblical perception of God." According to Barna,
"People who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic,
Christian bashers are not working with the facts. A substantial
majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their
life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have
some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ
active in their life today."
Posted
6/30/09
Dying
girl's mom said she expected divine healing
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Sounds to me like God GAVE her an answer!
In a
videotaped interview just hours after the girl died, Leilani
Neumann told a police detective that she never considered taking
her daughter to a doctor for what she believed was a spiritual
attack.
Posted
5/22/09
Ida:
Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really)
From the
beginning, Ida's unveiling has been a master class in ballyhoo.
A week ago, the first breathless press releases began to arrive,
portending the presentation of the now famous
47-million-year-old primate fossil from Germany: "MEDIA
ALERT," the notice shouted in all caps.
"WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS REVEAL A REVOLUTIONARY
SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING."
Posted
5/22/09
Scientists
Unveil Missing Link In Evolution?
The search
for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the
animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the
world today at a special news conference in New York.
Posted
5/20/09
Mystery
of how life on Earth began solved by British scientists
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I'm sure Father Yahweh is relieved they let Him in on their
secret... ha! Professing themselves to be wise, they became
fools... (Romans 1:22)
"We've
made the building blocks of RNA from what was around on the
early Earth and is still around in interstellar space and in the
atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan," Dr Sutherland said.
"We haven't yet made the RNA molecule itself but we've made
two of the four sub-units or building blocks. It suggests that
making the molecule is possible. The building blocks are strung
together and doing that is actually easier than making the
building blocks themselves," he said.
Posted
5/15/09
Dead
Sea Scrolls debate still very much alive
It seems that high-ranking Palestinian officials are upset about
the show, claiming that it violates international law because
the scrolls were illegally obtained by Israel when the state
annexed East Jerusalem in 1967.
Posted
4/16/09
Perspective:
For the media, it's un-Holy Week
This Holy
Week has been typical. Newsweek proclaimed "The Decline and
Fall of Christian America" on its cover. The Washington
Post/Newsweek "On Faith" blog featured a post that
belittled the significance of Jesus' death and resurrection. The
Discovery Channel aired a documentary that painted Jesus as
little more than an opportunistic politician who caught a bad
break in a trial.
Posted
4/10/09
Old
Testament Laws: Must We Observe the Law of Moses and the Sabbath
Today?
Should
Christians today keep Old Testament laws, such as the
seventh-day Sabbath, circumcision, animal sacrifices, and holy
days, or did Jesus remove or abolish that law so that we should
only obey New Testament commands? What is the difference between
moral and ceremonial laws, the Law of Moses and the Law of God?
What day is the "Christian Sabbath" according to the
gospel of Christ? Are the Law of Moses and the Ten Commands
abrogated or still in effect? What law should we observe today?
Posted
2/6/09
Is
the Bible to blame for trashing Earth?
In promoting a new special
that commemorates the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, one of
television's most popular and enduring naturalists has declared
that the Bible is to blame for humanity's destruction of the
environment.
Posted
2/4/09
CAIR
campaign: Jesus was Muslim
Claims
Islam is 'way of life of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad'
Posted
1/20/09
Christian
Zionists: The Real Terrorists
(by Front Page Magazine)
The National Council of Churches (NCC), which will never
specifically criticize any radical Islamist movements no matter
how murderous, has found itself concerned about Christian
Zionists in America. In fact, according to the NCC, Christian
Zionist support for Israel is the main stumbling block to
tranquility in the Middle East. The threat posed by these
Christian zealots is so worrisome that the NCC has just released
a special brochure called “Why We Should Be Concerned About
Christian Zionism” to warn its 35 member denominations.
Posted
1/12/09
Primary
school students to be taught there isn't a God
Victorian state
primary school students will soon be able to take religious
education classes which teach there is no evidence God exists.
Posted 12/17/08
Pope
says end of the world not nigh
<- BTW,
THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE!!! (Actually
it's not close to the end of the world, but it is VERY close to
the Rapture of the Bride and the Tribulation onset!)
Pope reassures that
alarmist readings foretelling the end of the world are false
Posted
12/1/08
Nepal
'Buddha Boy' returns to jungle
KATHMANDU
(AFP) – A young man believed by followers to be a
reincarnation of Buddha has returned to Nepal's jungles to
meditate alone, police said Saturday, as scholars cast doubt on
his supporters' claims.
Posted 11/26/08
Nepal
teen dubbed reincarnation of Buddha
PEOPLE from all over the
world are flocking to Nepal to worship a teenage boy who many
believe is the reincarnation of Buddha. Followers say Ram
Bahadur Bamjan, 18, re-emerged from the Ratanpur jungle, about
160km south of Kathmandu, after meditating without food and
water for more than three years, the Associated Press reports.
Posted
11/13/08
Earth
under Quarantine, by order of God??
IT WAS the evolutionary theory of its age.
A revolutionary hypothesis that undermined the cherished notion
that we humans are somehow special, driving a deep wedge between
science and religion.
Posted
11/13/08
Angels
set to be the next big thing
As financial hardship looms and religious belief fades away,
people are turning to angels for guidance
Posted 9/22/08
Prince
Charles Speaks in Abu Dhabi Via Hologram
Posted 8/11/08
Todd
Bentley and the '13th Resurrection'
At the funeral
they played the revival, and we declared that our brother would not be
embalmed. At 2:19 AM, my brother began to stir in his coffin! In his
coffin!
Posted 7/28/08
Is
my 7 year old daughter being prepped for disclosure by her
school?
Anyway,just
this week my daughter and i were out on a walk,when suddenly she
blurted out that her teacher had told the class before they
broke up for the summer,that an Alien landing was going to be
happening next July!!
Posted 7/21/08
Christians
war over Sabbath vs. Sunday
Two thousand
years after Jesus walked the Earth, Christians are at war with each other
concerning – as strange as it may sound – a day of the week mentioned in
the Ten Commandments. The issue boils down to: "When is God's
Sabbath?"
Posted 3/19/08
666
and Mr. Jesus
I have been following this guy who claims now he is Antichrist. As a matter
of fact, being visited by Angels, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda claims he is
the re-incarnate of Jesus Christ. He says, "Jesus will never come and
appear in the clouds" as most christians believe. He also tells anyone
who will listen that the word Antichrist is a mistranslation. That indeed
Jesus was supposed to come again incarnate in a person. Today that person,
according to Jose Miranda is him.
Posted 5/11/07
'Antichrist'
Cult Leader to Preach in Guatemala
But Miranda still plans to fly in on a private jet Saturday to
celebrate his 61st birthday and meet with thousands of followers
from
around the world.
Posted 4/23/07
Anxiety,
emptiness fuel Confucius craze in China
Pop culture offerings in China these days run the gamut from Hollywood
blockbusters to domestic versions of "American Idol," but it is a
book about the ancient sage Confucius that is causing all the buzz in the
streets.
Posted 5/11/07
Archaeologist
sparks hunt for Holy Grail
An archaeologist has sparked a Da Vinci Code-style hunt for the Holy Grail
after claiming ancient records show it is buried under a 6th century church
in Rome.
Posted 6/21/07
Archaeologists,
scholars dispute Jesus documentary
Posted 3/1/07
The
Bible Under Attack
One way we can recognize where the devil is as work is in the attack
on the Word of God, the Bible. This seems to be coming at us from
all directions – in both conservative and liberal factions of the
visible church. There’s nothing new under the sun; Satan has
always cast doubt upon God’s Word in an effort to deceive God’s
people.
Posted 4/16/07
'Black
Jesus' cannibal Cult Leader captured
Posted 3/19/07
Britney
Spears: 'I am the anti-Christ!'
Posted 3/6/07
Christians
angered by Easter-time promotions for blasphemous works about Jesus
It's a predictable part of the Easter season: The period of
reflection on the Crucifixion and Resurrection has become a popular
time for marketers to roll out works – from the scholarly to the
sensational – that challenge Christianity's core beliefs.
Posted 4/9/07
Crowd
Packs Amphitheater For Man Claiming He's Jesus Christ Reincarnated
<- What makes people this gullible???
"They believe that Jesus is going to come from the sky," Juan
Sanchez said. "But, that is not the way he is going to come."
Posted 5/11/07
Crucifixion
makes God seem like a psychopath, says cleric
[What's really ironic is that this man is one of those
people He had to DIE for! Peggy]
The Dean of St Albans, the Very Rev Jeffrey John: Crucifixion makes God seem
like a psychopath Jeffrey John: 'What sort of God was this, getting so angry
with the world he created and then, to calm himself down, demanding the
blood of his own son?'
Posted 4/5/07
Does
"The Great Deception" Start On Monday? Jesus' burial site found - film
claims
Posted 2/26/07
Eyewitness
Account of a Benny Hinn "Miracle" Crusade
It is so sad to see multitudes of people carried away by such false
prophets because they are ignorant of the way of salvation and
completely lacking any Biblical understanding.
Posted 2/8/07
For
the teraphim speak iniquity, and the diviners see lying visions and tell false
dreams; they comfort in vain therefore the people wander like sheep, they are
afflicted, because there is no shepherd. (Zechariah 10:2)
False
Tombs and Gnostic Tales
Is this science? A bad joke? Or part of an intensifying battle
against unchanging truths -- a despicable mockery of the God of the
Bible and the significance of His death, burial and resurrection?
Posted
3/9/07
Followers
swear by Christ,'anti-Christ'
HUNDREDS of followers of a controversial preacher who calls himself
Jesus, the anti-Christ and the Apostle have gathered in Guatemala
City to listen to Puerto Rican evangelist Jose Luis Miranda.
Posted 4/24/07
Fortune
tellers: Year of Pig will bring disaster
"The Year of the
Pig will not be very peaceful," said Hong Kong feng shui master Raymond Lo.
Posted 02/20/07
Girl
'told sex with Catholic mystic was God's will'
Mr Kamm created the community, the Order of Saint Charbel, in the
late 1980s and planned to take 12 queens and 72 princesses who would
all conceive his children, the NSW District Court heard today.
Posted
2/16/07
Gnostic
Novelist, Catholic priest collaborate in new ‘Gospel’ of Judas
Archer, presenting The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot at a
March 20 press conference in Rome, said he is a practicing Anglican who
wanted his new book to be backed up by solid biblical scholarship. So he
convinced Father Francis J. Moloney, provincial of the Salesians in
Australia and a former president of the Catholic Biblical Association of
America, to collaborate.
Posted 3/23/07
God
and Darwin clash again in Kansas
Posted
2/15/07
Greenpeace
Pirating Noah's Ark For Global Warming
Where the biblical vessel is said to have landed needs to be italicized.
Irrefutable proof that the ark did land on Mount Ararat never did
materialize.But that wouldn't matter much to Greenpeace.
Posted 5/21/07
Hawaii
Aims to Deter Offerings to Volcano god
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) -- Rangers at Hawaii
Volcanoes National Park are launching a program to stop people from
leaving religious offerings at the summit of Mount Kilauea -
including food they say attracts rats and cockroaches.
Posted 4/23/07
India's
'Destroyer of Sin' awash in filth
Among
believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin.
Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it "Ganga
Ma" -- Mother Ganges -- and they worship it with a blinding
intensity. They worship it despite the islands of garbage that float
down its path, and the tons of chemicals dumped in it. They worship
it despite the one billion liters (quarter of a billion gallons) of
sewage poured into it every day, spreading illness among the 350
million people -- some one-twentieth of the world's population --
who live in its watershed.
Posted 2/13/07
Intelligence
drugs for the future
A new generation of drugs that make people more intelligent may be
what students and businessman take in the future to pass exams and
boost work performance.
Posted 4/19/07
For
if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has
not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those
also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. (I Corinthians 15:16-18)
Jesus
Tomb Film Scholars Backtrack
Several prominent
scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that
suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript
ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including
the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb
being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the
fallout from the popular documentary shows.
Posted 4/13/07
Jesus'
Burial Site Found
<-
THIS IS A HUGE LIE!!!!!!
Could the most devastating propaganda blow against Christianity be
unfolding now?
Posted 2/26/07
The
Lost Tomb of Jesus is a Sham! (by Stephen Yulish)
James Cameron's new documentary film, The Lost Tomb
of Jesus is trying to delegitimize Christianity. Every year of late around the Easter Season, it seems that someone tries to
undermine the foundations of the Christian faith. Last year it was The DaVinci
Code and The Jesus Papers and this year it is The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
Posted 3/2/07
Linking
Ancient and Modern, A Worldwide Web of Deceitful Worship
Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate
of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and
yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of a statue that Hindus
regard as an embodiment of the powerful god Vishnu.
Posted 3/16/07
The
Lubavitcher Rebbe as a god
<- New Age nonsense!
Yet Sokolovsky
maintains a blog he entitled "Rebbegod" and refers to Schneerson as
"Rebbe-Almighty" among other adulatory sobriquets.
Posted 2/26/07
Man
Who Says He's Jesus Says He's the Antichrist
More than 12 members of a Doral based church showed up at a South
Beach tattoo parlor to get the numbers 666 tattooed on
themselves, all as a show of faith to preacher Jose Luis de Jesus
Miranda, who is now sporting a 666 tattoo of his own. "I am
Jesus Christ man," he said in front of our cameras. “The
second coming of Christ."
Posted
2/16/07
Meet
the Minister Who Says He Is Jesus Christ - Newsweek Beliefs -
MSNBC.com
Posted 2/1/07
Messiah
mystery follows death of mystical rabbi
A controversy is
raging in Israel, in evangelical circles in the U.S. and on kabbalah web
forums worldwide following the posthumous release of what a revered
Sephardic rabbi claimed to be the name of the Messiah... About his encounter
with the Messiah Kaduri claimed is alive in Israel today...
Posted 5/18/07
Miracle
Olive tree leaves spark frenzy in Greece
Posted 1/31/07
Missing
Bees and Global Warming Are Connected in an Unexpected Way
The existence of the multiple dimensions were known to varying degrees by
the ancients. All manner of mysterious phenomena are predicted by this
multi-dimensional hypothesis. The after-life, magic, the Pyramids, aliens,
time travel, invisibility, and pre-cognition all have hyper-dimensional
explanations. And so it is with the missing bees.
Posted 5/15/07
More
information about 'discovery of Jesus' bones'
Now comes
a documentary movies' director and producer ... named Simcha
Jacobovici, and insists that the holy man is resting in peace right
here, under our noses, in a cave in the Talpiyot neighborhood of
Jerusalem, right next to his family members. Not only we did not
know; neither did the archaeologists or the theologians ..."
Posted 3/5/07
Moses,
Jesus 'really prophets of Islam'
Chief Muslim claims Jewish Temples never existed, Al Aqsa
built by angels
Posted 3/19/07
NBC
morning show offers little contradiction to claim bones of Jesus found
Posted 2/28/07
Nepal's
young goddesses at modern crossroads
Sajani Shakya is one of several Nepali children designated living goddesses
-- kumaris -- in the Kathmandu valley, where her people observe Buddhism
with elements of Hinduism thrown in. She was identified by priests at age 2
as an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali and will be worshiped until she
reaches puberty.
Posted 6/20/07
Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools... (Romans 1:22)
New
'Bible' says Christ born of gorilla, not virgin
'If Jesus was
alive today, he would understand that his ancestors ... were beasts'
Posted 3/5/07
A
New Version of the Bible for the Gay Community
The free Bible download contains all the text of the King James
Version, as well as a new book entitled God's New Law, which
describes a prophecy from the year 2000 that forgives homosexuality
and fornication. This new book is meant to inaugurate the rebirth of
mankind and the acceptance of gay marriage in God's kingdom.
Posted
2/16/07
Ossuary
In 'Lost Tomb' Documentary On Display In Ft. Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Discovery Channel documentary
that has inflamed the passions of Christians everywhere has a South Florida
connection.
Posted 3/2/07
Pastor
with 666 tattoo claims to be divine
"The prophets,
they spoke about me. It took me time to learn that, but I am what they were
expecting, what they have been expecting for 2,000 years," de Jesus says.
Posted 2/21/07
Phony
'Holy water' goes on sale in bottles
Company sells reverse-osmosis purified, bottled H2O blessed by
clergy members
Posted
3/9/07
Physicists
Find Way To 'See' Extra Dimensions
A new study
demonstrates that the shapes of extra dimensions can be "seen" by
deciphering their influence on cosmic energy released by the violent birth of
the universe 13 billion years ago. The method, published today (Feb. 2) in
Physical Review Letters, provides evidence that physicists can use experimental
data to discern the nature of these elusive dimensions - the existence of which
is a critical but as yet unproven element of string theory, the leading
contender for a unified "theory of everything."
Posted 3/6/07
Priest
jailed for exorcism death
Posted 2/21/07
Rep.
Stark Applauded for Atheist Outlook
The American Humanist Association applauded Rep. Pete
Stark for publicly acknowledging he does not believe in a supreme being. The
declaration, it said, makes him the highest-ranking elected official — and
first congressman — to proclaim to be an atheist. The organization took out an
ad in Tuesday's Washington Post, congratulating the California Democrat for his
stance.
Posted 3/19/07
Resurrection
of Yahshua [Jesus]
Due to the fact that
Satan is launching an all-out campaign in these last days to disprove the
resurrection of Yahshua (see Titanic'
attack on Christ's Resurrection and
Jesus'
Burial Site Found),
I thought this would be an appropriate time to share a few facts with you, as
well as the Gospel accounts of His resurrection.
Posted 2/27/07
A
Review of "The Jesus Tomb" Film Shown on The Discovery
Channel
Posted
3/9/07
The
rise of the mighty evangelicals filled with the spirit of Mammon and
capitalism
Posted 3/5/07
Scholar:
'Jesus Tomb' Makers Mistaken
<-
DUH... Gee, ya think?
Posted
3/16/07
See
If You Get The Point: Archaeology Magazine Hints At Jacobovici's
Jesus Tomb Motive
Posted
3/9/07
'Sparks
fly from Jesus artwork'
WORSHIPPERS are
flocking to a statue of Jesus Christ in a Merseyside gallery claiming it
possesses miraculous powers.
Posted 02/20/07
Speaking
in Tongues: Gibberish, Glossolalia or Faith's language?
Critics deride it as fake, but new research shows that something aberrant
happens in the brain when someone speaks in tongues.
Posted 5/25/07
Superstitious
flock to bleeding Jesus paintings
"We lit candles and prayed all night and a little later the red fluid
dried but it soon started trickling down from the hands and heart of another
portrait in the house," Nathaniel said in the islands' capital Port
Blair today.
Posted 3/23/07
Superstitious
see Jesus in tree
"If you have faith, you see it," said 44-year-old Lupe
Granados, who traveled from nearby Big Wells to see the tree.
"If you don't, you
don't."
Posted 2/19/07
Ten
Reasons Why The Jesus Tomb Claim is Bogus
Witherington and
other leading biblical scholars and archeologists say there are at least 10
reasons why the "Jesus Tomb" claim is completely bogusWitherington and
other leading biblical scholars and archeologists say there are at least 10
reasons why the "Jesus Tomb" claim is completely bogus...
Posted 2/28/07
'Tisk
it, 'Task it, We found Jesus's Casket
Posted 3/1/07
Uganda:
Superstitious Rush to See Jesus in Gulu
THE Christian season
of Lent started yesterday with claims that visions of Jesus Christ and the
Virgin Mary had appeared to people at three different places in northern Uganda.
Posted 2/26/07
U.S.
Beliefs in Pseudoscience Worry Experts
A panel of
researchers expressed concern that people are giving increasing credence to
pseudoscience subjects such as horoscopes.
Posted 02/20/07
Vatican
Conjures up 'Miracle' to put Pope on sainthood road
A questionable
dossier containing so-called proof of his miraculous intercession to cure a
French nun of Parkinson's disease will be submitted to the Vatican's
Congregation for the Causes of the Saints next Monday, the second anniversary of
the death of the charismatic Polish pope.
Posted 3/29/07
The
Vatican turns away followers of the 'new Padre Pio'
With his face,
hands and feet appearing covered in blood each Easter, he has earned celebrity
status and his fans range from the country's poorest to World Cup-winning
footballer Francesco Totti... Yesterday was supposed to be a chance for as many
as 10,000 people, including visitors from Britain, to meet Brother Elia, 45, at
the headquarters of the Jesuit movement in Naples. Now that Lent has begun, time
is running out to see him before he takes to his bed over April to undergo his
annual torment.
Posted 2/27/07
Virgin
Mary image draws throngs of the Superstitious
Posted 3/2/07
Wear
pants, Pope, says banned 'Antichrist'
He has the number 666 identifying the Antichrist tattooed on his arm
but says he is Jesus Christ reborn on earth, arguing Saint Paul's
teachings show this is what Antichrist means.
Posted 4/16/07
When
Dalai Lama is Down Under
A visit to any
country by the Tibetan spiritual leader is always preceded by dire warnings
from Beijing of "interference" in China's affairs.
Posted 5/25/07
