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I just read an article in Newsweek August 15, 2005 on the pope's first address as pope. He claimed the Nazis were athiest and it was the lack of religion that caused the entire movement. Is he ignorant or is he lying?

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"Footprints rewrite history of first Americans" http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7627

Interesting article on the history of energy researches http://twm.co.nz/energ.html From a site called PubMed, National Library of medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1353653&dopt=Abstract Articles about energy development technology...

http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=54447&from=vid

:rolleyes: I suppose it makes a change from the second world war.

Oy vay! :rolleyes: Although it was heartening to at least get a glimpse of the counterargument to this tripe, I've never heard a bunch of bull so well rationalized in my life. Did these nuttos actually listen to themselves spewing their stupidity? First of all, the Torah is a large text...

Just a heads up to those in the UK that a new TV series on the history of atheism is about to be shown on BBC4. It's written and presented by Jonathon Miller and will be on 9.30-10.30 p.m. for the next three Mondays. Amongst those contributing are Richard Dawkins and playwright Arthur Miller...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-nws-novak27.html This basically seals Kerry's fate. Funny how political pundits are slow to recognize how damaging this whole thing is. By tomorrow or the next day look for a few columnists to point out Kerry's coming demise. Getting a Purple Heart...

The Biblical literalist timeline puts the creation of the world back to somewhere near 4000 BC. This figure is reached by adding together the figures of the "begat lists" of the Pentateuch and the reign lengths of the kings given in Kings (with some 400 years of Egyptian captivity thrown in for...

Medical History of American Presidents Fascinating stuff!

"I was born in Berlin, across the street from the hospital where Adolf was born. I would like to give a short history lesson to those among you who were not there to see it." "By the time that Adolf had successfully complete grade four, he had completely mastered most of what can be taught by...

I found this timeline on the history of spiritualism and related matters, and thought that some here might find it interesting to peruse: http://www.psychics.co.uk/spiritualism/history_of_spiritualism.htm

The history of the word "fundamentalism". What does the word "fundamentalism" mean. As usually used here (judging by context clues), but not just here, it means anyone who is "too religious" (whatever that means). That could be pacifists such as Jehovah's Witnessess, or Republicans such as...

I heard that the holiday of Easter as we know it (the myth of jesus rising from the grave) was just transplanted over an old pagan holiday celebrated by the Romans and the word "Easter" is a derivative of a name of a pagan god. Do most christians know this?

I'm the head of circulation at a small town library, although, unfortunately, not high enough on the ladder that I get to pick what materials the library purchases. We usually do a pretty good job, and I've managed to get a number of skeptical books into the collection, as well as make sure all...

this is very surprising to see printed :

With a bent towards "latin jazz" as it were: Danilo Perez: Motherland album an all time great; a profound live experience David Sanchez: His touring band (circa 2 years ago) was so tight that it bordered on demonic Richard Bona: Bass player/singer extraordinaire. His live band is a unique mix...

On New Years Day I watched a really interesting doc on the Book of Revelation, broadcasted on The History Channel. It went into the history of apocalyptic writing, and even compared lines in John of Patmos' book to writings in other apocalyptic writing during that time and before it. It was...

I was channelsurfing and happened to come across a show about Nostradamus on the so-called History Channel. It seems to be just the typical claptrap, with people interpreting various translations of Nostradamus "prophecies" and tying them to famous historical events. The funniest bit I have to...

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Or more appropriately, lack thereof. Interesting read by an FDA historian on the history and various federal regulations that deal with homeopathy. Answers some of the questions posed in the recent homeopathy wars here... homeopathy regulatory history U.S.

The History Channel just ran (re-ran?) their History's Mysteries piece on the Bible Code. As could be expected, they spent about 2 minutes on the guy who found assassinations "hidden" in Moby Dick and the rest of the show showing people claiming up and down that "the chances against these...

This was from watching the History Channel.. Coke-a-Cola was created after teh Civil War in Atlanta Ga by a "pharamcist". At the time there was no federal regualtion so you could just buy a certificate that said you were one and that was it. President Grant was suffering from headaches and he...

I just saw UFOs: Examining the Evidence on the History Channel. Groan. The whole show dealt with presenting bizarre UFO Believers' cases in as spooky a light as possible. I spent the whole show wondering when they were going to get to the "examining the evidence" part. About 5 minutes of...

The history channel did a one hour spot on the NKVD and KGB during the early Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist phase. What I found interesting is that they talked about Leon Trotsky for about 10 minutes at various points and talked about how he was so opposed to Stalin and how he gave speaches...