Who are Penn and Teller? Click here to download Bullshit Bible. Note: These are very large .wmv files. If you don't have a broadband connection — forget it. Click here to download Bullshit Creationism.

You will need Apple's Quicktime Player to view these videos. Downloading the player is free. For best results, right click on the files and download them to your hard drive. Nightline article on Evolution

Trees My neighbor and I have had a bit of a falling out, and I think it's really his fault. Click on the icon to hear my side of the story. Any feedback would be appreciated.

AUGUSTINE They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost. [The City of God, Book 20, Chapter 22, "What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked" & Book 22, Chapter 30, "Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath"] TERTULLIAN What a spectacle. . .when the world. . .and its many products, shall be consumed in one great flame! How vast a spectacle then bursts upon the eye! What there excites my admiration? What my derision? Which sight gives me joy? As I see. . .illustrious monarchs. . . groaning in the lowest darkness, Philosophers. . .as fire consumes them! Poets trembling before the judgment-seat of. . .Christ! I shall hear the tragedians, louder-voiced in their own calamity; view play-actors. . .in the dissolving flame;...

The Daily Show's four day special report: "Evolution Schmevolution" You will need Apple's Quicktime Player to view these videos. Downloading the player is free. For best results, right click on the files and download them to your hard drive. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4

Richard Dawkins has an excellent summary of the idea of evolution in this week's New Scientist, in an article titled "The world's ten biggest ideas". Here it is—it's a very clear, short, six paragraph explanation of a big idea, fewer than 600 words. Now if only everyone could just understand this: The world is divided into things that look designed (like birds and airliners) and things that don't (rocks and mountains). Things that look designed are divided into those that really are designed (submarines and tin openers) and those that aren't (sharks and hedgehogs). The diagnostic of things that look (or are) designed is that their parts are assembled in ways that are statistically improbable in a functional direction. They do something well: for instance, fly. Darwinian natural selection can produce an uncanny illusion of design. An engineer would be hard put to decide whether a bird or a plane was the more aerodynamically elegant. So powerful is the illus...

by George Claassen "...the religious memes that include the notion of hell... These visions of horror work wonders. Terrified humans by the score allow unprovable concepts to take up residence in their skulls." Over the past week I was constantly reminded of these words by Howard Bloom in his fascinating book The Lucifer Principle - A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History . Bloom's argument is applicable to some readers whose reaction to my column ( The Earth is not 6 000 yrs old! ), explaining the techniques scientists apply to determine the age of the Universe or Earth and everything on it, was one of what I can only call terrified and total negation about the findings of science. But how do scientists explain the psychological hold religion has on gullible people's lives? Why do so many intelligent human beings continue to deny scientific facts despite overwhelming evidence contradicting the claims of absolute truths by prophets proclaiming a benevolent ...

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