Many Catholic priests and religious have abused children in their care. But is the church's record worse than the world's? There seems to be no end to the scandals buffeting the Roman Catholic church about the abuse of children; most recently in Germany , where the headmaster a school associated with a choir once run by the pope's elder brother Georg Ratzinger has been exposed as an abuser. And ...
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THE FUTURIST magazine has recently featured potential “fixes” and uncommon solutions to various big problems facing the world. Patrick Tucker of THE FUTURIST highlights several of them below.
The Issue: Transportation
The industrial world’s addiction to cars is costly and will become more so. The U.S. uses roughly 21 million barrels of oil per day. According to a recent U.S. Census B...
I’m pleased to say that the release of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be has been enjoying quite a bit of attention from skeptics — which has helped this full-color kids’ book get off to a great start. Perhaps the most rewarding moment for me so far was receiving a warmly positive quote from Dr. Eugenie Scott (Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and...
Catholic Church, Brazil Franchise, sues Roland Emmerich for pretending to destroy a statue in his crappy diaster-porn: Previously: Invisible Sky Daddy was unavailable for comment.
Via: http://entresminutos.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/religion-ballot-screen/
This is really cool. Two scientists at Scripps Institute (right here in San Diego) created self-replicating, evolving, but non-living molecules . Their experiment created ribozymes (ribonucleic acid enzymes) that can make copies of themselves without any help, and using just a chaotic bunch of basic molecules that might have been found in Earth's early history. As long as the raw materials wer...
József álmot látott és elbeszélte bátyjainak. Azok már korábban is irigyelték, most hogy az álom szerint urukká lett, még inkább meggyűlölték, s kútba vetették Józsefet. A kút azonban száraz volt. Testvérei Júdára hallgatván kivették a kútból, s húsz ezüstpénzért eladták a kereskedőknek, azok pedig elvitték Egyiptomba, s ott eladták Józsefet egy Potifár nevű embernek, a fáraó főtestőrének. Az Úr a...
More and more, the Dalai Lama has been developing an interest in what modern science has to say about human emotion — or, more particularly, how neuroscience makes sense of meditation and compassion. Partly as a result, Stanford University has launched The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education , which is delving deeper into these questions. The clip above features Daniel Golem...
Defacing a church or synagogue is considered a hate crime. Should this be?
In a new study that has conservative Catholic groups very alarmed, Georgetown researchers are reporting that Catholic students who attend Catholic Universities are not much more likely to support Catholic teaching than their counterparts at non-Catholic colleges and universities.
The Bulletin —”Philadelphia’s Family Newspaper”— writes :
CARA researchers also found that attending Catholic col...
Darwin vs. the General Organization of Development labs, or why truth comes in pairs.
Science and religion may be odd bedfellows, but they’ve always had a shared mechanism of propagation — both are simply the product of the stories we tell ourselves and each other to explain the world, be it rationally or emotionally or mystically. So what happens when these conflicting stories are pitted again...
Last week, the Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Nashville, TN was vandalized with anti-Muslim graffiti . Members of the mostly Somali congregation also found a handwritten note “taped to the outside of their youth training building a few blocks away,” with the words “The Enemy Is Islam” underlined at the top. The hate crime came after a local news station aired a controversial , inflammatory repo...