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• It Doesn't Matter What the Bible says About Homosexuality

  Source: Daily Kos

  This is not a theocracy. The bible should not in any way inform our laws. Nor should the Qur'an. Nor the Torah. Nor the Bahagavad Gita. Nor the Jain Agamas. Nor the Book of Mormon. Nor any other religious text. Period. Taking the argument to the bible misses the point. Every i …

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• Bin Laden, Manson, and Kaczynski Believe In Gobal Warming - Do You? Breaking 5:19 PM EST: Heartland Suspends Billboard Campaign

    In preparation for it's Seventh Annual Conference on Global Warming, The Heartland Institute is using an 'interesting' tactic - linking acceptance of the science of global warming (something even skeptics don't deny anymore, although they do continue to argue about it's c …

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• Lessons from Past Predictions: Hansen 1981

  Source: Skeptical Science

  In previous Lessons from Past Predictions entries we examined Hansen et al.'s 1988 global warming projections (here and here). However, James Hansen was also the lead author on a previous study from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) projecting global warming in …

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• Ex-NASA worker: Firing was over intelligent design

  A former computer specialist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was laid off because he was combative and didn't keep his skills sharp — not because he advocated for his belief in intelligent design while at work, an attorney said Monday in a case that plays on the tensions over the origins-of-life concept.

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• The Skeptic's Guide to the Medieval Warm Period

  “How can science claim man is the cause of global warming when the temperature of the Earth was much warmer during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)?”

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