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		<title>By: Sadly, No! &#187; From Morn To Noonan He Fell; From Noonan To Dewy Eve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sadly, No! &#187; From Morn To Noonan He Fell; From Noonan To Dewy Eve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] been neglecting Nooners lately. That&#8217;s mostly because we&#8217;ve run out of puns like &#8216;High Noonan,&#8217; &#8216;Noonan World Order,&#8217; and &#8216;Darkness at Noonan.&#8217; But as you can see, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] been neglecting Nooners lately. That&#8217;s mostly because we&#8217;ve run out of puns like &#8216;High Noonan,&#8217; &#8216;Noonan World Order,&#8217; and &#8216;Darkness at Noonan.&#8217; But as you can see, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: X-Tra Rant &#187; Oy</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90554</link>
		<dc:creator>X-Tra Rant &#187; Oy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Via Sadly, No! Iâ€™d like to make one thing clear here - a lot of lefty posters on the original Death of Science thread tried to make out that I was some sort of Luddite opposed to scientific pursuit. This assertion is rather flabbergasting when made against a man who favors a massive increase in spending on NASA. When I say â€œScienceâ€? in this context, I mean that worldview which placed science athwart religion and said the two cannot mix. My contention is not only that they mix fine, but that you canâ€™t really do science unless you are firmly grounded in faith and have a general knowledge of theology. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Via Sadly, No! Iâ€™d like to make one thing clear here &#8211; a lot of lefty posters on the original Death of Science thread tried to make out that I was some sort of Luddite opposed to scientific pursuit. This assertion is rather flabbergasting when made against a man who favors a massive increase in spending on NASA. When I say â€œScienceâ€? in this context, I mean that worldview which placed science athwart religion and said the two cannot mix. My contention is not only that they mix fine, but that you canâ€™t really do science unless you are firmly grounded in faith and have a general knowledge of theology. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: justme</title>
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		<dc:creator>justme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Enough of that.

Gary, you don&#039;t actually believe the tripe you&#039;re typing, now do you? I mean it&#039;s comedy gold, but you can&#039;t really be that delusional.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Enough of that.</p>
<p>Gary, you don&#8217;t actually believe the tripe you&#8217;re typing, now do you? I mean it&#8217;s comedy gold, but you can&#8217;t really be that delusional.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruthie</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90267</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Twisted_Colour said,

&lt;I&gt;Olâ€™ Noony has a real love for NASA because they are the only mob who can help build the giant prayer platform in space. Being outside the atmosphere attenuation is reduced and Le Bon Dieu can hear our prayers without so much interference (although there are always the mix-ups in delivery resulting in various deities getting the wrong p-mail.)&lt;/I&gt;

But...In space, no one can hear you pray!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twisted_Colour said,</p>
<p><i>Olâ€™ Noony has a real love for NASA because they are the only mob who can help build the giant prayer platform in space. Being outside the atmosphere attenuation is reduced and Le Bon Dieu can hear our prayers without so much interference (although there are always the mix-ups in delivery resulting in various deities getting the wrong p-mail.)</i></p>
<p>But&#8230;In space, no one can hear you pray!</p>
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		<title>By: Ruthie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gary Ruppert said,
&lt;I&gt;Harris was down 20 points, but now sheâ€™s down around 5 points or so, and it shouldnâ€™t be surprising to see her win narrowly.&lt;/I&gt;

Gary, I recently saw a picture of Harris in a bathing suit. All I can say is that if that chick spent $30K for &lt;I&gt;those&lt;/I&gt; thighs and gut, I don&#039;t want her anywhere NEAR my tax dollars!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gary Ruppert said,<br />
<i>Harris was down 20 points, but now sheâ€™s down around 5 points or so, and it shouldnâ€™t be surprising to see her win narrowly.</i></p>
<p>Gary, I recently saw a picture of Harris in a bathing suit. All I can say is that if that chick spent $30K for <i>those</i> thighs and gut, I don&#8217;t want her anywhere NEAR my tax dollars!</p>
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		<title>By: Ruthie</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90265</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruthie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;I&gt; I expect the GOP to hold their seats in Pennsylvania, ...&lt;/I&gt;

Ricky isn&#039;t looking so good, considering he&#039;s from a part of PA that&#039;s slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i> I expect the GOP to hold their seats in Pennsylvania, &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Ricky isn&#8217;t looking so good, considering he&#8217;s from a part of PA that&#8217;s slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun.</p>
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		<title>By: Dorothy</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90180</link>
		<dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;/i&gt;Wow. This is too perfect! Look what I found in my inbox right after I posted the snarky comment:

&quot;In an interview on Arabic radio two weeks ago, the imam based at Sydney&#039;s Lakemba mosque said he was opposed to terror attacks in Madrid, London and New York but strongly endorsed fighters in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the interview, Sheik Hilaly pays tribute to Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood and intellectual mentor of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20666259-2,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full story&lt;/a&gt;

Boy, it&#039;s sure a good thing there is aboslutely no potential danger in Austrailia gaining nuclear weapons.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. This is too perfect! Look what I found in my inbox right after I posted the snarky comment:</p>
<p>&#8220;In an interview on Arabic radio two weeks ago, the imam based at Sydney&#8217;s Lakemba mosque said he was opposed to terror attacks in Madrid, London and New York but strongly endorsed fighters in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>In the interview, Sheik Hilaly pays tribute to Sayyid Qutb, the ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood and intellectual mentor of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. &#8221; <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20666259-2,00.html" rel="nofollow">full story</a></p>
<p>Boy, it&#8217;s sure a good thing there is aboslutely no potential danger in Austrailia gaining nuclear weapons.</p>
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		<title>By: Dorothy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dorothy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Taking a peek through the looking glass into Gary&#039;s World:

Unquestionably brilliant
Iraq wants nuclear weapons, and these weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists, making the US less safe. We must attack them immediately to prevent the smoking gun from being a mushroom cloud.

Ridiculously idiotic:
Forty contries want nuclear weapons, and these weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists, making the US less safe. We should encouage friendly nations to drop their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

OK. Got it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Taking a peek through the looking glass into Gary&#8217;s World:</p>
<p>Unquestionably brilliant<br />
Iraq wants nuclear weapons, and these weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists, making the US less safe. We must attack them immediately to prevent the smoking gun from being a mushroom cloud.</p>
<p>Ridiculously idiotic:<br />
Forty contries want nuclear weapons, and these weapons may fall into the hands of terrorists, making the US less safe. We should encouage friendly nations to drop their pursuit of nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>OK. Got it.</p>
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		<title>By: D.F. Manno</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90175</link>
		<dc:creator>D.F. Manno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gary Ruppert said,

&lt;i&gt;As well, I expect the GOP to hold their seats in Pennsylvania&lt;i&gt;

The fact is that Sen. Man-on-Dog is toast. From Sunday&#039;s Philadelphia Inquirer: &quot;The Temple/Inquirer poll shows Santorum has lost ground to his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr. A month ago, Casey led the two-term senator by 11 points. The latest poll has Casey ahead 54 percent to 38 percent with 6 percent undecided.&quot;

And it couldn&#039;t happen to a more deserving prick.

Also in Pennsylvania: &quot;The governor&#039;s race remained static, with Gov. Rendell ahead of his Republican challenger, NFL Hall of Fame wideout Lynn Swann, 58 percent to 34 percent, with 6 percent undecided.&quot;

In the House, Weldon and Sherwood are going down, and Gerlach and Fitzpatrick are in trouble.

The GOP is in for big losses in Pennsylvania.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gary Ruppert said,</p>
<p><i>As well, I expect the GOP to hold their seats in Pennsylvania</i><i></p>
<p>The fact is that Sen. Man-on-Dog is toast. From Sunday&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer: &#8220;The Temple/Inquirer poll shows Santorum has lost ground to his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr. A month ago, Casey led the two-term senator by 11 points. The latest poll has Casey ahead 54 percent to 38 percent with 6 percent undecided.&#8221;</p>
<p>And it couldn&#8217;t happen to a more deserving prick.</p>
<p>Also in Pennsylvania: &#8220;The governor&#8217;s race remained static, with Gov. Rendell ahead of his Republican challenger, NFL Hall of Fame wideout Lynn Swann, 58 percent to 34 percent, with 6 percent undecided.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the House, Weldon and Sherwood are going down, and Gerlach and Fitzpatrick are in trouble.</p>
<p>The GOP is in for big losses in Pennsylvania.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Phoenix Woman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phoenix Woman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I note that the Communism/Hypnotism/Beatles pamphlet is straight from the bowels of Billy James Hargis&#039; old Christian Crusade.

Hargis, who is no longer with us, fell from grace when he was literally caught in bed with a live man AND and a live woman.   Truly a sight to behold.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I note that the Communism/Hypnotism/Beatles pamphlet is straight from the bowels of Billy James Hargis&#8217; old Christian Crusade.</p>
<p>Hargis, who is no longer with us, fell from grace when he was literally caught in bed with a live man AND and a live woman.   Truly a sight to behold.</p>
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		<title>By: FireDrew</title>
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		<dc:creator>FireDrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay...

First, Noonan is a fool and a dipshit. 

Second, religion and science CAN live together. Several writers have demonstrated this. John Polkinghorne is a prime example, although I think Huston Smith has explored this ground in the broadest sense.

Shadowgm assumes that people believe in God because they need to explain the world. If you do not understand why our faith takes this shape, that is fine, but don&#039;t assume we are just trying to tell fairy tales to avoid critical thinking.

What frustrates me about the vocal atheists of late is not that they do not believe in God. By all means, don&#039;t. Although I do, I don&#039;t think anyone is &quot;going to hell.&quot; All I am asking is do not dismiss my thought or ideas because my faith takes a shape your faith does not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay&#8230;</p>
<p>First, Noonan is a fool and a dipshit. </p>
<p>Second, religion and science CAN live together. Several writers have demonstrated this. John Polkinghorne is a prime example, although I think Huston Smith has explored this ground in the broadest sense.</p>
<p>Shadowgm assumes that people believe in God because they need to explain the world. If you do not understand why our faith takes this shape, that is fine, but don&#8217;t assume we are just trying to tell fairy tales to avoid critical thinking.</p>
<p>What frustrates me about the vocal atheists of late is not that they do not believe in God. By all means, don&#8217;t. Although I do, I don&#8217;t think anyone is &#8220;going to hell.&#8221; All I am asking is do not dismiss my thought or ideas because my faith takes a shape your faith does not.</p>
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		<title>By: deth</title>
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		<dc:creator>deth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Didn&#039;t work 8(</description>
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		<title>By: deth</title>
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		<dc:creator>deth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;text&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: Rush Limburgh</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90063</link>
		<dc:creator>Rush Limburgh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I heard that stuff can give you spontaneous orgasmsâ€¦ Or was that anaphranilâ€¦&quot;

Tell me more!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I heard that stuff can give you spontaneous orgasmsâ€¦ Or was that anaphranilâ€¦&#8221;</p>
<p>Tell me more!</p>
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		<title>By: Sophist</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90056</link>
		<dc:creator>Sophist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;I assume that Noonanâ€™s advocacy of NASA somehow, in his mind, involves reconnaisance of God in the night sky.&lt;/i&gt;

I think he took that whole &quot;slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God&quot; thing literally.

&lt;i&gt;Katherine Harris is also building up unstoppable momentum.&lt;/i&gt;

...as falling objects are wont to do.

&lt;i&gt;you canâ€™t really do science unless you are firmly grounded in faith and have a general knowledge of theology.&lt;/i&gt;

S&#039;true. Also, you can&#039;t be a really stellar plumber without a thorough understanding of music theory.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I assume that Noonanâ€™s advocacy of NASA somehow, in his mind, involves reconnaisance of God in the night sky.</i></p>
<p>I think he took that whole &#8220;slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God&#8221; thing literally.</p>
<p><i>Katherine Harris is also building up unstoppable momentum.</i></p>
<p>&#8230;as falling objects are wont to do.</p>
<p><i>you canâ€™t really do science unless you are firmly grounded in faith and have a general knowledge of theology.</i></p>
<p>S&#8217;true. Also, you can&#8217;t be a really stellar plumber without a thorough understanding of music theory.</p>
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		<title>By: herr doktor bimler</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90044</link>
		<dc:creator>herr doktor bimler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Noonan does not seem to understand the concepts of &#039;science&#039;, &#039;religion&#039;, or for that matter &#039;athwart&#039;.

Last time I looked up at the night sky, God was pissing on me. I would have prefered to think of it as &#039;rain&#039;, but that kind of closed-minded atheism is beyond me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Noonan does not seem to understand the concepts of &#8216;science&#8217;, &#8216;religion&#8217;, or for that matter &#8216;athwart&#8217;.</p>
<p>Last time I looked up at the night sky, God was pissing on me. I would have prefered to think of it as &#8216;rain&#8217;, but that kind of closed-minded atheism is beyond me.</p>
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		<title>By: Marq</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90042</link>
		<dc:creator>Marq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And I just broke teh tagz...  again. Sorry, everyone. I&#039;ll lay off teh italics for a bit in any other threads I comment in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And I just broke teh tagz&#8230;  again. Sorry, everyone. I&#8217;ll lay off teh italics for a bit in any other threads I comment in.</p>
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		<title>By: Marq</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Harris was down 20 points, but now sheâ€™s down around 5 points or so[...]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
[regains composure after laughing &lt;i&gt;so damned hard]
&quot;(O)r so,&quot; in this case meaning about an additional 30 points. Or so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><i>Harris was down 20 points, but now sheâ€™s down around 5 points or so[...]</i></p></blockquote>
<p>[regains composure after laughing <i>so damned hard]<br />
&#8220;(O)r so,&#8221; in this case meaning about an additional 30 points. Or so.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Marq</title>
		<link>http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4086.html#comment-90038</link>
		<dc:creator>Marq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That poll Gary cites came directly out of his arse... or was that &quot;&lt;i&gt;pole? &lt;/i&gt;&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That poll Gary cites came directly out of his arse&#8230; or was that &#8220;<i>pole? </i>&#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: shadowgm</title>
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		<dc:creator>shadowgm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looking up at the night sky isn&#039;t proof of God, unless you think those are pinholes in the celestial sphere from which heavenly light doth leak.

Gravity works whether or not I believe in God, or we&#039;d have flying Atheists.

And to what theological tenet does electricity derive from? Biblical mention of the Big Guy throwing a few bolts hither and yon? Was that your white-bread Chrisitan God, or was it Thor? Bowling night for the angels, perhaps?

Children are curious about their environment long before they begin to wrestle with theological questions, and &#039;why is the sky blue&#039; is not answered or made clear by &#039;and God created the firmament, splitting it into equal parts day and night&#039;.

Irreducable complexity is an intellectual cop-out. Or, as Arthur C. Clarke wrote, &quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&quot;

But go ahead with your superstitious chicken-dancing. The fact is that men who don&#039;t believe in YOUR God have acquired nuclear weapons, and other men who don&#039;t believe in YOUR God are well on their way.

If Kim Jung Il&#039;s nuke failed, it wasn&#039;t because of a prayer rally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking up at the night sky isn&#8217;t proof of God, unless you think those are pinholes in the celestial sphere from which heavenly light doth leak.</p>
<p>Gravity works whether or not I believe in God, or we&#8217;d have flying Atheists.</p>
<p>And to what theological tenet does electricity derive from? Biblical mention of the Big Guy throwing a few bolts hither and yon? Was that your white-bread Chrisitan God, or was it Thor? Bowling night for the angels, perhaps?</p>
<p>Children are curious about their environment long before they begin to wrestle with theological questions, and &#8216;why is the sky blue&#8217; is not answered or made clear by &#8216;and God created the firmament, splitting it into equal parts day and night&#8217;.</p>
<p>Irreducable complexity is an intellectual cop-out. Or, as Arthur C. Clarke wrote, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221;</p>
<p>But go ahead with your superstitious chicken-dancing. The fact is that men who don&#8217;t believe in YOUR God have acquired nuclear weapons, and other men who don&#8217;t believe in YOUR God are well on their way.</p>
<p>If Kim Jung Il&#8217;s nuke failed, it wasn&#8217;t because of a prayer rally.</p>
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