Another great link from Triggur

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I think he must be as fed up with the pious asshats as I am.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html

Everything about this article amuses me except the last line, which just makes me sad. The religious are so f***ing pathetic. If I were to invent a time machine, take them back in time and prove that the world was more than 6000 years old, and slap the shit out of Paul and Augustine myself in person, they'd still cling desparately to their stupid beliefs. :/

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Now that Would be a Modest Proposal

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Well, being religious and believing in Creationism are horses of different colours -:) I don't know what the 'answer' is for the USA, but better science education I think would be a good start.

Though I'd like to hear you slap Paul. It'd be interesting to see what would have happened to the current iteration of Christianity then -:)

What I enjoyed about the study is that it seemed to be good science. And performed by members of the cloth so to speak.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Problems occur when Science and Religion try to do the other's job. A screwdriver doesn't make a very good hammer -:)

Tell me what you think about Stephen Jay Gould's Rock of Ages. It's a short little book of his about a big non-issue in the world: Religion vs. Science.