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Famed Biologist Frans De Waal Argues Humans Inherited Morality From Primates, Not From Religion

Morality: Created By Evolution or Religion? video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Morality is not something we get from religion. It’s something we’ve evolved to prolong our survival. I really wish more stories would be published on the subject. If the threat of damnation or the bribe of eternal life is required for you to do the right thing, I dareContinue readingFamed Biologist Frans De Waal Argues Humans Inherited Morality From Primates, Not From Religion

Giant Noahs Ark Bound for Kentucky

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40445249/ns/us_news-life/ When people take their kid’s to Disney World, the fairy tales are presented as fictional fairy tales. When people take their kids to Creationist attractions, the fairy tales are presented as fact. Where’s Northern Kentucky’s Science Museum? Evidently, 900 jobs and millions of visitors are more important than teaching our children about the 40+ valid radiometric dating methods scientistsContinue readingGiant Noahs Ark Bound for Kentucky

Full Body Scanners: From Airports to the Streets?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-stanley/full-body-scanners-from-a_b_694466.html From the site: “Unless they have probable cause to search a specific vehicle, government agencies had better not be roaming U.S. streets conducting backscatter X-ray scans of vehicles and their occupants (much less pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) without their knowledge or consent. The Constitution may have taken a battering in recent years, but on this point it remains clear.”

Savage Love by Dan Savage

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=5135029 L.R. – “…Please consider your viewpoint, and please be more careful with your words in the future.” Dan – “Gay kids are dying. So let’s try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.”

Sex and death lie at the poisoned heart of religion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/14/sex-death-poisoned-heart-religion “Live in optimism without fear of judgment and death. There is enough purpose and meaning in life, love and leaving a good legacy. Oppose the danger of religious zealotry with the liberating belief that life on earth is precious because this here and now is all there is, and our destiny is in our own hands.”

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