Comment Re:/. is (Score 1) 568
So are YOU when it to Zeus, Ra, Mithra, Cuthulu, Ares, Gan, and too many other to list. See the List_of_gods for more silly names.
Comment Re:Potential for translations (Score 1) 568
Most today do not read it. They rely on the Pastor to cherry-pick the relevant passage of the week. At LifeChurch.TV services it is very slickly preprinted and packaged like any other commercial product.
Comment Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED (Score 1) 568
When I was 6 I believed in Santa Claus. He brought me presents. Then someone more grown up told me the Truth.
. Hey buddy I hate to tell this but.........
. Hey buddy I hate to tell this but.........
Comment Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED (Score 1) 568
Ask the same question to the average suicide bomber? Promises of afterlife glory are very persuasive to poor people with nothing else to lose.
Comment Hyper Cycle (Score 2, Insightful) 102
We are still waiting for V.R. to reemerge from the Hype Cycle.
Bookmark Adam and Eve or Darwin's Theory (Evolution) (pollpub.com)
Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 844
I wonder if Cat has been cherry picking the Quran just like other religious appologists cherry-pick the Bible for nice verses and ignore the disgusting violence that is in both books based on Abrahams copying of Sumerian mythology.
Biblical Violence
Quranic Violence
Biblical Violence
Quranic Violence
Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? 541
DurandalTree writes "With the spectre of global warming on the horizon, biofuels have been touted as the solution to motor vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions. But with biodiesel use on the increase, it appears a distinctively environmentally unfriendly footprint is being left behind by some of its prime sources; affected food prices are surging out of reach of the poor and rainforests are being destroyed to create larger plantations."
Submission + - X Prize revs up quest for super-efficient car
Heinen writes: "The X Prize Foundation, which spurred innovation by offering $10 million US for the first privately built spacecraft, plans to offer millions for the first practical car that increases mileage five-fold."
Submission + - Douglas Adams: Exclusive Interview
An anonymous reader writes: Darker Matter has published an exclusive interview from 1979 with Douglas Adams. Except for brief excerpts in Penthouse, most of the interview hadn't been published. The first two parts of the interview are now online, with the last part following next month.
http://www.darkermatter.com/issue1/douglas_adams.p hp
