Phil is in his windup, here comes the pitch, it's a meatball, waist high and ready to go for a ride...

Yes, Phil, economics IS a real science, like tea leaf reading and astrology.

Let's call it the Pinnochio Science.

and I thought "dark matter" was some kind of annoying anomaly, an irritation, one thread out of place in an otherwise carefully woven work of art(science) but noooo, it turns out that it's 95% of matter in the universe or somebody is really wrong about something else...seriously disillusioned in Mountain View.

Einstein's relativity paper is free:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5001

Time for the citizenry to turn the tables then, isn't it?

They're setting America on a path to certain destruction. Why how's a good, god-fearing businessman gonna make a buck if he can't do it by reselling publicly funded publications???

I think the businessmen have tried to close public access to NOAA data too.

If this doesn't suggest how hackable hi-tech evidence is then nothing will...

Compulsory religious studies - it'll be part of the fairness doctrine, where all the ideological brainwashers demand access to our children.

1. False, I've met some very bright people from
                    Texas
2. True, but it is only one of the reasons
3. True, more often than not
4. False, Creationism, ID, it's all the same
                    bullcrap
5. Possibly, but I'd need to see a complete
                          sentence first
6. a) True, IDers are certifiable
      b) Deceptive, nobody I know says evolution is
            unassailable, just better supported by
            data than the alternatives offered by
            religious nutballz.
      c) Deceptive, Relativity was not held back by
            dogmatic people, it was held back until
            someone came along who was smart enough to
            see the world differently and express it
            mathematically. Supported by experimental
            evidence, it has become generally accepted.
      d) True, that's why we teach evolution today

Evolution is not "flawed", it is incomplete, a work in progress. It is adjusted as we go to deal with new data. Unlike the the bible which is inherently not factual and really hasn't seen any progress in centuries.

Evolution is not taught as fact, it is only perceived by narrow-minded dingwallies as being taught as fact.

Religion sucks moosebladderthroughahairystraw. All religion.

That concludes this series of disjointed comments and attacks.

I would like to think that, as a lifelong non, un and anti-pious person, my choices in an end of life scenario would be ruled by reason. I would not refuse extreme measures if the likely outcome were acceptable, nor would I greedily demand all measures if the likely outcome were unacceptable.

Define likely, acceptable and unacceptable according to your personal taste.

I have to admit that I do find the implication in the headline that the pious value life more highly than the non/un/anti-pious to be typical religious bullcrap - they're always buying all the tickets to their own show..

Look up "True Names" and "Neuromancer"

They're 10 years earlier than Snow Crash