Jesus And The Doggy Door

By Glenn Church September 22nd, 2009, under Not Religion

I wonder if the faithful are going to flock to this miracle?

Darwin’s Life To Be On The Big Screen

By Glenn Church September 14th, 2009, under Evolution

This film is due out on September 25 in the UK. It is sure to provoke debate from creationists and intelligent design believers. Although they always have questions for evolution, no one has put forth an alternative to adequately explain how life developed. For creationists I ask, “Where is Noah’s Ark?” and “Where did all the water runoff to in the great flood that covered the earth?” For those who think intelligent design is an alternative, then why is life filled with so many unintelligent designs? For example, “Why do men have nipples?”

Evolution happens all around us. Look at dog breeders or, even more significantly, look at how viruses and other mircoorganisms develop immunities to the drugs we try to conquer them with.

Homosexuality Explained: It’s Fallen Angels Raping Children

By Glenn Church September 7th, 2009, under Not Religion

I never knew fiction could be so good. This guy is certain he has discovered why homosexuality and sexual deviancy exists in the world. It is fallen angels raping children in their dreams.

Now I want him to explain the prevalence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Animals have souls? Fallen penguin and primate angels rape little penguins and primates?

It is simpler for some people to believe than to follow the logical path to truth.

Hitler In His Own Words

By Glenn Church September 5th, 2009, under Modern History

Subtitles and intriguing pictures of the early Third Reich.

Penn And Teller Give A Secret Away

By Glenn Church September 4th, 2009, under Just Fun

Ever wonder how a woman is cut in half? Penn and Teller give that secret away, with a twist.

Lemming-Like Cows?

By Glenn Church August 30th, 2009, under News

Wow…I thought only small-brained animals did things like this. Here is a story of cows diving off cliffs in the Alps. Things usually have an explanation. Perhaps it was wolves that chased them to the edge, except there are no wild carnivores of that size left in the Alps. The cows had to helicoptered out to prevent groundwater pollution.

Dozens of cows bodies litter the valley floor after they mysteriously fell from the alpine cliff many feet above

When You Want To Believe, Then You Will Believe Anything

By Glenn Church August 15th, 2009, under Not Religion

I’ve seen similar “experiments” by people who say nice feelings do the same thing with water crystals. These guys think that the Koran will do the same thing because its “holy words” alter water. They believe it will do wonderful things to people because we are two-thirds water. Another suggests that water purified by Koran readings might soon be sold.

I bet there is a scammer getting ready for that now.

This is no different from the quacks in the nineteenth century who thought the newly harnessed power of electricity would do great things for the human body. Of course, magnets are a perennial favorite to cure disease too, but I regress from the video at hand. My point being that someone always comes along with something new to impress a few fools.

Masaru Emoto is the man generally associated with the water crystal “feel good” changes. Here is an article pointing out the unscientific premise of his work. Emoto was prominently featured in the 2004 film “What the #$*! Do We Know?” Here is a skeptic approach to it.

I’m not sure, but I think that is Emoto in this video. That would explain everything. At the very least its one of his disciples.

What I find interesting is that in 2004 New Age spiritualists were enthralled with Emoto’s idea. Now, in this video, devout Muslims are sucked into the same fantasy. At least in “What the #$*! Do We Know?,” Emoto convinced people that all good feelings caused these changes in water. In his view, water operated as some kind of universal translator for good feelings.

In this video, these guys think its just Allah and Islam doing it. I don’t notice Emoto or whomever it is jumping forward to say that writing the name of Moses, Jesus or Buddha onto a glass water will do the same thing.

Michael Shermer On Skepticism

By Glenn Church August 12th, 2009, under Skepticism