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I have three quick notes worth mentioning this morning.
Note 1: Oops!
I found this amusing inconsistency over at Futility Closet:
In The City of God, Augustine raises a curious question: How did Methuselah survive the flood? According to the Septuagint, the patriarch was 355 years old when Noah was born, and the deluge occurred 600 [...]

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Sometimes old advertisements are unintentionally prescient. The above ad actually is talking about all of the Catholic-bashing propaganda that Protestant groups love to spread around. It turns out all of those warnings about the Catholic Church were right, but for the wrong reasons.

(Comic from [...]

I came across three interesting articles this last week. I thought I’d pass them along.
Somebody Went Postal on Him
Over at the WFMU blog is “The Ballad Of The Walking Postman”. It’s a tale from the Civil Rights Era. Here’s what WFMU says about it:
Today’s musical selection tells the story of Bill Moore, [...]

The latest Carnival of the Godless is godlessly carnivaling at Right to Think. There’s a bunch of stuff over there. I really liked “Against the Gods: Arguments Against God’s Existence” by Ken at Arizona Atheist. It’s a long, thoughtful argument that refutes many of the arguments for God’s existence. Check it [...]

Teddy Bear is a blasphemer! Nail him to the cross!
It has been quite a while since I participated in a Carnival of the Godless. Now that my life is partially back to normal, it’s time to rejoin the fun. This week it is being held over at The Gaytheists. You’ll find ten [...]

I was planning to write the next Darwin Was Wrong installment tonight, but I’m way too tired. Mind-blowing stupidity requires a fresh mind to describe accurately, so I’ll have to put it off to another night. Theoretically, I have my humanist group meeting Wednesday night, so I won’t be able to write the [...]

[Unless I got decapitated while riding the Greyhound (or incinerated in Waco—What is it with Waco and infernos, anyway?) (or killed by a freight ship) (or—well you get the idea), I actually should be back from vacation right about now. I've scheduled this final article to run now in case I'm too tired to [...]

I’ve been having a pretty good time on my vacation. For the bulk of the week, I was visiting relatives in Palm Springs.
My perception of Palm Springs as just old people and golf courses is mostly correct. Several observations about the town:

There are a lot of medical facilities catering to the old people.
There [...]