Via a WaPo article I read this morning, I came across this paper: Complementary evolution of coding and noncoding sequence underlies mammalian hairlessness | eLife (elifesciences.org).
The gist of the paper is an exploration of the genetic basis for, and evolutionary history of, hair loss in...
Adnan Oktar: TV cult preacher jailed for 8,658 years in Turkey
A court in Turkey has sentenced a televangelist, who surrounded himself with young women he referred to as his "kittens", to 8,658 years in prison.
Adnan Oktar, who has been described as a cult leader, was convicted of sexual...
This is a question for those who don't believe in Santa Claus.
Scenario:
You are laying in your bed on Christmas Eve, when you hear a noise downstairs.
You go down to investigate and see a large, bearded man in your living room.
You also notice there are more presents under your Christmas tree...
Within the last few months or so, it's been claimed that there are "many" here at RF who believe in and/or advocate for "scientism", i.e., the notion that science is the means to answer all questions, or at least is the means to answer all questions worth answering.
I've been a member here for...
Yes, they really do.
Coming Soon to Ark Encounter? A Carousel Where Kids Can Ride a Dinosaur | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
Not exactly the brightest group of people......
Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood among attorneys ordered to pay $175,000 over Michigan ‘Kraken’ suit - The Washington Post
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered a group of lawyers who brought a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results to pay about $175,000 in legal fees to the state of...
For years now we've been hearing ID creationists go on and on about ways to "detect design", with some prominent IDC's claiming to have tools, "filters", and the like (e.g., Bill Dembski).
Well, given the current COVID pandemic and the questions about the origin of the virus (i.e., whether it...
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
New research this week finds that people who are hospitalized with severe covid-19 but survive often pay a heavy price afterward. The study concluded that these survivors were more than twice as likely to die...
Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville : NPR
A jury in Virginia has found a group of white nationalists who organized the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville liable of engaging in a conspiracy ahead of the violent demonstration...
Right Wing Watch on Twitter: "MAGA pastor Mark Burns, who is running for Congress in South Carolina, says that "this is a Christian nation and any policy that is contrary to the word of God, we need to remove it from mainstream America and make it illegal." https://t.co/4j8oxoavhg" / Twitter
I...
I'm not exaggerating or kidding.....
This weekend as I was driving into town to run some errands, I came across a Christian radio program on AM. The host started off with prayer requests, and the first thing he said was "Brother so-and-so is in the hospital on a ventilator and isn't doing...
Yeah, I know we have plenty of COVID and vaccine threads, but I saw two things this morning that led me to the same point.....if these people get COVID and die (or get terribly sick and suffer long-term effects), am I supposed to care? Am I supposed to feel bad for them? Am I supposed to feel...
My daughter and I watched The Summer of Soul last night. Here's the trailer....
It was an amazing film on multiple levels. Of course the music itself was fantastic, but the bigger messages about what was going on in black history and culture at the time were even more striking...that, plus...
Before you do anything else in this thread, please read this blog post...
Republicans push a claim they know is not just false, but deadly, because hate is all they've got (dailykos.com)
The key points, supported by data and conservative media's own words, are:
Fox News and other...
At my place of employment, it's recently become a trend for people to have as their email signature something like....
"I acknowledge that [insert city], where I live and work, rests on the traditional village sites of the [insert names of Tribes]."
Now, I'm fairly liberal and think of myself...
Another Oath Keeper Flips (dailykos.com)
Now why would an Oath Keeper admit to conspiring to stopping, delaying, and hindering the electoral process, training ahead of time to do so, bringing weapons to the Capitol and storming the Capitol as part of all that, if it really was antifa or BLM who...
Greene says she knows COVID-19 is a 'bioweapon' because evolution doesn't exist (americanindependent.com)
In an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene stated when asked about COVID-19 arising naturally....
" I don't buy it because I don't believe in...
"Intelligent design" creationism has been effectively dead for some time now. Recall that it was created as a means to skirt court rulings against the teaching of Biblical creationism in public schools, which the Dover ruling put a quick end to. And after that ruling, ID creationist leaders...
In another thread, I and another non-Muslim were discussing the whereabouts of the actual body of the Prophet Muhammad. My understanding is that the Quran states that he ascended into heaven after his death, but the other person insists his body is in The Sacred Chamber.
The Grave & Tomb of...
A common explanation for why US college students have been leaving Christianity is to attribute it to them taking biology, genetics, geology, etc., being taught information that contradicts their beliefs, realizing that much of what they were taught in church isn't true, and abandoning...