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  1. Jose Fly

    Why do humans have genes for full body hair?

    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...
  2. Jose Fly

    Creationist Sentenced to 8,658 Years

    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...
  3. Jose Fly

    A-Santaists - A Question

    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...
  4. Jose Fly

    Who here believes in "Scientism"?

    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...
  5. Jose Fly

    Fundie Christians Think The Flintstones was a Documentary

    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......
  6. Jose Fly

    "Kraken" Lawyers Ordered to Pay

    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...
  7. Jose Fly

    Hey, ID Creationists!

    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...
  8. Jose Fly

    COVID Survivors At Risk of Dying Within A Year

    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...
  9. Jose Fly

    White Supremacists and Nazis Found Liable

    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...
  10. Jose Fly

    This would be theocracy, right?

    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...
  11. Jose Fly

    AM Christian radio

    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...
  12. Jose Fly

    What do I care?

    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...
  13. Jose Fly

    Summer of Soul

    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...
  14. Jose Fly

    Is conservative media killing conservatives?

    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...
  15. Jose Fly

    Why does this bug me?

    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...
  16. Jose Fly

    I thought it was antifa/BLM?

    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...
  17. Jose Fly

    MTG, a dullard on multiple levels

    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...
  18. Jose Fly

    More confirmation that ID creationism is dead

    "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...
  19. Jose Fly

    Where is the body of Muhammad?

    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...
  20. Jose Fly

    College students leaving religion: It's not "the science", it's "science"

    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...
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