Since it’s the right thing to do to support the local atheist organisations, I joined Atheist Foundation of Australia a while ago, so now I get to receive their 3-monthly or so online magazine. I note this advert in the latest edition : Speaker 3 TBA ? Debating Scott Stephens and Peter Jensen ? Sign […]
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Testosterone is a male sex hormone (there’s others), chemically it’s based on Cholesterol, and its effects are mediated through binding to specialised intracellular Androgen receptors, the gene for which is localised on the human X chromosome. Testosterone and its metabolites are responsible for the development of the male genital, for virilisation and sperm production. Effects […]
All humans alive on this planet today came at some point out of Africa. But those who left Africa weren’t all the same brand. The ancestors of Neanderthals for example are estimated to have left Africa 400k to 800k years ago, and the last Neanderthals would have lived as recently as 30k years ago, and […]
There’s all kinds of versions of the biblical Ark out there already, in Holland, Canada, the USA, and now there’s also one in Hongkong. 2 evangelical billionaire brothers have shelled out money to built a theme park around a “lifesize” model of Noah’s Ark as described in Genesis 6:15. They list some goals for this […]
From the e newsletter of the UK National Secular Society: From MF (name and address supplied): My son’s school recently had a Christianity Day run by these people (without any warning/request for consent from parents). As their website says, it is ‘a project to promote Christianity’, ‘spreading the gospel through building relationships with the lost’ […]
Stonyground, yeah. (warning: TV Tropes link) Agent Scully
Typical. Maher can’t make a sound argument why Obama is doing so poorly on all fronts, including having us drawn into more (not less) wars while skirting congressional approval, the now double digit unemployment, and continued sliding of the economy – so he pokes at two people who are already marginalized within their own parties. […]
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Well, not really, but this little nugget is funny : Bachmann used to be a member of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stillwater, MN, which belongs to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), a group of churches that adhere strictly to the teachings of Martin Luther and that, get this, consider the Catholic Pope […]