The northern Kentucky city of Williamstown plans to build a 510-foot (155.4-meter) wooden ship, the centerpiece of a planned biblical theme park called “Ark Encounter”, planned to attract 1.2 million visitors a year. To pay for this Creation Museum “Answers in Genesis” a Christian non-profit, intends to issue $62 million of bonds. Investors who buy …
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Dana Millbank, writing in the Washington Post, reports on a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. The poll shows that 48% of Republicans believe that humans were created at the same time as the planet; 43% believe we have evolved, with or without divine assistance. Four years ago 54% said they believed in evolution. …
Epicurus believed that the only things that exist are matter and void, and that atoms create everything by falling into space (void). The universe is unlimited and full of empty space that is constantly taken up by these eternal atoms made of up different sizes and shapes. In response to the argument that the universe …
According to the Center for American Progress, 58% of Republicans in Congress deny the existence of climate change or oppose action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. However, their voters are much smarter and believe the evidence of their own eyes, let alone the research of every respectable scientist concerned in the matter. 87% of Oklahoman …
The Pope has just criticized so-called “trickle-down” economics as having no basis either in theory or in practice. “A crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power”. Wonderful! Trickle-down economics was always an excuse for supporting the rich against the less rich. If it worked at all it would be working …
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