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Welcome to the Official Infidel Guy Show Website
Since 1999, The Infidel Guy show has brought you uninterrupted freethought and science-minded guests such as Michio Kaku, Dan Barker, Ken Miller, Michael Shermer, Asia Carrera, Richard Dawkins, Massimo Pigliucci, James Randi and many others. At our site and on our show we take a truthful and investigative look at religious beliefs, political systems, social issues, economic systems, the paranormal, pseudo-science and scientific claims.
The Infidel Guy Show is on hiatus while we work on some restructuring.
NEXT Show - To Be announced. 
Standby while we work on some new content and unveiling some new guest-hosts.
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Most Recent IG Shows
Debate: Is Jesus The Risen Lord? - Price vs Fernandez
Added On: Nov 17, 2008
Dr. Phil Fernandes is president of the Biblical Defense Institute and author of "The God Who Sits Enthroned--Evidence for God's Existence," "No Other Gods--A Defense of Biblical Christianity," and "God, Government, & the Road to Tyranny--A Christian View of Government & Morality."
Dr. Bob Price is the author of numerous books on Christianity and fundamentalism including "The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man," "Deconstructing Jesus," and the forthcoming "A Crock of Christ," a refutation of Lee Strobel.
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Why I Became An Atheist? - John Loftus
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
John W. Loftus, a former preacher, returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Why I Became an Atheist. Loftus is also active in the blogosphere and is a contributor at Debunking Christianity, Debunking the Christian Right, and Debunking Creationism.
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Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Top Mysticisms
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Dr. Robert Price returns to the show to discuss his book Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Top Mysticisms. Dr. Price will be discussing his critique and taking questions on popular works in the area of New Age/New Thought, including Rhonda Byrne's The Secret and Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now.
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Ed Brayton - The Presential Election and The ACLU
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Ed Brayton, the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science, will be our guest to discuss how the results of the 2008 presidential election could have an affect on religion and science. He will also discuss the ACLU and the stigma that it is an anti-Christian organization.presidential election could have an affect on religion and science. He will also discuss the ACLU and the stigma that it is an anti-Christian organization.
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An IG Rant and Has Religion Ruined Your Sex Life
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
In this unplanned and unscheduled recording, IG talks about needing your help to keep the show going. But much of the remainder of the hour, we discuss "Has Religion Ruined Your Sex Life". We take a few calls.
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Imagine No Superstition - Dr. Stephen Uhl
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Dr. Stephen Uhl will be our guest to discuss his book "Imagine No Superstition," a chronicle of his journey from faithful Roman Catholic priest to atheist psychologist, how it has affected his life and what he has learned along the way.
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On The Resurrection with Gary Habermas
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Famed Christian apologist, author, and chairman of the philosophy department at Liberty University, Dr. Gary Habermas will be our guest for the whole hour. Dr. Habermas will take questions from listeners on the resurrection of Christ and other related issues. A special thanks to Jim Lazarus and Chris J. for arranging this.
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in God
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
If you've ever challenged someone about why they believe in a God you've likely encountered at least one of the answers tonight's guest has written about. Journalist and travel writer Guy Harrison's new book, "50 Reasons People Give for Believing in God" is a witty and non-judgmental look at what people commonly believe is evidence for a Divinity. Harrison draws on his education as an anthropologist and his experiences with cultures worldwide to examine the faulty reasoning that goes into these beliefs and also offers hopeful alternatives to the destructive and divisive reasoning of religion.
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Building Atheist Communities
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
"Brother" Richard and Kym Membe are the founders of AtheistNexus.org. It's one the latest and hottest atheist communities on the web. They are appearing tonight to discuss whether or not we even need atheist community sites as well as providing us an awesome treat in hearing their own personal paths to freethought.
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Keith Jensen - Atheist Comic
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Our guest tonight is atheist comedian and filmmaker Keith Lowell Jensen. Keith is currently on the COEXIST comedy tour with heretics and infidels from a variety of religious traditions. Keith will also be discussing his recent film, "Why lie, I need a drink?" a documentary on the myth of the 'rich homeless guy'.
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How to Get Rich as a Televangelist - Bill Wilson
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
Bill Wilson is the author of a new book called "How to Get Rich as a Televangelist or Faith Healer." A former student at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Bill will expose the secrets and techniques of how these popular TV preachers become wealthy. Want to be the next Joel Osteen? Listen to find out how.
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Thank God for Atheism - Michael Dowd
Added On: Nov 13, 2008
"Michael Dowd is a Pentecostal preacher and "evolutionary evangelist". He is an advocate of what he terms Evolution Theology, the position that science and religious faith are not mutually exclusive, but that instead the scientific process is a tool for understanding reality, and at the heart of that reality is evolution."
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Why are Church and State to be Separated?
Why are Church and State to be Separated?
Hi SVzurich
Yes its really excellent predestination its like a nail in the lid if the Christian coffin, well done Mr Calvin you single handedly got rid of any need for the church (wouldnt it be bummer if he wasnt one of the predestined hehe).
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11/23/2008 02:54 am
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Gold member RSS
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Ah, Huey Long, a man so great the cowardly had to have him murdered to put out his light. Rest in peace Governor Long.
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Yes. 
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11/22/2008 04:43 pm
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A President with no nickname? What do you say it should be?
A President with no nickname? What do you say it should be?
Apparently Jason thinks that Obama is going to go on a big-spending spree. I don't think he will, although I like some of his policies. It just wont be possible for him to do everything he wants to with the current economic situation.
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11/22/2008 03:00 pm
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Capitalism for IG
Capitalism for IG
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Capitalism may be very good at solving problems, but only when it is profitable to do so, and capitalists don't seem to have a whole lot of interest in securing their long term interests over profits they can make today.
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Would a good way to get capitalists to do something be to get the government involved like the military-industrial complex? If the government would award a prize to whoever succeeds in making a feasible renewable fuel, like it does when it wants a 5th generation stealth fighter (such as the F-22), then I think that that would be great.
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11/22/2008 02:25 pm
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Banning at Atheistforums
Banning at Atheistforums
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Excellent question, although he's gone absent and wouldn't give a reasonable answer anyway.
Things "happen" in nature all the time without a conscious external driver, the process of accretion is but one simple example of many. Gravity is intrinsic to matter thus it's natural for it to be drawn together. This is how we get galaxies, individual stars and planetary systems, all without the aid of his spooky "ghost in the machine".
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11/22/2008 11:54 am
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The Unproven Claim of the Uncreated Creator.
The Unproven Claim of the Uncreated Creator.
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I suspect (but I can't prove) that all of these so-called "members" are nothing but sock-puppet manifiestations of Troy (ForeverSaved) Brooks.
I suspect (but can't prove) that none of these people really exist outside of Biblocality.
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Or it could be that these brainwashed religious zombies all think alike for the very reason of them being brainwashed religious zombies.
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The most (unintentionally?) hilarious aspect, though, is that their proof of the existence of god is called the "Minimal Facts" approach. Many a true word spoken in jest!
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While BornAgainAtheist doesn't bother with insults, I do, when they are well-earned. So to hell with courtesy, I say they are morons.
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11/21/2008 07:31 pm
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IG might be rejoining the military... sorry guys.
IG might be rejoining the military... sorry guys.
I have finally registered as a gold member and made a one-time donation as well. Hope it helps 
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11/21/2008 01:49 pm
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Next show...
Next show...
So when's the next show? 
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11/21/2008 01:24 pm
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Credit where it's due.
Credit where it's due.
Since my teens I have been very interested in Astronomy (not Astrology!) and I like to follow developments in such magazines as Sky & Telescope and Astronomy. One project that caught my attention some years back is the Gaia mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_mission
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the ancient goddess called Gaia or Prof. James Lovelock's Gaia Theory. Instead it is a European Space Agency project to accurately measure the characteristics of a billion stars, building on their earlier, highly successful Hipparcos mission.
(Yes, that's not a typo. I mean a BILLION! A thousand million stars!)
As impressive as this sounds I'd like to draw your attention to this man...
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Space_Year_2007/SEMGVSMPQ5F_0.html
Michael Perryman started his work on Gaia in 1993. The probe itself is due for launch in the later half of 2011. Once it's five-year mission is over the sheer quantity of data that will have been amassed will take years to reduce into a form that astronomers can use easily. The completion of the data reduction isn't expected until at least 2020.
So, Doctor Perryman will have had to wait twenty-seven years to see the fruits of his labor - assuming that he's still alive then. Call that thirty-nine years if you count in all the ground-breaking work he did with Hipparcos.
Now that's a seriously long-term approach to your work!
I believe that credit is due to him for the intellectual energy and staying-power he's shown here.
I'd also like to point out that if any one of several thousand things go wrong (a failed launch, a failed orbit, a telescope failure, computer failure, telemetry failure, etc.) he won't get another shot at this. Creating a replacement probe just isn't an option. That would require too much new funding, too much manpower, too great a re-allocation of resources and too little time before he will be obliged to retire, due to his advancing years.
Now it's time for a short rant!
It sickens me to the core of my being that a lifetime's dedicated work to the cause of advancing understanding can be so easily and blithely trashed by a few keystrokes from a close-minded, backward-looking, self-serving minority of religious bigots! Every time we read the pseudo-scientific nonsense churned out by so-called Creation Scientists we are looking at the efforts of small people who dismiss the work of clear-minded men like Doctor Perryman and pour scorn on his decades of difficult scientific research.
I hope that any of them reading this will feel properly ashamed!
BornAgainAthiest.
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11/20/2008 08:24 am
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Greetings from Tikrit, Iraq
Greetings from Tikrit, Iraq
Welcome HDMcLamb!  Closest I ever came to there was just off the coast in 1996. Stay safe, and thank you for subscribing. 
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11/20/2008 04:14 am
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In spring 2004, at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the Frombork-based Baltic Research Centre, Jerzy Gąssowski received an interesting challenge - find the remains of Nicolas Copernicus.
To be sure, something was known of his death. He had died in Poland at age 70, and he was buried at his church somewhere, but he died while his work was being printed so the man who theorized that the sun, rather than the Earth, is at the center of the universe, was not yet famous enough to merit a monument. But the provost of the Frombork metropolitan church, bishop Doctor Jacek Jezierski, did not think the job impossible.
He believed they could at least narrow down the location and, once that was done, use modern forensics techniques to get a match. Using 'georadar' Gąssowski and his team were able to narrow down the location, the Holy Cross altar of the Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in Frombork and, since few people lived to be 70, hone in on what they believed was a match. -Article continues Off Site, courtesy USA Today.
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MÜNSTER, Germany -- Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany's first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn't like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life.
So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological research. His conclusion: The Prophet Muhammad probably never existed.
Muslims, not surprisingly, are outraged. Even Danish cartoonists who triggered global protests a couple of years ago didn't portray the Prophet as fictional. German police, worried about a violent backlash, told the professor to move his religious-studies center to more-secure premises.
"We had no idea he would have ideas like this," says Thomas Bauer, a fellow academic at Münster University who sat on a committee that appointed Prof. Kalisch. "I'm a more orthodox Muslim than he is, and I'm not a Muslim." -Article Continues Off Site, courtesy The Wall Street Journal Online.
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A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.
The research, which appears to offer evidence of a hidden mechanism guiding the way biological organisms respond to the forces of natural selection, provides a new perspective on evolution, the scientists said.
The researchers -- Raj Chakrabarti, Herschel Rabitz, Stacey Springs and George McLendon -- made the discovery while carrying out experiments on proteins constituting the electron transport chain (ETC), a biochemical network essential for metabolism. A mathematical analysis of the experiments showed that the proteins themselves acted to correct any imbalance imposed on them through artificial mutations and restored the chain to working order.
"The discovery answers an age-old question that has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin: How can organisms be so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random, operating like a ''''blind watchmaker''''?" said Chakrabarti, an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton. "Our new theory extends Darwin''''s model, demonstrating how organisms can subtly direct aspects of their own evolution to create order out of randomness." -Article with links, continued Off Site, courtesy News At Princeton.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Supreme Court Wednesday took up the issue of freedom of speech and religion in a case in which a small sect wants to place its own monument alongside one of the Ten Commandments in a public park in Utah.
The sect, called Summum, filed a lawsuit against the small city of Pleasant Grove for rejecting their monument while allowing the Ten Commandments erected in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles because it had a historic value.
Summum sued the city for violating their right to free speech and lost, but an appeals court sided with them, ruling that their star-shaped monument had every right to stand alongside the other which it deemed of a religious and not a historic nature.
The Eagles had convinced Pleasant Grove, founded by 19th century Mormons, that the Ten Commandments monument was a tribute not to the Christian religion but to the Mormon pioneers who settled the area.
The nine supreme justices on Wednesday began hearing arguments from both sides involving the constitutional principles of freedom of speech, religion and the separation of church and state. -Article continues Off Site.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York: Saudi Arabia, which deploys a special police force to ensure that only one narrow sect of Islam predominates in the kingdom, is sponsoring a discussion at the United Nations on religious tolerance starting Wednesday.
More than a dozen world leaders are expected to attend, including President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, making a rare appearance at the UN headquarters.
Officially, the United Nations does not sponsor religious discussions, so the two-day session of the General Assembly is being billed as a meeting on the "Culture of Peace," and most of those attending are government rather than religious figures.
But human rights defenders are crying foul that Saudi Arabia is being given the platform of the United Nations to promote religious tolerance abroad while it actively combats anything similar at home. -Article continues Off Site, courtesy The International Herald Tribune.
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Israeli police have had to restore order at one of Christianity's holiest sites after a mass brawl broke out between monks in Jerusalem's Old City.
Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ's crucifixion.
Two monks from each side were detained as dozens of worshippers traded kicks and punches at the shrine, said police.
Trouble flared as Armenians prepared to mark the annual Feast of the Cross.
Tapestries toppled
Shocked pilgrims looked on as decorations and tapestries were toppled during Sunday's clash.
Dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, rival monks threw punches and anything they could lay their hands on. -Article continues with Video Off Site, courtesy BBC News.
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Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as a "prophet, polygamist, paedophile." Hundreds of others simply chanted: "Mormon s*****."
More than 2,000 gay rights protesters marched on a Mormon temple in Los Angeles on Thursday, throwing the church and its followers on to the front line of the battle over California''s decision to ban same-sex marriage.
Earlier this week, 52.5 per cent of voters in the supposedly liberal state decided to back Proposition 8, a ballot measure that adds 15 words to the constitution, saying that: "Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California."
The development marked a massive setback for gay rights and left 18,000 couples, who had married in the five months since California legalised same-sex weddings, in legal limbo. -Article continues Off Site, courtesy The Independent (UK)
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A controversial anti-blasphemy law is being scrapped by the Dutch government. The move is remarkable as two of the current three members of the ruling coalition are Christian parties and they had originally wanted to maintain the ban.
In scrapping the law the cabinet is meeting the demand of parliament where a majority of parties argued that offering religious groups an extra layer of legal protection is outdated.
As an alternative the cabinet is now seeking to strengthen anti-discrimination laws against groups whatever their background, thus taking the religious component out of the equation.
Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin, says the law will now offer the same protection to all.
There has been much discussion about the balance between freedom of speech and the right not to be discriminated against in the past few years in the Netherlands, particularly around the role of Islam in society. -Article continues Off Site, courtesy Religious News Blog.
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Yesterday, the American people chose Barack Obama as the country''s 44th president, promising a sea change in US policy that could affect not just the US, but the whole world.
Here we take a look at what Obama has pledged over the lengthy presidential campaign, to see what his administration will mean for science and technology.
In September, Obama unveiled a comprehensive Science and Technology Policy (pdf).
In it he promised to lead a new era of scientific innovation in America and to restore integrity to US science policy. This would be achieved by doubling the federal investment in basic research and by addressing the "grand challenges" of the 21st century, he said. The rhetoric gained him the public endorsement of 61 Nobel laureates.
Obama lacks a science background, though, and over the past 50 years it has been Republican, rather than Democratic administrations, that have tended to spend more on science. Whether Obama and his team can buck this trend in the current dire financial situation remains to be seen.
Key adviser -Article continued Off Site, courtesy New Scientist.
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Among the local ballot measures to be decided on Election Day, California’s Proposition 8 is perhaps the most fiercely contested. Backers of the proposition to ban same-sex marriage in the state cast their campaign in apocalyptic terms. “This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” born-again Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Chuck Colson told the New York Times. Tony Perkins, the president of the Christian right’s most powerful Beltway lobbying outfit, Family Research Council, echoed Colson’s language. “It’s more important than the presidential election,” Perkins said of Prop 8. “We will not survive [as a nation] if we lose the institution of marriage.”
The campaign for Prop 8 has reaped massive funding from conservative backers across the country. Much of it comes from prominent donors like the Utah-based Church of Latter Day Saints and the Catholic conservative group, Knights of Columbus. Prop 8 has also received a boost from Elsa Broekhuizen, the widow of Michigan-based Christian backer Edgard Prince and the mother of Erik Prince, founder of the controversial mercenary firm, Blackwater. -Article Continues with Video Off Site, courtesy Alternet.
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| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 | | · | Sharia law incompatible with human rights legislation, Lords say | | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | | · | Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text | | · | As abortion foes grow more intense, a new view surfaces | | · | Domestic violence fatwa stirs outrage | | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | | · | Islamists stone Somali woman to death for adultery | | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | | · | Sarah Palin's War on Science | | Monday, October 27, 2008 | | · | Outrage as cleric weds girl, 12 | | · | Emory workshop teaches teachers how to teach evolution | | Saturday, October 25, 2008 | | · | Islamic protests over female preacher | | · | Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post | | Thursday, October 23, 2008 | | · | Creationists declare war over the brain | | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | | · | Afghan student gets 20 years instead of death for blasphemy | | Saturday, October 18, 2008 | | · | Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain | | Friday, October 17, 2008 | | · | Rivals’ Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation | | · | Forgotten Experiment May Explain Origins of Life | | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | | · | Religious peace threatened in South Korea | | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | | · | Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee | | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 | | · | New Bibles Alter Form _ Not Word _ to Draw Readers | | · | Parents Charged in Faith Healing Case | | Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | | · | The Supreme Court’s New Term | | Sunday, October 05, 2008 | | · | Opiate of the masses - and evolutionary aid | | · | Pittsburgh Episcopalians Vote to Leave US Church | | Saturday, October 04, 2008 | | · | Did Muhammad Ever Really Live? | | Friday, October 03, 2008 | | · | Earliest Reference Describes Christ as 'Magician' | | Thursday, October 02, 2008 | | · | Atheist family challenges minute of silence law | | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 | | · | Oregon school says 4 confessed to Obama effigy | | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | | · | Orange County pastors test the IRS rule against politicking | | Monday, September 29, 2008 | | · | The fight over teaching science in Texas begins | | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | | · | Evangelist arrested in child porn case | | Thursday, September 25, 2008 | | · | Is English law related to Muslim law? |
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