It's amazing the things you can listen all day to the media and not learn. Do you know WHY the price of oil hiked up so high on Friday, June 6th? It's because Israel threatened to destroy Iran's nuclear capability. The rap now is that Israel plans to coordinate such attack with Washington. Of course this is a "foreign threat" that just might justify my astrologically based prediction of some foreign crisis developing in the world. Personally if I were an oil man I wouldn't be phased by such a statement. After all, Iran insists, and I believe them, that they only intend to use enriched uranium in peaceful nuclear reactors to bring their electric power generating capabilities into the twentieth century. OK, I forget; this is the 21st. Century. Oh well. . . Apparently they believe some strait in the Persian Gulf would be blocked off or something. Well, which one of you nuts has got any guts? Does anyone want to go "short" in oil futures right now? You could make a bundle, or lose even more, if you're wrong. Hey, as far as I'm concerned my astrological prediction has been vindicated, thus increasing the odds that Obama is headed for Trouble, are also increased. If you want my pick on whether Big Brown will win the tripple crown, that's a big thumbs up! But I have absolutely no prognosticative indicators for that.
Some of the arguments against Atheism are things like "You can't prove a negative". Others say that an Agnostic is an atheist who is too cowardly to admit it. Mark Twain alledgedly said that "Faith is belief in things you know 'taint so". Some say "There are no atheists in fox holes". Some say "Atheism is a refutation of all the charished values of Western Civilization". Some say lack of belief in God is "unscientific". Others say that Atheists are incapable of ever having any "meaning to life". Some say atheists are lacking in any morality and hence "A-moral". Others say that atheists have the "personality flaw" of "lacking in Faith". Some deny that an atheist can ever have any mystical or revelitory experiances if they don't believe in God. Some say that atheists have "no hope" in things like an Afterlife. I'm just throwing out ideas I've read from other people. I am not going to take a position on any of these statements.
65% of Americans think that we should teach both creationism and evolution in schools. (CBS) It definitely pays to be a professing Christian. 55% believe that “God created humans in present form.” (CBS) 45% believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old. (Gallup) 37% think that we should teach just creationism in schools, including 60% of evangelical Christians. (CBS) 36% believe in telepathy. The sixth dimension is beyond our present cognition 35% say that evolution is well supported by the evidence. (Gallup) 35% say that evolution is not well supported by the evidence. (Gallup) 25% believe in astrology. Count me among these. 25% think the sun goes around the Earth. 13% think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. Only 13% of Americans accept the standard scientific account of evolution, without a god’s involvement. (CBS)
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