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POPSAn Example of Incredible Mistrust Just because creationists need to misrepresent to get people to accept their opinion, doesn't mean scientists need to. When will they get that science is not a religion?
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POPSSugar News "In a separate study, the researchers tested blood triglyceride levels after people consumed a meal with 25% of the calories from HFCS, sucrose, fructose or glucose. All sugars except for glucose caused elevated levels 24 hours after the meal." from ScienceBlogs 6/11: Artificial Sweeteners Sodas sweetened with artificial sweeteners have long been the go-to drink for dieters looking to cut back on calories, but a new study from Purdue psychologists suggests that high consumption of such beverages is linked to obesity. Rats fed a sugar substitute gained significantly more weight during the course of the study than those fed regular glucose.
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POPSPositive Proof of Global Warming sorry... I was in a hurry, so I didnt check others clips, and later I ve found out that the same pic was clipped several times before... usually I dont reclip any...
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POPSCan Scientists Be Faithful? As someone who's both scientifically- and spiritually-minded, I know the answer to this question. And in fact I found most of this article boring, except for these parts I clipped.
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POPSEducation Levels and Religious Denomination
"But I don't believe that most high IQ individuals pay inordinate close attention to the Bible, nor do I believe that low IQ denominations are necessarily steeped in scripture study (there is a wide variance among "conservative" groups which adhere to Biblical literalism in regards to the emphasis they put on scripture reading and analysis, from a general neglect among Pentecostals to a marinade among some Calvinist churches). What I think is going on is simply what we might term the Wisdom of the Crowds; people conform to the social and religious group which they identify with. Biblical literalism flourishes because most people trust pastors and parents who preach it." "Mainline Protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism has relatively high educational standards for its clergy and theological professionals. At the other end of the spectrum many evangelical Protestant sects have no such requirement. The Assemblies of God is a good example of this phenomenon, in this sect higher
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POPSAncient cave found under church Half a dozen sources (including Fox News) used this news story with the headline "First Church In The World". Of course, they also omitted archaeologist Thomas Parker's words: "It's quite possible that there was a cave with earlier occupation which was later converted to Christian use. But to make the jump that this was actually used by Christians fleeing Jerusalem in the 1st century A.D. seems like a stretch to me."
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POPSHe Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died Seldom have I ever witnessed a story in pictures and words quite as thought inducing as this one. I urge everyone to go to the site and absorb every photo, every word, every nuance. Yes, I'm well aware we all go. Its just a matter of when and where, but for me this is a reminder to not sweat the small or petty stuff. Food for thought.
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POPSTwo The World's ...est Men Together Bao Xishun (born 1951) is a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, China. Bao was formerly recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living man. Measured at 2.361 metres (7 ft 8.95 in) tall at the Chifeng City Hospital, Bao Xishun has no growth disorder like gigantism. Bao suffers from rheumatism, although this has been attributed to his childhood habit of sleeping outdoors, rather than a height-linked disorder. He Pingping (b. 1988) is a Chinese man who is under consideration to be recognized as the world's shortest man. He is currently applying to the Guinness World Records. The 19-year old measures 73 cm (2 ft 4 in) high, and is the third child to a family in northern China's Region. He has 2 sisters, both of which developed at normal rates and are now married. At birth he was as small as a palm. When it became apparent the child was growing very slowly, doctors diagnosed it as the bone deformity Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
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POPSPagan Mythology and C.S. Lewis Rather, he was genuinely enamored of mythology and believed the "Story" to take precedence over any preconceived moral. In Lewis's own words: "Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child-psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out 'allegories' to embody them. This is all pure moonshine. I couldn't write in that way at all. Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion. At first there wasn't even anything Christian about them; that element pushed itself in of its own accord" (Of Other Worlds, p. 36).
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