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When virtual particles pop into existence in the quantum foam do they have velocity, even zero velocity? I am wondering how they would appear from a different relativistic inertial frame? If they had a preferred inertia it would suggest a preferred reference frame. Is this one of the areas where...

I have taken the plunge and started a blog which I have called Simian in the Temple :) I hope to look at TE, Original Sin and Theodicy, as well as subjects like Social Justice, Women's Ministry and the Atonement. The first two blogs are on the Adam Adam in the age of Science. Part 1, OT views...

9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact wow!

What currency will replace the US$ internationally when US defaults and its credit rating slips from AA+ to Cyprus's SD (selective default) rating or below? I'd like to think it would be the Euro, but the your last recession rocked the economies of Europe very badly too, I am pretty sure you...

BBC News - Prisoner vote bill to be outlined Personally I am more concerned about governments who want to stop people voting, than any impact prisoners would have on a vote. If the small number of prisoners voting is enough to swing an election, it means there is a large number of law abiding...

Just came across this. What Top Republicans say about Mitt Romney - YouTube

(1) Throw FEMA under a bus, (2) Lend the bus for disaster relief.

In Waves' thread Mitt Romney Not Being Vetted For Presidential Spot! the link tells the story of the Romney family, how the Mormons set up colonies in Mexico 1885 to escape federal polygamy laws, and that is where Mitt's father George W. Romney was born in 1903. However the Mexican Revolution...

In previous discussions here American Christians have argued it is much better that the poor, the unemployed and the disabled are helped by voluntary charitable donations instead of government funded welfare. What does that have to do with Romney's tax plan? If you are in a position where you...

Nature News Blog: Fruitflies evolve number sense : Nature News Blog US and Canadian researchers have evolved a population of fruitflies that can count. The result, presented on 9 July at the First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Ottawa, Canada, supports the notion that the neural...

Nature News Blog: Fruitflies evolve number sense : Nature News Blog US and Canadian researchers have evolved a population of fruitflies that can count. The result, presented on 9 July at the First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Ottawa, Canada, supports the notion that the neural...

A Tale of Two Scientists: What Really Happened 'In the Beginning' | Christianity Today A short biography of Biologos head Darrell Falk and TE's favourite Creationist :) Todd Wood.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/science/15language.html?_r=1&ref=science Dr. Atkinson, an expert at applying mathematical methods to linguistics, has found a simple but striking pattern in some 500 languages spoken throughout the world: A language area uses fewer phonemes the farther that...

What are the Creationist strategies to avoid dealing with difficult issues questions? For example avoiding all discussion of Heliocentrism and the church changing its interpretation of scripture because of science, by claiming it is "of no spiritual significance". Of course you have to...

Was the penalty his death on the cross, a single death, once for all. Or was it the sum total, cumulated suffering in hell through all eternity of each and every person he saved? A number of people advocating penal substitution have described it in terms of the penalty of sin being death...

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http://www.itv.com/News/newsspecial/KayaktotheArctic/default.html A British explore taking the most worrying journey I have heard of. Videos play for me on internet explorer, but need a plugin for firefox

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354327,00.html A Florida teacher was fired for for practising wizardry. Apparently it involved making a toothpick disappear and appear again. By magic! Where is Ben Stein when you need him.

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