This sums up what appears to be a heavy video day on DaddyHogwash.com…This is a good one. Nothing new for those who follow this closely, but it is a good video nonetheless…
Apparently it is video day on Daddy Hogwash…
I haven’t paid much attention to these Tea Parties; however, I was so embarrassed for these people, I had to post this. There once was a time when we actually wanted intelligent people running this country…I wonder what the Constitution Party guy has to say about African Americans being counted as 3/5’s of a person…
Philosopher Dan Dennett has some interesting thoughts on what makes things cute, sexy, sweet, and funny. The book on “What is Funny?” is something to look forward too. I have never really thought about it this way before, but it is quite simple, “Things are sweet because we like it, not, ‘We like it because it is sweet.’” Make sense? Just watch…
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After the results of the latest American Religious Identification Survey, Christian Science Monitor appears to blame evangelical Christianity on the reduction of believers nation-wide.
One interesting tidbit here is that strong proponents of the Separation of Church and State are strong proponents for two reasons. 1. They want the church to stay out of the government business, and 2. They want the government to stay out of church business.
What happens when you cross that line? Well, perhaps the Christian Science Monitor is on to something…
Why is this going to happen?
1. Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.
The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses. Being against gay marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact that massive majorities of Evangelicals can’t articulate the Gospel with any coherence. We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith.
The coming evangelical collapse | csmonitor.com
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Earlier I posted these worm/life-like pieces of metal as something that could lead to further discoveries about the origin of life on Earth. Now Wired.com posts this, which when taken in tandem makes for some pretty intriguing science.
An uber-primitive plant pathogen made from naked strands of genetic material mutates faster than any other known organism — and it might just illuminate the origins of life.
Called hammerhead viroids, their mutation rates are orders of magnitude more rapid than those of viruses, the next-most-primitive organisms, which are orders of magnitude more rapid than lowly bacteria.
In less academic terms, the hammerhead viroid blueprint of life is being constantly redrawn.
Such accelerated mutation could have been useful four billion years ago, after a few quirky chemicals assembled into ribonucleic acid, or RNA — DNA’s single-stranded forerunner.
Organism Sets Mutation Speed Record, May Explain Life’s Origins | Wired Science from Wired.com
This is pretty amazing, and it certainly does provide the foundation for a visual thought experiment on the original formation of complicated life systems.
ARGONNE, Illinois — In the basement of a nondescript building here at Argonne National Laboratory, nickel particles in a beaker are building themselves into magnetic snakes that may one day give clues about how life originally organized itself.
These chains of metal particles look so much like real, living animals, it is hard not to think of them as alive. (See exclusive video below.) But they are actually bits of metal that came together under the influence of a specially tuned magnetic field.
"It behaves like some live object," says physicist Alex Snezhko. "It moves. It crashes onto free-floating particles and absorbs them."
Metal Bits Self-Assemble Into Lifelike Snakes | Wired Science from Wired.com
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