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21-August-2006, 04:45 AM
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A Skeptic at the Coast to Coast website?
Believe it or not...
One of the August 20 Hot Stories news items on the Coast to Coast AM home page actually debunks some religious urban legends: Amazing facts, or absolute baloney? They had better purge the heretic who did this. This sort of thing can't be good for the business.
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21-August-2006, 05:22 AM
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Is that website something about transmutation of clothing into shoreline?
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21-August-2006, 09:43 AM
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perhaps they realised that if you have no skepticism at all then every thing starts to turn to grey woowoogoo after a while and that would loose them their audience.
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21-August-2006, 09:49 AM
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21-August-2006, 08:26 PM
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I can only remember Asimov's comment that science actually won the science vs. religion debate more than 200 years ago, when churches put lightning-rods on their spires.
The church of San Nazaro, at Brescia in Italy, really made the news back then and was a major turning point. The Republic of Venice had stored over two hundred thousand pounds of gunpowder in the vaults of the church. In 1767, seventeen years after Franklin's discovery it was struck by lightning and with no lightning rod, the powder in the vaults exploded, a sixth of the city was destroyed, and over three thousand people where killed.
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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep. Big Don Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.
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