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Archive for April, 2006
Praying for (Black) Rain
It's obviously instinctual, because plenty of civilizations did it when they ran out of options. Well, now we are out of options, and people are praying for lower gas prices. ...
The ExternE project series
The ExternE project series
A Liberating Worldview
From the Arizona Daily Star, Guest opinion by Gilbert D. Shapiro:Atheists are "seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public," ...
Skepchick Magazine
Skepchick Magazine
A-Jad Right About Oil Prices
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has been on a verbal blitz offensive lately. You'd think he was deliberately trying to provoke the attack he fears on his country. It's all part ...
Secular Left Better Than Religious Right
It's a Hobson's choice, I know. Though I disagree with them both, I'd have to choose the secular socialist over the free-market bible thumper.
I ran across an essay today ...
Apparent Complexity Made Simple
A 20th Anniversary Review of The Blind Watchmaker:
Intelligent Design seems like it should be old news. Atheists all over the world have peeled back the mask of the carefully ...
Introducing Jeffrey Monts
Please welcome Jeffrey Monts to the Black Sun Journal team. Hopefully, he can take some work off my hands, and contribute his unique perspective on the never ending quest for ...
Good Friday Hell
On this Good Friday, it's only fitting that pope Benedict has chosen to rant against life-prolonging technologies and modernity. Christianity has always been a cult of death, and on ...
Iran Nuclear Effort About Respect
Western horror at the Iranian achievement of uranium enrichment is understandable. But any attempt to prevent the hard-line regime from completing its entry into the nuclear club is bound to ...
Happy Birthday, Mom!
It was a pleasant afternoon at the Royal Teton Ranch. My mom, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, and I were walking outside of her house at the Ranch Headquarters in Corwin Springs, ...
Junk Research “Swift-Boats” Hybrid Cars
CNW Market Research has come out with a purported "study" that claims hybrid cars don't save money or energy. They claim that the lifetime cost of a Toyota ...