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Arkwatch: The Mount Ararat Structure.

Arkenor — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:52:06 +0000

Time had a post yesterday with the title “Has Noah’s Ark Been Discovered in Turkey?“.

I hate titles like that, as they always make me want to just say “No, it probably hasn’t.” While I suspect history is far more interesting than we know, I’m not so up for evidence that has been rustled up with folks with the agenda of proving that our planet is less than ten thousand years old. I believe many wonderful things, and hope many [...]

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Thinking too hard.

Arkenor — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:41:28 +0000

It is not a new phenomenon. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Someone trained as an ecologist, such as myself, is prone to look at things through the lens of environmental adaptation, and competition. When you’re a sociologist who specialises in religion, everything starts looking like religion.

I was reading a New Scientist interview with a chap called William Sims Bainbridge, who has written a book called The Warcraft Civilization.

In the past, you’ve [...]

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Doomwatch: Swine Flu

Arkenor — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:25:02 +0000

The outbreak in the Americas is starting to look rather serious. At issue is the idea that the virus has managed to sneakily combine not only swine flu and human flu genes, but it has also managed to get some avian flu genes also. Clearly a virus strain with a very interesting history. Avian flu was considered the most likely candidate for the next flu pandemic, so this “threefer” is ringing a whole lot of alarm bells.

The World [...]

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Bobby Jindal: Exorcising Science

Arkenor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:03:54 +0000

Meet Bobby Jindal, the new face of the Republican party. Currently the Governor of the state of Louisiana, he was picked to do the official Republican response to President Obama’s address to congress, yesterday.

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Radical Cleric Mike Huckabee

Arkenor — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:08:26 +0000

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution. But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the [...]

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Saint Vladimir, or Putin the Prophet?

Arkenor — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:44:00 +0000

Russian RIA Novosti reports:

Vladimir Putin may be popular in Russia for saving the nation from the chaos of the 1990s, but a sect in the country has taken its devotion a step further by praying to ‘presidential icons.’

The Bolshaya Elnya village in the Nizhny Novgorod Region is home to the “Rus’ Resurrecting” sect, a group of local residents who believe that President Putin was both the Apostle Paul and King Solomon in previous lives.

Rus’ is [...]

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Meet Theonilla, my Golden Compass Daemon

Arkenor — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:51:59 +0000

She’s a big cutie! I’m sure you’ve probably seen this meme already. If not, you can get your own Golden Compass Daemon from their website. It’s quite fun, and the website is extremely well done, and atmospheric.

As noted purveyor of violent movies, Chuck Norris says:

I normally don’t critique others’ movies, but this one not only warrants critiquing but condemning. The reason is it will very subtly push agnosticism, atheism, secularism and anti-Christian thoughts upon youthful minds [...]

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