Pope's preacher compares abuse row to anti-Semitism Pope Benedict's personal preacher has compared criticism of the pontiff and Church over child abuse to "collective violence" suffered by the Jews. The Rev Raniero Cantalamessa was speaking at Good Friday prayers in St Peter's Basilica, attended by the Pope. In his sermon, he quoted a Jewish friend [...]

Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting [...]

Image of Jesus 'appears in a frying pan' Toby Elles, 22, made the discovery after burning the food when he fell asleep while cooking. After lifting off the scorched bacon Mr Elles, from Salford, Lancs, could not believe his eyes when the Christlike image stared back at him. The face is complete with eyes, nose, [...]

Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts AUSTIN, Tex. — Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, [...]

Pharmacist refuses to give mother, 38, contraceptive pills for period pain 'because of her religion' A pharmacist refused to serve a mother-of-two with a prescription for the contraceptive pill because it went against her religious beliefs. Shocked Janine Deeley, 38, initially thought the female pharmacist must be joking, but became angry when she was told [...]

Scientologests have gone down to Haiti to heal people with their theaten free magic. They believe that they can heal by touching people. Ravi Somaiya at Gawker has talked to someone who traveled to Haiti with some scientologists. I knew we were traveling with doctors and EMTs, but I didn't expect to see 50 scientologists, [...]

Utah House OKs ultrasounds before abortions A bill that would give a woman seeking an abortion the option to first view her ultrasound passed the Utah House on Friday. Before HB200 cleared the chamber in a 53-15 vote, Minority Leader David Litvack, D-Salt Lake City, unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill to delete language he [...]

This is so wrong that words escape me. Found at Unreasonable faith

Yep. The new Lone Wolfs Den. I've move off of WordPress.com and god my own space and domain. Despite that it will be the same old den with the same old solitary wolf. Its still not up to speed yet, I have allot to do but I'll get it done.

Natural selection requires positive mutations (mutations that increase the probability of a creatures surviving and reproducing). The argument attempts to disprove natural selection and thus evolution by saying there are no positive mutations to act on. Of course, its wrong. Mutations can be positive, negative (decreasing the probability of a creatures surviving and reproducing) or [...]