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:hb: I so **** hate that "two isolated pockets of fire" argument. How completly ignorant does one have to be to claim there were only two pockets of fire? I have no words... I once saw a dramatic airial picture on this forum of the North Tower, looking at the south and west side, showing the...

Credit to "Jay Leno's Headlines" for this one. This guy is the Democratic Leader of the Iowa House of Representatives. Well, Pat, you can put yours there if you like, but I think the rest of us will pass.

That quote, by the way,was reported in New scientist late last year, the week following the release of the Lancet report IIRC. I thought it was extremely funny, and it still is sufficent to trigger a giggling fit, because it so true...... A Plabeco controlled, double blind, medical trial IS...

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." -- Thomas Jefferson Also a link to a page with a bunch of quote of famous people which capture the gist (or is it jist/) of...

I remember seeing the general logic of christian salvation summed up in a nice little question along the lines of: Why would god kill his son to convinve himself to change the rules that he himself made? Or something like that. I think someone here used to have it as a tag. Anyone remember...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1871000230#post1871000230 No big deal, I'm not a skeptic for the fame anyways! :)

I was going through some literature I give to potential martial art students when I found a quote by Ayn Rand that I thought was particularly relevant today. I was just wondering where the U.S. or Great Britain would fall if we were to use Rand's quote as a scale. Are we the "pacifist society"...

Hi, I am a long time lurker, first time poster. I really enjoy reading logical and even comical responses to some of the nutball posts. I am even more amazed at the stupidity and ignorance of some members of the human population! One thing that I haven't really noticed being addressed...

Who said the following. "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need...

I defy anyone to find any meaning in the second sentence. (It's at the start of a paragraph about Fermions)

Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered...

http://www.thesupernaturalworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1942&st=90

I know Einstein was an outspoken atheist but now I read a quote about that he is supposed to have said that the more you learn about the powers of universe the more you become aware of a higher power. Anyone know where it is taken from?

"A FEW years ago, Mel Gibson got himself into an argument after uttering a series of crude remarks that were hostile to homosexuals. Now he has made a film that principally appeals to the gay Christian sado-masochistic community: a niche market that hasn't been sufficiently exploited."...

Georgia considers banning 'evolution' ...and by extension, what he wants is like not teaching gravity at all. Nice. (The Simpsons)

Graffin quote Greg Graffin is the frontman for the band Bad Religion. Here's a cute excerpt from a recent interview. http://www.badreligion.com/badreligion/news/news.jsp Edited to add: my apologies for mis-spelling Graffin's name.

The Traditional Values Coalition demands an investigation of health & sexual behavior studies (they've compiled a List of Dirty Studies). American Assn for the Advancement of Science CEO Alan Leshner was quoted in Science (7 November 2003, p. 966), "We can't let moralizing trump sound science...

"Unless you assume a God, the question about life’s purpose is meaningless." supposedly said by Bertrand Russell. I haven't been able to find any evidence that he ever wrote or said this. It's being used by Christians and I suspect it's taken wildly out of context, if he ever said it at all...

The first way - "IMITATION". This way is the most easiest and sweetest... in the beginning. But the most difficult and bitter in the end. Walking this way, one does not need to work with his soul. He can be as everyone, live as all live… But in the old age - bitterness, repentance and a...

no...not the one about time travel. THESE ONES :

In JR's commenatary: --------------------------------------------------------------------- In my huge weekly crop of e-mail, I was offered a quotation from evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr: . . . it is a considerable strain on one's credulity to assume that finely balanced systems such as...

Someone just sent me this one, which I feel compelled to share. Good Quotes: They're not just for sigs anymore. Post your fav's here.

I was reading my Guardian today (19/6) (UK national paper for non-UKers, well-loved Grauniad for UKers) and in one of the pull-outs it had an article about suspicious and well-known synthetic compounds found in some Chinese herbal remedies which almost certainly accounted for any beneficial...