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Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons. Mule's precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth's excitement turn to confusion when they reached the evolution section of the book from Apologia Educational Ministries, which disputed Charles Darwin's theory. "I thought she was going to have a coronary," Mule said of her daughter, who is now 16 and taking college courses in Houston. "She's like, 'This is not true!'"

Home Fooling.

December 9th, 02005 - Sam Harris"The View From The End Of The World"This is an audio only presentation. This talk took place in the Conference Center Golden Gate Room, San Francisco. Quote: With gentle demeanor and tight argument, Sam Harris carried an overflow audience into the core of one of the crucial issues of our time: What makes some religions lethal? How do they employ aggressive irrationality to justify threatening and controlling non-believers as well as believers? What should be our response? Harris began with Christianity. In the US, Christians use irrational arguments about a soul in the 150 cells of a 3-day old human embryo to block stem cell research that might alleviate the suffering of millions. In Africa, Catholic doctrine uses tortured logic to actively discourage the use of condoms in countries ravaged by AIDS. "This is genocidal stupidity," Harris said. Faith trumps rational argument. Common-sense ethical intuition is blinded by religious metaphysics. In the US, 22% of the population are CERTAIN that Jesus is coming back in the next 50 years, and another 22% think that it's likely. The good news of Christ's return, though, can only occur following desperately bad news. Mushroom clouds would be welcomed. "End time thinking," Harris said, "is fundamentally hostile to creating a sustainable future." Harris was particularly critical of religious moderates who give cover to the fundamentalists by not challenging them. The moderates say that all is justified because religion gives people meaning in their life. "But what would they say to a guy who believes there's a diamond the size of a refrigerator buried in his backyard? The guy digs out there every Sunday with his family, cherishing the meaningthe quest gives them." "I've read the books," Harris said. "God is not a moderate." The Bible gives strict instructions to kill various kinds of sinners, and their relatives, and on occasion their entire towns. Yet slavery is challenged nowhere in the New or

"„TBLR1 wirkt offensichtlich den schädlichen Stoffwechselveränderungen entgegen, die typisch für Übergewichtige sind und die zu schweren Erkrankungen führen können", so Stephan Herzig. Langfristiges Ziel seiner Forschung ist, über Schaltermoleküle wie etwa TBLR1 einen aus der Balance geratenen Energiestoffwechsel gezielt zu beeinflussen. ***** Maria Rohm, Anke Sommerfeld, Daniela Strzoda, Allan Jones, Tjeerd Sijmonsma, Gottfried Rudofsky, Christian Wolfrum, Carsten Sticht, Norbert Gretz, Maximilian Zeyda, Lukas Leitner, Peter Nawroth, Thomas Stulnig, Mauricio Berriel Diaz, Alexandros Vegiopoulos und Stephan Herzig: Transcriptional co-factor TBLR1 controls lipid mobilization in white adipose tissue. Cell Metabolism 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2013.02.010. Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum"

"The CADET tool found that children consumed on average 293 g F&V (95% CI 287 to 303) per day. Clustered (by school) multilevel regression models with total F&V as the primary outcome were conducted to explore how the home environment affects children's F&V intake. Children of families who reported 'always' eating a family meal together at a table had 125 g (95% CI 92 to 157; p=

Christian Puritscher "Image + Therapiekonzept Die moderne Alternative zum Gips"

Christian Dries sciencegarden

Christian Ankowitsch: Warum Einstein niemals Socken trug

"Christian Hilbe, Maria Abou Chakra, Philipp M. Altrock, Arne Traulsen, The evolution of strategic timing in collective-risk dilemmas. PLoS ONE 8(6): e66490, 14. Juni 2013, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066490 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0066490"

A bit of backstory is required here. I spent half of my life as a Christian minister. I am no longer a Christian, and obviously not a minister. Today I am an atheistic blogger, although the focus of my blogs is unrelated to atheism. I tell you this not to offend those of you who believe in God, not to curry favor with those of you who do not. I only mention it because I will quote some scripture in this post, but the post is about religion. It is about the singularity, transhumanism, and radical life-extension. So please bear with me.

"Die Analysen und statistischen Auswertungen zeigten, dass Vollmondphasen tatsächlich besondere Effekte mit sich bringen: An diesen Tagen brauchten die Probanden im Durchschnitt fünf Minuten länger, um einzuschlafen, und die gesamte Schlafdauer verkürzte sich um 20 Minuten. Dieser Effekt spiegelte sich auch in einem vergleichsweise niedrigen Melatoninspiegel in Vollmondnächten wider, ergaben die Blutuntersuchungen. Die Auswertungen der EEGs dokumentieren zudem einen negativen Effekt auf die Schlafqualität: Die Tiefschlafphasen waren um 30 Prozent verkürzt. All diese Ergebnisse waren außerdem im Einklang mit der subjektiv empfundenen Schlafqualität der Probanden: Ihr Urteil über die Schlafqualität einer jeweiligen Nacht fiel immer dann vergleichsweise schlecht aus, wenn gerade eine Vollmondphase herrschte. „Der Mondzyklus scheint also den menschlichen Schlaf zu beeinflussen, auch wenn man den Mond nicht sehen kann und keine Kenntnis von der tatsächlichen Mondphase hat", resümiert Cajochen"