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Arch, Here's what the judge had to say in the latest case on the issue. I have quoted his Conclusion but provided a link to the whole decision. I suppose you can appeal; however the Dover school board will not as the good citizens of Dover voted those fanatics out in the last election. H. Conclusion...

Given the mentality of most parents who think that their children should not hear anything of which the parents do not approve, one can only imagine us living in caves and eating rocks in short order. Grovelling to human weakness should not be the goal of education which has become far too politiciz...

Will this cause the academics to push the dates back for earlier Meso-American cultures?

The Yonaguni could be simply the remains of leveled foundations for wood structures. One of the more compelling arguments that Hancock made had to do with the lack of debris at the site. Had Yonaguni been subject to natural weathering, the chipped off pieces of stone should still be there where the...

Without a doubt this is the finest response to Creationism and the derivative pseudo-science of Intelligent Design. Warning, it is long. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4FEC-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2 I think you miss the point about the debate, Arch. If t...

Of course you can. Read The Bible Unearthed by Finklestein and Silbermann to find out how late the bible's assertions are actually supported by archaeological and historical evidence. Even William Dever only disagrees with Finklestein by a matter of a hundred or so years. Mainstream archaeology dism...

http://www.kingtutshop.com/freeinfo/Lotus-Flower.htm Represented in ancient Egyptian art. The blue lotus was found scattered over Tutankhamen's body when the Pharaoh's tomb was opened in 1922. Many historians thought it was a purely symbolic flower, but there may be some reason to believe that anci...

The current Titanic fascination probably revolves around the sheer difficulty of getting down there to see it. Once down there, they have to find a way to justify the trip.

Besides, mankind always finds its tragedies more interesting than its triumphs.

There has been discrimination against the aborigines, and their lives in the cities were squalid. BUt they prefer the open spaces. Unlike the Indians, the aborigines are said to abjure pesonal property and prefer tend to want to live off the land. BUt they neverhad agriculture. They think the white...

and in the sixties they were
given some land to call their own in some sense, I think.

Sounds like the reservation system used in the US. Probably with similar result.

but in every case that I can tell, the author is pandering to fundamentalist Christians.

Uh-oh.

Antarctica is just about the last place on earth I'd want to go.

Well, there and the Bible Belt.

Frank Harrist wrote:Dammit!

LOL.

Annoying, isn't it?

I bet your dog could dig up a few bones.