1. Youngest galactic supernova (not aliens) found

Comment #180655 by rwrjunior on May 15, 2008 at 1:08 pm

http://news.ncsu.edu/news/2008/05/084-tpreynolds.php

Here's a link to the original press release from the university in North Carolina where the researcher did his work.

2. Sex for diploma offer caught on tape

Comment #164413 by rwrjunior on April 20, 2008 at 8:23 am

A couple of points:
First, very alarming that this individual was in charge of a high school - and as Radesq pointed out, one that cuts corners as far as education is concerned.
The catchy part of the story intends for us to be surprised and alarmed that a religous man would solicit sex. This is not surprising to any of us, but in America it is racy news. Here people equate morals and ethics with Christianity and it opens the door for people like this man to take advantage of their fellow Christians.
All you have to do to swindle someone in the bible belt is claim to be religious, and they make all sorts of assumptions about you. This is an example of how this assumption is as false as the assumption that atheists have no morals.

3. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163409 by rwrjunior on April 18, 2008 at 10:09 am

I am also glad to see this was printed in here in the US. It's hard to get within firing distance to attack these beliefs that people hold so very emotionally. I don't think very many people here have thought the ID proposition through very carefully, it's just that they prefer it, on a visceral level, to the alternative. The problem as I see it is to get people to approach it on an intellectual level. I don't have a solution. Thoughts?