- Back Up Your Birth Control National Day of Action – Tomorrow! Help spread knowledge and support of emergency contraception. Also check out their amazing Why the fuck should I use Emergency Contraception? From Maya.
- Oldest archaeological site in North America? – “You may have read that the oldest archaeological site in North America has been found. Again. This story gets repeated every few years, as an archaeologist finds a site that shows some sign of having been older than the Clovis-era sites that are usually thought of as the first sites in the Americas. This time, however, they may be correct.”
- Atheists die first in survival situations, CNN reports – “Most studies on survivors show that the Atheists die first because if you don’t believe in something supernatural, how can you imagine that you yourself have supernatural abilities enough to survive?” From Dave.
- Tanzanian “miracle” pastor calls for a break -“A Tanzanian pastor has asked people to stop going to his remote home for a “miracle cure” after thousands flocked there, causing chaos in the surrounding area.” From Appleman.
Atheists die first? Well then, I say we really ramp up the Cannibalism is the First Resort campaign for atheists in emergencies. Clearly some are not getting that message.
I know how miracle pastor, Rev Ambilikile “Babu” Mwasapile, feels…I once built a better mousetrap.
Athiests don’t believe in the supernatural abilities?
*looks down at T-shirt which says, “I got bitten by a radioactive spider and all I got was this lousy thyroid tumor.”
Yeah…
*sad
@scribe999: I remember that! All those people in line, the relentless press of meat and hair…. they were delicious.
The glaring typo on that CNN video makes it impossible for me to pay attention to what she’s saying. Maybe it was written by that snake from The Jungle Book?
I’d like to see a citation for those “studies” indicating that atheists don’t make it through survivor situations, apparently because they fail to do anything supernatural.
“Dr.” Walsh: Science looks at some of the supernatural things in the writings and teachings of religions, and says, ‘Ah, well, science can disprove that.’ But science doesn’t have answers for everything.
So… because science can only disprove positive, testable claims, we should all believe in the supernatural? “Dr.” Walsh, can you say ad ignorantium? I knew you could!
And yes, I put her “doctor” title in quotations, because I feel if you’re not using that slip of paper for real practice or teaching, it’s a waste of a tree. It would be interesting to see her survive in an academic, publish-or-perish setting. She might have to do some—Oh, god!—actual research.
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To be fair, most of these survival studies are done on animals. Researchers will typically put atheist and christian mice together in artificial survival situations. These studies tend to have a modestly better outcome for the christian mice. However, there is simply no way to extrapolate these results to humans.
@Zapski: Until Admiral Ackbar had to spoil it all *sigh*
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@anonentity
Sure, but its metastasis will be 50 times quicker than a regular tumor.
So, if I’m in a survival situation, all I have to do is imagine that I myself have supernatural abilities and I’ll survive? Sweet! My building is on fire as I type, I was going to leave, but now I’ll just fantasize about being clairvoyant. That’s much easier.
@Trotter Jelly: Don’t forget to eat people. Especially if they’re already cooked by that fire.
If dying first means that I don’t have to hear people going on about god after the fact, how is this a bad thing?
@MiddleMan: Eat the ones that pray the loudest first.
@Zapski: They’re being cooked with the viscera intact, so that will complicate things. The variety meats will probably be overcooked as well. Still, when in Rome.
Slightly unrelated, and this might be an unreasonable request, but… Can we get a heads-up when you link to Huffington Post? I don’t like giving HuffPo pageviews, but it’s many a time that I’ve forgotten to check the link before I click and unwittingly ended up there. If this isn’t feasible, that’s cool – I’ll just try harder to check before I click.
@Zapski: Always thinking with your undead stomach, aren’t you? ;)