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Something to think about
October 21, 2010 at 12:19 am
Here is an article to think about or perhaps it will touchie your heart... it did mine and I wanted to share it with everyone... I saw it on a facebook page and thought I'd share it here.. .thanks
http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2010/10/athei...-iowa.html
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RE: Something to think about
October 21, 2010 at 4:27 am
It's very sad what happened there.
It's not a very good article though, it goes from "if he killed Doyle because he was an Atheist" to "A boy was murdered because he was an Atheist." in just a few paragraphs.
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RE: Something to think about
October 21, 2010 at 6:13 am
(October 21, 2010 at 4:27 am)leo-rcc Wrote: It's very sad what happened there.
It's not a very good article though, it goes from "if he killed Doyle because he was an Atheist" to "A boy was murdered because he was an Atheist." in just a few paragraphs.
I couldn't find a news report of the incident. All I could find was stories on atheist web sites.
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RE: Something to think about
October 21, 2010 at 2:39 pm
(October 21, 2010 at 10:25 am)leo-rcc Wrote: (October 21, 2010 at 6:13 am)orogenicman Wrote: I couldn't find a news report of the incident. All I could find was stories on atheist web sites.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article...-calm-town
Quote:There were rumors an argument over religion prompted the shooting. But Sullivan testified that debate was long over by the time the gun went off.
Nadler had grabbed the gun "one last time" from Doyle after coming in from the kitchen, according to Clogg's account. That's when he shot his friend just below the neck.
After the blast, Doyle cried out and was shaking so badly, Nadler "freaked out" while trying to put pressure on Doyle's wound. Sullivan phoned 911 and said his friend had been shot "on accident."
Thanks for the link, Leo.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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