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A believer is a bird in a cage, a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good. [Morris Cohen] Archives We have a military based on Christian-based principles? Category: Politics Religion Posted on: November 11, 2009 2:36 PM, by PZ Myers This is a charming local story for Veteran's day .

Curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cultivated fields may require going beyond cutting back on nitrogen fertilizer and changing crop rotation cycles, according to research by Agricultural Research Service scientists.

His dreamy synth-pop track "Fireflies" is Minnesota's first national No. 1 single since 1998's "Too Close" by R&B trio Next.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris .

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape [Desmond Morris, "The Naked Ape"] Archives The Mormon leadership demonstrates their clarity of vision Category: Politics Religion Posted on: October 13, 2009 9:56 PM, by PZ Myers Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Mormon Church has made some interesting remarks .

They say there are strangers, who threaten us In our immigrants and infidels They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves Those who know what's best for us- Must rise and save us from ourselves Quick to judge Quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice and fear [all] Walk hand in hand.

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN a ' The University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus earned a record retention rate in 2008, with 90.6 percent of last year's freshman class returning, the university's Board of Regents Educational Policy and Planning Committee learned today .

Earl William Wevley, son of Karl and Carolina Wevley, was born September 14, 1924, in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

Two fatal collisions Wednesday on Minnesota roads involved teens at the wheel, the State Patrol said.

Frontpage -> Features -> Neighbors -> Blackhoof-Sandy Lake news: September 21, 2009 by Betty Carlson Thought for the week: "What a nice world this would be if we loved others as we love ourselves." The Blackhoof-Sandy Lake community lost another old timer, Ferdie Langhorst.

The greatest evil at work in the world is murder for immutable cause, that which the victim has little or no choice in changing, and when that evil raises it's ugly head, the righteous should stand up and lop it off.

In an effort to keep families informed, Minnewaska High School Principal Lyle Katzenmeyer sent a letter home to parents Wednesday, addressing the deadly accident that took the life of a 77-year-old Morris woman and critically injured a 16-year-old student on State Highway 28.

One can easily forget the greatest and most sustained genocide ever to befall the human race when we are so constantly bombarded with images of the Jewish Holocaust.

AirVenture Attendees Experience the "Mean" of "Green" On July 31st, EAA AirVenture hosted a unique battle, the likes of which had never been seen by Oshkosh visitors.

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris .

Atheism is the world of reality, it is reason, it is freedom. Atheism is human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree that the religious mind cannot begin to understand.

The egg of prayer never yet became a chicken. ] Archives I fear I shall be stepping into a den of vipers Category: Personal Posted on: September 3, 2009 8:47 PM, by PZ Myers I'm going to be on the radio tonight, at 10pm Central time, on a program radiating out of Missouri State University called the All-American Gun Show .

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins.