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Jesus Loves a Machine Gun
Are you a true believer? Do you just know deep down in your black Wal-Mart socks that every word of the Bible is the absolute literal truth and nothing dare be doubted and anyone who thinks that God is merely an ambisexual omniblissful bloom of moist divine nondenominational honeydew melon should be strung up by their small intestine and beaten with sticks sharpened by Mel Gibson's teeth?
36th Skeptics Circle
Fossils point to oldest life on Earth (tip to Kes)
The best evidence yet for the oldest life on Earth is found in odd-shaped, rock-like mounds in Australia that are actually fossils created by microbes 3.4 billion years ago, researchers report.
"It's an ancestor of life. If you think that all life arose on this one planet, perhaps this is where it started," said Abigail Allwood, a researcher at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and lead author of the new study.
Bush's Scapegoat Dead Mission Accomplished!
General George Casey, the top US commander in Iraq, confirmed that Zarqawi was killed. He said his body has been identified through fingerprints.Jordanian-born Zarqawi was blamed by the United States for the beheading of foreign captives and suicide bombings that have maimed and killed hundreds in Iraq.
Observers and US military officials warned that they do not expect his death to dramatically lower the violence in Iraq. Much of the increase in recent attacks has been blamed on random sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shi'ites.




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Those Archean fossils in Australia were discussed in the PBS documentary Origins: How Life Began. Maybe someone can dig up a clip. Meanwhile, here is a transcript of the show. (Scroll half-way down and/or search for stromatolites.)
Supplementary figures and some cool images from the Nature paper may be found here (3.4 MB pdf file).
Supplementary figures and some cool images from the Nature paper may be found here (3.4 MB pdf file).
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