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POPSBranding for Christ A "science" teacher in Ohio is under scrutiny for mixing religion and science. This miscreant not only is a fundy nut but a liar too. I'm sure the kids in his class are getting the latest in science education (if they lived in the bronze age, that is).
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POPS67-Year-Old Equestrian Bound for 2008 Olympics He found a new horse, kept on believing in our training and discipline, and now he has succeeded. I am very happy for him. It also proves that new things are possible in dressage, at any age--even at 67!" Although early records are a little sketchy it seems that Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn holds the record as the oldest competitor ever to win an Olympic gold medal. Swahn won at the London Games in 1908, at age 60. He was still sharp enough to take bronze again at the age of 72 in Antwerp 12 years later. The oldest equestrian competitor is believed to have been British dressage rider Lorna Johnstone. She competed in three Olympic Games, including Munich in 1972 at age 70. It was George Bernard Shaw who said "we don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!"
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POPSAncient Chinese Bells The importance of that discovery grows when we realize that it took the West a thousand years to develop the cathedral bell, and we didn't have it until the middle ages. Bells are very hard to make, yet China had these remarkably sophisticated Zhong bells during the Golden Age of Athens. The bells produce a rich tone, they take far less bronze to get it than a cathedral bell, and then they deliver two sounds for the cost of one. It's easy to look right at something that's very sophisticated without seeing the sophistication. It took us eighty years to catch on to these remarkable, but unassuming, bells. The best inventions are like that. In the best inventions, elegance masquerades as simplicity.
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POPSThe Rollright Stones The Rollright Stones is the name of a complex of megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton in England. It consists of three separate sites: 1. The King's Men, approximately 70 closely-spaced stones that form a stone circle 33 metres in diameter. They are set on top of a circular bank with an entrance marked by two portal stones. The site is unexcavated and can only be loosely dated to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. 2. The King Stone, a single, weathered monolith, 2.4 metres high by 1.5 metres wide, standing 76 metres east of the King's Men. The King Stone is more likely to have been a marker stone serving a now-destroyed cairn burial site. 3. The Whispering Knights, the remains of the burial chamber of an early or middle Neolithic portal dolmen lying 400 metres east of the King's Men. Four standing stones survive, forming a chamber about 2 square metres in area around a fifth recumbent stone, probably the collapsed roof.
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POPSFlorida Religionists Cling to Myth As in Texas, Florida is also debating whether or not to include Intelligent Design in its science curriculum. Following the Dover Pennsylvania trial you'd think these yahoos would have gotten the word. ID is not science. We'll have to wait and see if they cling to their Bronze Age myths or join the rest of us who live in a reality based world.
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POPSAncient stone circle found in Skåne
"I suddenly saw how it all fitted together. My measurements confirmed all the theories," Lind explained. Lind explained how he stumbled over the site while out walking with friends. He later confirmed his instincts when flying over the area to photograph the site, which is on land owned by the county council. Heimdall's Stones was inspected on Friday by Thomas Romberg of the regional heritage board, who confirmed the site's distinct pattern, according to Skånska Dagbladet. The find has yet to be officially reported to the National Heritage Board (RAÄ). The site has also been inspected by archaeologist Nils-Axel Mörner, who described how he was taken aback with amazement. "Bob G Lind is to be congratulated", Mörner enthuses. Bob G Lind is reported to be something of a controversial figure and has had a long running feud with the National Heritage Board over the history of Sweden's hitherto largest stone circle site, Ale's Stones in Kåseberga, also on Österlen. TT/Peter
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POPSReligion/Science - Oil/Water No matter what mental rationalization you've thought up the bottom line is that science and religion are at odds with one another. Ask anyone who has waded through the tortured reasoning of theists to reconcile their beliefs with scientific facts knows that believing in talking snakes, burning bushes, Jewish zombies, or virgin births has to forgo reality and enter a world of myth and fairy tales. Ordinarily this could be viewed as simply a character quirk. But unfortunately it has wider reaching consequences. We are dumbing down our children because of irrational belief in a bronze age culture's view of the world. In our society, ignorance is thought charming while intelligence is "elitism". How ass backwards is this?
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POPSUpcoming This may be worth watching. Particularly for the majority of the people in the US who still hold on to the Bronze Age myth of creation. Come on folks, educate yourselves!
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POPSWaco, Tx. - Bronze Age City This is incredible. I'm always amazed when people exhibit such a profound degree of ignorance. It's hard to believe this is the 21st Century. And this ignorant woman has three children. And so the stupidity is passed on.
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POPSAncient Scots Mummified Their Dead The article also says that the bones were inside and beneath the homes. I like that; it keeps 'the family together". Much like the ancient Hebrews who placed the bones of their family members all together in ossuary boxes.
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