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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

A new poll of Canadians and Americans on evolution and creationism.

Most religious Americans support legal access to abortion.

Schumer falsely claimed America’s founders called the country “God’s noble experiment”.

UK government predicts one in five couples will opt for a humanist ceremony after legal recognition.

Students in Texas will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. I hope they won’t grow up to think confidence fraudsters can help them.

Miami pastors call Christian nationalism as a danger to American society.

The pastor who wants to repeal voting rights for women is becoming more mainstream.

FFRF calls out Pentagon for sidelining ‘atheists in foxholes’ as military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology.

Why is this particular form of belief proving so cognitively attractive in the twenty-first century?

World of Woo: How unethical is homeopathy?

Environment: How ‘super’ enzymes can transform recycling.

What the flock is going on with surveillance cameras?

Wow, I was not expecting this: After being ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda,’ Laura Loomer says she’s all in for Ukraine.

The 5 Universal Laws of Human Stupidity explained.

The Rise and Rise of E-Spirituality.

Unvaccinated people are becoming easier to spot because viruses are indifferent to political views, religious beliefs, social media narratives or terrified children.

Science is less a catalogue of answers than a disciplined exploration of ignorance.

Gattaca and the quiet Doomsday of genetic determinism.

Jean Meslier, my favorite priest.

Sunday Book Club: Country of Lords.

Podcast: Technology reversing Paralysis.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:  Grumpy Sabine on the misunderstood double slit experiment. Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?  Heaven? …..No Thanks. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jaron Lanier on the AI Illusion.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week everyone!

“Heaven and Hell are not future destinations; they’re descriptions of social conditions. If the causes of suffering are earthly, then so are the remedies.”  – RTFF.

[Strega]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Schumer falsely claimed America’s founders called the country “God’s noble experiment”.

A God wouldn’t need an “experiment,” since He would know the results in advance and could change the results anyway.

Of course, Chuck Schumer was the one who put the cheese on his grilling raw burgers before they were done. Please, Chuck, leave that to Bobby Brainworm.

Wow, I was not expecting this: After being ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda,’ Laura Loomer says she’s all in for Ukraine.

Good, though why she didn’t see Putin for what he was in the first place is a mystery.

I hope she gives up her other racist, homophobic, reactionary, MAGA-friendly views. She is not a good representative of the Zionism she claims to support.

And I hope she gets a new plastic surgeon. Being in the influencer world encourages women to look like Skeletor and men to look like Muppet Wooly-Burgers!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg;

That’s Wooly-Boogers, not Wooly-Burgers, though I wouldn’t want wooly fungus or hair on my burger either.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I had heard of ‘wooly buggers’ before, up near Helen, in northern GA. Is it a Southern term? I often walk along the banks of the Chattahoochee and see fishermen there too. Never heard the term in Ireland in relation to fly-fishing for trout. Not my scene but big with some locals and tourists.

Anyway….I hope Loomer gets herself further disentangled from the algorithm.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

FFRF calls out Pentagon for sidelining ‘atheists in foxholes’ as military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology.

I wonder if Kegs-Breath understands that sidelining soldiers for non-belief, as well as through anti-vax orders and side effects of unneeded Testosterone therapy, are the last things needed in a war with Islamofascist rulers of Iran?

[jakelafort]

In college a history professor challenged the class to identify an atheist who was kicking around 1700. He was more than a little surprised when i raised hand and told him about Meslier. Had read about him in one of Will and Ariel Durant’s books.

Ya know it just goes to show ya we are not created equal. Far from it. As much as i drone on in ceaseless repetition how the masses are swept up by their contemporary rivers of belief and morality there are also those who stand firm and think for themselves. Impressive guy.

[jakelafort]

Wooly bugger is an artificial fly used in fly fishing. I think it mainly imitates a minnor or some acquatic creature and is effective for both trout and salmon.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg;

According to the wiki page, the fishing lure originated in Pennsylvania. But Southerners use the term Wooly-Booger for any excessively hirsuted person, animal, or thing.

“Booger,” by itself, was popularized on radio by WKRP’s Johnny Fever, over objections of Mr. Carlton. Between Dr. Johnny Fever and Crow T. Robot and diffusion of radio and TV waves, “booger” is now used by every ET with a SETI Program within 48 Light Years.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg and Jake:

Jean Meslier, my favorite priest

French Economist Frederick Bastiat would have told Jean Meslier that if every peasant could have personal plots to raise food and/or shops to sell desired goods and ply desired skills and trade them with each other and others abroad, they wouldn’t be in thrall to either priests or lords.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

A new poll of Canadians and Americans on evolution and creationism.

This article is unreadable. Which number do we accept for which country? Which country has the number in parentheses?

Did an AI write this article?

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Sunday Book Club: Country of Lords.

There’s always going to be unequal outcomes as long as there is such a thing as causality and different actions have different results.

If all of humanity lives in caves and one person decides to move out and live either on the top of the hill or in the valley below, every choice will have comparative advantages and disadvantages and the results of each choice will be different.

What is important in a free society is whether there is an equal right and opportunity of those on the bottom to rise and an equal chance that those on the top can stagnate or fail if they make the wrong choices.

If Peter Thiel and Elon Musk didn’t have the gravy train of government contracts, Peter Thiel’s PayPal would collapse if it didn’t work for enough customers, and Elon Musk would lose investors if enough of his rockets blew up on the launch pads.

And as long as there is the possibility of others devising alternatives to Thiel’s and Musk’s services and mobilizing capital to create those alternatives, unequal outcomes are never fixed.

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