Friday, April 1, 2011

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!


James Randi Foundation hands out annual 'Flying Pig Award to NASA astrobiologist (and others such as 'Dr.' Andrew Wakefield) for supposedly finding life within meteorites on April Fools Day!

When NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover announced, again, last month that he'd found evidence of microscopic life on meteorites, he probably didn't expect to receive the high honor of a Flying Pig Award.
But now, the man who some claim is the scientific equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, is getting honored for an achievement some say is dubious.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/01/skeptic-mocks-nasa-researcher-with-flying-pig-award-for-findin/

Huffington Post lists 'World's Greatest Hoaxes' for April Fools Day, including the Loch Ness Monster photo, Hitler's diary and the Alien Autopsy!

Though many of them seem absurd in retrospect, colossal hoaxes have been making fools of people around the world for centuries.  From alien encounters to foreign invasions, some of these hoaxes were even examined by scientific experts and reported by some of the world's most respected publications before being disproved.
Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-day-hoaxes-_n_843675.html#s260407&title=Famous_Loch_Ness

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Holy water drops from trees in village in Malaysia 

Thousands of people from as far as Johor and Malacca have been flocking to see two trees in Pinang Tunggal in Kepala Batas, Penang, and Sungai Petani, Kedah, which are said to be spraying ‘holy water’ for the past one week.
Full article: http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/3/5/north/8195095&sec=North

Meteorite shows evidence of extraterrestrial life says NASA scientist

In what's sure to rekindle the debate over the question of life beyond Earth, a scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center says he has fossil evidence of bacterial life inside of a rare class of meteorites .
Writing in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology, Richard B. Hoover argues that an examination of a collection of 9 meteorites - called CI1 carbonaceous meteorites - contain "indigenous fossils" of bacterial life.
Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20039658-501465.html

New York pagans may get religious tax  exemption

If the town of Catskill wanted a war, they got one.
Thanks to a recent ruling by Greene County Court Judge George J. Pulver, Jr. a small pagan sect in Palenville may be going to trial with the town over a religious property tax exemption.
Full article: http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2011/03/05/news/doc4d71bb97223af717434247.txt

Friday, October 8, 2010

Neurologists believe animals capable of having 'spiritual experiences', such as out-of-body and near-death experiences.

Animals (not just people) likely have spiritual experiences, according to a prominent neurologist who has analyzed the processes of spiritual sensation for over three decades.  Research suggests that spiritual experiences originate deep within primitive areas of the human brain -- areas shared by other animals with brain structures like our own.  The trick, of course, lies in proving animals' experiences

Full article: http://news.discovery.com/animals/animals-spiritual-brain.html 

NASA images of Saturn are a hoax, according to conspiracy theoriests!

Alien conspiracy theorists are confident they've caught NASA in the act of covering up the fact we are not alone in the universe.  A video posted on YouTube yesterday showed how an image of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan, taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter, had been Photoshopped before being added to a Picture of the Day website.  In the video, "DominatorPS3" turned up the brightness levels on the photo to show that a "huge" object can be seen behind the smaller moon, Dione.  Clearly visible are brush strokes that show how the rainbow aura of the object has been blacked out.  "More solid proof of NASA/ government coverups," DominatorPS3 said.  "... and this is recent. You can do this yourself!!"

Full article: http://www.news.com.au/technology/conspiracy-theorists-confident-photoshopped-nasa-image-is-a-cover-up/story-e6frfro0-1225936084529

Southern Baptist theologian warns Christians that yoga is spiritually dangerous!

A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.  Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.  Mohler said he objects to "the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine."  "That's just not Christianity," Mohler told The Associated Press.

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39553520/ns/us_news-life/