A few years ago, I was debating the “peak oil” theory with a friend, and I remember wondering if parts of the earth would cave in due to all the oil we extract.
Which is an interesting thought, and might be something to consider if oil was stored in underground lakes — which is what I [...]
When you turn away from God and religion, Glenn Beck says you put your hope and trust in Barack Obama instead:
He also says that the US became a powerful country because we acknowledged God (unlike, you know, all those other countries), and now it will decline as people turn into evil atheists.
The stupid, it burns! [...]
Today only 35 percent of the oil in the average oil field is recovered, meaning that about two thirds of the oil in known fields remains underground. That resource is rarely mentioned in the debate on the future of oil.
—Leonardo Maugeri, “Squeezing More Oil From the Ground” (Scientific American, Oct 2009)
The Pope recently blamed atheists for the world’s environmental problems:
Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where is existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the “final authority,” and the objective of existence [...]
“The U.S. airline industry discards enough aluminum cans every year to build nearly 58 Boeing 747s and enough paper to fill a football field–size hole 230 feet deep—that’s 4,250 tons of aluminum and 72,250 tons of paper. The 30 largest airports in the country, with the help of the airlines, create enough waste to equal [...]
Rep. John Shimkus, an IL representative, knows that global warming is a hoax because “God’s Word” says that God will be the one to destroy the earth, not man. There’s no need to worry about global flooding, because God promised he wouldn’t do that anymore:
The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be [...]
I thought this was pretty good:
It’s directed by the Coen Brothers.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
(Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” (1943) in The Portable Atheist, p. 199)
I often laugh when I hear unnatural used synonymously for bad. What does natural even mean? That it comes about without our interference? But aren’t we part of nature? If we are, aren’t silicon and satellites just as natural [...]
Nelly: ditto The Book Burning That Wasn’t
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