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T-Rex was a coconut eater!

From Alternet, on the Creationist museum:
“Before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, museum visitors are told, all of the dinosaurs were peaceable plant-eaters. The evidence is found in Genesis 1:30, where God gives “green herb” to every creature to eat. There were no predators. T-Rex had such big teeth, the museum explains, so it [...]


PAS tells us to accept Islamic State

The political party PAS asks us to accept an Islamic state with the following justification:
“since non-Malays accepted capitalism, socialism and other Western ideologies, there was no reason why they could not accept the concept of an Islamic state” - PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang
One thing that has annoyed me for a very long [...]


Hindu siblings struggle to change Muslim status

From Malaysiakini:
S Jeevanathan, 22, and his sister S Maneemegalay, 21, were certified as Muslims after their father converted from Hinduism to Islam before they were born.
Their father reverted to Hinduism in 1991, but was buried by Islamic authorities as a Muslim last month despite the protests of his children, who fear the same fate, the [...]


Skeletons in our closets

In 1984 in Kenya, the most complete skeleton of a young boy was found. While relegated to spend most of the last two decades in Kenya’s museum cabinet, recently the skeleton was put on public display.
Guess who got pissed off?
Yup, the religious extremists. They have never liked evolution, have they? The Bishop Boniface (yes, that’s [...]


Ted Haggart and The Problems With Religious Compulsion

With the daily scandals plaguing the newspapers, Malaysians already have much to be occupied at their evening teh-tarik sessions. And so was I, until my eyes fell on the story of Ted Haggart, president of the very influential National Association of Evangelicals of the United States, who was accused by a male sex prostitute for [...]


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