The "God is a Duck" proof of His existence

Here's today's scientific proof of God. Why is it wrong? First because it has a shameless little shimmy in the middle: it talks about "the chances of a Being Like God evolving". What does this mean? What is a being like God? Unfortunately this Proof doesn't tell us, beyond speculating that God is some kind of Cosmic Duck (I kid you not!) And second, it fails because this "proof" by the strong/weak/puny anthropic principle is not a proof of anything - it's a wild speculation.

As always, the email is on its way to ask for this proof to be deleted in the interests of reason and basic honesty. As always, we're not holding our breath. It's quackers out there.

Now that we know prayer doesn't work, then what?

In this study of 1,800 heart patients, those who were prayed for, and knew about it, had more problems/complications than those who were not being prayed for. This is in direct contradiction to what it says in the Bible: "And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it." (John 14:12-14 (New International Version))

Surprisingly this doesn't seem to create any doubt in Christian minds of the veracity of the Bible and the existence of God. It should.

Making our kids dumber

This is a perfect example of why this stuff matters. It's not new news, but in February for the first time evolution could be taught in Florida's schools. Now this isn't just in Florida's religious schools, mind you, this is in all schools. So until now, no matter where you went to school in Florida, your science teacher couldn't teach you evolution, irrespective of your religious beliefs, how smart you were, whether you wanted to be a scientist, whatever.

Do we think the Indians and the Chinese are keeping science out of the classrooms of their smartest kids? I don't think so. America's competitors must be rubbing their hands with glee as we insist on keeping our kids dumb so the rest of the world can pull ahead.