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Er, what? Robertson's group is Protestant, and the sect of Protestants that have traditionally not had good relations with Catholics.

This view is actually a well known philosophy called: pantheist. you can read more about it here, on the website of a prominent pantheist: http://www.omnifarious.org/~eljay/religion.html

I believe this gospel also includes a bit about stripping off ones clothing and dancing around on it. It should also be noted that there is a lot of contrversy as to when this gospel was written. Some believe it was written prior to any of the "canon" gospels, some believe that it was written...

Being good merely because you are threatened with the ultimate punishment is not exactly laudable behavior. And no matter how evil someone is, they certainly NEVER deserve eternal torment. Not even Hitler deserves _eternal_ torment. The very idea is so barbaric and immoral that it pretty much...

I'll admit that I did enjoy bashing skulls with the litany of sockpuppet trolls that plauged the boards boasting about how Doom3 was going to wipe the floor with HL2. There was that one guy called brassmonkey...

Interesting fact: most kittens are born with their eyes closed, and they don't open up for days later. This kitten was born without an eyelid, which is why its eye is "open."

You can read a little more about the phenomenon here: http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/cyclopia/

Well, a species suddenly reproducing less isn't itself necessarily evolution at work, though it might be an instinct or reaction that evolved (and it certainly makes sense for that sort of strategy to evolve). Many animals actually do have different reproductive strategies based on the amount...

There actually are some pretty good ideas as to why we die. They are fairly complex though, so I'd suggest getting a good book on the subject. But the short of it is that species that reproduce a lot (or put a lot of effort into raising young) at the expense of their own lives tend to be more...

Mutation and adaptation are, in most cases, best thought of as entirely different things. Mutation is random: not perfectly random (since we are still dealing with physical objects with all sorts of causal features that constrain the chanegs in particular ways), but as random as just about...

Evolution refers both to fact of history on the earth and a body of theory about the particular mechanism that made it happen (primarily natural selection). Not all evolutionary change is the result of natural selection, and natural selection would still go on without genetic mutation (though...

Virii mutate at a much higher rate than things like bacteria (in part because they lack the sorts of correction methods DNA based life has), but they aren't necessarily so different because of that. All sorts of creatures have different rates of mutation (for all sorts of different reasons)...

Fossils are exceedingly rare... but not as rare or uncollected as they were in Darwin's time. Since his time, his prediction has come true: we've found that the fossil record indeed conforms to his general predictions about distribution and descent, and we've found countless examples of speices...

Since I'm boerd: This is mostly true inasmuch as we are talking about Darwin's time. But then, Darwin (in Origin) doesn't much concern himself with them either in making his case. For him, the sparse number of fossils actually proved some different points in his argument: that species go...

And if you have any specific questions about evolution, I'd be happy to answer them! I should note that the BBC article has it a little wrong. The rulnig doesn't exactly ban teaching ID: it bans the school _requiring_ teachers to include statements supporting ID and challenging evolution as a...

Condom use is one way to help reduce the spread of AIDS. Period. And so, the CC's stance is wrongheaded. Period.

Lol. I've got bad news for you: none of us straight people did. We never even thought about it: we just ARE attracted to (in my case) females. Prior to even knowing what this attraction was or where it came from. You know what THAT means about you, don't you?

What a laughable statement. Yes, throwing condoms at the problem WILL help reduce the spread of STDs. Anyone that claims otherwise is talking just plain crazy talk. No, condoms aren't perfect, but neither are seatbelts. That doesn't mean we should deny the worth of seatbelts just because we...

The scientific study of the origins of life is known as abiogenesis. There is no meaningful utterance in science as "just a theory." Calling something a theory in science is not a measure or comment on its certainty. Uh? What? It IS scientific fact.. but I'm not sure what you mean by it...

The problem is, there's questioning it and questioning it. REAL scientists ALREADY question it: that's the modus operandi of science. Evolution is CONSTANTLY under the gun, under test, in a myriad of different ways. The reason it is considered to be so solid is because it holds up, day after...