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"Messianic Jews believe that one of the signs of the imminent rebuilding of their temple is the birth of a red heifer, one without even a single non-red hair. This, they are attempting to bring about by genetic manipulation and cloning. As far back as October 1989, the Chief Rabbi of Israel sent a team of scientists to Sweden to purchase the frozen embryos of a particular breed of red heifers so as to breed one that would fulfill their scriptural requirements. They later plan to burn this animal as a sacrifice when it is three years old, its ashes used to purify the temple. Texan evangelical cattle breeders have also tried to come up with an unblemished red heifer and are said to have succeeded." http://www.alshindagah.com/sepoct2003/extremist.html

Here is the difference between religion and science: religion takes responsibility for the whole Universe and science takes control of the same Universe.

Omar is just a vanishing echo of the terrorizing Cold War that was playing out on Afghan territory.

The money the kids are receiving "magically" for their lost teeth symbolizes the other teeth that adults know child development will automatically bring.

What will happen, if we implement what you want, is foreigners learning all by themselves just enough English or French to pass your linguistic tests and soon after, once in Canada, they will make you pay dearly your lack of understanding of what is genuine human motivation and solidarity.

Each time one is using symbols, he is making a leap of faith. (The basic definition of a symbol is a presence for an absence.)

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A terrorist is someone, like Bush, who makes us believe in the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Only religion can make us understand that zero is one (number). Only religion can make us understand that a leap of faith creates its own evidence.

If you want to get something from someone, show your soft side; likewise, if Canadians want basic knowledge of their national languages from foreigners, they have to show some goodwill. Literacy programs may be conceived as such a gesture of goodwill.

What the failure of STV demonstrates is that to make democracy a reality, it will take more than steps, it will take more leaps like the BC Citizens' Assembly.

Artists may be very good ambassadors though.

I believe that representative democracy has to be replaced by deliberative democracy. The most straightforward definition of a deliberative democracy is a process that goes beyond the majority rule towards broader consensus. On major issues, it can take a decade or more to change policy. The role of deliberation is to keep that long journey on track and out of unproductive complaining and blaming.

There is, I think, an incompatibility in between a common will and anonymous referendums.

The more permissive our world will become, the more fundamentalist religious movements it will have to deal with.

Inbreeding is impossible inside "the Empire on which the sun never sets".

If ID theory is more convincing than evolution theory, it is because science can reproduce/synthesize the creation of the Universe with all its life forms in six days with the proper instruments.

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics lets us know how the Universe will ultimately end only under the assumption that it is a closed system.

We need immigration (exogamy) because incest (endogamy) is too pleasurable.

What is stupid rather is for an individual to want to stay alive whatever the social costs.

Science doesn't need preachers because it can synthesize what it wants in laboratory.

If you give a gift in good spirit to one person and this person, a moment later, gives you back your gift, your spirit will turn sour. Drugs have been thought by primitive cultures to be means of communication with these kinds of spirits to prevent their reversal.

I guess that the Khadr family is large because the spouses were hoping that at least one or two of their children would survive to see the end of the Jihad.

Here is the economic way to deal with addictions: http://www.picoeconomics.com/

The lesser a chat involves (exchanging) symbols, the more real it is.