1. Latest Pew poll shows Americans mixing and matching traditional religions, fantasy, and mythology – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Today’s religion is yesterday’s cult and tomorrow’s mythology.
Entitled “Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths,” the report points out that many Americans are now choosing to “blend Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs” and that “sizable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups” said that they have had supernatural experiences, like encountering ghosts.
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Twenty percent of Protestants and 28 percent of Catholics said they believe in reincarnation, which flies in the face of Christianity’s rapture scenario. Furthermore, about the same percentages said they believe in astrology, yoga as a spiritual practice and the idea that there is “spiritual energy” pulsing from things like “mountains, trees or crystals.” Uh-oh. Someone’s God is going to be jealous.
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The report is further evidence that Americans continue to cobble together Mr. Potato Head-like spiritual identities from a hodgepodge of beliefs — bending dogmas to suit them instead of bending themselves to fit a dogma. And this appears to be leading to more spirituality, not less.
So suck it, Jesus! Edward Cullen is my god now. He sparkles!
Or maybe Americans will start worshipping Pokemon, as one pastor warns.
2. Female fruit flies too sexy? -
Females can be too attractive to the opposite sex — too attractive for their own good — say biologists at UC Santa Barbara. They found that, among fruit flies, too much male attention directed toward attractive females leads to smaller families and, ultimately, to a reduced rate of population-wide adaptive evolution.
C’mon, didn’t we all know that attractive females would be the downfall of at least one species? That’s pretty much the one thing the Bible got right.
3. ‘Nonsense’ DNA Key to Evolution of Genomes -
The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and University of New Hampshire biologists.
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