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Skeptic Summary #128

McCain, the universe, evidence, blackmail, the whore, warming ID and more!

Is McCain the real McCoy? - McCain acting like a politician? Who’d a thunk it?

The ‘now’ is the edge of the universe… - Ooooooo. Immobile light and an assertion that Einstein was wrong.

Overwhelming evidence? - Of what, we’re not sure.

Editor’s Choice: Flying cars stifled by politics, politics, and war - Or, a primer in the extortion of strangers on the Internet.

From the Archives: Babylon, the Great Whore! - Another Verlch classic!

Global Warming, Intelligent Design and the Re-Ascendancy of the Pro-Scientific Political Left

Sunday: A 12-year-old atheist; Aussie visitor; Kil’s visit to TAM5, meeting cool people; how about inviting Hovind to a written debate now that he’s got plenty of time (5-10 years)? Sylvia Brown is bleeding, but is it blood or money? Boron10 in trouble stranded on Hawaii; Siberia makes art; FSTDT provokes aggressive emotions; switching time and date to a global standard.

Wednesday: The night started with Mab creating an accidental sock puppet. How he did so is still a mystery. Then, phpBB methods of authentication and bad jokes, as well as perhaps one good one. The conversation switched over to cars as Dave shows how you can fix problems by oiling belts. This quickly turned to computer talk once JohnOAS started having Java problems. Chat ended with Kil telling some stories of TAM5, and a quick discussion on ’net neutrality.

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Forum Topics:

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2. Flying cars stifled by politics, politics, and war (265 views)
3. Overwhelming evidence? (233 views)
4. Is McCain the real McCoy? (226 views)
5. Sam Harris / Andrew Sullivan debate (201 views)
6. Owl on the dollar bill… (195 views)
7. Subliminal slurs in Bush’s speech (193 views)
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10. Net Neutrality — We must fight to protect it! (159 views)

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3. Kent Hovind is a Big Phony! (50 views)
4. Skeptic Summary #127 (44 views)
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There were 5,642 daily visitors this week.

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2. Cold Reading (330 views)
3. Kent Hovind is a Big Phony! (280 views)
4. Miracle Thaw Tray (218 views)
5. The Bible’s Bad Fruits (156 views)
6. The Bible Answer Man (140 views)
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10. Kent Hovind is a Kwazy Kweationist (119 views)
11. Preaching that Anti-Evolution Propaganda (104 views)
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13. Evil Skeptic and a Visit to Awareness 2000 (100 views)
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15. The Laundry Solution (91 views)
16. Evidence Cited as Hard Proof of the Existence of Satanic Cults (88 views)
17. Evolution, Scientology Style (88 views)
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19. Spam Alert (77 views)
20. Mesmer, Casino Monkey, and Video Sex (75 views)

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