I'm not sure this study actually "proves" anything.  Consider that most people will pay someone else money to get rid of mice as they are usually considered a "nuisance" or even "a threat" (a single female can produce 5-10 litters per year, and each litter contains 5-6 young that are able to reproduce in approximately ...more

Great...robot fast food workers - now what jobs are students and their unemployed parents supposed to fight over - greeter at Wal-Mart?  Not that the food will be any better because they can use the same grease to cook the food and lube the machine at the same time.  :-D

Exactly! 3-4 robots replace 50 workers and 3-4 people get hired to maintain the robots.  That's still a net loss of 46 jobs.

Sounds like my school district.  Students can get on the "C Honor Roll" for having a C average (what's up with that?).  A kid can also blow off their class homework for a good chunk of the trimester, be getting an F, and at the end of the trimester, the teacher will stay after school to help them get all that missing w...more

It is worth considering that the "Biblical account"  offers explanations and answers (whether you believe them or not) for the problems and questions of humanity, that the "naturalistic account" does not.  If the universe and everything we know is nothing more than the result of the "impersonal, random, chance" that th...more

It would be nice if the article pointed out the difference between faith, beliefs, and religion.       The Merriam-Webster definition of "religion" lists: "the service and worship of God or the supernatural"; "commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance" ; as well as:   "a personal set or institutional...more

The fact that this petition is actually circulating suggests that maybe the new national anthem should, instead, be "Land of Confusion" by Genesis! :-D

BTW, I am not condoning slavery, I just find it interesting that it's never been revoked, nullified, etc.

Is it worth mentioning that, despite the 13th Amendment, the Supreme Court has never revoked, overruled, or otherwise nullified the Dredd Scott Decision?