1964 Socorro 'Saucer' Witness Dies...

Lonnie Zamora, the policeman at the center of the famed 1964 UFO sighting in Socorro, NM, died on November 2nd, in Socorro. The incident has been in the news lately, with the discovery of a letter from ex-Tech-president Colgate to Linus Pauling, indicating the affair was a student's prank.

Source: http://www.stpns.net/view_article.html?articleId=106532621565275713267

"Star of David" Sighted in Spider's Web...

West Texas CBS station KOSA reoports on Nov. 5th "Odessa, Texas - It's something you will have to see to believe... Employees of B-Line Filter and Supply in Odessa found a spider web shaped like a perfect Star of David. People at the business say they don't know when or how the web was made, but said that an employee stumbled across it while cleaning up in the back of the building. ..."

Eat your heart out, Christians. This isn't a smudge on a tortilla that might resumble Jesus or Mary. This is clearly a Designed Star of David!

Source: http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=15970

Ray Comfort: Darwin Doubter or Plagiarizer?

Earlier, we reported on 'The Charles Darwin Bible,' which features anti-evolution commentary by evangelist Ray Comfort.

Source: Hot News from earlier in 2009

Now, blogger "Answers in Genesis BUSTED!" writes "I recently had a look at Ray Comfort's 'special introduction' to Origin of Species, and, I got to thinking that the first part of the introduction sounded a little too smart to be Ray Comfort. So I did some googling and found that Ray's introduction looks suspiciously like 'A Brief History of Charles Darwin' by Dr. Stan Guffey. Here are some quotes from Ray's intro followed by their parallels in Stan Guffey's work:

"Ray: On returning to England in 1836, Darwin set to work examining and disseminating the extensive collection of specimens he acquired during the voyage. He quickly established a reputation as an accomplished naturalist on the London scene. In 1839 he married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. That same year he published his journal of the voyage of the Beagle, which brought him immediate celebrity among London’s intellectuals. In 1842 he and Emma moved to Down House in Kent. It was there that she bore ten children and she and Charles spent the rest of their lives."

Plagiarism? Check out the blog for more!

Source: http://aigbusted.blogspot.com/2009/11/ray-comfort-plagiarist.html

WIRED takes on Autism/Vaccine scares...

James Rainey of the LA Times writes on Nov. 4th "Los Angeles writer Amy Wallace knew there would be blow back when she wrote a story for Wired magazine debunking the idea that autism is caused by childhood vaccinations. But she didn't imagine anything like this. Two weeks after the story hit the Internet, the e-mail keeps flowing. A majority voice support for 'An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.' But at least one in five disagrees. Many seethe with indignation. A few sling vile names and veiled threats. ... Wallace's piece did something brave but not atypical for traditional journalism: It delved into a complex and emotionally charged subject with nuance. It presented the best state of current knowledge while acknowledging that true science does not traffic in absolute truths. The fact that 12 epidemiological studies have found no link between the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine and autism might seem probative to some. But failing an ironclad conclusion, Wallace writes, many parents are more persuaded by anecdotal evidence, numerous tales of children first exhibiting signs of impairment at about the same age -- 18 to 24 months -- that they received vaccines. Correlation is not causation, any scientist will tell you. But that hardly relieves the anxiety of parents trying to cope with children who aren't exactly what they were expected to be. ... 'It's great that people can find out more than they ever could before,' Wallace said. 'But it seems it will make trusting in experts even more important. More than ever now, we need help sifting through the torrent.' ..."

Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia4-2009nov04,0,2848133.column

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