religion -- various items

1. Some of us don't trust in god as Penn Jillette nicely puts it
   
2. The Flying Spaghetti Monster fails in its quest and Intelligent Design is proven to be Creationism in another guise
   
3. Kansas turns back the clock:
   

   The new Kansas standards allege a “lack of adequate natural explanations for the genetic code.” A “lack of adequate natural explanations” strongly suggests science should embrace supernatural explanations contrary to the very definition of “science.” The other obvious fallacy in such thinking is the unspoken assumption that all the evidence for evolution--all the fossils and other hard evidence--has been found. That’s a nonsensical, childish assumption for anyone even remotely familiar with the sciences involved. Like the universe and life on planet Earth, science is constantly evolving, unlike fundamentalists’ stagnate dogma:
   

   
   

   The Bible is the inerrant . . . word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.--Jerry Falwell




4. In the Netherlands a Muslim woman won the right to reject the hijab