Carnivalia, and an open thread

DEEPAK CHOPOR: Skeptics are people who demand that you believe them when they don't believe in anything. Science is an approved method of explaining Nature, but that doesn't mean that science owns nature. If the mind field exists, we are all inside it, and there is validity in personal experiences beyond what happens in a laboratory."
The Mind Outside the Body

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-mind-outside-the-body_b…
http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/06/the_mind_outsid_2.html

How to deal with annoying godbotherers.

Another human figure sighted in a tree trunk. Who is it this time, the Virgin Mary? Her illegitimate son? No, it's Donald Stephens, the former mayor of Rosemont Illinois (PBUH).

Controversial Islamist author slams Darwin

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In a bizarre news conference held aboard a luxury yacht off Istanbul's northern Bosphorus shores near the mouth of the Black Sea, Adnan Oktar, also known by his pen-name Harun Yahya, said the evils of the world were a direct result of Darwinism...

Do the activities of Islamic Creationists make it more, or less acceptable for Christian Creatinonists?

This is very shocking:

Vatican City - US President George W Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness", pool reporters said.

They could clearly hear the US leader say "Yes, sir" when the pope asked him if he was going to meet with officials of the lay Catholic Sant'Egidio community at the US embassy later during his visit.

I don't know how mankind will survive the horror of that. (Hat tip: Matt Drudge.)

R. Joseph Hoffman says "Gen-X humanism for the passionately confused" link

Ezekiel 4:9 is not just a Biblical citation, it is a registered trademark used on cereal and other grain products.