Former Tour de France champ Floyd Landis is now disgraced. His "B sample" came up positive for synthetic testosterone.
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Generation Y turning away from religion. Only 48% believe in a god.
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As some of you may have noticed, I have been keeping up with the science of Floyd Landis's failed drug test in a rather long post here.
In the post, I mentioned that there is another test besides the Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio (the test he already failed) that they can use to check…
Floyd Landis, most recent winner of the Tour de France, has tested positive for testosterone use:
Landis denied cheating and said he has no idea what may have caused his positive test for high testosterone following the Tour's 17th stage, where he made his comeback charge last week. But he aims to…
One only has to turn on a TV, or browse through any news site, to read the story of disgraced Tour de France winner Flloyd Landis. Landis, an American, was reported to have an abnormally high testosterone to epitestosterone ratio in one of his urine samples given right before the end of of the race…
But there is only room in it for Christians.
"There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation's founders.... In John Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power…
"The researchers said many young Australians were humanists, rejecting belief in a god and replacing that with a belief in human experience, human reason and scientific explanations."
Thank GOD.
Now I'd REALLY love to see crime, teen pregnancy, and other bad statistics among the youth of australia.
Why is it that much of the rest of the "western" world is steadily moving towards secularist and humanist societies, and yet the U.S. and the middle east seem to be the only regions actually moving in the opposite direction?
Atlanta Zoo hires psychics to postdict panda pregnancy
Sure. Promoting pseudoscience and magical thinking is great fun. Don't you think so?
Ni Hao! Kannichi Wa! Re: Generation Y move from myth to realityThe trend seems increasing in the Western world with Generation Z, and the rest of the world seems to be following suit.As Spurlock showed in Super-Size Me, most pre-schoolers/elementary schoolers (generation Z) could not recognize a picture of Jesus, but 100% knew all about Ronald McDonald and what he represented.While this could be good for their souls and intellect, it may not be so good for their glucose levels, liver, blood pressure, blood lipids, etc.MOTYR
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Re: Jayson--- Secular countries do have lower violent crime, etc. Ann Arbor is about as athiest/liberal as it gets, but despite being only 30 min from Detroit we've had 2 murders in the last 7 years. Funny how that works out, eh?
Re: Anti-stupid pill-- Can we just dump it in the water like fluoride?
Re: MOTYR--- LOL! Does that mean that Ronald Mc Donald is the Jesus of the 21st century?
Re: Psychic panda---- I can't believe innocent pandas are being implicated in such a woo-ish scheme! What was the zoo thinking????
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