A Bosnian man, whose house has been hit six times by meterorites, explains that “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them.”
The Washington Post offers a symposium on Should religions intermarry?
A Catholic pyschotherapist explains parapyschology as an apostolate to the holy souls.
Evangelicals offer their thoughts on the current meaning of “Be fruitful and multiply”.
Kevin Kelly lists the best magazine articles ever (and provides links for most of them), though he includes only three published before 1960.
While Flowing data reveals how to win every time at rock, paper, scissors.
A Scottish IVF facility could soon allow women to genetically screen their unborn children and discard those with defects. “Earlier this year the UK’s fertility regulator unveiled a list of 116 different conditions for which doctors can destroy embryos conceived through IVF. The controversial list includes a number of conditions which are considered minor, non life-threatening or medically treatable.”
And Catholic priests are now being trained to help those addicted to pornography. “This is the No. 1 sin they are hearing from men in the confessional,” says the therapist training them.
July 30th, 2010 | 3:07 pm
The “expert” reactions were even more nauseating than the commentors on the CT post, “Be Fruitful and Multiply”.
As a species?!?!?!?!!!
I guess they forgot the part about being made in teh divine image.
Kamilla
July 30th, 2010 | 4:09 pm
It seems rather … odd to suggest that Australia of all places is in danger of becoming over-populated. According to Wikipedia, it’s ranked 233rd in overall population density, with 7.5 people per square mile — lower than Russia and Canada. Really now, if you can’t share a square mile with 6.5 other people, you need to learn to be a bit more sociable.
Methinks this is more about courting those young people who are too selfish and/or lazy to commit to having children, and also reinforcing the power of the welfare state which will have to step in to take care of them after their retirement (since they will not have any children to do so).
July 30th, 2010 | 9:24 pm
Well, most of Australia isn’t actually habitable, except by an extremely low density. So it’s possible that it might be quite overcrowded, or on the verge of becoming so, in the places where people can actually live.
But generally, I’m also suspicious of any talk of “overpopulation.”
July 31st, 2010 | 12:20 am
My priest has suggested that–in his 50 year career as, first, a RC and then an Orthodox priest, he has seen nothing as corrosive to his parishoners as the availability of internet pornography.
July 31st, 2010 | 3:10 pm
After following the CT link about the overpopulation myth, how hideously ironic that I now find they’ve published a hand-wringing editorial about the gulf oil spill and “creation care” which includes this line:
“A sea hemorrhaging black oil now suffocates life instead of nurturing it.”
I guess we all know which wombs CT thinks should be fruitful and it ain’t the human ones.
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