I have to admit my biases in I have to admit my biases in terms of this review. I consider myself someone who tries to debunk anti-intellectual disinformation and lies. I hesitate to call myself a skeptic, because I’m not skeptical of everything. If you tell me your mama makes a mean apple pie, I’ll take [...]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3748589621013011299 Highlights include: God petting a monkey (featured above) and more administration and bureaucracy than LDS and IRS combined…. Director of Processing, FES folder administrator; you’ll see all kinds of titles that boggle the mind and capture your heart.
I think the show manages a nice balance between funny and provocative, and it’s rarely ever too much of either…. And she’s written a nice post explaining her thoughts about the show, and perhaps more interestingly, her religious relationship with her family.
I know it’s hard to imagine, but it was a lot of fake trees, smoke, animals, elves and audio animatronic creatures and items, with roller coaster seats on them…. The ride never went out of my vision and just circled around a Louisiana swamp set with a cabin and some alligators.
SFGate, stalwart news site of the San Francisco Chronicle, has a great story today about some unknown (or little known) facts about Disneyland…. It’s widely believed that the horse-drawn hearse parked outside the Haunted Mansion was the one used to carry Mormon leader Brigham Young to his burial place.
The theory itself is quite obtuse, but the general belief is that any given thing in nature (including humans) is so complex and well designed, that there must be an intelligent designer behind it. The people that support this theory quite often claim that it’s not a religiously based hypothesis, but unfortunately, that is a thin veneer that most in the scientific community see through immediately.