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		<title>AAI Convention, post-convention thoughts.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/10/489</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[s many of our listeners are aware (and will definitely be aware of after the next show) I spent last weekend at the AAI Convention in Burbank California.  The folks at AAI were nice enough to provide both myself and Joe with press passes for the event, and I'm hoping we make good use of that privilege in the coming weeks. At this point I have heaps of audio to sift through, clean up and edit for use in upcoming shows where we'll cover who the speakers were, what they talked about and what we think about it. Currently Lamar (who was unable to attend) has all the raw audio so he can get himself up to speed. I also took the time to talk to many of the notable attendees about appearing on upcoming shows and was generally met with a positive response.]]></description>
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		<title>An British Import we could use.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/336</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new PR campaign has been launched in the UK, &#8220;Science: So What? &#8211; So everything&#8221;.
It is my sincere hope that Obama and his new administration would strive to bring something akin to this campaign to the US. Ignorance, mistrust and misunderstanding best describe the general population of the United States&#8217; attitudes toward science and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst&#8230; your agenda is showing.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/306</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard it before but a recent comic nabbed by PZ Myers over on Pharyngula makes it more clear than ever. The attempts by biblical literalists are not just aimed at defending their precious scripture but at undermining science and the public&#8217;s trust of science at its very core.
This is not some pot shot &#8220;we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and we&#8217;re back.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2009/01/298</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Episode 16 is in the can and will be posted shortly. I know I&#8217;ve been pretty quiet with the blog posts recently, but I chalk this up the the weather and the holidays. Now that it&#8217;s officially 2009 and the family isn&#8217;t calling on a near-daily basis I can turn back to wasting the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a funadmental(ist) flaw&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/286</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we talked about in the last podcast Australian students in religious education classes are going to be given some education about Humanism and it will be pointed out that "there is no evidence for god. Of course Ken Ham has a bit of a reading comprehension problem, and this explains a lot about Mr. Ham, in his recent blog post he claims that Australian Students are to be taught "there is no god".]]></description>
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		<title>In response to a response to a response&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/279</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on my favorite blog (well besides my own) PZ Myers was kind enough to post some hate-mail he'd received over the recent Zoo/Creation museum controversy.  While Professor Myers does not respond to these directly, there was one comment I wanted to call out, and decided, since I've been lazy this week, that I'd do so here, as it is representative of a common claim from fundamentalist religious types.]]></description>
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		<title>You got your panspermia in my abiogenisis!</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/224</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article over on sciam, researchers have found that meteor-like impacts can also catalyze the formation of life&#8217;s chemical precursors.This could be in contradiction or in complement to asteroids and comets being the delivery vehicle for such molecules.

I&#8217;m finding it amusing now that there seem to now be so many ways that the chemical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A disturbing trend. Anti establishment, anyone, anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/220</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disaster continues for this fine nation I live in and the forces of the &#8220;christian right&#8221; (as opposed to the respectable right, the fiscal conservatives) are galvanizing and pushing their religious agenda harder than ever. Shortly after becoming absolutely incensed over Bill-O the clowns remarks concerning the Atheist sign in Washington state (which has now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We just got an extra 80K years.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/217</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I often trash National Geographic (along with other popular-science magazines) in favor of true Scientific Journals, this one is a bit interesting, and states that the paper reflecting this find is due to appear in Geology. According to NeoGeo they&#8217;ve found some stone tools predating the earliest Homo Sapiens remains by 80,000 years. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Ebert, I knew there was a reason I liked that guy.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/211</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I do not always agree with Roger Ebert in his movie reviews, I must say that of any movie critic in the popular press i find his reviews the most useful. Weather or not he liked the movie I can usually determine if I would personally enjoy a film from his review. This speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life may have had a bit more time than we thought.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/207</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a great example of how science corrects its own errors is this recent article in the New York Times showing that recent studies indicate that the early earth may have been more hospitable to life than originally thought. It&#8217;s a clear example of how, when backed by evidence long-held scientific &#8220;truths&#8221; can be overturned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wear it proud.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/196</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wearscience.com has some great t-shirts for those at all interested in the creationism/ID vs. evolution debate. The discworldy shirt is calling my name.
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		<title>abiogenesis gets yet another boost.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/193</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this article on ScienceNOW, a  molecule of glycolaldehyde (an essential molecule in the formation  of ribose, one of the constituents of RNA) has been discovered in a a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way.

When you&#8217;ve got such massive energy and collisions going on in such a relativley small space such formations are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s a twist&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/189</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tragic news in Nigeria, Africa today. Apparently Christian and Muslim gangs are involved in a bit of a conflict, with fighting now claiming 400. Unlike the claims of most religious folks according to the story this is religious violence being disguised as political violence (most of the buildings being destroyed are churches and mosques).
Allow me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death becomes me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/12/185</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to AiG&#8217;s Ken Ham (in agreement with a sermon given by Charles Haddon Spurgeon back in the 19th century) I&#8217;m dead, and so are a whole heck of a lot of other folks.
The theological loopholes this implies are truly baffling given some of the parallels drawn by Ken Ham&#8217;s quote of this apparently &#8220;famous&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is THIS transitional enough for you.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/180</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Panda&#8217;s Thumb they&#8217;ve got a great little write up on a Triassic fossil found in china. It is that of  Odontochelys, a clear mid-point between turtles and reptiles. The thing has reptile-like teeth and broad flat ribs as well as belly armor, but no shell on it&#8217;s back. Not quite a crocoduck, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Donohue, Classic Douchebag.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/176</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Donohue is at is again, over on the Catholic legue website is this little gem. It&#8217;s Donohue railing against the appointment of Melody Barnes as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.  My favorite quote from the blurb is the following:
&#8220;A few years ago, when pro-life Catholic and evangelical judges were being summarily denied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Kent Hovind, he&#8217;s even more wrong than he ever imagined.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/173</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Kent Hovind&#8217;s more ridiculous claims in his creationist videos is that Earth is the sole repository of water in the universe. Aside from just being patently false (water is the second most common molecule in the universe right after H-H), scientists now have compelling evidence that aside form Earth and Jupiter&#8217;s Moon Europa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deny the scientific consensus and what happens? People Die.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/169</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very depressing story form South Africa came to my attention this morning. Apprently former South African president Thabo Mbeki and his administration had adopted a fringe belief that AIDS is not caused by a virus. South Africa&#8217;s AIDs epidemic is one of the largest in the globe, but to deny that this disease not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last a little respite.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/165</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Ann Coulter&#8217;s Jaw has been wired shut.
Anyway to make this a permanent condition?
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		<title>More IDiots that just don&#8217;t get it.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/153</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this interesting link over on Intelligent Design The Future, it&#8217;s a further link to an Amazon page for the book &#8220;Billions of Missing Links&#8221;. It is billed as a rational look at the mysteries science cannot explain, however I would never use the word &#8220;cannot&#8221; how about &#8220;has yet to explain&#8221;, this would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Blogosphere abuzz&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/149</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a recent decision by the UN, the atheist bloggers are in a bit of a stir. Pharyngula, of course, raised my attention to this article over on Ottawa Citizen. We covered this in the upcoming episode when the UN resolution was only being proposed&#8230; but now the damned thing has passed. Fortunately the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Ol&#8217; Paul Kurtz</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/144</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging like a madman today, I wanted to point our readers to the latest On Faith column in The Washington Post. This one by CFI Chairman and Founder Paul Kurtz. He nicely summarizes just precisely how one can be moral without a religious foundation. As we plan out our future shows it&#8217;s a topic we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Math, sometimes you&#8217;ve got to love it.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/141</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stealing a link from Panda&#8217;s Thumb, that no doubt any astute surfer of atheist blogs is bound to have already come across, I just feel I&#8217;ve got to comment on this one. Renowned mathematician Peter Olofsson has a great refutation of IDiot William Dembski&#8217;s mathematical arguments against evolution and points out the flaws in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Michael Egnor, Belgium&#8217;s famous painter&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/137</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh wait, that&#8217;s James Ensor&#8230; damn you They Might be Giants!
Well Micheal Egnor is actually one of those intellectually vacant members of the Discovery Institute. He wrote a sour-grapes piece complaining why he wasn&#8217;t invited to some evolutionary symposium attended by noted biologist and blogger PZ Myers.  You can read his inanity here. Now PZ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day of ups and downs.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/134</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has been one of ups and downs and it&#8217;s not even noon yet. As every morning goes for me I check the blogs of fellow humanists and skeptics, as well as giving a glance over to the dozen or so science news feeds delivered straight to my iGoogle homepage. Today I spot this lovely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lame &#8220;arguments&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/119</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So lately i&#8217;ve been going back and watching many old debates (mostly featuring two of my favorite people Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens) on the existence of god. More and more I find that the theologians who debate fall back on some common apologetic arguments, and ones that I feel are complete and total bunk. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for republicans and democrats.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/105</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well now that the election is over we hare at Chariots of Iron can turn our eyes back on our primary targets, that of religious hypocrisy, inaccuracy and the pathetic arguments that are &#8220;apologetics&#8221;. This upcoming episode is the election wrap-up (coming soon!), and is essentially the three of us getting all the political talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other reasons this election is important</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/11/101</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s election day here in the united States of America, and like millions of other political junkies across this nation I&#8217;m glued to some form of media. In my case, the internet, refreshing fivethirtyeight.com cnn.com/politics and my various other news feeds just to know the split second any results are in at all. It&#8217;s exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheists are&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/10/95</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light or recent comments on a CNN interview I&#8217;ve really got to come out an scream a little bit. The recent attacks by Elizabeth Dole and Kay Hagen&#8217;s response have both ignited in me a rage, and the media have stoked this fire. Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile recently equated atheists with terrorists in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 days, and counting.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/10/88</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until this election madness is over. I&#8217;ve got to say though that the latest round of attacks the GOP has been leveling on the democratic ticket is a level of hypocrisy that must make the religions of the world jealous. Sarah Palin rails against Barak&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s promotion of &#8220;socialist&#8221; progressive taxation (progressive taxation which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Thoughts on &#8220;Antiamericanism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/10/76</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Joe, Lamar and I sat down to record the show (you&#8217;ll see it here soon, trust me). Of course the topic of my last post came up and the conversation got me thinking. There is something more deeply disturbing about the recent comments of the McCain campaign and it&#8217;s surrogates. I&#8217;ll admit my last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-American part of the country?</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/10/71</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to chime in a little on politics due to recent comments by Alaska Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Governor stated at a campaign rally that she enjoys going to "Pro-American" parts of the country, implying of course that some areas of this nation I call home are not "Pro-American".]]></description>
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		<title>Pascal&#8217;s Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/10/60</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a biog problem with Pascal&#8217;s Wager, and I am surprised how often it seems to be used. Often this is just a first line of approach by evangelists trying to get me to come around to their side of the fence. Of course a common argument that people use against Pascal&#8217;s Wager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science. It&#8217;s that important.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/09/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article the other day and renowned physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking stated that the Large Hadron Collider was essential to the advancement and long-tern survival of mankind. He goes on to reassure folks that it will not end the world, but I&#8217;m about sick of the fear-mongers surrounding this thing, it&#8217;s merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Values Voters</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/09/34</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With recent changes in the US Presidential race polls there has been a grasping by the media to explain what is going on. Dubbed the "Palin push" this phenomenon is currently being attributed to an upsurge in political activism by conservative women who see the VP pick as a reflection of their own values. It's not that the "Family Values" voter wants a candidate who shares their vales, but rather, wants to make sure that those values are reflected in national policy. They want these values enforced.]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Abiogenesis &amp; Panspermia/Exogenesis.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/09/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on the Wired.com blogs I saw an interesting article which relates precisely to the segment we did in season one, episode one. The article is here. 

Did you read it?

If not, go do so.

I'll wait.

It's not that long.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about to get sacred.</title>
		<link>http://www.chariotsofiron.com/2008/09/20</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a believer and you want to get me to believe you're going to ask me to read a book. Given United States demographics,  that book most likely will be the Bible (in some version or another). And, I would have you know that I have already read it, however if you'd like for me to go over it again I'm going to have a corresponding book for you to read. This book is Breaking the Spell, by Daniel Dennett.]]></description>
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