Oktar, born in 1956, is the driving force behind a richly funded movement based in Turkey that champions creationism, the belief that God literally created the world in six days as told in the Bible and the Koran. tags IslamIstanbul-based Oktar, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, has created waves in the past few years by sending out thousands of unsolicited texts advocating Islamic creationism to schools in several European countries. picked by Jetka 3 months ago |
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Former NHL player Rob Ramage was sentenced to four years in prison for a 2003 crash that killed ex-Chicago Blackhawks player Keith Magnuson. picked by punthe 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share sports |
A Marion County judge sentenced a man to at least 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman whose body was found burning under a Salem bridge in 2006. picked by muppet 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 7 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
A man who called himself "Papa Pilgrim" and took his family far from civilization to raise them according to his interpretation of the Bible was sentenced to 14 years in prison because, of course, he couldn't keep his hand off his daughter. picked by kamaloo 9 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
A 29-year-old Illinois man who admitted to driving from his home near Chicago to Sterling Heights for a planned sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 10 years in prison in federal court today. 13 comments edit related share plime.com10 years ? I can think of a much better sentence.... picked by mutil8or 5 months ago |
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Ethiopia launched an attack Sunday on Somalia's powerful Islamic movement, sending fighter jets across the border and bombarding several towns in a major escalation of the violence that threatens to engulf the Horn of Africa. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Roman Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women's prison was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison. 2 comments edit related share plime.comCouldn't help but read the priest's name as Inmate picked by barwench 4 months ago |
Director John McTiernan today was sentenced to four months in federal prison for lying to the FBI about hiring indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap a veteran film producer seven years ago. picked by punthe 11 months ago 0 comments edit related share entertainment |
A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home. 0 comments edit related share plime.comApparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong. picked by jhordie 3 months ago |
Mars was covered in an ocean of molten rock for about 100 million years after the planet formed, researchers found. The formation of the solar system can be dated quite accurately to 4,567,000,000 years ago. Mars' metallic core formed a few million years after that. Previous estimates for how long the surface remained molten ranged from thousands of years to several hundred million years picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
I'd rather be called "The Shoe Bomber". picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
A few years ago, a number of brave intelligent men and women from the land of JaxWorth set out for the shores of Nova Roma. This was the New World discovered in the 15th century by Roman sailors traveling across the Pacific in search of a route to trade with India. Basically it was a shared-world created by Donteatpoop, Icepigs, and others. They imagined a world where Rome never fell and went o... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago 2 comments edit related share entertainment |
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
University of Alberta faculty member Michael Caldwell is talking about the fossils that were found under a ping-pong table after 25 years. One of which was pregnant. 0 comments edit related share science"It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years," Caldwell said. "But I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it's all relative." picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago |
very little of the topic actually gets discussed, for those of you wanting serious dialogue. 3 comments edit related share plime.comBTW: Creationism and Evolution, in my opinion, can both co-exist. picked by ted 5 months ago |
A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year. picked by teaya21 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
European have been discovered in a cave in Spain, pushing back the beginnings of human occupation of the Continent by up to 400,000 years. The jawbone and teeth found in the Atapuerca hills, near Burgos, have been reliably dated to between 1.1 million and 1.2 million years ago, and probably come from a female who was among the first ancient humans to inhabit Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Problem: unmarried men & women should'nt work alone together. Difficult to follow in the modern world. An Islamic scholar came up with a brilliant solution, If a woman were to breast-feed her male colleague five times, the two could safely be alone together. “A woman at work can take off the veil or reveal her hair in front of someone whom she breast-fed.” picked by 2manyusernames 12 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities. The victims all died gruesome deaths that were "sanctioned" by a local cleric. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |