Monicks: Unleashed

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  • Adam and Eve? NO! Adam and Steve.

    Adam and Eve? NO! Adam and Steve.

    On this National Coming Out Day, God is coming clean and admitting that the religious right  who claim “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” are wrong: He did, in fact, create Adam and Steve.

    So asserts David Javerbaum in his ghostwritten book, The Last Testament: A Memoir by God, You can download a free sample chapter of the book here.

    Here’s an excerpt, enjoy:

    ❝It is often said-and even more often screamed at anti–gay marriage rallies outside the statehouse in Lansing-that I created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.Wrong. (more…)

  • Celestial Fireworks – Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Celestial Fireworks – Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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    Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworksdisplay in this image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy. Hubble’s target was a supernova remnant within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the southern hemisphere.

    Denoted N 49, or DEM L 190, this remnant is from a massive star that died in a supernova blast whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago. This filamentary material will eventually be recycled into building new generations of stars in the LMC. Our own Sun and planets are constructed from similar debris of supernovae that exploded in the Milky Way billions of years ago.

    Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

  • Atheism: My journey.

    This is a recurring question I get asked by friends, theists and atheists alike. “What’s your de-conversion story?” Well, I don’t have one, I was never a believer, but I was a kid with catholic parents, so I do have a story to tell, plus this question appeals to me now for a reason that will be clear if you keep reading. Not that mine is more exciting or interesting than anyone else’s story, it’s just, you know, mine.

    Throughout all these years that I have been making public statements about my lack of belief, I have, in  many places, let everyone know that had it been my choice, I would have chosen to believe. I spent most of my childhood making honest efforts (more…)