It should be common sense that staring into the sun may not be the best of ideas.  Doing so can very well result in damaged or loss of eyesight.  So what would it take to incite dozens of adults to stare into the sun long enough to lose it completely?

Well, religious superstition, of course.
At least [...]

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Recently, I’ve been thinking as to the criteria that would cause me to accept the existence of an intelligent god that interacted with humans.
So here’s my challenge to God: start answering prayers. More specifically, start answering the prayers of sick people. If everybody1 with some sort of disease, who prays to God to [...]

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Imagine traveling somewhere in the Pacific, only to have your boat sink, leaving you cast away on a deserted island with no help in sight. You survive the first few days on recovered rations. Once you run out, you’re truly on your own. You hunt tooth and nail for food. You [...]

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