God & conservatism part n....

Heater Mac Donald has a lengthy follow up article where she responds to her critics.

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The more I think about the last MythBusters' exploding water heater, the more cool things I see. How about I look at the energy of the explosion. There are three things I can look at:
What's not to love about Hawai'i? Well, Honolulu's a bit much, but the island state as a whole seems to understand what it's going to take to beat this whole global warming thing.
Last night I saw the newest episode of MythBusters. One of the myths they revisited was the exploding water heater. Well, it turns out that I had an analysis of this first explosion, but I didn't move it over when I switched software. So, here it is.
You can't buy a car these days without a rear window defroster-- the little built-in electric heaters that melt ice and frost off the rear window. You push a button on the dashboard, and the ice just melts away, no scraping required.

Regarding the 'personal experience of God' or 'sacred sense' that some religionists use as evidence of God's existence; 'sacred' experiences can be induced in other ways. Or maybe God just works through the mushrooms:

'Sacred mushrooms' induce mystical experience

Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that the active agent in "sacred mushrooms" can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous ones people have reported for centuries.

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 23 Aug 2006 #permalink