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Vatican Engineered Victory For PelosiCare Post Chronicle The headline over the blog carried the headline, "Is the Pope a Marxist?" This papal Encyclical explained that the "dreadful living conditions" described by … Looking for bigger role on Web, bishops meet Google, Facebook repsCatholic News Service Vatican seeks advice from Facebook, YouTube and Co.Deutsche Welle Catholic Church needs more Internet savvy: bishopAFP San Diego Gay & Lesbian News -Norwich Bulletin -BCS all 236 news articles »

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Catholic Church needs more Internet savvy: bishop AFP The pope himself stated at the height of the affair involving British Bishop Richard Williamson that a simple check on the Internet would have quickly … Vatican seeks advice from Facebook, YouTube and Co.Deutsche Welle Religion News: Vatican explores possibility of extraterrestrialsNorwich Bulletin Vatican learns from from Facebook, GoogleHEXUS BayNewser -Examiner.com -CathNews all 221 news articles »

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krou writes “Science Daily is reporting that a microbe, Herminiimonas glaciei, buried some 3 km under glacial ice in Greenland, and believed to have been frozen for some 120,000 years, has been brought back to life (abstract). The microbe, some ten to fifty times smaller than E. coli, was brought back over several months by slowly incubating it at gradually increasing temperatures. After 11.5 months, the microbe began to replicate. Scientists believe that it could help us understand how life may exist on other planets. Dr. Jennifer Loveland-Curtze, who headed up the team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University, said: ‘These extremely cold environments are the best analogues of possible extraterrestrial habitats. … [S]tudying these bacteria can provide insights into how cells can survive and even grow under extremely harsh conditions, such as temperatures down to -56C, little oxygen, low nutrients, high pressure and limited space.’ She also added that it ‘isn’t a pathogen and is not harmful to humans, but it can pass through a 0.2 micron filter, which is the filter pore size commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals. If there are other ultra-small bacteria that are pathogens, then they could be present in solutions presumed to be sterile. In a clear solution very tiny cells might grow but not create the density sufficient to make the solution cloudy.’”

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On a recent flight to California, I found myself looking at man-made structures in the Nevada desert and wondering: did I really know, in a scientifically valid way, that they were artificial? Or was I simply resorting to the principles of Intelligent Design, which in other contexts I’m quick to discredit? –

Wired reports For a science writer, this quandary is something close to
existential. So I called up Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Several years ago, Shostak rebutted charges
that scientists were perfectly willing to embrace ID principles when
looking for evidence of aliens, but not for evidence of God.

Shostak agreed that identifying roads and farms from above was
analogous to picking out radio signals against a background of cosmic
radiation. And he reassured me that it was possible to do so without
recognizing eukaryotic cells as proof of divine craftwork. But he also
acknowledged that there’s a surprising amount of ambiguity at the
confluence of observation, inference and certainty.

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Retooled Vatican Daily Covers Market Crisis, Extraterrestrials; More Photos, Says Pontiff –

The Wall Street Journal reports In its 147 years as the Vatican’s newspaper of record, L’Osservatore
Romano has rarely chased advertisers, or even news. Hard to find beyond
the world’s smallest state, the Vatican’s daily paper largely dedicated
its pages to theological monologues with headlines like “The Leprosy of
Sin.”

Those days are over. Now, the Vatican mouthpiece has orders to carry
hard-hitting news, international stories and more articles by women.

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I recently received an e-mail asking about the most recent Mars lander (Phoenix) and the implications for intelligent design (ID) if amino acids, proteins, or life were found on Mars. The person asked, “would this not mean that Neo darwinism is correct and that life occurs if you ‘just add water’?” I’ve posted a modified version of my reply to this person’s question below: –

Evolution News & Views reports First, you have to understand that most OOL researchers and
astrobiologists assume that if life exists somewhere, then it must have
evolved. A striking example of this sort of assumption is found in a
recent article in the Washington Post where NASA astrobiologist Paul Butler
asserts that, “[i]f any extraterrestrial life is found in our solar
system and we can determine it has no relation to life on Earth, then
the assumption has to be that life of all sorts is quite common
throughout the galaxies.” Of course the his entire chain of reasoning
depends on the assumption that wherever life exists, it evolved.

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