Members of Morgantown's recently formed Coalition of Reason have a simple message: If you don't believe in God, you aren't alone.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Members of Morgantown's recently formed Coalition of Reason have a simple message: If you don't believe in God, you aren't alone.
The national United Coalition of Reason helped sponsor an electronic billboard with that message on Mileground Road between Morgantown Airport and the West Virginia University campus to draw attention to the group.
"We're really interested in reaching out to those like-minded folks who don't know we exist," said Rachel Cather, a WVU student and designated spokeswoman for the recently formed local coalition.
Cather said about 10 percent of the population has no strong God beliefs. Cather formed the Morgantown Brights to give some of them a place to share their views.
"Later on we found out there were these other groups," she said.
The Morgantown coalition is made up of members of the Morgantown Brights, Morgantown Atheists, Freethinkers Morgantown Book Club and Morgantown Thomas Paine Society, Cather said. The coalition, which describes its members as "freethinkers and humanists," has about 100 members locally, she said.
But Cather, president of the Brights, is convinced there would be more if people knew about the coalition. "We have a sizable untapped audience in the Morgantown area," she said.
The United Coalition of Reason has previously sponsored billboards in Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Phoenix, but Cather said the Morgantown sign is the first electronic billboard that coalition members have helped pay for.
The billboard will be on display for a month. Cather said those interested in finding out more about the organization can visit www.morgantowncor.org.
Reach Rusty Marks at rustyma...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1215.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Members of Morgantown's recently formed Coalition of Reason have a simple message: If you don't believe in God, you aren't alone.
The national United Coalition of Reason helped sponsor an electronic billboard with that message on Mileground Road between Morgantown Airport and the West Virginia University campus to draw attention to the group.
"We're really interested in reaching out to those like-minded folks who don't know we exist," said Rachel Cather, a WVU student and designated spokeswoman for the recently formed local coalition.
Cather said about 10 percent of the population has no strong God beliefs. Cather formed the Morgantown Brights to give some of them a place to share their views.
"Later on we found out there were these other groups," she said.
The Morgantown coalition is made up of members of the Morgantown Brights, Morgantown Atheists, Freethinkers Morgantown Book Club and Morgantown Thomas Paine Society, Cather said. The coalition, which describes its members as "freethinkers and humanists," has about 100 members locally, she said.
But Cather, president of the Brights, is convinced there would be more if people knew about the coalition. "We have a sizable untapped audience in the Morgantown area," she said.
The United Coalition of Reason has previously sponsored billboards in Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Phoenix, but Cather said the Morgantown sign is the first electronic billboard that coalition members have helped pay for.
The billboard will be on display for a month. Cather said those interested in finding out more about the organization can visit www.morgantowncor.org.
Reach Rusty Marks at rustyma...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1215.
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By chance mutations in the genetic code of an organism that occurs when a female’s egg gets fertilized by a male’s sperm or when a cell divides to create two (2) cells.
The current FEAR in the populace is that one (1), just one, of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) viruses will BY CHANCE mutate to become extremely deadly for humans thus causing a pandemic. And ps: inbreeding in humans is not a good idea, the child might end up with 6 fingers or 7 toes.
But then a nonhuman lifefrom could do a Moebius-logic-leap* as follows :
But with so many trillions of galaxies,and having so much time,that--statistically--there SHOULD be human life.
And if there is NO human life,we need to invoke some supernatural entity which PREVENTS human life.
This is erratic and whimsical and anthropocentric junk.
Punts,Hail Mary's,long huddles,time outs,intentional fouls,and rain outs--it doesn't matter : The game proceeds to its natural and logical conclusion.And free society watches.
First, it seems awful narcissistic to assume that out of the countless number of planets in the universe, the fact that you're here means it was intentional.
Second, why did our intelligent designer create my cousin mentally retarded, build my wife such that several of our children were lost to miscarriage, or give my brother-in-law a genetic disease that is destroying his liver? Why weren't we designed to digest the plentiful grass? Considering we live on planet with abundant water, why weren't we designed to breath water?
ID is a punt - it amounts to an argument that this stuff is so complicated that we can't figure out.