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(BUM) While remaining unobtrusive, Miley Cyrus has confirmed she visited Liam Hemsworth.

After months of speculation and after having been photographed several times together, Miley Cyrus has confirmed she was in a relationship with her costar of the film The Last Song, Liam Hemsworth, reports People.

During his time on the red carpet at the Oscars, we asked the singer and actress if she actually attended the Australian actor, to which she replied "yes." With shyness, but she added: "Maybe."

If Cyrus and Hemsworth are actually a couple, but they decided not to appear together on the red carpet while the young star of 17 years was accompanied by her mother, Tish.

Recall that Miley Cyrus had a class yesterday (March 7) at the Academy Awards hosted by actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

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On 29 November, the Swiss voted overwhelmingly in favor of banning construction of any new minaret on their territory. The debate is most passionate since the phenomenon of mass immigration has risen sharply in the Country. The latter has recently been about 400 000 Muslims on their territory, or about 4% of the population. Unlike Quebec, which amends its charter without even some politicians do not realize it, Switzerland it requires a referendum for the amendment of this new option.

The instigators of today's vote argue that the construction of minarets is not protected by freedom of religion because they have "no religious significance". They add that the minarets are "symbols of a desire to impose a politico-religious threat - in the name of the alleged freedom of religion - the constitutional rights of others."

What about Quebec?

In Quebec, we remain discreet about the construction of minarets. However, one should not believe that there is none. In Thetford Mines, one of them has emerged recently. It seems that in the wake of reasonable accommodation and the new market is the new course on ethics and religious culture, the place has seen fit to add a minaret at the church. Far from being discrete, the minaret, projecting height dominates some gables and the tower competition. Do not point the Muslims especially the corner with his finger, because it is a Catholic priest, which led to this project has agreed to build it.

Islam subsidized

Yes! At the same place where successive Catholic Masses, celebrations Anglican, visiting rabbis, there are also the Islamic feast of sacrifice. Last year, the event was organized by an organization funded by our money!

It describes itself as "a community home and socioeconomic integration of immigrants. It makes the link between the immigrant population in the region of Chaudière-Appalaches and the needs of companies and organizations". Their site features the logos of sponsors: the Caisse Desjardins, the City of Thetford, the Cégep de Thetford, United Way, the Economic Development Corporation, CDIC to name a few. However, these sponsorships are used to organize religious activities such as the Feast of the Birth of Prophet Muhammad. Nothing, however, about the greatest Christian holiday, Easter.

I hurt my culture.

Are we going too far? Quebec has called policy of positive discrimination. Thus, at equal competence, a public or private organization can afford to hire a woman than a man. Same for the question of visible minorities.

With the imposition of the ethics and religious culture, the same logic is repeated. Those who wish to preserve their own culture will be taxed until the missing person by the opening of fundamentalist secularism and multiculturalism. The zealots of the new state religion functionalize this climate pluralistic religious to impose their whims and to enjoy financial.

A question now arises: is it that Quebec is entitled to his own culture? Should we deny all traces of history and the Christian cultural heritage of Quebec on behalf of openness to multiculturalism and a supposed better life together?

It is time we woke up and it also calls us the right to exist and be respected as we are!

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This page shows some of these nonsense.

The fable of Darwin and Lady Hope

Some creationists say that Darwin renounced his theory on his deathbed, was finally converted, and so on. This story is a pure fabrication, popularized by American évantélistes shortly after the death of Darwin. The story of Lady Hope has never been confirmed by anyone, it made several statements contradict. ( Source ). See also a creationist site admitting at the outset that this argument is fraudulent.

"Newton was creationist!"

Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), who died nearly a century before the birth of Charles Darwin, has never experienced the theory of evolution, it has not been stated time. The creationism, as a religious doctrine opposing evolution, was born in the mid-19th century. Therefore, Newton was not creationist.

Crocoduck and Bananas

The creationist Kirk Cameron thinks that the banana, since it up so well in his mouth, is proof of the existence of God. (Yes, we know there is something else having the same shape and could also go in his mouth ...)

Kirk Cameron (and his colleague Ray) also say that if evolution was true there would be animals as crocoduck (crocodile + "duck, duck.) Here is a montage representing the beast imagined by Cameron.

The Atlas of the establishment ... a guide to hunting and fishing?

The work of Muslim creationist Adnan Oktar has many pictures of insects and fossils, claiming each time that if the bug is still in its original form then evolution can not exist.

Some shots are actually wrong, and come from a site that sells bait for fishing, as well as insects postiches for the photo and film. On a photo, the authors of the Atlas have forgotten to hide the hook in the bait:

(See Atlas of creating pages 241 and 244 for shots and fraudulently presented plagiarized.)

Dawkins failed to answer a question

Dawkins takes a break

Asked to whom this page responds: "Why Richard Dawkins has frozen when he was asked a simple question?"

This rumor can still be seen in a video distributed by the fraudulent creationist organization Answers in Genesis. AiG knows now that he is a catch, but continues to sell the tape.

The myth

During a debate on creationist asked Dawkins examples of information that increases without the intervention of an external intelligence. He froze for 11 seconds and answered later.

The famous question was to give examples of increased information that would be the result of pure chance. Dawkins could not answer and frozen for 11 seconds.

The facts

Knowing that Dawkins receives no creationists in his home, a band was rather bold move for a team of TV to enter at Dawkins. At some point during the "interview" Dawkins it is reported since the questions were typical of those we hear from creationists. There he froze. The effect has been exaggerated to mount.

It should be noted that Dawkins had already addressed this issue in several previous books like The blind watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow.

The video clip without editing:

The faked and the original version, superimposed:

Occurrences of the argument

Youtube video entitled Richard Dawkins stumped by creationists' question, or Richard Dawkins exposed.

VHS cassette sold by a creationist organization.

It seems however that the video aimed at restoring the main facts now placing on the Web, it is difficult to locate the version of VHS with caller added to the assembly.

Stones of Ica

These stones are supposed to be evidence that humans in South America have coexisted with dinosaurs, and therefore that the earth is 6000 years.

However, this is, of course, false manufactured by residents who sell to tourists.

Traces of man alongside those of dinosaurs

These traces of men alongside dinosaurs, or "Burdick print" are an obvious fraud or misleading interpretations. These cases all have a common denominator: the city of Glen Rose, Texas, where there have been cases of fraud carried on exactly what kind of traces. The little documentation that we have concerns marks on pieces of rock previously posted ground, never on the floor, which also indicate that this is a fraud. In addition the origin of these pieces of rock has never been authenticated. The only evidence of their provenance is the testimony of one who claims to have found in the bed of a river.

The morphological analysis of traces indicates that the attempt to make a foot "old" is ridiculous and obvious. In particular, the ratio of the length of the foot and toes is unlikely. In addition, a geological analysis shows that the architect of this fraud crude dug traces on the wrong side of his piece of rock: apparently the men walked in the ground, upside down!

It is often found traces of dinosaur in the bed of the Paluxy River in Glen Rose. They are often eroded and may suggest, through the magic of a photograph, traces of men. These people, however, would have feet of 50cm long, therefore approximately 3m high, that is what creationists forget to mention showing a photo that is not to scale. It is likely traces of dinosaurs as interpreted by human creationists desperate to prove their assumptions.

Conclusion: It is simply evidence of dino is presented as humanities. In other cases, inspired by traces of dino he saw near his home, a joker cut a piece of rock at the bottom of a river, has returned and has carved traces improbable. Some creationists (as Laurence Tisdall) have bitten the hook and still employ this argument to "prove" that the Earth is young, men who cohabited with their enemies prehistoric.

The legend of Mokele-mbêmbe

Occurrences: ASCQ gobbles any raw bullshit about the dinosaur living in Gabon.

This legend is just a legend. The imaging satellite or helicopter could have long certify the existence of giant bugs.

We found Noah's Ark (in Turkey)!

This modern myth was fuelled mainly by the film The incredible discovery of Noah's Ark. False documentary concocted by a certain George Jammal, who later admitted that it was a joke to denounce the credulity of some religious groups face the "religious fraud". The groups themselves seem to be fooled at the point of believing in spite of this confession.

The "wood of the Ark" seen in the documentary was made of wood railroad from California, that Jammal had baked in an oven. Or a little pin that was boiling with the tincture of iodine and... teriyaki sauce.

Jammal admitted never went to Turkey and has produced this documentary for Sun International Pictures, a company specializing in this kind of docu-fiction, which among other on UFOs, the shroud of Turin, and so on.

The man has more in common with a frog with the monkey

Where this argument he been seen? Duane Gish, in a televised debate 80 years.

This argument has probably been launched like that, without evidence, and is therefore rejected in this way.

Plesiosaur decomposing found off Japan

Where this argument he been seen? In the Minds of Men by Ian T. Taylor, on www.creationscience.com employed by Kent Hovind, the National Center for Science Education, Laurence Tisdall (circa 1996, perhaps even today), Kent Hovind (often).

"We found a dino off japan, then the land has less than 10 000 years!" What they want us to believe is, of course, that the earth is 6000 years and that aquatic dinosaurs did not off during the Flood. Evidence in support: this picture.

Unfortunately for these people particularly dupes, "dino" is actually a rotting shark. Tests have shown. There have been several shark half who had broken the same pace. But still, some creationists still employ the argument. They will even add that, in Japan in 70 years it has even produced postage stamps commemorating the "discovery", but that here (because of the indoctrination of religion Darwinism) nobody wanted to admit it was a dinosaur.

Another fun fact: Tisdall conference emphasized that "some people believe it is a shark, but this is not a shark." Point. Without further explanation.

See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/plesios.html for all the details of this story.

Dust on the moon and conspiracy at NASA

"In 1969, NASA scientists expected that the moon is covered with a thick layer of dust. This was not the case! This proves that the universe has at most 10 000 years. But NASA has denied everything."

Where this argument he been seen? In various magazines creationists dating back 70 years. On this page, during a Creationist conference at the University of Montreal in December 2000 (source).

This story is a total fabrication. It was already known before 1969 that the moon was not covered with a thick layer of dust, first by the albedo of the moon, followed by data collected by the probe Surveyor I.

Hubble Telescope and the NASA conspiracy

"The Hubble telescope has enabled to observe a phenomenon which proves that the universe has 6900 years! But NASA has concealed evidence to silence history. "

Where this argument he been seen? Look at this page.

Joshua lacking Day is another conspiracy of NASA

"NASA has found that a lack day in time exactly when Joshua stopped the time!"

Where this argument he been seen? Increasingly rare, can still be seen here.

The man has a coast unless the woman

Where this argument he been seen? It has almost completely disappeared today but we still intends rarely. Maybe here. But it has seen its hours of glory. The argument was spotted here.

It seems that since "Adam" has created Eve via cloning of a coast, men who are currently living would have a coast and less. It is quite amusing to see that this assumption is based on a design Lamarckiste (inheritance of acquired) and that those who claim this type of nonsense does not clearly give the trouble to verify what they say.

Russel Humphrey, degradation of the Earth's magnetic field

This argument assumes that the Earth's magnetic field is deteriorating at a speed X, and that if the earth had 5MM years, it would be invalid. Although this argument is not a shining example of fraud, document presented to support it is a flagrant deception.

In summary, Humphrey has altered data on charts in order to support his thesis.

The Creationists: persecuted?

Is there an "establishment" against the scientific creationism?

To promote adherence to the methodology and ethics, science contemporary works via a system of scientific publications, which are subject to review by an independent committee of peers and anonymous. This is the famous "peer review".

Both scientific journal articles that doctoral theses go through this filter. Although there are many cases where this is clearly not sufficient to ensure consistent results, it limited to a minimum the event of bias, favoritism, fraud and plagiarism.

The journals, moreover, also publish critical reports and articles published elsewhere (in other journals, books, or independent sources), which reinforces the phenomenon of peer review.

An original thesis, if it is supported and sustained by experimentation, may well be published in a newspaper. Scientific publications are generally very enthusiastic about public disclosure of new ideas and, potentially, a future Nobel Prize.

Thus, several newspapers have accepted for review articles arguing in favor of creationism. However, most (if not all) were rejected, usually because of their academic level too low. In fact, even assuming all the articles, books and texts creationists have been a peer-review (relevant or not), it remains less than a quarantine.

By comparison, a scholar google search for the term "evo-devo" (a branch of the very recent theory of evolution) returns nearly 2000 results.

Why creationists are not taken seriously

The creationists are not free shot in dérisions. There are several reasons for making sure they do not get the desired credibility. Here are a few:

There is no scientific model creationist (or intelligent design). If a group of researchers creationists (?) Developed a consistent pattern, giving themselves the trouble to support it and support it on empirical facts, this would already be a big "plus".

As long as creationism will remain a campaign of denigration of the theory of evolution (and science in general) coupled with a moralistic rhetoric (from right, of course) nobody will take this movement seriously.

Too many arguments creationists are a stupidity to breathtaking stupidity of a breath.

The goal of creationists movements is clearly not scientific. They are in the religious proseletism, political lobbying, the monetary gain, but not in scientific research.

The unpleasant personality and tactics of the bottom floor of creationists certainly does not help matters (see below).

Who persecutes who?

Trying to start a debate on the blog Uncommon Dissent, the blogger Abbie Smith was sexually harassed by a moderator. Having prepared a rebuttal of some of the arguments of the last book by Michael Behe, this lady has been entitled only to sexist insults in response.

Fired of the university where he worked, William Dembski has published on its website a false letter insult by the rector of the university, seeking to mobilize against his admirers management to regain his post. He will say later that it was a joke, but without apology to the rector.

The biology teachers have received death threats from a creationist. (See also here, and here, too.)

Some hackers have attempted to close the sites Panda's Thumb and Talk Origins.

External Links

Sternberg article in The Washington Post

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The Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Moscow announced Russian news agencies. He was 89 years old.

According to his son, quoted by the Itar-Tass agency, he died as a result of acute heart failure. A student at school and university science Rostov-on-Don, he studied literature, mathematics and Communist doctrine he knew well. He joined the revolutionary ideals of the time. During the German invasion in 1941, he fights as a gunner. He was sentenced in 1945 to 8 years imprisonment in labour camps for activity against-revolutionary, having maintained a critical match against the Stalinist political skills and his warriors. According to Solzhenitsyn, the war with Nazi Germany could have been avoided if the Soviet government had reached a compromise with Hitler. Solzhenitsyn accused the Soviet government and Joseph Stalin have been more responsible Hitler of the terrible consequences of war on the Soviet people. He was sentenced to time as a traitor. When he left the camp in 1953, a few weeks before Stalin's death, he was sent to perpetual exile in Kazakhstan. He was rehabilitated in 1956 and settled in Ryazan, 200 km south of Moscow, where he teaches physical sciences.

It was his book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, published in 1962 in the journal Soviet Novi Mir, thanks to approval by Nikita Khrushchev in person, who acquired him international acclaim. However, three years later, it is impossible to publish anything in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and his novels Prime Circle and The Cancer Pavilion and the first volume of his historical epic The Red Wheel, appeared in the West where he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, reward it may levy that four years later after being expelled from the USSR. It has not been able to travel to Stockholm for fear of being stripped of his Soviet nationality and unable to return to the USSR, the Swedish government refused to submit the price to its embassy in Moscow.

His life becomes a permanent conspiracy to steal the right to write in spite of monitoring more and more diligent KGB. A portion of its archives is entered in one of his friends in September 1965, and there is insufficient be assassinated in August 1971 (by a "Bulgarian umbrella"). One of his closest collaborators has narrowly escaped a strangulation and a car accident. In December 1973, appears in Paris (in Russian) The Gulag Archipelago, where he exposes the system of the Soviet Gulag concentration camps, he lived on the inside, and the nature of the totalitarian regime. Written between 1958 and 1967 on tiny pieces of paper buried one by one in gardens friends, a copy was sent to the West to escape censure. He decided his release after one of his aides was found hanged: she had confessed to the KGB cache whereabouts of a copy of the work. This publication brings him to be stripped of his citizenship and be expelled from the USSR in February 1974.

He settled first in Switzerland, then emigrated to the USA. After a turbulent period of interviews and speeches (including the famous speech delivered at Harvard in 1978), the USA, Solzhenitsyn was often invited to major conferences. On 15 July 1975, he was even invited to give a lecture on the world situation in the U.S. Senate. The West discovered a man and deeply conservative Orthodox slavophile very critical of Western society of consumption. He withdrew with his family in Vermont, in St. Johnsberry, to write the work which he dreamed since his youth: The Red Wheel. Historical epic tells the embourbement of Russia in the revolutionary madness, it has several thousand pages.

After the fall of the USSR, the Russian nationality he is returned and the Gulag Archipelago published. Via France (inauguration of the memorial Lucs Boulogne-sur-(Vendée) on September 25 1993), then he returned to Russia Friday, May 27, 1994 where he resides since. Until 1998, it retains an intense social activity at its own television show, travels through Russia, meets a multitude of people. The disease has interrupted this activity.

A committed intellectual ... and finally recognized

Long a symbol of intellectual resistance to Soviet oppression, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is regularly attacked. The operations of destabilization against him have practically never ceased since the 1960's. A zek (detainee), manipulated by the KGB, accused of being an informer of the communist authorities, and why writing a false denunciation. The KGB did write a few books against him by former friends, as his former editor, Alec Flagon, and even by his first wife. During his literary career, no indictment has not been spared: successively or at the same time accused of being nationalist, tsarist, ultra-Orthodox, anti-Semitic or supported Israel, traitor, accomplice objective of the Gestapo, the CIA, francs Masons, french secret services and even the KGB. Solzhenitsyn has responded to these accusations by juxtaposing to cancel them, in writing his autobiography, The grain fell between the millstones, and again recently in an article of the Litératournaïa Gazeta, "barbouilleurs not looking light ". In fact, his political opinions, forged throughout his life by a common destiny outside, are too complex to be labelled. He did not believe that the country can move, overnight, a totalitarian regime to a regime-type Western democracy. If it supports a strong presidency, it is especially supporter of local democracy, quite close to the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville: Solzhenitsyn, true democracy is not established by the electoral system but by a fabric d 'associations managing local affairs independently of the central government which, he should take care that national affairs (army, foreign policy, etc.).. It is a fervent patriot, but not a nationalist: for example he always opposed the war in Chechnya. He had a favorable comment to President Putin during his coming to power, hoping to significant changes, then took his distances quickly. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has never refuted the accusations of royalisme brought against him by Soviet power. His orthodox religious beliefs are also distrust in progressive circles.

According to Moshe Lewin, who relays this criticism, "as long as [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn] conducted its battle of the interior, foreign observers have assumed that he fought for a democratic system [...]. But once Solzhenitsyn exiled in the West, they quickly realized that was not automatically anti-bearer of democracy. The battle Solzhenitsyn was actually in the service of an ideology deeply undemocratic, which combined elements of "national-statism" archaic traits of the Orthodox religion, but the very concept of Democracy. In short there were at Solzhenitsyn a deep attachment to a authoritarianism of its own which, if it was not made during his first appearances in the public arena, has developed during his fight. "

The American historian Richard Pipes, whose work on the history of Soviet Russia had been described by Solzhenitsyn "Polish version of Russian history" (Pipes is of Polish origin), responded to it in the taxing of anti-Semitism and ultra-nationalism. In 1985, Pipes has developed his remarks in his criticism of a new Solzhenitsyn, August 1914: "Each culture has a clean form of anti-Semitism. In the case of Solzhenitsyn, it is not racial. This has nothing to do with blood. He [Solzhenitsyn] is not racist, the question is fundamentally religious and cultural. It has many similarities with Dostoyevsky, who was a devout Christian, a patriot and a fierce anti-Semitic. Solzhenitsyn takes place in doubt the vision of the Revolution defended by the extreme-right Russian, as a creation of Jews."

It has been throughout her literary accusations of anti-Semitism because of the publication named administrative manager of the Gulag, its historical work on the Bolshevik revolution and, more recently, because of its opposition to Russian oligarchs and the publication of his book historical Two centuries on relations between Jews and Russians from 1795 to 1995: the writer and former Soviet dissident Vladimir Voinovich has tried to demonstrate anti-Semitic character of this book in a study controversy. In France, Trotskyist historian Jean-Jacques Marie devoted a section to each of Volume Two centuries together, which he describes as "anti-Semitic Bible." According to Jean-Jacques Marie, "Solzhenitsyn describes, in two centuries together, a conception of the history of Jews in Russia worthy of being included in a handbook of falsifying history" by restoring a history of pogroms "as it was seen by Tsarist police." The British historian Robert Service, however, defended the book by Solzhenitsyn, arguing that a study of the place of Jews in the Bolshevik party was fully justified and that Trotsky himself had criticized their overrepresentation in the leadership of the party.

The end

Solzhenitsyn lives near Moscow withdrew in the midst of his family. The Fund assists Solzhenitsyn former zeks and their families in paying their pensions, paying for medicines. After thought he would play a decisive role in post-communist Russia, then disappointed, having already more or less "buried", the Russians seem these days look again at its figure and rediscover value of his writings politico-social. An international symposium on his work was dedicated in December 2003 in Moscow.

On 12 June 2007, President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Solzhenitsyn in awarding him the prestigious State Medals.

Friend of Philippe de Villiers, Chairman of the Vendee, he called a college of Aizenay College Alexander Solzhenitsyn, inaugurated by the son of the writer.

He died at his home in Moscow to 89 years in the night of 3 to 4 August an acute heart failure.

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