Noumenal News

Teenagers will be asked to debate intelligent design (ID) in their
religious education classes and read texts by evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins under new government guidelines.
In a move that is
likely to spark controversy, the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority has for the first time recommended that pupils be taught
about atheism and creationism in RE classes.
ID, which argues
that the creation […]

There was a huge crash from the living
room. A second later, New Hampshire skated through the kitchen on his
Heelys screaming “Watch me! Watch me!” as he slammed into our
refrigerator. New Hampshire is my cousin’s 6-year-old. He won’t eat
vegetables, is allergic to gluten, peanuts, latex, penicillin, cats,
bees and shellfish. He is, against all odds, overweight. […]

NOZAWAONSEN, Japan — Here in the foothills of the Japan Alps, a
procession of villagers was moving through the frigid darkness, guided
by a robed man holding a glowing paper lantern. On a night when the
25-year-old male residents of this snowy hamlet would become men in the
eyes of their elders, the lantern wasn’t the only thing that […]

A former executive of an Irvine-based car wax manufacturer alleged
in a lawsuit filed Friday that the company fired him on the grounds
that he had not pursued “a Christian lifestyle” and wasn’t “on fire for
Jesus.”
Atticus Firey, 34, of Newport Beach claims Meguiar’s Inc. committed
religious discrimination when it fired him in July after nearly 10
years with the […]

IJAMSVILLE — When Shirl DeLawder and her husband Sean bought Gabriel’s Inn in 1998 they had no idea it was haunted.
Almost
10 years later, spirits and ghosts draw visitors to the inn, which was
built in 1862. Today it has a reputation as one of Frederick’s most
haunted inns, according to the Gabriel’s Inn Web site.
In the
past few […]

For eons, folklore has blamed the Moon for everything from lunacy
to bad luck. And, for the last few centuries, scientists have scoffed.
Now, according to new research they’re not so sure. The Moon may not be
made of cheese, but it seems to influence a lot more down on Earth than
we previously thought.

According to new […]

Science can explain many strange phenomena, but some mysteries remain to be solved.

The magazine Livescience listed top ten unexplained phenomena on Monday.

Some of these phenomena may one day be fully understood, as many
things that were once mysterious or unexplained (such as the causes of
disease) are now common knowledge.
1, The Taos Hum
Some residents and visitors […]

elebrity spoon-bender URI GELLER
has denied falsifying his psychic powers, after being accused by
magicians of relying on “tricks and stunts” for his hit TV show. The
Jewish star, who claims to be a paranormalist, is auditioning for
others with similar powers on Israeli programme URI GELLER LOOKS FOR A
SUCCESSOR, but he has come under fire for allegedly lying […]

BEIJING - With doctors urging amputation to stop the gangrene
spreading upwards from his toes, Liu Guorong was sceptical when a
friend said bee venom might save his foot.
“I was doubting this
place,” the 58-year-old diabetes sufferer said in a raspy voice during
a visit to the Xizhihe Traditional Medicine Hospital on the outskirts
of Beijing.
“When I got here, I […]

Relatively simple technology suffices to take out a satellite the
way the Chinese government apparently did last week, space weapons
analysts say. Essentially any country that can put a satellite in orbit
could launch a weapon to destroy one.
The US
government says China launched a ballistic missile on 11 January that
destroyed one of its own spacecraft, a defunct weather […]