Noumenal News

JERUSALEM — It began as a peaceful morning, with
a religious woman boarding a bus just after daybreak to take her to the
Old City to pray.
But Miriam Shear’s day quickly turned ugly when
she was ordered by a religious man to move to the back of the bus, a
common practice on many routes serving the religious population.

Ms. […]

PARIS: France’s Education Ministry has warned schools
around the country against Islamic creationism theories after several
thousand copies of an anti-Darwinist book from Turkey were mailed to
them, an official said.

The lavishly illustrated Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya, a
shadowy figure who runs a large Islamic publishing operation from
Istanbul, was sent to schools and universities over […]

Shane Kelsoe gazed into his video cassette-sized electromagnetic frequency (EMF) detector, a machine that measures changes in the air’s electrical conductance.
He and fiancee Anna Risner walked through an abandoned off-the-grid pre-Civil War house and read milligausses in the air as part of a recent environmental investigation.
In the upstairs bedroom, the detector’s needle bounced from the […]

April 30, 1451: With a papal brief Pope Nicholas V establishes a library “pro communi doctorum virorum commodo” (to facilitate the research of scholars). Thus was born the present Vatican Apostolic Library.
November 22, 2006: the Bodmer Papyrus 14-15, donated to His Holiness Benedict XVI by the generosity of the Sally and Frank Hanna Family […]

The next time you’re in Petersburg, Kentucky, I recommend you drop in on the Creation Museum, which has been built in order to illustrate the complete, literal truth of the account of the creation as told in the book of Genesis. You will see tableaux of prehistoric children playing with dinosaurs; a scale model of […]

Arch rivals in Bihar, the ruling JD(U) and the opposition
RJD-Congress are having an acrimonious debate over ghosts, with both
sides accusing each other of violating the law in this regard.
The
ruling JD(U) has demanded the arrest of Railways Minister Lalu Prasad
after television channels showed him invoking a goddess at his
ancestral Fulwaria village in Gopalgunj district last week.
“Lalu
Prasad […]

ChristiaNet.com,
the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page
loads, gave readers an opportunity to take part in a poll answering the
question, “Should Christians participate in Halloween?” An overwhelming
majority of 181 out of 266 felt that it wasn’t appropriate for God’s
children to take part in a holiday that is Pagan. The overall consensus
is that it […]

LONDON - J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling marked the spot where she finished the final ” Harry Potter ” book.
The writer announced on Thursday that the seventh and final installment in the series, which tells the story of Harry during […]

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Before a service at Reborn
in Christ Church this week, a man hawked gospel CDs outside the front
door. In the cavernous nave, volunteers placed envelopes soliciting
cash donations on each of about 1,000 chairs, while cameramen working
for the church’s television network focused on the altar.
Everything was ready, except the church’s founders and spiritual […]

woke up today at 10:13. Ten plus 13 is 23. This article is being
published on Feb. 3 — the second month and third day of the year, or
2/3. Forty-eight years ago on this day, a plane crash killed three
legends of rock and roll: Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big
Bopper. Other culture heroes like William […]