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	<title>Ocellated &#187; Culture</title>
	<link>http://www.ocellated.com</link>
	<description>A blog on nature, science, religion, and just about anything else I want to post on</description>
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		<title>Ignorance as the Greatest Virtue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an article up on Fox News by John Gibson that&#8217;s just striking for it&#8217;s tone. It&#8217;s not the kind of ignorance that one just stumbles across in life. No, it&#8217;s the kind of ignorance that one must work really hard to cultivate, waking up each morning to seek out opportunities to display this level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/09/05/ignorance-as-the-greatest-virtue/</link>
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		<title>A Rant Against Bear Hunting and Country Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a bit of confession to make. I hate country music and country musicians &#8212; with a passion. Is that fair? Probably not. Am I biased? I&#8217;d have to say so. Am I committing the cardinal sin of stereotyping a large group of people based on the actions of a few? Guilty as charged.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/18/a-rant-against-bear-hunting-and-country-music/</link>
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		<title>The United States &#8212; Smarter than Turkey.Dumber than Slovenia, Estonia, and Latvia.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study reported by National Geographic News places the U.S. near the very end of a shameful list.

Yes, only Turkey rejects evolution more than the United States.
The reasons are what you&#8217;d expect &#8212; religion &#8212; but even I was surprised by the low percentage. Only 14% of U.S. adults thought that evolution was &#8220;definitely true.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/11/the-united-states-smarter-than-turkeydumber-than-slovenia-estonia-and-latvia/</link>
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		<title>From Lord to Label: how consumerism undermines our faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The postmodern Christian blog Out of Ur has a post up on consumerism undermining faith. It&#8217;s well worth a read.

Christian critiques of consumerism usually focus on the dangers of idolatry—the temptation to make material goods the center of life rather than God. This, however, misses the real threat consumerism poses. My concern is not materialism, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/07/10/from-lord-to-label-how-consumerism-undermines-our-faith/</link>
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		<title>The Left Behind Video Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first read of it, I thought about mentioning it but was so digusted, I couldn&#8217;t quite bring myself to comment on it. Now, everyone else seems to be commenting on this story, so I&#8217;ll point you to it in case you haven&#8217;t heard of this yet. 

One game, &#8220;Left Behind: Eternal Forces,&#8221; which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/06/01/the-left-behind-video-game/</link>
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		<title>Science vs Values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC has a decent article by Robert Bazell on the debate over evolution and intelligent design. His main point is we should focus on the values used to make our decisions, a difficult area of medicine when hard choices have to be made.
As I said, it was decent. I think he could have made it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/23/science-vs-values/</link>
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		<title>The Simpsons Do Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had I been reading the various blogs I usually skim over, I would have known in advance that the Simpsons last night was on evolution. As it turned out, my wife and I walked in the door from a long weekend (she graduated!) and turned on the TV and just happened to notice what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/15/the-simpsons-do-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Bill Nye in Waco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Bill Nye (The Science Guy) gave a talk at McLennan Community College in Waco, TX. Everything went well at first, until&#8230;

The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/04/13/bill-nye-in-waco/</link>
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		<title>Big Fat Hypocrite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a further admission of my wicked ways, I admit to enjoying Southpark. I&#8217;ve only caught a few episodes, but as a satire, I&#8217;m usually laughing so hard I&#8217;m crying. For example, the episode where Cartman becomes a southern Baptist hell, fire, and brimestone preacher is the height of comedy (IMHO). And before condeming me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/23/big-fat-hypocrite/</link>
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		<title>Painter of Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The LA Times has a good piece of muckraking on Thomas Kinkade, Painter of LightTM (yes, he&#8217;s trademarked the phrase). It seems that when Thom&#8217;s not busy with English cottages and sunsets, he&#8217;s got quite the rowdy side. Grabbing women&#8217;s breasts, foul language, heavy drinking, public urinating&#8230; 
Now as I read along, I really wondered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/03/06/painter-of-light/</link>
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