Free Republic

You don't have to take anyone else's word for it - you can use the Random Mutation Generator to find out for yourself how Darwinian evolution really works. Your Mission, should you choose to accept it, is to type a sentence into the Random Mutation Generator

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...

The Gospel of Judas" is a long-lost bit of Gnostic apocrypha. Now that archeologists have found a copy, the media is abuzz with speculation that this ancient document will shed new light on or even change Christianity. According to "The Gospel of Judas," Jesus tells Judas to betray Him. This will enable Jesus' spirit to escape from its fleshly container. Jesus also is said to call Judas the only disciple who truly understands His message. Much of the rest of the "gospel" is just disembodied dialogue about "spirit" as opposed to matter, in sharp contrast to the historically detailed Gospels...

<p>Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.</p>

HARTFORD, Conn. --A constitutional battle is brewing over a holiday beer that state officials are trying to ban because they say its label might entice children to drink. The state believes it would be really awful for kids to see the label on the British import Seriously Bad Elf. It shows a mean-looking elf with a slingshot firing Christmas ornaments at Santa's sleigh as it flies overhead. State liquor regulations bar alcohol advertising with images that might appeal to children. The regulations specifically mention Santa. "There are certain symbols and images that appeal more strongly to children and this regulation...

Link (and image) post: I made an error with the link on the chat section page, so I'm providing the picture that should be there below (it's also found in a reply to myself). As per usual, please direct all discussion to the link below. This WhereIsIt? challenge is first to determine where this is, and second to determine why it's geologically significant. Link: Geology Picture of the Week, November 9-15, 2003: A tough WhereIsIt? challenge Image:

I had to hunt around a bit to find this small picture of this particular place, and hunt some more to make sure it was the place I wanted. If this isn't a stumper, I don't know what is. Question 1: Where is it? Question 2: Why is it geologically significant? Good luck!

Blasted Box Highlights Tensions Blasted box highlights tensions Erie Bomb Squad members keep onlookers at bay as a suspicious box is blown up outside a downtown Citizens Bank on Sunday. The box, which turned out to be harmless, caused a hubbub in the city, which has seen hightened tensions since an Aug. 28 bank robbery and explosion. (Erie Times-News photo by Rob Engelhardt) Zoom Read More Local News By Ed Palattella ed.palattella@timesnews.com and Dana Massing dana.massing@timesnews.com Brian Trocha had two confessions to make — one to the Erie police and one to his grandmother. He called police Sunday to admit...

Elves By the NumbersEvery now and then someone will ask how many Elves there actually were at some point in time. There is no correct answer because J.R.R. Tolkien didn't provide us with census figures. All we can do is guess and play number games.It is possible to come up with some reasonable estimates, although such estimates can vary greatly. Some people believe there must never have been more than, say, a couple hundred thousand Elves at any time. I'm of the opinion that they must have numbered in the millions at the height of their civilizations.All discussions of Elvish...

The Wild, Wild, Wood-elf WestLast year I wondered in an online musing if Tolkien intended the word "silvan" to be an Elvish word. He speaks of the Silvan Elves and Wood-elves interchangeably, and a number of people chuckled warmly and pointed out that "sylvan" means "woodland". Well, yes, I knew that, but that wasn't the point. Tolkien loved playing word games. Take "orthanc". Supposedly this is a Sindarin word which means "forked height". In Anglo-Saxon it means "cunning mind". The Sindarin name for Sauron's realm, Mordor, means "black land", but it's also an Anglo-Saxon word for murder. What a coincidence."Silvan"...

"The Empty Lands Where No Men Are..."The People of Eriador, 2000 - 3017 Third AgeThis article discusses the desolate picture of settlement in Eriador at the time of the War of the Ring. In the early Third Age Eriador had been chiefly inhabited by the Elves of Lindon, the Dwarves of Khadzad-dum and the People of Arnor. Arnor was stricken by internal strife 861+, war with Angmar 1300+, and the Great Plague of 1636, in which "...many parts of Eriador become desolate." (LOTR Tale of Years 1636). In 1974 Arnor was conquered by Angmar and its remaining city (Fornost Erain)...

A Tolkien Virgin: Of the coming of Men into the Westby Mark-Edmond The Journey Continues And so the stage is set. We have Elves, whose story this has been primarily for the last 150 some odd pages. We have the Dwarves, who dwell primarily in the mountains in the East. And now, we have Men added to the mix. Let's not forget the common threat in the far North, Morgoth and his armies of Orcs, Balrogs, and fire-drakes. To be honest, this chapter didn't strike me as particularly interesting aside from the general introduction of Men to the story....

Just got done watching my extended version DVD of FOTR, and I have a question about an elf. And yes, I have read the books, but only once. I suppose I could look it up myself, but I figured it would be fun for you fans who have nothing better to do til ROTK comes out. Kind of like off-season conditioning.OK, who is the elf that meets the fellowship when they are heading towards Lorien? He seems to be a prominent character, as he is appears in TTT movie to help the Rohirrim in the Battle of the Hornburg, and...

Much ado about Arwen: Elven Princess[ This article was published well before the first LOTR movie came out, so the beginning is a bit dated, but it quickly moves to the good stuff - JR ]Amazingly I find that people are still reeling in shock over the revelations from New Zealand concerning Elrond's only daughter. Liv Tyler has been photographed with pointed ears (hey, no one expected Tolkien Elves to show up on film). Liv Tyler has been photographed carrying a hobbit-dummy on horseback (okay, rescuing Frodo from the Nazgul is a bit of a stretch). Liv Tyler has been...

<p>NASA officials said Friday they have asked experts in upper-atmosphere electric phenomena whether it is possible for such effects to occur at the altitude and weather conditions that the shuttle was flying through before it disintegrated.</p> <p>But they said that so far they have found nothing in their investigation to indicate that the shuttle encountered such phenomena on re-entry. "There is nothing in the data stream . . . that would cause any concern on our part," said Ron Dittemore, NASA's shuttle program manager.</p>

MATTHEW FORDAHL, Associated Press WriterFriday, February 7, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/02/07/state1114EST0040.DTL (02-07) 08:14 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Federal scientists are investigating whether electricity or some other little-understood phenomena in the upper atmosphere might have doomed the space shuttle Columbia. Investigators also are reviewing data recorded by a network of instruments that might have detected a faint thunderclap at the same time a purplish bolt of lightning may have struck the shuttle high above Earth, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Researchers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center raised concerns in a report last year that electromagnetic phenomena or ice...

<p>Federal scientists are looking for evidence that a bolt of electricity in the upper atmosphere might have doomed the space shuttle Columbia as it streaked over California, The Chronicle has learned.</p> <p>Investigators are combing records from a network of ultra-sensitive instruments that might have detected a faint thunderclap in the upper atmosphere at the same time a photograph taken by a San Francisco astronomer appears to show a purplish bolt of lightning striking the shuttle.</p>

www.holoscience.com.au©Copyright HOLOSCIENCE 2000 &nbsp; HOLOSCIENCE The Science of the New Millenium NEWS ITEM 29 January 2002 &nbsp; The Balloon goes up over lightning! was sent aloft to ride far above the great storms of the mid-west USA. Researchers had sent the balloon, like a Dark Rider out of Tolkien, riding into the moonless night, seeking sprites, gnomes and the ring of the elves. &lt;&lt; Gnomes, sprites and elves stretch into space above powerful thunderstorms. Their fanciful names may reflect the fact that airline pilots reported them but for many years no one would believe them. C.T.R. Wilson 1927 Surprisingly, ...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif.(AP) - The space shuttle Columbia broke up in a mysterious area of the upper atmosphere once so little understood and difficult to study that scientists dubbed it the "ignorosphere."</p> <p>On Friday, NASA said it has asked outside atmospheric scientists for their opinion on whether some sort of electrical discharge could have occurred as the shuttle screamed toward touchdown at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</p>

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Sprites and elves dancing on thunder clouds have been captured by cameras on the space shuttle Columbia. The sprites, which are red flashes of electricity shooting up from thunderclouds 13 miles (20 km) into the ionosphere, and elves, which are glowing red doughnut shapes radiating 190 miles (300 km), were photographed Sunday by astronaut Dave Brown on the sprite hunt's first orbit. Columbia and a crew of seven astronauts are on a 16-day science mission that began Thursday. The study of sprites is part of an Israeli experiment known as MEIDEX that includes the first...