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NASA gives grant for religion.

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NASA gives grant for religion.
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NASA gives grant for religion.
April 4, 2017 at 8:02 pm (This post was last modified: April 4, 2017 at 8:50 pm by brewer.)
Didn't know if this was science or religion so I stuck it here. Plus I may be late to the show (finding articles back to July 2016). 

Apparently NASA awarded over 1 million dollars to the Center for Theological Inquiry. FFRF filed a protest. 

From the FFRF site: https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item...s-purposes

The players, Mary Voytek and William Storrar are definitely linked: http://www.princetonmagazine.com/center-...questions/

I think I smell a rat.
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 4, 2017 at 9:43 pm
Several rats, it seems.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 4, 2017 at 9:46 pm
For fucks sake, NASA already has a tiny budget, why did they spend $1 million on such a stupid project to begin with.
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 4, 2017 at 9:58 pm
(April 4, 2017 at 9:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: For fucks sake, NASA already has a tiny budget, why did they spend $1 million on such a stupid project to begin with.

'Murica, that's why.
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
(April 4, 2017 at 9:58 pm)Isis Wrote:
(April 4, 2017 at 9:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: For fucks sake, NASA already has a tiny budget, why did they spend $1 million on such a stupid project to begin with.

'Murica, that's why.

Even in history the religious or the people who control religion always do something to fuck up a society with ignorance with a fake story.
Hell look at the middle east religion really fucked up a really intellectual society and we see smart people turned into violent crusaders all in the name of a lie
and a false god that doesn't exist.
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 5, 2017 at 10:07 am
I could actually see a clinical study of the cultural impact on religious views the discovery of extraterrestrial life might imply; but a grant like that should go to a sociology department at a university, not to Christian foundation.
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RE: NASA gives grant for religion.
April 5, 2017 at 10:25 am
You'd think that needing a million dollars to shoehorn your religion with the latest scientific findings would be a red flag.
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