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Tired of hearing about the Darwinian Myth of Evolution from the Intelligent Design folks? Then read about the Copernican Myth.

The earth is really fixed and neither rotates nor revolves around the sun. No, really. There are biblical references to prove it. Anything that suggests otherwise is part of an international (and intellectual) conspiracy to validate the Kabbala.

Where do these folks come from.

(Of course, for most daily activities you can assume the Earth is fixed and everything moves around it. The differences don't show unless you're either looking closely or you're somewhere away from Earth. The same could be said for a Flat Earth worldview, as long as you didn't move more than a few miles or look closely. We always work with approximations; it's knowing which approximations to use and when.)

Eeeeewwww ...

The 42-year-old, identified only as RZ, hit [his mother's] head with a heavy blunt instrument. He then cut her throat and chopped off both her arms. Then, with a long-bladed meat knife used for filleting meat from bones, he spent eight hours skinning the 76-year-old.

After the killing, the man dressed himself in his mother's skin and took to the streets of Vlaardingen, Holland, on the night of February 4th. He was seen directing traffic in her skin and dressed in one of her dresses as he recited texts from the Bible ...

You can read the article here, though the rest of it tries to draw parallels with The Silence of the Lambs.