Sunday, March 27, 2011

Basin girl shoots Smithsonian photo of the day; religion nearly extinct


The Smithsonian's caption is not quite right: Butte and Havre are transposed.

The 8th annual Smithsonian Photo Contest closed Dec. 1, 2010. Editor's Picks will resume with new images on April 4, 2011 after the start of the 9th annual Smithsonian Photo Contest on March 1, 2011.
Ms. Eckman, a goddess in her own right, is the daughter of Basin's Odd Goddess.

At a recent meeting of the American Physical Society in Dallas, it was announced that nine countries acknowledge the pending death of religion. The article in appeared in BBC News:

The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. And in all the countries, the indications were that religion was headed toward extinction.

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