Man that scene always gets me. It's so epic, so moving, and so ultimately tragic. Plus there's so much more emotional content there when you know what Asuka's gone through before that point and how much it means to her when she realizes what Eva 02 is.

Depends on how you define the "Middle Ages" but if you count the Dark Ages (476 to roughly 1000 by some reckonings) then yes, for a large portion of the Middle Ages, Bulgaria was pagan.

I didn't bring it up. The OP did.

Except since the Catholic Church isn't advocating creationism as science, that still doesn't indicate a threat. How much influence they in specific locations have doesn't change what they're actually saying.

Technically, the fewer of them there are the more unique they would be.

Right, but they're not pushing it as a theory to be taught in secular schools. They're just teaching it as a particular interpretation of evolution as seen through the lens of their Catholic belief.

That depends. Can he act or can he just look incredibly sexy?

That's true although that wasn't really my point. My point was more along the lines of "is Black Panther so connected to the X-Men through Storm that he'd be in tricky territory legally?"

"My belief is that supernatural events are inherently irrational, so a person who believes in ESP or in demigods is irrational about _that belief_."

Isn't Black Panther married to Storm (who'd be in Fox's territory) though? I'm new to this whole comics thing but I thought that was supposed to be a big deal.

In fact, moreso, I'd say. Japan actually has a pretty positive view of the U.S. in general, I think. They're critical of some elements of our foreign policy and dislike our military bases, but other than that we're usually on really good terms both at the political level and the cultural level.

Basically, they're teaching the idea of a single all-knowing "designer" who created humans and all other life on Earth for a specific purpose. That sounds much more similar to Yahweh than it does, say, Ymir (Norse creator) or Brahma (Hindu creator).

Well, North Korea's officially communist so it is at least nominally atheistic. That isn't to say, of course, that there aren't extremely religious overtones to some of the state ideology, up to and including the near worship of Kim Il Sung who according to the education system "may have created the world."

Either you're trolling or you're just rushing into the "lol, Christians" attitude. She never said that beliefs were facts and in fact was arguing against a literal interpretation of the Bible and fundamentalist approach to science.

Two problems:

That's probably the biggest problem (of many) I have with Creationists. They claim that it doesn't violate the separation of church and state but then clearly model their idea of creation off of the Abrahamic version.

The same way that a person can be rational and believe in ESP or be a Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist. No one's perfect and plenty of rational people hold irrational views.

Y'know, generally speaking the Vatican is actually quite supportive of the sciences and has been for a long time. Granted, it's still got quite a few backwards views socially and in the past publishing your research without their approval could get you convicted of heresy, but they're actually one of the good guys…

"Whether Archy is an ancestor [sic] of modern birds, or a sister group to modern birds, or just a very bird-like non-avian dinosaur, its inclusion in textbooks is an annoyance to creationists, and its removal is a victory to them."

I think that's pretty much what I said, with a bit more emphasis on it not being a direct ancestor.