In order to increase young people's interest in nanotechnology, scientists have managed to put a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead.

The record for the smallest copy is held by a Bible measuring 2.8x3.4x1cm (1.1x1.3x0.4in), weighing 11.75g (0.4 ounces) and containing 1,514 pages.

The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bible was written on a silicon surface covered with a thin layer of gold (20nanometres thick - 0.0002mm).

Link.

Forget about Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jesus is in the house.  420 Wal-Mart stores nationwide (only one-sixth of stores), faith-based action figures will be sold. 

How did the Wal-Mart execs decide which stores would carry the action figures?  If your Wal-Mart sells a large amount of bibles then chances are your Wal-Mart will carry them.

Considering my son likes pretending to feed his action figures to his toy dinosaurs, I don't think these toys will be on his Christmas list this year.

This sign from the North Shore Assembly of God cracks me up.  I don't know...  Whenever I use Google I get some pretty good results.   [via digg]

Here's more Google sign humor from St. Giles Presbyterian Church.

Previously:
Church sign generator (LwL)

Here is a photo gallery of Buddhist Monks from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, New York creating a Medicine Buddha sand mandala in the Ackland's Yager Gallery of Asian Art.

Physics graduate Bobby Henderson created the false deity Flying Spaghetti Monster to protest Kansas State Board of Education's decision to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.

Here is Henderson's open letter to the Kansas School Board.

I believe Pastafarianism will catch-on with the Hollywood elite and soon people will be paying $25 for designer spaghetti strands to tie around their wrists.  I'm serious -- It could happen.

Related links:
Flying Spaghetti Monster sighted in Germany
Flying Spaghetti Monster on CNN
Sketch of the FSM (looks more like a pig with tentacles)

Kids say the cutest things.  Here are a few letters various kids had written to God.

My favorite:

Dear God,
I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention.
Ruth M.

[via delicious]

A recent study suggests that Jesus didn't walk on water--He walked on "springs ice." 

From the article:

In what is now northern Israel, such ice could have formed on the cold freshwater surface of the Sea of Galilee -- known as Lake Kinneret by modern-day Israelis -- when already chilly temperatures briefly plummeted during one of the two protracted cold periods between 2,500 and 1,500 years ago.

A frozen patch floating on the surface of the small lake would have been difficult to distinguish from the unfrozen water surrounding it. The unfrozen water was comprised of the plumes resulting from salty springs situated along the lake's western shore in Tabgha -- an area where many archeological findings related to Jesus have been documented.

Personally, I think Jesus wore flotation shoes.  Or maybe he used special Ninja flotation shoes [via] that are typically used to walk across moats to sneak into castles.

Singer Isaac Hayes is leaving South Park and the future of the popular cartoon character, Chef, is unsure.  Hayes provided the voice to Chef since the show's debut in 1997.

Co-creator Matt Stone stated:

In 10 years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Issac "never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews.

He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show.

The episode that sparked Hayes' departure was the episode where Stan was believed to be the next L Ron Hubbard, the late founder of Scientology.

Hayes, a devout Scientologist, says:

The show was insensitive to "personal spiritual beliefs."

There is a place in this world for satire but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs begins.

Producers of the show are unsure if this will be the end of Chef.

UPDATE:  Tom Cruise used his Scientology powers to get Comedy Central to cancel the Scientology South Park episode.

UPDATE:  Here is recent CNN coverage of the South Park vs. Cruise hoo-ha.  I don't know how long the video will be there for so watch it while you can.

UPDATE:  The Superficial has posted the Scientology South Park episode.  Enjoy!