The world of science clashing with religion, pseudoscience and the theology of Christian, New Thought and New Age Movements.
Oxford University decodes the platypus genome and finds it to be a mix of bird, reptile and lactating mammal. YAHOO NEWS SOURCE
What’s so exciting about that? It has to do with the ongoing Evolution vs. Creation and Intelligent Design debates. (I use the word “debates” lightly).
Received this question on a forum:
The Dali Lama has been speaking in Seattle for the past week about compassion, while attempting to avoid politics, but the Tibetan situation has pervaded the events despite any efforts.
How is the Tibetan situation regarded over there? –I assume that most of the Chinese don’t advocate their political liberation, but what have you witnessed regarding Tibet’s cultural freedom –if anything at all?
Economics prof Ron Warren of Georgia’s Terry College of Business conducted a study along with colleague Chris Cornwell and Terry alumna Karen Tinsley, a researcher in UGA’s Housing and Demographics Research Center.
Continue reading “Study: Girls Who Go To Church Work Harder”
22 Apothegms of Enlightenment
by Clavinicus the Apollonian
Spring Equinox 2008
These are the Apothegms of Enlightenment–the “clear sayings”, without ambiguity or uncertainty, that lead to intellectual liberation and a life fulfilled. Yet nothing here is new. Great men and women of Philosophy, Science, and Wisdom have proclaimed these truths to every generation down through the centuries. Here again they are given to you–freely, openly, and truthfully, and with the hope that such wisdom will be heard by all. For ours is a trouble world, suffused with apathy, hatred, bigotry, ignorance, greed, selfishness, and violence. Such things are in our nature, it cannot be denied. But let Reason, Love, and Compassion prevail and all such hindrances will from your thoughts dispel. For a mind so liberated, Enlightenment is assured.
The Nine Billion Names of God is a 1953 short story by Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008); the phrase also appears in the title of a collection of Clarke’s short stories, The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (1967).
Easter Morning poem by Edna Dean Proctor
In 2008 Easter is on Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_P_hcoPhg
I had posted this also in my lengthy lemming post. It is from the animal planet on the myth that lemmings commit suicide.
 
Here’s something I never thought of: Put a jazz piano player in a brain scan tube with a plastic keyboard and compare his bran scans when he plays pre-determined music and when he improvises freely to a track.
That’s exactly what Dr. Charles Limb and Dr. Allen Braun at the National Institutes of Health did. And their findings are…..brain tickling.
Continue reading “Jazz Improvisation Changes Brain Functions”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein
This oft used quote of Einstein usually stands by itself, out of context from his full text. So here is the full text that quote comes from as well as three other writings by Albert Einstein on science and religion.
In “The God Delusion” book by Richard Dawkins he asserts that Albert Einstein was an atheist. I have been round and round reading about this on forums. Albert Einstein himself very clearly said he did not believe in a “personal God”, he also said that he did not like atheists claiming he supported them. So where did Einstein stand on his beliefs?