Gen.6:4 “There were giants on the earth in those days . . .” “giants” = Heb. “nephilim”. This word comes from another word meaning “to fall”. These giants were fallen ones, or mighty ones who had fallen. They were, apparently, of great size and also very wicked. They might be called[...]
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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Visiting the Creation Museum
A Trip to the Creation “Science” Museum by Steve Potter, PhD Oh Boy. Oh Joy. I live in Cincinnati, home of the “Creation Museum”. In case you didn’t know, it is a “museum” dedicated to a literal interpretation of the bible. Earth is only a few thousand years old. God created all life o[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: EASTER: Seeing Art in Death
Pornography is only part of the story of these two pictures. Blake Gopnik To my Christian-trained eyes, there’s huge pathos in these images, regardless of the monster they show. Since the Middle Ages at least, Western image-making has had the sight of greatness, cast down and bloodied, right at it[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope Bendict Shows Compassion
Pope Benedict, tear down this wall BERKELEY BLOG, by Malcolm Potts, professor of population and family planning All the world knew when the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, that a half century of Soviet tyranny was over. Last month Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that the use of a condom might[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Finding the lost tribe
The Book of Genesis has instilled wonder for 3,000 years, now it has been superseded by our ability to read the Deity’s own writing ……. Researchers Reconstructing Genome of Extinct Human Population Using 1000 Genomes Data By Andrea Anderson EXCERPTS MONTREAL (GenomeWeb New[...]
Judea Pearl … Turing Prize
Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. His work has enabled crea[...]
The Price Iran is Paying For its Nukes
Feeling the Pain in Iran (excerpts from article in Foreign Policy) Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence did something remarkable three months ago: It used its website to publish a report (link in Farsi) calling for direct talks with the country’s foe, the United States. …. President O[...]
February 28th, 2012 - 12:49 am § in Religion, The Ave Scene
Reconciliation: Faust comes to science.
Scientific Spirit How romantics and technophiles can reconcile our love-hate relationship with scientific progress by Joseph Grosso Published in the March/April 2011 Humanist ShareThis In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, sca[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Turkey holds Bible hostage.
An early copy of the Bible seized in Gaziantep, Turkey. from Today’s Zaman. The book could be a copy of the Gospel of Barnabas — a controversial text which Muslims claim shows that Jesus predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad. The Vatican reportedly placed an official request to [...]
Evolution Overturned in Tennessee
Ninety years after the Scopes trial, the governor of Tennessee is about to sign a law that attacks such dubious theories as genetics, evolution, global warming, and Obama’s birth in Kenya. So far, Newton’s laws are considered to be safe.[...]