When Was the Ice Age in Biblical History? After two centuries of research, we now have enough information to begin recreating scenes from the rise and fall of the Ice Age. As a massive ice sheet expanded over Canada, it drove out most living things, and then it continued to push south into the Ohio [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In Berlin: One Building, Three Religions
Berlin’s “House of One” — read more here.[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Responsibility and The Papacy
He is canonizing Junípero Serra, a man whose motivations were pure Christianity .. a horrible motivation that led to the deaths and torture of the indigenous peoples — the heathens —of California. Francis church is famous for the guilt, the centrality of sin and redemption, that is [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: God permits abortions!
How Science Impacts The Abortion Debate. I always show respect for those who believe there is something non physical. If the antiabortion activist wants to argue that her God has told her that sperm is alive, or that a soul enters the gee with the sperm, then I have no basis for argument. The[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Of Newton and God
I had a dream about Newton last night. It seems to me that what Newton actually discovered is a pretty good definition of”God” if you strip away the idea that God is a person. The fundamental laws of science are .. eternal and not limited time or space. If one looks at what Christians, [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: What Happened to the Buddhist Teaching of Detachment?
The Buddha Taught His Followers to Detach Themselves From Material Items. Among the surging crowds in the streets of Phnom Penh are Buddhist monks, who are angry about the mysterious theft of a golden urn, believed to hold ashes of the Buddha himself. As the New York Times reported, monks blame a [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS:Of Nuns And Popes
Is Pope Frank for Real? In 2012, the Vatican accused U.S. nuns of taking up such “radical feminist themes” as social welfare and political action. The Romans saw income inequality as a distraction from Roman Catholicism’s issues of contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage. There[...]