Archive for May 2010
Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred
Found : Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred As modern humans spread across Europe tens of thousands of years ago, they may have interbred with Neanderthals, creating hybrids, according to a new study of ancient human bones from Romania. Anthropologists have long wondered what happened when the two species met as modern humans spread from…
Read MoreBataille's Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate
Found : Bataille’s Columbine: The Sacred Space Of Hate Bataille's "heterology" – from the Greek word for difference – concerns the different as such. It is the difference that must be expelled from the same in order for the same to be the same. In bodily terms: excretions of all kinds; in the body-politic: sacrifice…
Read MoreIn an infinite universe must even impossible events happen at least once?
Found : In an infinite universe must even impossible events happen at least once? As for the OP, you'll want to read Many Worlds in One [2006] by Alex Vilenkin. Like frog march, Vilenkin posits that "if something has a non-zero chance of happening in a universe that is infinite and with infinite time, then…
Read MorePsychedelics inspired Biblical visions of the prophet Moses
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of…
Read MoreThe oscillating universe theory rides again
A joint UK-US team has put forward an alternative theory of cosmic evolution [which] proposes that the Universe undergoes cycles of "Big Bangs" and "Big Crunches", meaning our Universe is merely a "child of the previous one". It challenges the conventional view of the cosmos, which observations show to be 12-14 billion years old. The…
Read MoreAstrobiology: The Living Universe
Found : Astrobiology: The Living Universe A theory called panspermia states that the Earth was "seeded" with life when celestial objects collided with the Earth. The term panspermia is Greek for ‘seeds everywhere’. While the idea of life on Earth having originated elsewhere in the galaxy had been discussed by ancient greek philosophers, the modern…
Read MoreKohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
Kohlberg's concept of consecutive stages of moral development is rich with theological implications. An application of his theory to the story of God's dealing with ancient Israel, offers a rational explanation of actions on God's part which may seem harsh or unduly severe from our perspective. ((http://www.aggelia.com/htdocs/kohlberg.shtml))
Read MoreNeanderthals were not 'stupid,' says new research
Found : Neanderthals were not ‘stupid,’ says new research LONDON (AFP) — Neanderthals were not as stupid as they have been portrayed, according to new research Tuesday showing their stone tools were as good as those made by the early ancestors of modern humans, Homo sapiens. The findings by a team of scientists at British…
Read MoreGeorges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism
Found : Georges Bataille: ecstasy and the uneasiness of postmodernism French philosophers of the 20th century… took the new insights of Friedrich Nietzsche to its extreme and developed a totally new and unheard of philosophy: postmodernism. Crucial in the development of this new philosophy is the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962). This French philosopher combined…
Read MoreIntelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity
Found : Intelligent Design and Irreducible Complexity Intelligent design is a science perspective which infers that natural laws and chance alone are not adequate to explain all natural phenomena. Intelligent design is closely synonymous to creation science. It may only be distinguished by the fact that it makes no claims about who the creator was,…
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