People have always been afraid of the unknown and have gone out of their way to find answers to the mysteries and terrors of life. Most have done this by seeking reassurance from creative stories told by people everywhere from the earliest of times. In many of these, both good and bad go...
A third type of biological explanation gives less importance to brute force and violence, and suggests that through millions of years of evolution, men and women evolved different survival and reproduction strategies. As men competed against each other for the opportunity to impregnate fertile women, ...
and is still merely atheory. The Theory of Evolution,notthe Law of Evolution is a mere UNPROVEN hypothesis, which the dictionary defines as "amere assumption or guess or a proposition, or a group of proposals, offered as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena....
Once the initial shock of the “unusual” or “blasphemous” nature of the Gnostic explanation for suffering and imperfection of the world wears off, one may begin to recognize that it is in fact the most sensible of all explanations. To appreciate it fully, however, a familiarity with the ...
In a nutshell, the WOF teaching is based on a gnostic interpretation of the Fall and of redemption. The following is my paraphrase of their explanation: When God created Adam, He gave him all dominion over the earth, to rule and reign as God’s regent. However, when Adam fell, by obey...
This gap was particularly large among Republicans. Thirty-nine percent of those who were exposed to the pope’s image said they considered it a moral issue, compared to 30 percent among those who were not. That’s a potentially important shift, as pondering about theethical consequences...