people struggling to understand powerful natural forces imagined them as human in order to mitigate their fear of the unknown. The tradition of personifying nature continues to this day, for example in the practice of giving personal names to hurricanes. The personification...
Ultimately, I realized that those words were rooted in the biblical Exodus Passover story; and I intuited that spiritual “freedom” is the essential mythical message of that story. I concluded that the Passover story symbolically emphasizes escape from outer bondage to a Divinely ‘promi...
— what Mrs. Thomas knows: that the LORD is God, and that we didn’t make ourselves. The LORD is the Creator; we are among the creatures of the land. Like sheep safely grazing in the shepherd’s pasture, or goslings paddling under their parents’ watchful care. Enter into his gates w...
Do you realize that sheep cannot survive in the wild without people to look after them? There is no ‘wild’ in them, and never was. They have no natural means of self defense, and they are too stupid to fend for themselves. Besides, who would shear them? Without shearing, they will...
Evolution, the Bible, and the Book of NatureA conversation with Francis Collins.July/August 2009Editor's note: Science in Focus is on vacation in July, so we're going to the archives for science-related pieces from the pages of Books & Culture. This week we're featuring a piece by Karl...
N. Neuropeptide changes and neuroactive amino acids in CSF from humans and sheep with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs, Batten disease). Neurochem. Int. 55, 783–788 (2009). CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Breedveld, G. J. et al. A new locus for a childhood onset, slowly...
“were not of his sheep” and because of such could not hear His voice and follow Him (John 10:16-29), He was referring to those whom John would later identify as people who were characterized by the spirit of truth and the spirit of error (1 John 4:5-6). That is, the two ...
“‘For farmers like me it’s a bit strange to treat sheep like pets,’ John said. Self-catering guests arrive at Rowley Farm from February to May to feed hay to her pregnant ewes, and to bottle-feed orphan lambs who have been abandoned by their mothers or are the thirds in triplets...
Matthew 10: 5-6,Jesus told them,“Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to theLOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.”He added, preach that thekingdom is at hand. Why would Christ say those words? The answer, actually, is quite simple. The...
The Coast Guard recently responded to a pile of so-called polar bear poop on a nearby peninsula. It turned out to be from a swan. Another report turned out to be a Yeti-like sheep that had lost its flock and wintered solo, emerging with a massive, shaggy, white wool coat. Over ...