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...
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...
Furthermore, when Jesus referred to people who could not believe Him because they “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 ...
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...
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...
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of that same universe at a succeeding moment. — Henri Poincaré In 'Chance', Science et Méthode (1908). Quoted in Richard Kautz, Chaos: The Science of ...
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences ...
“We become so involved in the work we do that we usually don’t take the time to reflect on deeper issues. Being outdoors lends itself to this kind of reflection. And sitting around a campfire can be a great time to think about what really matters.”–Ed Weatherby, Hunter ...
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...
First, we need three female sheep and take a kind of cell from the first sheep, then take out the center of the cell. And then take another kind of cell from the second sheep, and also take out the center of the cell, and then put the center of the cell taken from the fi...