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...
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 ...
When I was in graduate school, I could spend hours with my eyes to a microscope looking at chromosomes of triticale, histological specimens of mouse testes, and morphological characteristics of sheep sperm. So fascinating! When I lifted my eyes from the microscopic world, I tended to look clos...
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...
They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. 39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had bee...
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 ...
“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 ...
In my later years way of thinking I passed on four shots on does but when the hunting mode hit me the instincts took over and a shot was made. I am getting soft hearted with age and the concerns of dragging deer any distance are always present. ...
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...