Tag: God
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Believing in God. Losing. Being true. (no, He will NOT save you! And that is a good thing!)
People believe in God because they believe He will save them. Because they believe He will make their lives better. But God does not do that. His own son died and suffered. God simply exists. And loves us. Death is here. Misery is here. We just have to understand what “here” is… Losing and suffering…
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Bayesian statistics and the role of God in Science.
Statistics may not sound like the most heroic of pursuits. But if not for statisticians, a Long Island fisherman might have died in the Atlantic Ocean after falling off his boat early one morning last summer. The man owes his life to a once obscure field known as Bayesian statistics — a set of mathematical…
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Atheism turning into Religion via Consciousness…
For materialists around the world it is almost taken for granted that everything from physics to biology, including the mind, ultimately comes down to four fundamental concepts: matter and energy interacting in an arena of space and time. But there are skeptics who suspect we may be missing a crucial piece of the puzzle. Since…
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Sand castles, dirt, God, “creation”…
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that has two ‘foreign’ DNA building blocks in…
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Old theories. New theories. All the same… (?!)
When physicists translated a 13th-century Latin text into modern equations, they discovered that the English theologian who wrote it had unwittingly predicted the idea of the multiverse in 1225. While the work probably won’t advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive. In particular, Tom…
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