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| Jesus handing over the Holy Grail to Joseph of Arimathea |
What if the resurrection of Jesus can somehow be proven? Or at least made very plausible. What on earth would that solve?! It would simply make everything even more complicated. I mean, the delay of the parousia. And 1000+ other things...
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Varför är inte detta en större nyhet? Det verkar som att beslaget gjordes i Barentsburg (detta nämns dock inte i Yles artikel), som ryssarna med stor sannolikhet betraktar som sitt territorium. Och som de facto nog är det också.
Tänk om Svalbard blir Rysslands nästa måltavla...?
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Kramkalaset mellan Åkesson och Mohamsson fortsätter. Fast okej, det är väl *lite* pikant med en nyssnasse och en palestinier som båda stödjer Israel, LOL. Nysspalestinier? Vilket dock inte var vad "debatten" handlade om (har inte orkat kolla upp den).
Själv tycker jag mest bara att det är roligt att Arbetsförmedlingens kontrollapparat-på-entreprenad har misslyckats. Och det är stor underhållning när C och L skyller fiaskot på varandra! Apropå den senaste skandalen, och så vidare.
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JMG is just repeating some old stuff here, but...he is right (more or less).
I sometimes wonder if the prevalence of doom porn has an even more "mundane" explanation: some people don´t think *anything* will change. The doomer stuff is their way of fighting grey boredom in Suburbia.
And yes, I´m old enough to remember the Y2K nothing-burger. Plus a number of other nothing-burgers, both of the apocalyptic and Eternal Progress varieties.
My prediction is that JMG will still be writing this stuff about 2050! ;-)
A recent critique of the so-called Third Way of Evolution (or Third Way). I assumed TWE was a legitimate - albeit controversial - participant in the scientific debates on Neo-Darwinism, but according to the video above, TWE has diplomatic relations with creationists from the Discovery Institute.
The famed "crisis meeting" at the British Royal Society, which is often mentioned by creationists, was actually called by TWE´s founder Denis Noble himself. In other words, it was simply a TWE-adjacent meeting, not some kind of official scientific conference trying to salvage a evolutionary theory in deep trouble. Some fellows from the Discovery Institute were invited to participate.
The critics charge that TWE has no scientific standing. That is, their research (if they even do any) isn´t leading anywhere. The more speculative supporters of TWE believe that the individual organism can willingly chose to evolve! There is currently no evidence for this super-Lamarckian take on things.
Meanwhile, standard evolutionary science has already incorporated other mechanisms besides natural selection working on genetic mutations, for instance epigenetic inheritance, so "narrow Neo-Darwinism" isn´t a thing anymore. This extended synthesis explains things just fine and has lead to huge progress in the medical field (which happens to be Noble´s field).
But note that Sam McKee (the guy on the left in the video) speaks highly of Simon Conway Morris, who is a Christian and believes that evolutionary convergence is an argument for teleology and hence God. Conway Morris recently got a huge grant from the Templeton Foundation. McKee also points to remarkable convergence all across the board in evolution, but never explicitly draws the same conclusion as his collegue. Yet, McKee is a Christian himself.
Maybe there is more to discover here...
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Källan är en avhoppare, men även den amerikanska militären undersökte ju om djur kunde ha övernaturliga förmågor. Och människor! Så visst kan detta vara sant. Och sanslöst.
Makabert experiment skulle testa kaniners övernaturliga förmågor
My result on the "Tellegen Absorption Scale" was only 5 out of 34. So is *that* why I never have any spiritual or religious experiences? Or almost never. Damn. I suppose I will never see the sky fairies and their luminous orbs...
