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A team of scientists at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, say that their latest study on the effects of faith on daily behaviors and lifestyle choices appears to indicate the those who believe in God tend to become less motivated to achieve something in their lives.
Experts noticed in a series of experiments t... |
28 October 2011
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking apparently manages to get spirit all riled up with every public statement he makes, but the latest one was bound to cause a stir. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he argued that there is no heaven after death. During the interview, he argued that every human should strive to ma... |
17 May 2011
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Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline says that if you feel you're angry at God sometimes, you shouldn’t worry, because you're not the only one, and this is actual an ancient feeling.After trying a different approach of the matter, Exline, an associate professor in Case Western Re... |
3 January 2011
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One of the most famous scientists in the world says that given the laws of gravity, there was no need of a divine intervention for the creation of the Universe.Stephen Hawking says in The Grand Design, a book co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow and appearing September 9, that the Big Bang was inevitab... |
2 September 2010
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Belief in God can be a powerful thing, people usually say, but a new research shows that the power may not be used to do good. A team of investigators found in a new research that people who had been primed before experiments to think about God were less likely to experience anxiety related to making mistakes. This c... |
6 August 2010
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While reading Apple’s Repair Terms and Conditions, we noticed the document included such service exclusions as extreme temperature or humidity, static electricity, fire and, believe it or not, “acts of God”. If you happen to stumble across this account in Apple's or other vendors' terms an... |
19 April 2010
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A new scientific investigation has recently revealed that most American citizens believe that God plays a very important part in their lives. They think that divine power helps them decide on their everyday problems, and also that it inspires them in their choices. The US citizens also believe that God has a vested i... |
11 March 2010
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A new study by the respected organization Pew Research Center has recently determined that Americans living in the United States tend to have a contradictory set of beliefs, but that they are willing to accept them together. The work may lead to new investigations into the human mind, which seems to be able to dismis... |
11 December 2009
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In a find that could explain why some people feel a close and direct “relationship” with their respective gods, scientists have determined that each individual tends to endow the deity with their own personal beliefs. These may include views on abortion and same-gender marriages. Persuaded that they speak... |
1 December 2009
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According to a respected Old Testament scholar, it may be that the beginning of the Book of Genesis from the Bible has been mistranslated continuously ever since the book was made available in languages other than ancient Hebrew. Professor Ellen van Wolde, who is also a respected author, adds that the sentence &ldquo... |
13 October 2009
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Despite the fact that religion is present in all cultures, and it is widely promoted around the world, scientists have yet to determine if religious belief is in any way different from normal cognition. While it is clear that the human brain reacts differently to religious or non-religious statements, the basic mecha... |
5 October 2009
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Spore, EA and Maxis’ God game, has received a fourth patch on both Mac and PC. The update delivers fixes and improvements reported and suggested by players worldwide. Besides gameplay tuning, the option for players to reach all Grox worlds has been added, as well as the ability to download creations from the Sp... |
29 June 2009
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Over recent years, many popular books and movies have made us wonder whether we are in touch with a “cosmic consciousness,” through the mechanisms of quantum physics. Butterfly effects, separate realities, and collective consciousnesses are all themes that have been exploited to the full, albeit not alway... |
26 June 2009
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It seems that pastors, priests, and believers of different creeds really have a thing for predicting widespread cataclysms on Earth, in the hope of getting people to join their ranks and repent. And while the final devastation is, indeed, predicted in the Book of Apocalypse, and some current events may be construed a... |
11 March 2009
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A new scientific paper, published in this week's edition of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes to prove that the human brain doesn't have a single “God spot” in it, but rather that belief in a higher power is the trigger for increased activity in certai... |
10 March 2009
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New research conducted by scientists seems to demonstrate that our brains are hardwired since birth to believe in the existence of a higher power, as evidenced by the fact that even small children believe that objects in nature have been placed there for a reason, and not by chance. Psychologists say that if people a... |
2 March 2009
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Over the past few years, more and more courts in the US and elsewhere have begun telling creationists that the idea that God formed the world is not a scientific theory, and, as such, it cannot be thought in publicly-funded schools. And while the move sparked intense waves of criticism from some, evolutionists salute... |
2 March 2009
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Over the past few decades, researchers have been deeply interested in the way men and women perceive the notion of a god, or a higher, universal spirit. During the first such research, it came as no surprise to anyone that women believed in such entities more than men, but, in truth, no one could say for sure why tha... |
2 March 2009
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Over the years, and especially starting with the late 18th century and early 19th century, theories of how life came to be moved outside the church's sphere of influence, and into the realm of science. Although this should have brought forth a new age in knowledge, based on facts and not on fantasy, that was har... |
6 February 2009
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The fact that the Church and scientists have been in opposition for at least the last 400 years has seeded into our minds the fact that the two have to be fundamentally opposed to each other. Thus, both cannot be true at the same time, a line of thought that is visible in the most common question ever – How was... |
16 January 2009
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Almost all of the domains of entertainment have a few figures that stand out, some for the best of reasons, but others for some very bad rationales, or thanks to their weird behavior. Such is the case with Jack Thompson, the now disbarred lawyer who went on a rampage against the Grand Theft Auto franchise, because he... |
6 January 2009
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Religiousness is a soft spot when it comes to being president or any other kind of country leader, wherever in the world. A vast majority of people hold on to their religious beliefs and would expect the same from their ruler, up to the extent where they would not vote for a candidate that is an atheist. In spite of ... |
10 December 2008
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Christmas is, perhaps, the holiday dearest to the majority of people. Almost everybody likes snow, fir trees, presents and to believe in Santa Claus. Although they know it's not real, parents tend to perpetuate the myth of the red-suited jolly old man that brings presents for everyone during Christmas Eve. They ... |
9 December 2008
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A study presented by the British newspaper Daily Mail indicates that nowadays people are more prone to believe in little green men from the outer space and their hat-shaped flying saucers, or even in ghosts haunting old houses and woods than in God. This may come as a surprise, given that one would expect the Al... |
25 November 2008
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Belief in a higher and influential power has existed on Earth as far back as the first people. Be it that they worshiped fire, water, the air or the Sun, people have always felt the necessity of having someone above them to turn to when things get rough. This need was the subject of a new, first-of-its-kind scientifi... |
1 November 2008
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A new adobe temple named Collud has been uncovered in the northern region of the Lambayeque valley in Peru. The third such edifice to be found in the area, the temple seems to have been dedicated to a spider god by its builders, the little-known civilization of Cupinisque, who ruled the area for about five centuries... |
30 October 2008
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Less than a week ago, a somewhat peculiar idea, proposed by a writer from The Guardian publication, Ariane Sherine, in a June blog post, has been brought to life. As she suggested, the freedom of religious affiliation should be publicly displayed on local buses in the form of a message stating “There's pro... |
27 October 2008
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Recently, a legislator from Nebraska has filed a lawsuit against God, but it was dismissed by the court before it even began since, according to the state laws, a plaintiff must reach the defendant, and there was no address specified. There were quite a few movies on the theme of suing God, and perhaps they hav... |
16 October 2008
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AcroDesign Technologies has announced the release of its downloadable, native, NIV iPhone Bible. AcroBible is a downloadable, offline, annual-fee based Bible which boasts the ability to search for words or phrases, create bookmarks, attach notes to any verse, and highlight verses in up to six colors. Users just pay o... |
8 September 2008
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MacSword is a free piece of Mac software that enables one to read and browse many Bible translations into different languages. Just updated to version 1.4.0, the open source app now boasts over 200 modules in 50 languages, all available from the Crosswire Bible Society. Bibles, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries an... |
31 July 2008
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The letter sent by Albert Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954 - " one year before the physicist's death" - detailing his beliefs about God and the Jewish people was auctioned on Thursday at Bloomsbury Auctions in London, and sold for the sum of 404,000 US dollars, including the buyer's prem... |
17 May 2008
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Astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, revealed in an interview published yesterday that the Vatican believed that alien life might exist and that it didn't necessarily mean it contradicted the belief in God. Makes you remember the cheerful days of the middle ages, doesn't ... |
14 May 2008
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The pantheon of the ancient Egyptians was rich in diverse deities. The question inevitably arises: how could this polytheist religion influence later monotheist religions?The Sun GodThe main Egyptian deity was Amon Re, the king of all gods and the Sun God. The Sun had a central position in the religion of the ancient... |
13 May 2008
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The Sun had a central position in the religion of the ancient Egyptians. First, it was represented as the golden scarab, Hepri, symbolizing the becoming. Then, the hieroglyph of Sun, the proper god Ra (Re), appeared, as a circle with a point in the middle. A first rank god, Ra personified the Sun as source of vital f... |
27 March 2008
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You are more familiar with cultural festivals, focused on music or movies, or maybe with Oktoberfest. But those tiny hard working Japanese, so sober at a first glance, can go crazy in some occasions. If you hurry up, in just about 2 weeks you can be a participant in the annual three-day Kanamara (Iron Phallus) Festiv... |
20 March 2008
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It's easy to just pick a story whenever there's a slow news day and write off-topic, but when the topic is as high in the clouds as this one, there's nothing really left to do but stare at the picture for minutes without blinking and trying to make sense of all the underlying logic and implications. Wh... |
19 March 2008
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Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi represented, for centuries, the most sought and famous oracle of the ancient world. The spiritual influence and the magic connotations the oracle caused in the mind of the people made the city located at the base of the Pa... |
18 March 2008
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These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan furthe... |
18 March 2008
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Sharks are amongst the least understood creatures. A complex mythology depicting the shark as a mystical animal emerged in many cultures. Polynesian myths and legends talk about Kauhuhu, the shark god, which lives in a deep submarine cave or palace that cannot be seen by anybody. Up to 11 shark-gods are found in the ... |
15 March 2008
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Well, the truth is we don't know much about whether or not the son of God, Jesus Christ, ever existed in this world, but there is a good probability that Moses did. He is depicted throughout multiple religions as a prophet of God. The Holly Bible describes in the Old Testament how Moses, who was leading the exod... |
5 March 2008
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Just like the Aztecs, the Inca empire had only one century to flourish. The empire was built around the city capital of Cuzco. The Incas conquered and assimilated their neighboring populations so that, at the arrival of the Spaniards, their empire had about 12 million inhabitants, speaking 20 different languages and ... |
20 February 2008
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1. The Israelite shepherd tribes wandered for centuries through the steppes and deserts of the Middle East until they left the nomad life for an agricultural one when, under the leadership of a man called Joshua, they established into Canaan (the Promised Land). But this happened only after chasing away the initial i... |
1 February 2008
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If you do not have a proof of our evolutionary past, here comes this tea estate Indian worker: Chandre Oram, from Alipurduar of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal has a 13 inch (32.5 cm) long and one inch (2.5 cm) thick tail. Far from being frightening, this tail attracts thousands of poor people worshiping him as a... |
1 February 2008
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The word "totem" comes from the Ojibwa, an Algonquin language from the north of the Great Lakes of North America. "Ototeman" would mean "he is of my clan". The totem would express the belonging to a clan. Totem was an animal or plant, rarely an object, believed by a tribe to be its ancestor or protector, and therefo... |
31 January 2008
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1. Some Indian tribes avoid killing it while others adore it as a divinity. In the Precolumbian America, victims, especially children, were sacrificed to the Snake God. Hopi Indians from Arizona, during the Snakes' Dance, dance holding in their hands rattlesnakes, controlled using their mouths. The dance is the ... |
30 January 2008
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If you always thought that religion is one of those areas where everybody finds inner peace in his/her own way, having a personal connection to whatever God he/she is praying to, you must not be a fan of Mike Huckabee. The Southern Baptist minister and Republican presidential candidate has just had the idea to go for... |
29 January 2008
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There were three great civilizations in America before its discovery by the Europeans: Aztec, Inca and Maya; but Maya of southern Mexico and Guatemala was by far the most advanced, culturally and artistically. The Maya built complex temples and palaces before the arrival of the Spaniards.The most important Maya citie... |
23 January 2008
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The Aztecs founded their bloody empire around A.D. 1200, and their civilization lasted only 300 years, while their empire dominated the area only 100 years before falling under the sword of the conquistadors. Still, at its peak, the empire spread from central Mexico to Guatemala, and it was one of the most advanced c... |
9 January 2008
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1.The five Olympic circles represent the five continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia. They are connected to symbolize the sports friendship amongst all the people in the world. 2.The Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius" means "faster, higher, stronger" in Latin. 3.The Olympic flame burned ... |
7 December 2007
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Their origins are traced in ancient Egypt, but they "traveled" around the world, reaching cities like Istanbul, London, Paris, Rome and New York. The obelisk is a stone column with four sides thinning towards the upper part and ending with a pointed, pyramidal top. The oldest obelisks are 4,000 years old, while the ... |
29 November 2007
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