Descent Of Man Revisited

By Gregory Paul From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity A truly strange thing has happened to American Christianity. A set of profound contradictions have developed within modern conservative Christianity, big and telling inconsistencies that have long slipped under the radar of public knowledge, and are only now beginning to be explicitly noted by critics of [...]

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The History of Torture—Why We Can’t Give It Up: Some 150 years ago, the West all but abandoned torture. It has returned with a vengeance In 1849, pacifists felt history was on their side. A series of idealistic revolutions had shaken autocratic regimes across Europe the previous year, extending universal voting rights in many countries [...]

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Six Million Years of Savanna: Grasslands, Wooded Grasslands Accompanied Human Evolution ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2011) — University of Utah scientists used chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover — in effect, shade — and found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ancestors and their ape relatives [...]

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Is Our Universe Inside a Bubble? First Observational Test of the ‘Multiverse’ ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2011) — The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles — making up the ‘multiverse’ — is, for the first time, being tested by physicists. Two research papers [...]

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