Category Archives: Belief or Not

Faith and doubt, plus whatever’s in the middle

Complexity, Creativity & Randomness

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Adam

Random Reality § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Marcus Chown discusses the information content of the Universe – what has pumped “information” into what began as a very simple world? Chown points out that ‘random’ sequences require more information to describe than ‘ordered’ & … Continue reading →

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I Dream of the City

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Adam

I dream of a City, but not like any we know in our Time. This City is more like a forest – of crystal columns, thinking inscrutable thoughts. But the City is powerful – it reaches across all Times, drawing … Continue reading →

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The Night Land (II)

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Adam

Part (I) William Hope Hodgson’s “The Night Land” is a perfect example of fin de cicle, end of the World, style writing from the end of the old naive belief in progress and bellicose sabre-rattling that had marked progressive thought … Continue reading →

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Neuro-Theology Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Adam

Dr. Michael Persinger is a researcher in neuroscience at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. He has made a wide-range of often controversial claims for the origins of “spiritual” experiences – for example, that magnetic stimulation of the brain can … Continue reading →

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The Gospel of Peter, translated by Raymond Brown

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Adam

The Gospel of Peter, translated by Raymond Brown. As provided by Peter Kirby’s indispensable “Early Christian Writings”. The key verses are… [55] And having gone off, they found the sepulcher opened. And having come forward, they bent down there and … Continue reading →

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Einstein-Rosen Bridge to New Universe…

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Adam

Physics Letters B, Volume 687, Issues 2-3, 12 April 2010, Pages 110-113 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.029 Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Radial motion into an Einstein–Rosen bridge Nikodem J. Pop?awski (a), E-mail The Corresponding Author (a) Department of Physics, Indiana … Continue reading →

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Jesus – More than a Carpenter?

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Adam

Dr. Adam Bradford, a GP in the UK, has written a new book which poses the view that Jesus was more influential in 1st Century Judaism than we’ve been led to believe by the standard exegesis of the Gospels. Bradford … Continue reading →

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Einstein-Rosen Wormholes versus Schwarzschild Black-Holes

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Adam

Our universe at home within a larger universe? So suggests wormhole research. Nikodem Poplawski, a physicist at Indiana University, has recently had this paper, Radial motion into the Einstein-Rosen bridge, published by Physics Letters B. The news bite elaborates on … Continue reading →

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God of the Goofs

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Adam

Theology and theodicy are fraught with pitfalls and surprises. Amateur theology even more so. Here’s a review that is a case in point… A caring God would not have designed us like this …discussing a review of a new book, … Continue reading →

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Odds & Sods News, Australia Day 2010

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Adam

Callisto & Ganymede, twin moons of Jupiter, yet so unalike. Why? Dr Amy Barr and Dr Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) believe the two moons diverged in their evolutionary paths about 3.8 million years ago, during the … Continue reading →

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