Previously, there was the article that exposed the deception of the world of science, concerning Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 (http://inewp.com/?p=8569).  It was determined that science didn’t want to tell the whole truth, about how the comet kept up with the orbit of Jupiter, else they would have to answer a lot of “embarrassing” questions. Now, closer to home, we have...

Distraught, can not begin to describe this flurry of emotion. Lied to? Everything the system ever taught me was a farce! The pastors, priests, theologians, all lied. I was led to believe that Evolution was a joke, and that Creation was the only explanation for everything that has breathe, life, vitality. If not for the theological implications such as, the atomic theory,...

The present foundation of Anerican class structure both is and is not similar to that of the British Empire which has given rise to so many good tales because Brit class offers so many social precipices to fall over.  Someone asked in a recent review why there were no good tales of American class structure and asserted that “class” was certainly there.  There has...

The first post I wrote about perfume was sort of off-hand, a simple list of the perfumes I’ve worn over the years, where they came from (sometimes gifts, esp. in the beginning) and what they have meant.  I’ve always been very interested in smells for some reason. Then I read “The Emperor of Scent” by Chandler Burr about Luca Turin and was impressed at his analysis...

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?  Fish, reptiles, and birds lay eggs.  If these adult species are only given life by means of the egg hatching process, how did the first fish, reptiles and birds come into existence?  Evolution?  If so, why isn’t all life hatched out of an egg?  Is this to be explained with the same sort of reasoning which produced the...

Stigma is first of all, at the level of animal wiring, a matter of appearance, something that sets the person apart because it looks “different.”  Not repellent necessarily, but unusual.  It’s the white crow phenomenon: a white crow will be excluded and even attacked by the black crows.  Is there a book called “the white crow” to go with “the black swan?” ...

On Easter Sunday, April 15th in 1990, I was visiting a church near my home in Penn Hills, PA.  A lady in Sunday School asked the pastor “How can I teach my teen-aged children about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they are being taught evolution in school?”.  All the pastor would say is “just believe the Bible”.  I considered that a copout, and realized...

The radical transformations of Western Christianity from about 1800 to today can be seen as three acts in an unfinished play.   Act One was staged against the background of the ancient three-story universe that was assumed by those who wrote the Bible, and still believed by most of our country’s founders in the late 1700s.  That ancient universe was a small, local...

Continuing last Monday’s Musing (http://inewp.com/?p=5268) here are six more areas in which our developing “hard” sciences replaced or marginalized religion in Western cultures (the first four have strong family resemblances): 7. Symbols and metaphors were replaced by scientific literalisms and facts. If scientists had nothing more exact than symbols and metaphors,...

With most “Science vs. Religion” harangues centered on the theory of evolution — did Adam really have a pet dinosaur? — it’s easy to miss the larger fact that even by a century ago, religion had already lost most of its territory to sciences.  American churches have not kept up with population growth in over a century (1). By 2005, church attendance was declining...