How can we advance as a species when we have people who believe there is something greater than humankind (God)?
Humans are the pinnacle of existence on this planet. We should be pouring money into science, uniting countries under a single language, no religion, no war. We need to explore...
I am taking a high school religion course and one of the assignments is to find a prayer and a song that discusses humanity.
the statements about humanity are:
humans are...
1.persons created in the image and likeness of God
2. called to happiness and holiness
3. rational and free
4. moral...
"America will mobilize and raise $1 million in a month to save a beached whale (because it is considered helpless and innocent) and walk right on past a mentally ill woman talking to herself in a box. We don't respect, acknowledge or help the mentally ill unless there is a profit to be made in...
A decade-long medical study involving over 1,800 patients has shown some interesting results:
1. Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery.
2. Patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative...
Cheeseburger, chicken and bacon in a can? I'm not so sure. But am I the only one who thinks that the prospect of ribs in a can is so crazy that it just might work? More »
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Educating the poor is more than just a numbers game, says Shukla Bose. She tells the story of her groundbreaking Parikrma Humanity Foundation, which brings hope to India's slums by looking past the daunting statistics and focusing on treating each child as an individual.Shukla Bose is the...
Forget about nuclear winter. Humans are resilient. We will survive. So how many nukes will it take to destroy every single human being in the planet, on first blast? Here's the calculation in graphic form—with a surprising answer:
The first part of the graphic—created by David McCandless—shows...
I truly want to know if it is at all possible for humanity ever to get past religion. I am in college right now studying law and astronomy, and currently, much of the science department is in shambles right now in arguments over Creation Science and actual Science.
I want to know if Religion...
... the loci of diving concern, or some other special status?
Why is it as if we are always the center of things, that the universe was supposedly created only because we would be in it? Or in the case of theistic religions, that we are the 'finest' of said deities creations?
Why so ego-centric?
whether its god,spirits,ascension or enlightenment, what with banks struggling, redundancy's, governments on shaky ground, etc, is it the end of the world, a shack up or the next step in our development.
p.s be as serious or funny as you like in your answer
have created? Do you think that the future of humanity will be the creations that we humans have created?
I.E. will future generations of humans be highly advance robots.
Like will organic humans do something so catastrophic that we annihilate ourselves and all that is left over is our...