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Life
The basic inorganic building blocks from which life was formed are chemicals such as methane, ammonia, water, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide, and likely a few more. To date no credible scientific theory has been advanced that can account for … Continue reading
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Tagged elementary particles, evolution, life, life-forms, the building blocks of life, the cosmos is a living organism
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Our Heavenly Home
… But Trailing Clouds Of Glory Do We Come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” (William Wordsworth) Apart from the obligatory nod to the prevailing local deity at the time that this was … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, cosmos, evolution, theoretical physics, Very Large Telescopes, VLT
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The Human Body is Largely not Human
This was a headline in the Scientist of June 13, 2012. The corresponding article by Ed Young based on The Human Microbiome Project Consortium, Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome (Nature, 486: 207-214, 2012) went on as … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, microbes, symbiosis, symbiotic, The Human Microbiome Project Consortium
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Creatures Made Of Stardust
This realization strikes me every so often, and continues to fill me with awe: as this is what we are in the larger scale of things, in addition to being a creature made of flesh and blood here on earth! … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, evolution, People, Politics & Culture, stardust, the human body
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Getting Organized for the Future
You would think that – if life is inherent in matter – and evolution drives the process of reaching ever higher levels of organizational complexity within it, there would be a continuation of this process in the collective consciousness that … Continue reading
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Tagged collective consciousness, evolution, the future
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Creatures of Flesh and Blood
So, yes, that is what we are, basically – but am I alone in thinking that this is little more than arrangement that happens to work for the moment, insofar this appears to be a somewhat hastily coddled together assembly … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, consciousness, evolution, human body
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Leave Your Brain At Home When You Go To Church
In 1962 – not really all that long ago – the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church issued the following monitum – or reprimand – regarding the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (1881-1955), a French Jesuit priest who … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, Monitum, Original Sin, Relious Doctrine, Roman Catholic Church, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
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Creationism and other Bedtime Stories
Over the years I have watched – somewhat bemused, I must admit – the ongoing debate between the proponents of the theory of evolution and those who hold that everything that exists today is the instantaneous product of an act … Continue reading
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The Cosmos Explained – Well, Maybe …
There is a scene in the movie Terminator 2, where the next generation terminator – who had morphed himself into a cop – is frozen solid after a tanker truck filled with liquid nitrogen spills its load all over him. … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmology, cosmos, evolution
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The Evolution of the Global Mind
Is the Cosmos here for us, or are we here for the Cosmos? Then again, it could be neither, or both, or we are just innocent bystanders, and a by-product – if not a casualty – of a cosmic cataclysm … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, evolution, homo faber, homo sapiens
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