Faith is Irrational
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Shops.... so burglarsShops exist and so, sadly, burglars too. Which came first, the shop or the burglar? I accidentally drop $10 on the ground unnoticed. A stranger sees me drop the $10. One person will return the money to me. Another will pocket it themselves. Which came first, the drop or the thief? Would the ...
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Is rationalism rational?If it is possible to be rational about rationality (rationalism), then it is possible to be rational about anything. Everything we do and are requires an act of faith to believe we can do it or be it. Waking up in the morning requires the faith and thus motivation to believe that the day ...
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NYC Bike Lane Brouhaha No Laughing Matter | Autopia | Wired.comThe city Department of Transportation said it removed the bike lane “as part of ongoing bike network adjustments in the area.” It is redirecting traffic to Kent Avenue, a street the city feels is more appropriate for cycling because it’s got a two-way bike lane. But some cycling advocates ...
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From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1) | FRONTLINE | PBS VideoSearch FRONTLINE From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Pt. 1) The story of the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity. Details ...
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Sorcery Charges On The Rise In Saudi Arabia : NPRA Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali Hussain Sibat's popular call-in show was broadcast on a satellite TV channel in Arabic around the ...
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Al-Qaida leader’s wife: Women join jihad - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.comThe wife of al-Qaida’s No. 2 official purportedly is urging Muslim women to help militants, even to the point of carrying out suicide missions. A statement released Wednesday, said to be from the wife of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's Egyptian deputy and second-in-command, encouraged ...
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Jerusalem tomb discovery casts further doubt on Turin Shroud - TelegraphArchaeologists say they have discovered the first known pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in Jerusalem, casting doubt on the authenticity of the Turin Shroud. Researchers believe the fabric of the fragments, the first of their kind to be discovered in Jerusalem, are of a ...
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The Moral Math of Climate Change [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media]Search: The Moral Math of Climate Change December 10, 2009 A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on ...
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Farmer sees divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy - Yahoo! NewsA holy cow in Connecticut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf with a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border. Owner Brad Davis tells WFSB-TV he thinks the marking may ...
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Good Genes: How Science Helped the Samaritans Find Their Roots Boing BoingGood Genes: How Science Helped the Samaritans Find Their Roots The Parable of the Good Samaritan is pretty well-known. Even if you haven't had much exposure to the New Testament of The Bible, you probably know the gist of the story: Traveler gets the crap beat out of him by thieves, who then ...
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