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Genetic material from outer space found in a meteorite in Australia may well have played a key role in the origin of life on earth, according to a study to be published. European and US scientists...
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When it comes to human existence, our lives are short, brutish affairs, and the sooner we recognize our mortality, the healthier we will be. Whether it's the belief in heaven, as in Christianity, or...
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Researchers have long noted that happier people tend to be in better health than those who are persistently stressed. Now, a study of nearly 3,000 healthy British adults carried out by Dr. Andrew...
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Despite having spent years developing a notion of a life after death, Canadian philosopher John Leslie describes himself as an atheist. He is also professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, in...
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Everything about America is done to the max—super sized—including ourselves. Americans are fond of excess, fond of glitz and glitter, the bright beads and trinkets of capitalism; the symbols of...
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A couple of cosmologists claim that humans are doing more than destroying the environment, we could be shortening the life of the universe itself. Their ideas are based upon Quantum Mechanics and how ...
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The earth in which we live is in trouble. According to the world's governments and top scientists, we are turning the seas acid through the same pollution that has caused global warming. This is just ...
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GodTube is the name of the famous and popular YouTube’s newest upstart competitor, which now has a clip of a little girl, wearing a “Princess” T-shirt, reciting the 23rd Psalm from the Bible, that...
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David Levy, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, believes that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts in the United States, will become the first ...
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American evangelical preacher Oral Roberts, 89, has made hundreds of millions through religion and built Oral Roberts University "on the instructions of God" he said, but something seems to have gone ...
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"There is no doubt in my mind that the orbs may well be one of the most significant ‘outside of this reality’ phenomena mankind has ever witnessed." -- Klaus Heinemann, Ph.D. At first, it seemed no...
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But some are becoming more attuned to religion because patients want faith issues addressed as part of their care. Psychiatrists are the least religious physicians, a new study shows. Psychiatrists...
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BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to work, high school teacher Graham Wright recited a favorite Anglican prayer and asked God for strength in the day ahead. Then two years ago, he...
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Human beings are still evolving, and chances are that there is a reality out there which our senses can detect, perceive and interact with, for without such being the case how could we have had the...
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THE paranormal is in closer reach after a man has developed new electronic software to capture images of ghosts. Paul Rowland first became interested in the supernatural three years ago, and has used ...
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LAKE JACKSON — In the early 1990s, while doing a study on normal sleep patterns in babies, Lake Jackson pediatrician Richard Hardoin came across a story that inspired him to write a book. Hardoin,...
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To Christians, Jesus Christ is the Savior of the World, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords. We especially believe that He is the Prince of Peace. However, to the unbelieving world, the religion ...
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My parents had me late in life — my mom was 42, and I was their only child. My dad taught me to read at an early age, and I devoured every book I could get my hands on. Most of my cousins were five...
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Physicians shouldn't distance themselves from patients who are facing death, experts say. The farewell process can be meaningful for doctors and the dying. Her doctor entered the hospice room early...
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WASHINGTON - U.S. psychiatrists generally are less likely to be Protestant or Roman Catholic than other types of doctors, according to a study released on Monday. Psychiatrists are more likely to be...
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Most Americans age 50 and older believe they are heaven-bound. You, they're not so sure about. This is just one of the findings of a survey commissioned by AARP and published in the latest edition of ...
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We’re all accustomed to stories about credulous Americans; as an American living in Britain I am constantly asked to defend the 43 per cent of my compatriots who believe in creationism. Naturally, I...
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A CASE on behalf of Jesus Christ has come knocking on Kenya's High Court door, lodged by a fervent Christian group that wants his conviction declared null and void and his crucifixion illegal. Though ...
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To get a better sense of Romney’s religion, and how it is perceived around the country, we posed our 10 Questions to Kenneth L. Woodward, who served as religion editor of Newsweek for 38 years and is ...
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To those that have had an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE), it can give the sensation of watching your own body from a distance as if hovering above it. Recent research says that it has nothing to do...
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Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries. For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other...
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Close your eyes and think of your most peaceful, healing moments. No matter what comes to mind, there’s bound to be a "touch" somewhere – your mother’s hand on your head; the arms of a loved one...
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New York Times science columnist John Tierney poses what seems a simple question: whether we’re merely illusions created by some super-being’s computer, similar to what was in "The Matrix”?...
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A small band of real-life "ghostbusters" are at work in British universities, including Northampton, trying to understand paranormal activity from UFOs to telepathy. Two decades after the Hollywood...
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If scientists could chart physical changes that happen in the brain during prayer, would it mean that prayer is something that happens only in the mind? And if brain scans show unique molecular...
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LONDON • British scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says. Physicists said they can...
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In the first part of this article we covered the amazing human powers described in the Bible that are well known in the human experience. In the field of paranormal research there are many concepts...
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A survey by AARP The Magazine (the AARP was formerly the American Association for Retired Persons) says that 86 percent of Americans over the age of 50 believe in heaven and 70 percent of them...
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Ghost stories and weird sightings have permeated every culture since death was invented. But in our western, rationalist, science-based culture, such tales of the supernatural are considered either...
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A scientific-religious debate is shaping up over near-death experiences. A look at the dangers for both sides. By Marc Gellman July 17, 2007 - The lines between science and religion are getting a...
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Patrick Cooke, is the editor / author of The Bible UFO Connection. He is an independent researcher residing in Berkeley, California. He is an author, publisher, eschatologist, an autonomous...
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SCIENTOLOGY is being talked about again because of certain prominent supporters. Germany is reluctant to have Scientology's most famous adherent, Tom Cruise, play one of its country's greatest...
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EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m. Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft....
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The Australian based CSIRO says that it has developed a blood test which could enable people to live to 100. The test, which essentially measures the level of damage to a person's DNA, can point to...
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Sir Isaac Newton is still considered as great a physicist as Albert Einstein, but he also had strong religious beliefs, upon which he determined when the world would end. His famously analytical mind ...
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ST. LOUIS -- Perhaps since the time of Galileo, science and religion have had a gentleman's agreement: You stay out of my business, and I'll stay out of yours. Not any longer. A cadre of scientists,...
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Lloyd and Leah Austin Wilberg were rarely apart in their 66 years of marriage and weren't apart long in the afterlife either. Lloyd was hospitalized with pneumonia June 1 at Castle View Hospital....
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Heaven. Most of us have plans for when we get there. You may be sipping frozen pinoladas by an aqua-blue ocean. Or reuniting with your favorite grandmother. Nearly nine in 10 people in the United...
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Is “The Truth” to be found in this remote New Mexico town? Driving alone down a stretch of desolate highway en route to Roswell, I begin to understand why conspiracy buffs have long argued that...
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High-rise Hong Kong, notorious for its lack of living space, is so overcrowded that it is running out of space for the dead as its mortuaries fill to overflowing, officials said. Bodies are being...
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Our president has made some fascinating comments in the recent past regarding “false religion,” referring to the Islamic faith. What should our response be to all those false religions scurrying...
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The use of embryonic human cells for research to seek possible cures for debilitating and deadly diseases has created considerable controversy in Sydney, as well as elsewhere around the world, the...
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HAMPTON -- Lauren McCain is still talking to people and sharing her faith. Six weeks after she was killed in the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech, the 20-year-old from Hampton is beginning to...
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Ancient burial poles with ornate carvings are an important part of the mythology and heritage of Sarawak’s Orang Ulu. Yet, conservation of these grave treasures seems to have come to a standstill....
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Philosophers will gather amid the celebrated vines of Saint-Émilion in southwest France today for a pioneering festival destined to stimulate lofty reflection over a bottle of wine. The first...
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Man has always created God--and gods--in his own image. If religion were God-given rather than man-made, there would be only one religion in the world. Instead, we have an endless supply of major...
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“We are a religious people,” wrote Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and research appears to support his observation. Ninety-four percent of adult Americans claim a belief in God; 89 percent...
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Are silent prayers transmissible to, or readable by, a supernatural being? A brief examination of this question using modern information about the brain. A prayer is, according to The New Shorter...
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FOR A bunch of sceptics, we must've made a hilarious sight. I imagine Reg Ryan and his motley crew of ghosts, Mr and Mrs Crawley and co, would still be laughing, and really, what could be funnier? A...
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Nowhere did Buddha seek the help of magic miracles What is rationalism? The word is presently in circulation everywhere. It has become a fad. But the term is variedly understood by different people....
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SRE LEAV, Cambodia — Researchers are examining a long-unknown killing field in Cambodia with the graves of thousands of victims of the Khmer Rouge from the 1970s. But local villagers found it first....
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BURIAL grounds found on the future site of the A2 in Kent has made the area one of the most important sites of Roman Britain. Archaeological surveys commissioned on the Gravesend site of the Highways ...
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Charity auction to be held at the July 20-22,2007 Ghost World Conference, trade show, and symposium at the Wyndham Hotel and Conference Center in Gettysburg. Ghost World, LLC...
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On a cold night in Beijing two decades ago, Yan Li's curiosity led her to a place she had never been before. She walked past the large Roman Catholic Church countless times before, but she had never...
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Through sorrow and shock, the nation struggled to find answers to why Cho Seung-Hui went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech. Was it the result of an uncontrolled mental illness? Was he an angry...
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (Bernama) -- One evening during the fasting month last year, 46-year-old Noordin Sulaiman, felt some pain in the left side of his abdomen. Thinking that it was the time to answer...
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The number of Britons with a terminal illness who are opting to die in a Swiss clinic has doubled in a year. Is it time for the law to change so they can end their lives in Britain? By Jeremy...
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NEW HAVEN — A 90-minute history lesson Saturday on the departed didn’t star Mark Wahlberg or Jack Nicholson or Leonardo DiCaprio. The draw to Grove Street Cemetery, for a group of about 20 people,...
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The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself. By Jerry Adler Newsweek May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart...
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They were families who had made it. A man who escaped communist China by walking into Vietnam, then, four decades later, moved his wife and 10 children to Virginia. A father in Indonesia who sold his ...
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THE Vatican has determined that limbo does not exist, opening the gates of heaven to babies who die unbaptised, a member of a high-level theological commission. "The many factors that we have...
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Speakers at the Virginia Tech convocation yesterday called on Allah and Buddha in their efforts to minister to the survivors, family and friends of victims of the shooting massacre at the school –...
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What awaits us in the afterlife? Followers of Islam, Baha'i and American Indian faiths who think they may have the answer shared their perspectives at the Jackson Interfaith Forum on Sunday...
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WORCESTER, Mass. - She was said to have performed miracles - a paralyzed and mute young woman capable of healing others through faith. After two decades of attracting believers and inspiring others...
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SEVEN years ago, in the pre-9/11 fall of 2000, I was retrieving my luggage at the airport in Jakarta when a tall Indonesian man in a flowing white robe and green scarf accidentally bumped me off my...
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Beliefs by both patients and physicians appear to have some significant impact on health, according to a recent survey. Read on and have your say. CHICAGO, April 10 (2007) -- A majority of physicians ...
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Some of the experts, including archaeologists, seem to have changed their thoughts and statements regarding the controversial film by director James Cameron. Several prominent scholars who were...
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FOUR out of five parents intend to let their children choose their own religion rather than force them to join the Catholic Church as compared to just 7% of parents who felt the same 30 years ago....
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Ever since science has more or less outlawed creationism, the idea that God created the world, some people have tried to bring it back using the idea of intelligent design, which is what this article ...
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“The time has come” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Oh shoes---and ships---and sealing wax--- Of cabbages---and kings--- And perhaps also of Easter and what it means as well as how and...
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A US radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show recently said that homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any...
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Each and every individual is or should be able to take total responsibility for everything in their own lives, regardless of what may occur therein. The following article titled “The Awakening” is...
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The image, which portrays Jesus with female parts, was created by a Spanish photographer for a new book but has become a major election issue there. Two photo books featuring nude models portraying...
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It is the city where the exiled Romeo dreamed he died and Juliet's kisses breathed life back into his body. Tragically, the lifeless bodies of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers would soon lie side by ...
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The Apple computer founder describes what it was like when he was given a death sentence by doctors and how facing the prospect of dying focused his thinking and life. More
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A British doctor, Michael Irwin, has published a booklet about what a select group of people believe happens when we die. Dr Michael Irwin is a retired English medical doctor with an impressive...
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I have been interested in the world's religions and metaphysics throughout my adult life - heightened by working for 33 years in the United Nations and by living in two Islamic countries, Pakistan...
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE is the title of a book by Dr Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, one of the world's leading scientific and medical researchers into NDEs (Near-Death Experiences). Dr Parnia is a...
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