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What we can know if we don't close our eyes is that the world was not really created in 6 days as the creation myths say. What we cannot know is how it really was. No. It doesn't.

They can. It's just a mutation. For a new species, you need a lot of mutations (usually one after the other). For the split into two species, you need a separation of the population, either living in separate areas, or having a different 'culture', so that they don't feel attracted to...

Did you ever consider to change your mind, and if you didn't ever consider, why?

The calculation is wrong. Suppose it takes 2 million years for a species to split into two. Over 500 million years, we would have 250 separations, that makes 2^250. Makes around 1.8 * 10^75. 10^75 is a one with 75 zeros. There's no name for that number. This is of course only a demonstration...

Yes, they have a stop in Santiago de Chile (also on the other side of the Pacific). Here the direct flights from Sydney

Certainly better with your explanation. Hart's formulation can't be understood without this. Hart says, "the priesthood of creation", does he mean the vocation of plants, planets...? I personally have a rather negative connotation to priesthood as some people who want to be between us and God...

There are 2 direct flights a day from Sydney to Sao Paulo.

What greater master? What priesthood? Is that acceptable to Catholic faith?

You are right. What do you think about my last post here? Do you know more about Parsic influence on the Pharisee/Rabbinic Judaism?

I have investigated on this and it seems that the Pharisees פרושים (Perushim) may have taken inspiration from the Parsic religion, but the word doesn't come from it; Persians is פרסים (Parsim) with a sad, not a shin, which is a significant difference in Semitic languages and means separate...

Very interesting , but very long, so I have many questions on it I didn't know this association but I also discovered that beliefs from the Zostrian tradition have been integrated into Judaism, in particular the end of this time, the resurrection and the pure Heavenly Kingdom. I found it in the...

I suppose that the Galileans spoke a dialect that was not used as a written language, and they would preferably write in Hebrew. Most of the documents from Qumran are written in Hebrew, also those that were contemporary writings. The Romans in the same time didn't speak Latin, either, which can...

All canonic scriptures, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, do not give any information on the time between physical death and the final resurrection. Where did you take the saying from "God is headed to Jerusalem"?. (It must be Jewish, of course). Our tradition says that God is everywhere, not in a...

The book of Jubilee (estimated 2nd century BCE) tries to date the creation, parting from the Genesis and solving discrepancies in the ages of the ancient (where according to the Masoretic version, 3 ancestors of Noah would have still been alives in the time of the Deluge).This seems to be the...

What you are referring to are the Qirat, differenes in pronunciation, melodic and rhythmic traditions for reciting the Quran. There are no differences in meaning, all Qirat are fine (there are 7 traditional Qirat in total). There have been much larger differences in the beginning because...

There are in fact many aspects that influence a translation. 1. Variants between sources and choice of the reference source. 2. Choice of the target style (literal vs. easy-to-read), and relevance attributed to the lyrics of the original, important in many texts of the Tanach (Old Testament) and...

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Have a nice Pessach, anyway. In those times, I would read Isaiah.

I don't have any Jewish friends or colleagues anymore since the only one I had emigrated to Canada five years ago, and the Rabbin was the first to leave the local interreligious discussion group (that finally dissolved two years ago). We are here in the Judaism thread, and there is one Jew. (I'm...

Thanks for your kind offer. Meanwhile I searched myself and found a passage where Ignatius assigns the telling to Bardesanes.