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Briefer than that^ Science is a search for fact. Religion is a search for wisdom.

Please see the religion as meme thread to see this opinion further expounded upon if you would like to know more about how I think about science as a religion. Whoops that should have read linear science as meme, not religion as meme. And the tongue in cheek poem might help too...

Since you asked for brief: Hard science is, first and foremost, left-brain inquiry. Scientific method is the attempt to establish proof by certain left-brain, linear methods designed for laboratory experiments and usually the scientist must show proofs by linear mathematics. Hard science and...

In the beginning.... Since this topic is all about beginnings, perhps it would be a good idea to research the beginnings of Darwin's theory, "The Voyage of the Beagle." This treatise contains a concise and accurate description of the credentials of Darwin and his "colleagues", most of whom...

Thanks for your laughter too. Persons incapable of laughing at themselves(I work like a monk) are persons not too fun to be around, I think. I know many who have a bent for science and are rather dull of humor. The cherry tree thing was a slight disappointment, but for me reading Sagan was...

Just for fun with kids Brian et all who have little ones to play with: We used to play a find your fairy game; or rather find your elf-self. You may want to do this with your kids. Just get a mirror and have them lie down on their backs with their heads hanging down (coffee table is fine for...

Hi Hi :) I just came on this forum myself. Welcome from another new member.

I am Karen Roscoe. Thanks for your laughter, it seems the verse accomplished for you what the meme theme in prose(above) could not. I love to play with words and subtle humor. So, Please permit me to persiflage with a perverse propensity to periphrasis in parlaying perfervid praise for...

Where is it from? ME. And I really do know whereof I speak, as I have studied and then worked in those hallowed halls in my robes of white for many years. :D

Thank you, Handmaiden, for explaining scientific theory to me. As a scientist, I am surely in need of that instruction. :D No offense. The point I was making is that while much about evolution appears to be correct, it should not be accepted as a "fact," but rather as a premise toward further...

The reilgion of science And many are the Saganites Who bow their bright mindsouls in full submission To priests of science and Saint Carl Those holy priests who have a bit, and only that, of every Discipline While labouring as the simpleminded monk in robes of white In hallowed and ascetic...

Honoring crones is not just a mystical excercise Here's a true story for you to ponder: A group of Americans were allowed to present themselves to a Native American Circle of Elders following a ceremonial dance. The Americans asked their questions with great respect and received the answers...

Linear thinking; linear science as a meme Only in very recent times have huge breakthroughs in science been made because some scientists followed the lines until they curved (8 turned sideways), thereby becoming immunized to linear science by moving on to curvilinear science. Fortunately they...

I am just beginning to use this forum and wanted to say a quick hello to others on it. :) I do have some problems with it, as sometimes when I go to preview my writing it seems to disappear. :( I have posted on other forums but have never had this to happen before. Any suggestions or help...

Evolution is a Theory When theories become dogma, science suffers. New inquiry is stifled. It is unfortunate that the battles regarding evolution theory and time and money invested heretofore, have caused scientists to take such a hard line on this theory. There are knowledgable scientists...

The Lillith Oracles The Second Translation: The Cycle And you may see the mystery of Lillith shut within the tree Is that the Old Ones put her there no food scant light and little air In hopes that she a spirit bright might die and fall to dust one night And closed her in with daub...

The Lillith Oracles The First Traslation, The Riddle Lillith in Sumaria did shelter in a tree Within an old and hallowed trunk a simple home to be And where ever went the Lillith was Old Wisdom wont to go And coiled herself beneath the roots and guarded Lillith so And high up in the...

To find ancient artifacts and cities we generally have to dig for them. The older, the deeper (depending on the climate and area, of course.) So does this mean that ever-deeper layers of earth are forming globally? That earth is growing? If so, are oceans receding as land rises, or is earth...

The feminine aspect of God/Goddess is not just for neopagans. Even some Christian protestant denominations have begun to explore this idea here in the states. For Catholics she is personified in Mary, (which is limited by the virgin-is-the-only-pure-woman myth of man.) For me, I think that the...

As for now compartive mythology in the universities must be spent doing mundane tasks as comparing Apollo of Greek mythology with Apollo of Roman mythology. Perhaps if "women's studies" were not segregated from other studies, this would not be the case for you. Then you could compare...