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I've run across some interesting (and rather revealing) scientific studies, recently: They look at religious ("church-going") individuals versus nonreligious ("non-church-going") individuals. In a carefully controlled study by Deepak Malhotra, relative "generosity" was looked at. Which group...

One of the key arguments employed by the Pro-Life side of the ongoing Abortion debate (at least in America) is the Pro-Life assertion that life begins at conception. There is some good science which might be enlisted to support this contention (and just as much good science that might suggest...

Summer 1987. I am 22 years old. This is between my second and third year in law school. And I have a crisis of conscience. My roommate Ann is planning to intern at her parents' Spokane law firm for the summer. (Spokane is an eight hour drive from the Willamette Valley university where we...

This issue has been debated here before, with many pointing out that December 25 was a pagan holiday. But Andrew McGowan's article in Biblical Archaeology "How December 25 Became Christmas" comes to a different conclusion, one based within Jewish Monotheism. Here is the setup: The Bible...

Hi, greeters. I'm Jane. poi dietro ai sensi vedi che la ragione ha corte l'ali --Dante Alighieri, Paradiso 2:56-57 I look at the world analytically. But there are some things I cannot logically explain. Mom wakes up. Dad is asleep, beside her. But someone is in the bedroom. It is...