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Seems like the TED management has a good grasp of the diversity of opinions and views we need to face in order to grow up together. The whole point here is: BEING HUMAN MEANS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HUMAN PROJECT, rather than claiming a position on a pedestal and imposing upon others their own way of coping with the art of living.

I was a little ( Read more... )

In my former post on Genesis 1 I focused on the first part of Genesis 1: the creation of 'heaven and earth' - whereby 'heaven' is the sun, moon, the stars in general (as the authors saw them with the naked eye, presumably), and planet earth. Now let us move on to the creation of the animal kingdom and the human being.
Adam, made of dust
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We started from a positive acceptance of the scientific data, or facts, on evolution, so we did not even consider a reading Genesis 1 with any fears for 'contradiction' with science. This approach is of course very different from making up our mind upfront, based on our (often primitive, and interpreted) understanding of the Biblical account. When ( Read more... )

[Originally published on September 2, 2008. Last revised on Feb 18, 2009.]

In previous article we talked about the basic scientific idea behind evolution and why the theories must not be 'injected' into the Biblical account. Theories made up from a naturalistic viewpoint (as is traditionally the case with an atheist point of view) must also be ( Read more... )

[Originally published on August 31, 2008. Last revised on Feb 15, 2009.]

Why is it that the Genesis 1 account makes so many believers feel like they should reject evolution? That is the key question in this article, and I will suggest to stop doing this. Do not instantly fear as if I would necessarily feel uncomfortable with the idea of creation. I ( Read more... )

[Originally published on July 7, 2008. Revised on Feb 2, 2009.]

Let me address a specific phenomenon here. In three subsequent articles from Sam Harris, published on myspace, there was a remarkable rehearsal of a particular claim. Actually there were more things subject to 'repetition', because if you just take the three subsequent titles, there's ( Read more... )