Maybe it’s because I grew up as a Protestant Christian and as a young man tried very hard to be faithful to those beliefs. Yes, dipped my toes in Christian fundamentalism and thereby learned what I now know from the Gospels and the Book of Revelation. It has always fascinated me that John, the...
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Humankind has been able to subdue his environment and predators by virtue of his large brain and the resulting benefit of being able to learn and modify behavior quickly. Acquiring knowledge, first in memory, then, when it became too much to remember, inventing written...
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I read that it was probably the addition of protein to man’s diet that made it possible to support a larger brain. Time-release fuel, if you will allow the imperfect analogy. Since those early changes leading to physiological improvements, we were then positioned to...
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We have a global problem with unimaginably horrible future consequences. There are powerful forces at work which most human citizens are not even aware and others deny will delay...
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