11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus

 Science Enhances Spiritual Values

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery. Science, in fact, forms many paths branching from the trunk of human progress; and on every periphery they end in the miraculous. Following these paths far enough, one must eventually conclude that science itself is a miracle—like the awareness of man arising from and th...
Folksonomies: science religion wonder
Folksonomies: science religion wonder
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By showing us the magnificence of our universe.

08 SEP 2011 by ideonexus

 The Miracle of Man is How Far He Has Risen

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature...
Folksonomies: evolution wonder
Folksonomies: evolution wonder
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How can people say that evolution detracts from Human excellence, when it demonstrates our magnificence so succinctly?

30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus

 Joseph Addison on Homo Sapiens Omnivorous Nature

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can ...
Folksonomies: diet illness
Folksonomies: diet illness
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All the rest of nature sticks to one food, man eats everything, leading to illnesses.