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By: Edward Hunter
Alternative energy is defined as energy that comes from a natural source and is renewable or naturally occurring. Alternative energy typically does not produce pollution and comes from such sources as the sun, wind, and water.
There have been many recent innovations to alternative energy as a result of expanding alternative energy technologies.
Alternative [...]

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Is Atheism Scientific?

By: Richard Aberdeen
No one knows for certain who designed Stonehenge or the pyramids of Egypt or, exactly how they were constructed. Yet, no archaeologist or historian has ever proposed they appeared on their own, without input from designers or builders.
Such universal assumption is the most likely conclusion given the known evidence and, much [...]

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By: Andy Pakula
Before I became a Unitarian minister, I was a scientist – a Ph.D. biologist. Ministry and science is an interesting combination – two fields that sometimes conflict and sometimes make for the most wonderful of synergies. I know a great deal about how living things work – about the chemistry and mechanics [...]

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Ever since I can remember, I have been fascinated with two topics, Zen and quantum physics. Along the way there have been many things that have caught my fancy, from writers, film makers, philosophers and psychologists. But I always come back to Zen and physics, especially quantum physics.
I don’t pretend that this essay [...]

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What The Bleep Do We Know!? has already been talked about. TIME Magazine called it a “sleeper hit.” Patricia F. Hare’s Consciousness Commentary highlighted it years ago. Several other notables have described it as “compelling” and “absorbing.” So I realized I had to see it.
Early in the film a divorced photographer, Amanda (Marlee Matlin), [...]

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Lloyd Pye is no ordinary researcher. In Alien Origins he proposes that human beings were in part created by extraterrestrial intervention.
The two presentations in this DVD differ from most due to Pye’s persuasive style of argumentation, backed by well-researched claims.
Agree or not with his conclusions, this DVD compels us to look again at several of [...]

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Copyright © Michael Clark 2009. All rights reserved.

If you can’t sleep, [...]

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Copyright © Michael Clark. All rights reserved.
Dr. Andrew Newberg is a prominent neuroscientist who appeared in the ‘new physics’ film What the Bleep Do We Know!? and, more recenty, in Bill Maher’s provocative but somewhat sketchy Religulous.
Dr. Newberg says we have a need to believe and when it comes to spirituality, religion and natural aesthetics [...]

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Copyright © Michael Clark. All rights reserved.
Here’s a quote from a brain imaging story in Mail Online that seems to overstep its bounds.
Professor Jeste admitted the possibility that wisdom and free will are based on the make-up of someone’s brain rather than metaphysics is unsettling (Full article » http://tr.im/irbJ).
Not that we should overlook our bodies [...]

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Darwin’s Dual Life

Charles Darwin: A Religious Dilemma

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