oddXian: Challenge the Consensus

A New Clue to Explain Existence "If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well as a possible explanation for our own existence ....Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab’s Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter." I would suggest that the discovery of the origin of matter hardly gives an "explanation for our own existence", unless one were to conclude that we are merely material beings without free wills or rational thought processes, governed only by the determinate laws of nature. But ra...

After all, they do seem to really love each other.

Six months old and he can tell good from evil Mothers and fathers might think they have few higher duties than teaching a sense of right and wrong to their children. But research suggests that their offspring may already be a step ahead of them. Scientists have discovered that babies can start to make moral judgments by the age of six months and may be born with the ability to tell good from bad hard-wired into their brains. link -- Respectfully, JD Qui cantat, bis orat (to sing once is to pray twice!) - St Augustine

Puritan Prayers from the Valley of Vision Puritan Prayers Confession and Petition   |  Consecration and Worship   Contentment  |  The Deeps   |  Devotion  |  Divine Support  Evening Praise   |  Evening Prayer   |  Evening Renewal   Grace Active   |  Heart Corruptions   |  In Prayer   Longings after God  |  Meeting God   |  Morning   Morning Dedication   |  Morning Needs   |   Openness   Purification   |  Refuge   |  Resting in God   |  Spiritual Helps   The Valley of Vision Confession and Petition Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have be...