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Wonders Of Nature Inspire Our Beliefs In Supernatural

28/11/2013 09:50
essageToEagle.com - A new research suggests that awe-inspiring sights increase our motivation to make sense of the world around us, and may underlie a trigger of belief in the supernatural. Piecarlo Valdesolo of Claremont McKenna College and his colleague Jesse Graham of the University of South...

Darwin Theory

27/11/2013 17:21
By John Black On the 24th of November 1859, Charles Darwin published his famous work titled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, thus setting the basis for the development of evolutionary biology. In this body of work, Darwin explains the theory of natural selection, which...

Muslims: The Origins of Human Beings

27/11/2013 17:10
By April Holloway With more than 1.67 billion followers, Muslims are the second biggest religious population on Earth. The major sacred text of the Muslims is the Quran (also spelt Koran), which they believe is the word of God (or Allah in Arabic). The Quran consists of 114 chapters which were...

The Maya myth of creation

27/11/2013 17:09
By April Holloway The Maya civilization flourished in South America at approximately 2000BC. They developed a unique style of arts and architecture, astronomy, even a written language. Though their writing—and even the famous Mayan calendar—were not of their own invention (but from the...

Greek mythology and human origins

27/11/2013 17:04
By John Black Greek mythology begins with the Creation Myth, which is contained within many different sources of ancient Greek texts. The most complete one is Theogony from the Greek poet Hesiod, who lived around the 8th century BCE. Hesiod combines all Greek myths and traditions to create...

MYTHS OF ORIGINS

27/11/2013 16:43
The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man. And so we shall devote this chapter, by far the longest in...

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

27/11/2013 16:40
By John Black Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was...

The Hindu sacred texts about human origins

27/11/2013 16:39
By April Holloway Third in the list of major religions, with more than 870 million followers, is Hinduism. Hinduism goes back to 5000 BCE and is a compilation of many diverse traditions (in contrast to Christianity and Muslim traditions, both of which emerged from a single founder) making it...

Aztec Creation myths

27/11/2013 16:37
By April Holloway The Aztecs civilization flourished in Central America a few hundred years after the Mayans. The creation myth according to the Aztecs is a continuous story of creations and destructions, called suns. The myth which tells the story of the creation is called the Legend of the...

Celtic Myths on creation

27/11/2013 16:35
By April Holloway  Celtic mythology does not propose a single version or description of the creation as a whole, as other religions and mythologies do, but a few Celtic myths mention that heaven and earth was created by giants, considered by this peoples group to be the ancient original...
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