Word: belief
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...ridicule the mormon belief that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri without objecting to the beliefs that men turned the Nile into blood, parted the Red Sea, walked on water, turned water into wine and rose from the dead? To the unbelieving, the tenets and traditions of any religion may seem strange or even absurd. Believers understand those teachings on a spiritual level that transcends scientific fact. That's why it's called faith. Condemning one religion's inherently unverifiable beliefs without subjecting other religions' equally unverifiable beliefs to the same scrutiny is nothing less than bigotry. Jeff Mangum...
...with the movie industry down in Los Angeles. For a start, everyone who works there, from the executives to the cooks at Luxo Cafe (try the excellent sushi), is encouraged to take a filmmaking class and make a short film. This is part of Pixar president Ed Catmull's belief in "lifelong learning...
While the professional bashers of religion, such as C. Richard Dawkins, Chrisopher E. Hitchens, and Sam Harris may look with surprise and even alarm at the persistence of religious belief at such a place as Harvard, it is probably fair to say that the will to believe will outlast their critique and that religion at Harvard, both debated and affirmed, will always be at the center of our institutional identity. We may not be a godly place but we are anything but godless, and that is what makes the place so interesting. It is no accident that our most significant...
...failure to come up with a new Gen Ed program in part represented Summers’ own early belief that the system was malfunctioning and had to be replaced,” Mendelsohn said. “He came to all the early meetings. My colleagues tell me he used up an awful lot of the airtime and was asked not to stay with the committee. There was a lot of tension...
Underlying science planning for Allston is a belief that solutions to the “big problems” require multidisciplinary approaches and the collaboration of people from many disciplines, schools, and hospitals. While new for the University at large, this is not a new model for us. Our faculty’s expertise ranges from molecular genetics to mathematical modeling, from measuring environmental exposures to child development, from health and third world economic development to U.S. health care reform. That this remarkable diversity of backgrounds and expertise has been brought to bear on multidisciplinary approaches to complex problems relating...