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There is the faith that sees the message of Jesus or Muhammad as a broad indicator of how we should treat others, of what profound holiness requires, and not as an account literally true in all respects that includes an elaborate theology that explains everything. There is the dry Deism of many of America's Founding Fathers. There is the cafeteria Christianity of, say, Thomas Jefferson, who composed a new, shortened gospel that contained only the sayings of Jesus that Jefferson inferred were the real words of the real rabbi. There is the open-minded treatment of Scripture of today...
Comparisons of primitive genomes have also led to an astonishing, controversial and somewhat disquieting assertion about the origin of humanity. Along with several colleagues, David Reich of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., compared DNA from chimpanzees and humans with genetic material from gorillas, orangutans and macaques. Scientists have long used the average difference between genomes as a sort of evolutionary clock because more closely related species have had less time to evolve in different directions. Reich's team measured how the evolutionary clock varied across chromosomes in the different species. To their surprise, they deduced that chimps and humans...
...genetic variation as a clock. Both methods currently carry big margins of error. But the more primate genomes that geneticists can lay side by side, the more questions they will be able to answer. "We have rough sequences for humans, orangutans, chimps, macaques," says Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute and a leader of the research team that decoded the chimpanzee genome. "But we don't have the entire gorilla genome yet. Lemurs are coming along, and so are gibbons...
...sexual activity or any type of sexual stimulation between two persons,” explained panelist William Smith, a vice president at a Washington D.C. advocacy group. “Apparently three or four is fine,” he joked. Smith went on to say that the broad and vague use of the term “sexual stimulation” is also problematic. “If you look into someone’s eyes and you have a [physical] response, apparently you’ve just become non-abstinent,” Smith said. All panelists agreed...
...being the last generation of students to live by the rules of the Core—but we shouldn’t have to. For many years now, students have been able to take cross-listed departmental courses to satisfy Core requirements. Cross-listing makes sense, as a broad array of departmental courses deal with the same skill sets and areas of knowledge as Core classes. Literature and Arts A courses, for example, have no monopoly on questions like “What are the relations among author, reader, text, and the circumstances in which the text is produced...