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Science and religion seemingly cannot coexist because religion is all about the past and science is all about the future. Scientists and theologians need to stop making the mistake of equating the concept of God with religious doctrines. Every scientific breakthrough reinforces my belief that God cannot be contained by the confines of religion or science...
...would like to suggest the American Voter. The concept of one-person, one-vote spoke loudly at a pivotal time, regardless of party affiliation. The people express their will, and there is a peaceful transfer of power. It's an amazing phenomenon. This election, voters wanted change, and they...
...pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. Six Muslims traveling from a religious conference were thrown off a plane last week in Minneapolis, Minn., even as unscreened cargo continues to stream into ports on both coasts. Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters...
...MASH had the shock of the new. With its boisterous camaraderie, hearty and heartless, the film virtually created the modern concept of hipness. It kept surfacing in the overdog comedy of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live and David Letterman and Spy magazine, in the stoned bravado of Bill and Ted and Beavis and Butt-head. (The Bill Murray persona, of blithe sarcasm and weary soldiering-on, could have been invented by Altman; it's a shame the two men never made a film together.) Amid the triage of Korea - read: Vietnam - Altman's super-cool medics found fraternity...
...cuts through the fabric of space-time that take us to other versions of this universe. At the denouement of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play “Rabbit Hole,” the bereaved mother at the center of the play finds unexpected comfort in the concept of alternative realities, that perhaps “this is just the sad version of us.”Audience members may also find comfort in the idea that this production is just a mediocre version of the show, and that in some happier universe, lazy direction and one-note...