Word: godly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should we be so afraid of our own bodies? Scientists, wondrously, are mapping the genome and learning how life works at the microscopic, tweezers-of-God level. But this knowledge can make people feel more powerless than empowered. Gene-testing can tell us we're disposed to diseases we can't cure. Medical science can promise amazing treatments while rendering health care unaffordable. Bioengineered agriculture can splice a bouillabaisse's worth of fish DNA into a tomato. Fringe taps into this unease: If we are what we eat--well, what the hell...
Simon H. Rich (SHR): Am I the youngest writer ever? That can’t be true, the show’s been on for 100 years. That’s before child labor laws, so there must have been chimney sweeps and God knows what...
...God...what...
...temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that politics was more art than engineering. He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan, he was 10 years old before he realized he could do something for the sheer joy of it without offending God. "Now that's a lesson from his early days that I think crippled him temperamentally," says Smith, "particularly as the kind of empathetic leader that we desperately called for after...
...modern Romans believing that Romulus and Remus were really raised by wolves. The image of a dashing Columbus crossing a storm-tossed ocean to bring knowledge and Christianity to the savages of the West may be hard for some to abandon. Indeed, it is always hard to see a god come crashing down, even a false one. I, however, would like to think that we have moved far enough beyond the age of imperialism to survive without an annual celebration of Western superiority...