Then a completely separate one I found yesterday, when reading some science stuff... The priest who famously said, "It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decided to follow both of them," was Georges Lemaître. Lemaître was both a Catholic priest and a physicist, known for his groundbreaking work on the expanding universe and the Big Bang theory. He believed that scientific truth and religious truth were not in conflict but could both be pursued.
I agree with him ... is it less likely that life was created by a benefic deity than random particles colliding in space? ... I'm hedging with an each-way ...
I like the quote simply because I think cosmology brings me closer to religion, so it's two paths intertwined as one. I watched a video yesterday that suggested even if we could travel at the speed of light, it would take 2.5 million years to reach the Andromeda galaxy... Just thinking about that is mind boggling, we got more chance of meeting God than an alien. Not suggesting there is life out there though.
Truth be told I haven't waded through the whole thing since I did my masters but I don't recall anything of the sort. The General Assembly is bound to debate and consider any question brought to it by a member state, or brought by a non-member state regarding a member state. Which is why the issue of a Palestinian state is going to be debated. And actual delegates to the UN will have diplomatic immunity, but this doesn't necessarily extend to domestic politicians. But beyond that, nothing obliges the US to open its doors to people it doesn't want. If the UN doesn't like that, they can **** off out of Manhattan and set up their HQ in Iran.
Leaky defence? You've conceded the same number of goals as us, one If anything I thought you'd pick a more Eze target to have a dig.
Not really cos we know they killed terrorists. Maybe a few civilians were collateral, mind. That’s more than possible but it’s also Hamas’s fault for hiding behind them.
He kept the two paths separate though. He wouldn't have had much respect as a scientist, if he'd brought God into his scientific theories. I believe the expression is "non-overlapping magisteria". Science tries to show us how the universe emerges, religion tries to show us why.
Possibly it would’ve been wiped out in one of the various wars it didn’t start while the likes of you feigned a modicum of concern but they held their own pretty well before any American involvement and nowadays have good relations with the Arab countries that matter. If you actually care about those poor, helpless Arabs who are never to blame for their own decisions then you can blame Iran if you like.
I despise Netanyahu, but the fact that he is on trial for corruption (and facing the fury of much of the Israeli public) for receiving gifts and favours for a total less than $200,000, while Mahmoud Abbas has siphoned off an estimated $100million in foreign aid that was meant to go to the people he 'represents', and faces absolutely no consequences for doing, sums up the problem.
Cheers mate, just googled that to get a better understanding. "Magisteria" refers to the concept of Non-Overlapping Magisteriums (NMOs), a principle developed by Stephen Jay Gould according to which science and religion do not overlap because they deal with different domains of inquiry: science deals with facts and religion with values. The term can also refer to Nicholas Spencer's book "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion," which explores the intertwined history of science and religion.
