... history, there have been many attempts to explain the origin and workings of our universe. Most every culture has its own cosmogony. Nearly every individual has his or her own idea of what our universe is. During our modern era of advanced scientific knowledge, we feel that we have a good grasp on how the universe works. We have our Chemistry and Physics, along with Mathematics, to ... Dictionary, defines it the three different ways. "1. A traditional story that deals with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes who serve as primordial types in a primitive view of the world. 2. A rea...

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... when Steven Weinberg says in the First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of a Universe that human life is a "farcical outcome of a chain of accidents" ... in "an over- whelmingly hostile universe ... and faces a future extinction... the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" (1977:155). This sort of proclamation is really not science, but a particular extrapolation of then current scientific thought, but certainly not the only ... its claims and equates truth and the spiritual or God with objective fact, then it becomes both bad science and ba...

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... witnesses" willingness to believe what their observations point to - that their ancestors are still alive, that we are not alone in the universe, that they know what almost no one else in the world knows and therefore belong to a secret club. It is extremely difficult to ... rules. Why then do modern people choose to believe in what cannot be proven? Several reasons seem obvious. One, of course, is consolation. It makes us feel good to think that our dead child can communicate with us, that we are not alone in the universe, that we will stay ... he has no prospect of a future life of re...

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