Articles in English

  • The Ego Boom

    „Purely You.” „Have it Your Way.” „Define Yourself.” If advertising is any indication, there has never been a better time to be You. From customized computers and TV on-demand to dolls designed in your image, never before have you had so many tools at your disposal to express your unique personality. Everywhere you turn, marketers…

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  • Home

    Considering the beautiful images and music of this documentary, I  have to complete the script with some notes of Nobel Prize-winning chemist, professor R. E. Smalley. Top Ten Problems of Humanity for Next 50 Years (Professor R. E. Smalley): Energy Water Food Environment Poverty Terrorism & war Disease Education Democracy Population The burden of proof…

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  • We are working on it!

    Pssst! Don’t tell the creationists, but scientists don’t have a clue how life began by Josh Horgan, Scientific American, February 28, 2011 (Image of 16th-century painting “Creation of the Animals” by Jacopo Tintoretto courtesy Wiki Commons) Exactly 20 years ago, I wrote an article for Scientific American that, in draft form, had the headline above.…

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  • What if …

    … would anyone believe? I am skeptical about this kind of “faith”. If God is revealing himself through this kind of empirical evidence (who can stand in His presence as a judge?), then we can easily accuse Him that He is a monster without love, a cynical deity who is testing our patience and is…

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  • Fabricating Jesus

    I perfectly agree with the idea that cultural conditionning of the Gospel´s time should be known and valued, but we should also be aware of the cultural conditionning of those who live now and interpret the Gospel. Considering this unique measure, I observed a very inappropriate attitude to accept uncritically another “gospels” and writings, just…

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