Genealogy of Religion

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Entries Tagged as 'Romans'

Universe Permeated with “Original Sin”?

October 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Axial Age, Daily Devolutions, Morality

Physicists having difficulty with the elusive Higgs boson and mysterious dark matter may wish to look for an alternative explanation: the effect that Adam and Eve’s original sin had on the universe.  Whatever this hypothesis lacks in plausibility it makes up for with childish parsimony.
As Karl Giberson explains in Christianity and Extraterrestrial Life, there are [...]

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Archaeology of Ritual & Viking Religion

August 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Archaeology, Classifications, Definitions, Hunter-Gatherers, Magic, Pagans, Ritual, Shamanism

Archaeologists working in Europe have it good, really good.  Depending on one’s interests, you can research just about anything.  Paleoanthropologists can work on hominid evolution (i.e., Homo heidelbergensis, H. antecessor, H. neanderthalensis), while their colleagues can study a host of fascinating subjects, including the Upper Paleolithic transition, mesolithic hunter-gatherers, incipient agriculturalists, and the usual smattering [...]

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