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Thursday, February 17, 2005

HUMANS NOW OLDER THAN EVER…...

A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago—perhaps close to the dawn of the species.

How much overlap with one’s ancestors is allowed before they can’t be ancestors anymore?
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Posted by Earl on 02/17 at 10:10 AM
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

COMMUNICATING WITH UNCONSCIOUS MINDS

This week, Neurology published an unsettling study of two brain-damaged men who are “minimally conscious”—able to breathe on their own but otherwise generally unresponsive. When neuroscientists scanned the patients’ brains as they played audiotapes of loved ones, the activity was strikingly normal. The visual cortex of one of the men even lit up in a way that suggested he was visualizing the stories that his relatives told. One of the researchers told the New York Times that they’ve repeated the experiment on seven more patients and found the same results.

If the study holds water, we may need to rethink how we treat the estimated 300,000 Americans who are regarded as unreachable.

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Posted by Earl on 02/16 at 11:47 AM
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TRUTH IS GRADUALLY BREAKING THROUGH…..

“It says here,” she told her husband scornfully, “that a man thinks of himself as the king of his household, and of his wife as the queen. Isn’t that ridiculous?” Her husband blinked. “No. It’s true.”

Amy was nonplussed and sputtering. “But but all these years I always thought we were partners, equals, co-chairs, even-steven!”

“We are equal,” said the king, “but we are not the same.”

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Posted by Earl on 02/16 at 11:42 AM
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

EMBRYO ARE HUMANS, AT LEAST IN COOK COUNTY

A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday.

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Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 02:07 PM
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BRITISH BOY NOW TWO, AFTER SURVIVING THREE ABORTION ATTEMPTS

These stories - we hear about so few of them - highlight the moral bankruptcy of abortion. Read the whole story here

Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 01:42 PM
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WHY KILL EMBRYOS, WHEN ADULT STEM CELLS ARE HEALING HEARTS RIGHT NOW?

While rancorous debate on stem cells has focused attention on the ethics of destroying human embryos, studies around the globe are successfully using adult stem cells for a genuine therapeutic breakthrough - healing human hearts.

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Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 01:35 PM
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Monday, February 14, 2005

THE END OF AN ERA…...?

Christianity Today reviews “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie”

“Pooh’s Heffalump Movie isn’t a brilliant animated feature, but it’s a good one….takes traditional animation and reunites it with family-friendly plotlines for what may be one of hand-drawn animation’s last theatrical releases. Heffalump is a safe, family-friendly movie that uses animation to disguise some pretty powerful life lessons. Among others, Heffalump’s themes include how we treat those different from ourselves, growing up too fast, enjoying childhood, and learning Roosevelt’s age-old maxim, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“For childhood’s sake, take your little guys and gals to see this movie—you won’t be disappointed.”

Click here to read the whole review at CT’s website.

Posted by Earl on 02/14 at 01:09 PM
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