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Infants ‘have natural belief in God’
Barney Zwartz July 26, 2008 INFANTS are hard-wired to believe in God, and atheism has to be learned, according to an Oxford University psychologist. Dr Olivera Petrovich told a University of Western Sydney conference on the psychology of religion that even preschool children constructed theological concepts as part of their understanding of the physical world. […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter
* SWISS MOVE TO BAN MINARETS * EGYPT FACES RISING RISK OF MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN STRIFE * ZIMBABWE INTRODUCES Z$100BN NOTE * BRITISH TRIBUNAL RULES IN FAVOUR OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR * ATTEMPTS TO DECRIMINALISE ABORTION IN BRAZIL FAIL * MYANMAR RECOVERS SLOWLY AFTER CYCLONE NARGIS ———————————————– SWISS MOVE TO BAN MINARETS Members of the right-wing Swiss People’s […]
The Climate Crisis in America (Al Gore)
The challenge for America’s leaders Al Gore THE survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilisation is at stake. I don’t remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be […]
Black, female and waiting for the revolution
Sophia Nelson | July 21, 2008 Can Michelle Obama defy long-standing negative stereotypes? THERE she is — no, not Miss America, but the Angela-Davis-Afro-wearing, machine-gun-toting, angry, unpatriotic Michelle Obama, greeting her husband with a fist bump instead of a kiss on the cheek. It was supposed to be satire, but the caricature of Barack Obama […]
Climate Science
(From a ‘climate skeptic’ approach): Climate science is never settled Geoffrey Kearsley There’s no point ruining the economy pursuing carbon neutrality if carbon is not the main culprit or the climate is on a new trend. IT IS now pretty much taken for granted that global warming is ongoing, that climate change is being driven […]
Art or not, it’s still exploitation (Steve Biddulph)
Art or not, it’s still exploitation Steve Biddulph May 28, 2008 IT IS astonishing that the debate over Bill Henson’s photographs has been framed as art versus pornography, as if these were mutually exclusive, tidy categories that settle the matter once and for all. And as if art somehow excuses us from moral behaviour. The […]
Dreams of liberation do battle against tradition
James Reston Jnr May 28, 2008 This election could realise a vision of a different America. WHEN I came of age in North Carolina in the early 1960s, my university town of Chapel Hill was 95% segregated by race. There were separate bathrooms and drinking fountains for “coloured”; the eateries displayed signs about “reserving the […]
Climate change
We put it there, so let’s go first in cleaning up Peter Singer April 3, 2008 It’s time to apply ethics and fairness in the climate change crisis. IN AUSTRALIA, we know that water for irrigation is limited, and we are beginning to discuss how best to divide it up. Here’s one way of doing […]
Is this man the future? (Barack Obama)
Is this man the future? Kishore Mahbubani April 7, 2008 More than any other presidential candidate in recent history, Barack Obama has a unique capacity to listen to other voices around the world. More than any other presidential candidate in recent history, Barack Obama has a unique capacity to listen to other voices around the […]
No lies and open government
No lies and open government: great ideas, but will they fly? Michelle Grattan, Political Editor, Canberra 17 April 2008 The Age THE show-stopper idea to be presented to the Australia 2020 summit’s governance group comes from barrister Julian Burnside, QC. He wants to make it illegal for politicians to lie. His plan would see legislation […]
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