[GeronL]

The UK SPECTATOR has gotten weird on us, except for articles by Mark Steyn

[JimSEA]

If there is one thing archaeology has shown, it is that humans, all human ancestors capable of rational thought at least, have had a concept of "god" likely as long as we have been around. Why is an interesting but, as yet, unanswerable question.

[GeronL]

The British newspaper The World in 1790 had a strange report on its front page, (these things were only 4-8 pages back then) it was about how they saw different people back then.

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ASSEMBLAGE of LIVING RARITIES
To be seen over EXETER 'CHANGE;
consisting of the finest Collection of foreign Birds and Beasts in this Kingdom; amongst which is that renouned Bird of ancient fame,
The PELICAN of the Wilderness,
So remarkable for its extraordinary formation and singular appearance. In the adjoining room, is the handsomest LION in Europe; and those famous and surprising creatures the ARABIAN SAVAGES, which nearly approach the human race. Also a variety of capitol and uncommon animals, forming in the whole a Grand Exhibition of Quadrapeds, and the beautiful Feathered Tribe, which has been honoured with the presence of several in the Royal Family, who expressed themselves agreeably entertained. There is a number of curious Birds lately added to the Collection--- Admittance Only One Shilling to View the Whole, or sixpence each room.

N.B. Foreign Birds, Beasts &c. bought, sold or exchanged

[fishtank]

I find it offensive and flabbergasting that the evolutionsts are using "home floresiensis" as an example of evolution. If anything, it demonstrates that organisms are restricted by their Designer into their "kinds". i.e. a dog is always a dog, whether Rott or Chihuahua.

[stuartcr]

You'll have to wait until you die, to find out for sure. Does it really matter?

[onedoug]

God will do as God does.

[onedoug]

If they're of genus Homo, ('ehem!), I'd say yes, God considers them seperately.

[Cvengr]

"Far more interesting this week, in an irresponsibly speculative way, is what we should make of these Floresians’ spiritual life, if they existed."

I was beginning to wonder if the author had mistyped Floridians for 'Floresians' at this point in the read....

[Cvengr]

"The soul is, in scholastic terms, derived from Aristotle, the form of the body, making it, with its constituent matter, a unified substance."

The soul was considered for two thousand years prior to Aristotle in the Hebrew Scriptures referencing 'nephesh'.

If one limits their study to post Aristotlean writings, then no study of the soul is complete without also studying the meaning of spirit or 'pneuma' in Scripture. In Scripture, though, the soul and spirit are considered more aart of the immaterial part of man, than the material part, which is referenced as body or flesh (soma and sarx).

[D Edmund Joaquin]

The answer probably rests in Genesis with the cattle and grasses.