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The earliest human footprints outside Africa found in Norfolk, UK
by Earnest infootprints found in ancient estuary mud are thought to be over 800,000 years old.
the british museum, which is part of the happisburgh project, reports:.
the discovery was made on the foreshore at low tide where heavy seas had removed the beach sand to reveal the normally flat estuarine muds.
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Blood Transfusion Increases Mortality in Heart Attacks
by Earnest ini understand that the objection to blood transfusions by jehovah's witnesses is purely a scriptural one.
whether or not there are medical benefits to avoiding blood transfusions is, or should be, irrelevant.
however, for those who are not convinced by jw understanding of the scriptures in this regard, and those who don't believe either in the bible and/or in god, the fact that blood transfusion is associated with increased mortality in heart attacks may be of interest.. a systematic search of studies published between january 1, 1966, and march 31, 2012, was conducted using medline, embase, cinahl, scopus, web of science, and cochrane central register of controlled trials databases.
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Why God Never Received a PhD
by Earnest ini am a believer in god and would like to assure those other believers on this forum that no disrespect is intended by this post.
i just found it amusing and so am sharing it :.
he had only one major publication.it wasn't in english.it had no references.it wasn't published in a refereed journal.some even doubt he wrote it by himself.it may be true that he created the world, but what has he done since then?his cooperative efforts have been quite limited.the scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.he never applied to the ethics board for permission to use human subjects.when one experiment went awry he tried to cover it up by drowning his subjects.when subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the sample.he rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.some say he had his son teach the class.he expelled his first two students for learning.although there were only ten requirements, most of his students failed his tests.his office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top.no record of working well with colleagues.
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Codex Sinaiticus
by Earnest inthis is just a little bit of trivia for those who are interested.
yesterday i visited the british library and revisited the area where they have the biblical manuscripts (and many others).
they have both the codex sinaiticus and alexandrinus which for a long time were the oldest manuscripts available and are still the oldest (almost) complete mss of the bible.
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Free to remarry?
by Earnest ini wonder if anyone can help with this information?
i seem to recall that if a husband or wife commits adultery and is divorced, is it necessary for the innocent party to agree before that one can be reinstated?
regardless of that answer if the person is reinstated and wishes to remarry do they need the agreement of the innocent party before they can remarry if they wish to maintain a good standing in the congregation?.
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Professor Donald Wiseman RIP
by Earnest inearlier this month (2nd february) donald wiseman died at the age of 91. he was involved in excavations in iraq, turkey and israel and produced major studies of cuneiform texts as well as works on the history of assyria and babylonia.
he also wrote several commentaries on the old testament and was involved in the translation of the niv.. the watchtower society has apparently held him in high esteem and his studies of the cuneiform texts and knowledge of the history of assyria and babylonia have been referred to, especially in discussion of the chronological calculations.
while he did not seem to engage in end-time speculation he did recommend the publication 'the gentile times reconsidered' by carl jonsson.. in many respects he is part of a past age - a scholar, a christian and a gentleman - and we are the poorer for his passing..
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Papyrus Fouad 266 & the Watchtower Society
by Earnest inwhen the nwt was first produced there was a lengthy discussion in the foreword on the basis for using god's name in the new testament.
it said this about the fouad papyrus:.
[the recently found remains of a papyrus roll of lxx] contains the second half of the book of deuteronomy.
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Harry Patch is dead
by Earnest inthe bbc reports that harry patch, the last british survivor of the world war i trenches, has died at the age of 111. only one british survivor of the first world war remains, namely claude choules who served with the royal navy and is now a mere 108..