Monday, 18. December 2006
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Kenya: The Mysterious Menengai Crater by AllAfrica.
Despite the serene and breathtaking marvel that is the Menengai Crater, locals believe that evil spirits haunt it. Boys living around the Menengai Crater go on hunting expeditions despite the risks. They claim that the evil spirits capture human beings and confuse them while touring the crater with beautiful walls.

Twist religious motive behind deaths by icWales.
Clairvoyant Diane Lazarus - who helped find TV presenter Jill Dando's killer - says she holds the key to solving the massive police hunt after receiving spiritual messages that a lonely young man is carrying out the murders as part of a sickening 'religious' ritual. The Llanelli psychic today offered her help to Suffolk Police to track down the serial killer behind the deaths of five Ipswich prostitutes in just 10 days.

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'Holy' chocolate sighting linked to survival instinct by Monterey Herald.
Christians aren't the only ones to find the holy in the ordinary: Followers of Islam have said they've seen the Arabic script for "Allah" or "Muhammad" on fish scales, chicken eggs, lambs and beans. The phenomenon is so common that scientists have given it a name: pareidolia, the perception of patterns where none are intended.
"It's really part of our basic perceptual and cognitive situation," said Guthrie, a cultural anthropologist, retired Fordham University professor and author of the book "Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion."


How the gospel story grew in the telling by MSNBC.
For Christians, 'tis the season for shepherds and kings, animals and angels to gather together around the manger — at least in countless Nativity scenes around the world. But it takes more than any one of the four Gospels to assemble that precise tableau: The three kings (actually, astrologers) come from Matthew, while the shepherds come from Luke.

Religion vs. Spirituality by Ohmy News.
God is one of the most controversial issues till this time of creation. Some people call it a hypothetical entity while some claim to have seen it. The next amazing fact is that there are as many gods as there are people. Some worship the feminine Gods while many masculine. So till this date none has been able to either deny or accept the God concept wholly.

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The Great Alien Debate: Part III in a VII part series:

What is Life? by Astrobiology Magazine.
And looking for life is a little bit like dealing with that problem, because we think we have an idea how to look for life here. But there is no general agreement about what are the best methods to look for life that we do know about. So we're very far from consensus about how to look for life that we don't know about.

The Great Alien Debate: Part IV in a VII part series:

The Basic Rules of the Universe by Astrobiology Magazine.
We have to integrate cosmology into astrobiology in our understanding of life -- to understand when the first stars formed, and when the first elements formed. This is a prerequisite for any further investigation. We have set our origin of life at 3.5 billion years ago, the origin of our planet Earth at 5 billion years ago, and we must place that into the context of the universe, which formed approximately 14 billion years ago.


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