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At the Crossroads between World Orders: What will the New World Order be?

The Old World Order is crumbling.  Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis and other Arabs are on the streets shaking themselves off of their western backed leaders.  Elsewhere in the world countries once caught in the polarization of the Cold War are now free, spreading their wings.  The Economic and Political influence of China, India and Brazil are waxing while those of the United States and the West are Waning.  A new World Order is on its way.

Blinded by Science

For over 25 years SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has, as its name implies, been searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence using a battery of devices searching for "signals from advanced technological civilizations in our galaxy".  For 25 years they have searched

Religion's influence on scientific beliefs

There is science.  Then there are scientific beliefs.  Take the Big Bang theory for example.

Stealing from the poor

The post "Reading another's mind" explained how the forces of logic and emotion convert a good, honest, loving man to Maoism.  The example given was theoretical and rather benign compared to reality.  Today's news gives two stark real world stories which demonstrate the same, with the added harshness of reality.

The poor man has a name and a real life

Religions and Science.

Religions have a sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter relationship with science.  A relationship that science is oblivious to.

Consciousness

The post "Matter, Life, Intelligence and Consciousness" suggested that Life, Intelligence and Consciousness are properties of matter that manifest themselves only under certain arrangements of matter.  In a subsequent post "A train of thought" I quickly got into argument with a couple of people on the World Wide Web, presumably Hindu, who argued that Consciousness preceded Matter, Life and Intelligence and that Consciousness was God.

A train of thought

The train is pulling up to a station.  People are milling about the platform preparing to board.  Looking out the window I see each one of them and think "Matter transformed".  After all they, like me, are made up of matter.  Matter formed and transformed in the Cosmos.  Matter further transformed on earth.  Whether created or evolved we are made up of Matter transformed.

Here come the Super Heroes, Saviours of our planet?

In 2029 there is a 1 in 250,000 chance a 27 million tonne asteroid named Apophis will hit Earth (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8435829.stm).  "People's lives are at stake" says Mr Perminov, the head of Russia's space agency.  "We should pay several hundred million dollars and build a system that would allow us to prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people"  he said.

Tigers and elephants make statements on the environment

As climate changes their environments and as man continues to encroach on their habitats tigers and elephants are making their statements.

Tigers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8411208.stm

Elephants: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0603_050603_elephants.html

Torn between origins?

The Human Genome Organization (HUGO) has found evidence that suggests that "Asia was populated primarily through a single migration event from the south". See  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8406506.stm.