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Home » Dan Shanefield

Dan Shanefield

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    Interesting and thoughtful

    by Dan Shanefield Kurt Kawohl’s “Pascal’s Wager Is Flawed” is interesting and thoughtful. My own views about Pascal’s Wager, including a link to the Stanford…
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    Response to Talk Back 21: Further comments

    by Dan Shanefield Anyone who was interested in my Meditation 187, or my previous response to Talk Back 21, might also be interested in the…
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    Further Reading Recommendations

    by Dan Shanefield Re: Meditation 187 Regarding the Sturgis book about the Old Testament, two other (quite authoritative) books by archeologists, which come the same…
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    Re: The Historical Evidence for Jesus

    by Dan Shanefield The following can be seen in Encyclopedia Britannica on the web (but you have to be a paying subscriber, or else you’d…
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    Favorable Perspective On Life Without Intelligent Design

    by: Dan Shanefield In my previous Meditations, like 639 and 641, I wrote that it is hard to believe that complex (but very specific) DNA…
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    The conditions for starting life

    by: Dan Shanefield Of course, we can’t be sure, but it seems logical that there could be many almost-DNA materials that would be alive. However,…
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    On the origin of life

    In Meditations 626 and 627, Dan Shanefield raised the possibility that DNA may have originally arrived on Earth from somewhere else in the universe. I…
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    Free Will Theorem

    As Dan Shanefield wrote in the previous article, modern science can indeed seem “spooky.” To me, one of the spookiest developments to arise out of…
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    Looks Pretty Suspicious!

    by Dan Shanefield In a fairly popular e-zine, I published a list of some important dates in history, including the beginnings of a few major…
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    They are logical possibilities

    by Dan Shanefield I can see the logic of all the points that Maarten van den Driest made. What I was saying in Meditation 447…

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  • February 2024
    Right now it looks like this site is going to be re-animated. Re-vitalized! And Ordinations will resume. As past visitors know, JT,…
  • June 2024
    Welcome everyone! This is the first update from UCTAA’s first succeeding Patriarch to our founder, JT. We have issued a few ordination…
  • 15 January 2016
    New Meditation 1272, 1273, & 1274; and recent comments.

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