golge011/religion

An interesting take on religion.

From the page:"In architecture, a spandrel can be neutral or it can be made
functional. Building a staircase, for instance, creates a space
underneath that is innocuous, just a blank sort of triangle. But if you
put a closet there, the under-stairs space takes on a function,
unrelated to the staircase's but useful nonetheless. Either way,
functional or nonfunctional, the space under the stairs is a spandrel,
an unintended byproduct."Natural selection made the human brain
big," Gould wrote, "but most of our mental properties and potentials
may be spandrels -- that is, nonadaptive side consequences of building a
device with such structural complexity."

From the page: "In a scene worthy of a Dan Brown novel, archaeologists a quarter of a century ago unearthed a burial chamber near Jerusalem.

Inside they found ossuaries, or boxes of bones, marked with the names of Jesus, Joseph and Mary.

Then one of the ossuaries went missing. The human remains inside were destroyed before any DNA testing could be carried out."

From the page: "The Dragon In My Garage
by Carl Sagan

"A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage""