origins

Neanderthal clues to cancer origins By Helen Briggs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22780717 A Neanderthal living 120,000 years ago had a cancer that is common today, according to a fossil study. A fossilised Neanderthal rib found in a shallow cave at Krapina, Croatia, shows...

http://www.academicroom.com/article/shah-name-echoes-sikh-poetry-and-origins-nihangs%E2%80%99-name

Dear all I note there have been several prosletysing-type threads recently about the Qu'ran In the interests of balance, I wanted to share the following book review with you: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9188586/In-the-Shadow-of-the-Sword-by-Tom-Holland-review.html...

Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. Co-Founder, Hindu American Foundation Of course no one owns yoga. Nor do you have to be Hindu to practice and benefit from yoga. Pretty obvious one would think, but not so for the many perturbed Western yogis who have entered the now global debate that the Hindu...

Where did karah parshad originate from? What was it's original function? What are the meanings of the ingredients? Why do some people use suji but others dont? Is 'blessed food' an incorrect translation? :yum: Thanks for educating me

The science/religion fault line has built up tremendous pressure in the last few decades, and people on both sides of it feel deeply shaken. Maybe that explains why so many can't see straight. Many theists continue, against all reason, to try to jam the 11-dimensional square peg of science...

"You see when I learnt to drive (and maybe im alone on this) I didnt need the manual because I was first taught orally i.e through word." Vj ~ No you are not alone on this. You are just as brain-dead as other 6.5 billion people on this planet. Perhaps you should take your turban off so that...

The Rehit Maryada explicitly forbids consulting with soothsayers. Guru Nanaak spoke of the ever-present truth of the Divine's hukam - unknowable and firm. The Sikh view of karma is not a fatalistic view. Yet even some Sikhs, members of a truly modern religion, just like members of other faiths...