In a sense, this isn't news: a lot of the religions that were contemporaries of Judaism had a creation story involving gods making order out of chaos rather than creating the universe from nothing, though I'd previously read that this was referred to in the Bible more obliquely than the this new theory suggests (e.g. water + Leviathan symbolises chaos in Psalm 74). If this idea catches on, it'll be interesting to see the new ideas the Abrahamic religions come up with to harmonise this with science 🙂 (tags: religionbiblehistorychristianitycreationismcreationgodchaos)
Peter Watts talks about a paper which claims consciousness arose out of the need to chose between conflicting motor impulses. (tags: consciousnesssciencescifisci-fipeter-watts)
Magus Shadee (Wiz 5, Necromatic) apparently cast Summon Monster in the big Catholic church in Cambridge. Local clerics of Papem, god of guilt about sex, say they'll summon the City Watch, though it's not clear what they'd do about it. I'd've thought the clerics would be better off casting some defensive spells of their own. (tags: woo-woochristianitycambridgeoccultpaganismwitchcraft)
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I was actually motivated to click through all of the links on this page, which is pretty unusual even for a good link-blog post. (Of course, it’s more likely with five links than with fifteen, but even so…) Bravo!
Subject: God is not the Creator, claims academic
I asked a knowledgeable friend about that one.
Magus Shadee (Wiz 5, Necromatic) apparently cast Summon Monster
Under the rules, a fifth level wizard can summon a demon for precisely 30 seconds.
I don’t think the cleric has much to worry about…
I was actually motivated to click through all of the links on this page, which is pretty unusual even for a good link-blog post. (Of course, it’s more likely with five links than with fifteen, but even so…) Bravo!