Stone-Age

The main thrust is that our Stone-Age minds still cling to superstitious thinking, and that in order to act more appropriately, we have a responsibility to move past those primitive impulses and cognitive mistakes that make religion feel so "natural" and appealing to the average person.

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Are Rational Religious People All That Rare? Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2011

Stone-Age laws like segregation, the ban on Kuwaiti women to bestow citizenship, marriage issues, unequal inheritance and divorce will definitely be get a revisiting, if not a rehashing.

Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Election History: Four Women Win Parliament Seats 2009

The main thrust is that our Stone-Age minds still cling to superstitious thinking, and that in order to act more appropriately, we have a responsibility to move past those primitive impulses and cognitive mistakes that make religion feel so "natural" and appealing to the average person.

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Are Rational Religious People All That Rare? Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2011

The hoe has a certain Stone-Age charm, but I think the AK-47 is winning.

Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Flags of all nations 2008

From the research emerged a distinctive Phoenician genetic signature, in contrast to genetic traces spread by other migrations, like those of late Stone-Age farmers, Greek colonists and the Jewish Diaspora.

Oh Those Randy Phoenicians! Jan 2008

From the research emerged a distinctive Phoenician genetic signature, in contrast to genetic traces spread by other migrations, like those of late Stone-Age farmers, Greek colonists and the Jewish Diaspora.

Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

Stone-Age Moms Could Be The Answer -- A prize-winning paper suggests that humans are hairless apes because Stone-Age mothers regarded furry babies as unattractive.

Speedlinking 3/20/07 William Harryman 2007

~ Archeologists Turn to Professional MythBusters for Stone-Age Experiment -- In the Stone Age, prehistoric peoples created weapons by making stone projectile points and affixing them to arrow and spear shafts.

Speedlinking 6/22/07 William Harryman 2007

Nah, we're worried about a civilization of illiterate, religious fanatics, in some Stone-Age mountainous countrybecause some rich, privileged white woman wants to see them free from the repressive Godless Soviets.

Move Review: Charlie Wilson's War-- 2007

Trace the evolving conceptions of hell and the devil from Stone-Age French cave paintings to Hollywood blockbusters.

Archive 2006-06-01 Jeff 2006