我们目前的思维方式继续假设世界具有独立于观察者的客观存在。然而，许多实验表明情况并非如此。我们将生命视为碳和其他分子的活动：我们活了一段时间，然后腐烂到地底。这种信念导致我们接受死亡的概念，主要是因为我们将自己与最终会消亡的肉体联系起来。然而，罗伯特·兰扎博士提出的生物中心论理论认为，如果我们将生命和意识纳入方程式，许多科学难题都可以得到解释，包括为什么宇宙看起来适合生命。

Harvard scientists propose that UFOs might not be visitors from space but an advanced species hiding on Earth. Their research highlights unexplored areas that could harbor these mysterious beings.

In a recent research paper, they estimate there is a one in ten chance that the real explanation for UFOs could be “cryptoterrestrial”—indicating an advanced species hiding on Earth. “While this notion may sound unlikely on first hearing, many observers are persuaded that it is at least conceivable,” the team wrote in their study, pointing out that vast areas of our planet remain largely unexplored and uncharted.     

I predict that when I flip this coin, it will land on heads. Or tails. I also predict that it will get temporarily dark tonight, but the light will return by morning.

If I want predictions on these days – I refer to Revelations and other prophetic predictions sprinkled throughout the “Good Book”. I also depend on my own discernment, knowledge of history repeating itself. At 84, it’s getting easier. Perhaps I should get a column and run my thoughts – since people fall for anyone/anything.

For current events and expert analysis, I recommend checking reputable news sources.

What is it called when you believe in God but not religion? A belief in God but not religion falls under the category of agnostic theism. The belief in God exists, but there may be a rejection of the institutional orthodoxy and orthopraxy of the religion.

According to the most recent surveys of religion in America, somewhere between a fourth and a third of Americans describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.”

Many of my friends identify this way. Their beliefs fall on a wide spectrum from “I believe in a higher power with whom I communicate and pray to,” to “I think I believe in God but why would I bother going to church?” Some even admire and follow many of Jesus’ teachings specifically but don’t claim membership in any particular faith community or tradition.

When we’ve talked about their skepticism regarding organized religion, they often express sentiments along the lines of:

“Religion just seems like a lot of rules;”

“The people are self-righteous and hypocritical;”

“I don’t like what the Church teaches regarding politics, money, or moral issues;”

“How do I pick just one religion? There’s so many, which is the right one? And if I pick one, am I then saying that I think all the other religions are wrong or going to hell?”

Yet despite all these reservations, my friends tell me they sense within their heart they belong to something bigger than themselves. As a high school teacher of theology and religious studies, I’ve walked with many teens and young adults as they’ve struggled to reconcile their desire for God with the shortcomings of religion and the humans who comprise them. Here are some lessons I’ve learned from those conversations.

While working on the 1985 book “Habits of the Heart,” the late sociologist Robert N. Bellah met “Sheila,” who described her faith in words that researchers have quoted ever since.

“I can’t remember the last time I went to church,” she said. “My faith has carried me a long way. It’s Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.” The goal was to “love yourself and be gentle with yourself. … I think God would want us to take care of each other.”

A decade later, during the so-called “New Age” era, researchers described a similar faith approach with this mantra – “spiritual but not religious.”

Then in the 21st Century’s first decade, the Pew Research Center began charting a surge of religiously unaffiliated Americans, describing this cohort in a 2012 report with this newsy label – “nones.”

Scientists have discovered a mysterious object at the center of our Milky Way that does not fit the criteria of anything else in the galaxy.

The team found the object emits microwaves, which suggests it contains dust and fast-moving gas that is traveling nearly 112,000 miles per hour from a very small area in the heart of our galaxy.

Astronomers have considered a range of options for what the object could be, from a black hole to a collapsing cloud and evolved star, but found ‘its features do not match well with those of any known type of astronomical body.’

The team found the object emits microwaves, which has suggested it contains dust and fast-moving gas. The gas was detected moving nearly 112,000 miles per hour from a very small area in the heart of our galaxy© Provided by Daily Mail

‘The center of our Galaxy contains billions of stars, tens of millions of solar masses of gas, a supermassive black hole, a tenth of our Galaxy’s ongoing star formation, and an extensive graveyard of stellar remnants,’ researchers shared in the study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

‘It is therefore the likeliest place to find new classes of objects. We present one such object in this work.

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f looking at this Mars vista conjures up childhood memories of the song, “One of these things is not like the others,” NASA scientists are right there with you. 

Perseverance, a car-size lab on six wheels, traveled into the Red Planet’s Neretva Vallis last week. Though this region may look like a barren desert, it was once an ancient river channel that fed into the Jezero crater billions of years ago. 

As Perseverance traversed the inlet, the rover came upon a hill covered in boulders, with one in particular attracting the science team’s attention: a light speckled rock amid a sea of dark lumps. 

“Every once in a while, you’ll just see some strange thing in the Martian landscape, and the team is like, ‘Oh, let’s go over there,'” Katie Stack Morgan, deputy project scientist of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, told Mashable. “This was like the textbook definition of (chasing) the bright, shiny thing because it was so bright and white.”

The boulder is so exceptional, scientists have said it’s in a league of its own. Closer analysis with the rover’s instruments shows it is likely an anorthosite, a rock type never seen before while exploring Mars, Stack Morgan said, though there have been signs such rocks should exist. Not even the Curiosity rover, which has observed more variety in Gale Crater, has seen one quite like this.

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