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	<title>Life is Worth Blogging &#187; Joemar</title>
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		<title>Imagination and the Nature of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/03/18/imagination-and-the-nature-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagination is both a friend and a foe of science. It is a foe in the sense that it tends to be unrealistic, illogical and anti-scientific. It has a tendency to make something appear appealingly true without evidence. Examples of unbridled imaginations are myths, legends, fictions, and fabrications, among others. What science does is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/03/16/life-could-not-have-come-through-random-mutations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I survey through different blogs and websites and from conversations with certain friends on the topic of evolution, I can almost always encounter an argument that goes something like, &#8220;Life could not have evolved through random mutation&#8221;. This is supposed to be a short and crisp evolutionist stumper. Indeed, how could random mutations produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/14/how-i-broke-free-from-various-belief-systems-and-found-myself-agnostic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agnosticism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joemartaganna.com/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were born, we were automatically trapped within a culture with a certain belief system. This shapes how we understand all things around us. In most cases, it also dictates how we should behave. It pervades our whole personality so much that when it is challenged and we realize that something is wrong about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God May Be Hiding&#8230;For a Good Reason</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/08/god-may-be-hiding-for-a-good-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/08/god-may-be-hiding-for-a-good-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there ever is a God, he is probably hiding himself sufficiently enough so that our innate insatiable curiosity may lead us to investigate how he made the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets and life. The excitement will be ruined if he&#8217;d just appear and say, &#8220;hey! stop thinking about it, I made everything&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Universe from Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/27/thoughts-on-a-universe-from-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Bang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantum fluctuations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I completed watching a lecture of Dr. Lawrence Kraus on the topic of the universe coming out of nothing. It is indeed a hallmark of success of modern cosmology that all events can be traced back now, from pieces of evidence, at the beginning of the universe up to time zero. It goes beyond common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of the Human Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/24/the-paradox-of-the-human-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the human brain is highly evolved and that the survival of our species critically hinges on a sufficient objective understanding of the natural world, then why is it so susceptible to imaginative and inaccurate models of thinking? Think about how some credulous religious fanatics can kill thousands of people for an anticipation of heaven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good shots of Ghent center</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/12/02/a-few-good-shots-of-ghent-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/12/02/a-few-good-shots-of-ghent-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
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		<title>Traditional Religion, Science, and the Search for Meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/11/27/traditional-religion-science-and-the-search-for-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/11/27/traditional-religion-science-and-the-search-for-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joemartaganna.com/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that humans are hardwired to make some sense of life or to have some meaning. Science and religion both agree on this goal, which is to come up with meaningful models to understand everything. These two spheres of human exploration fulfill our deepest longing to make sense of the world. The only difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISI data shows lethargic progress of science in the Philippines</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/10/11/isi-data-shows-lethargic-progress-of-science-in-the-philippines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/10/11/isi-data-shows-lethargic-progress-of-science-in-the-philippines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joemartaganna.com/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Until the mid-seventies, the scientific productivity of the Philippines was comparable to that of Thailand and Malaysia and a little better over Indonesia. More than 40 years later, the overall productivity of Filipino scientists (i.e. those working in the Philippines) has gone far below the remarkable outputs of Thailand and Malaysia. As of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M. Scott Peck&#8217;s Four Stages of Spiritual Development</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/06/15/m-scott-pecks-four-stages-of-spiritual-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/06/15/m-scott-pecks-four-stages-of-spiritual-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came to read about M. Scott Peck when I was reading articles about demonic possessions and  exorcisms. He is an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote about his insights into various subjects including characterization and diagnosis of evil, nature of love, existence of Satan, and about spiritual development. Many of his ideas [...]]]></description>
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