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Tag: bored

Divine boredom (new papers)

June 28, 2018 Martin Gardiner

Has God ever been bored, or is currently bored, or might, at some stage, become bored? In a 2017 paper for the scholarly journal Religious Studies (Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 51-70) authors Vuko Andrić (Akademischer Rat., University of Bayreuth, Germany) and Attila Tanyi (University of Tromsø, Norway) suggest that if God is omnitemporal [i.e. […]

Boys Will Be Boys, Research Newsbored, boredom, god, religion

A Peculiar Bored Crinoid

December 1, 2015 Marc Abrahams

This study about a bored crinoid is in fact about a peculiar bored crinoid: “A peculiar bored crinoid from Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe, Lancashire (Mississippian; Tournaisian), UK,” S. K. Donovan and A. Tenny, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, epub November 11, 2015. The authors, at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, and at the town […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsbored, crinoid, peculiar
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