Robert Greenough's Blog – January 2016 Archive (5)

Do you believe in a life after this one? Or do you believe that we simply turn to ashes when we die?

Many of us have come to grow up and fathom an afterlife, a life after our earthly one that exists when our bodies retire. Our souls are a powerful force. So powerful that once we leave our corporeal bodies, our consciousness transcends toward a separate, higher realm.

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The multiverse theory is a hotly debated topic within the scientific community, whether it be true or not. There have been multiple depictions of the multiverse theory in various media, often involving shabby fictional physicists telling us all that there are different versions of ourselves.

That’s essentially what the multiverse theory is all about for the average folk: a theory that asserts different versions of the universe and of ourselves, separated by dimensional rifts…

Is the story of Noah’s Flood simply a rewritten version of a story found in the Epic of Gilgamesh? Some people actually believe that the biblical story of Noah’s Flood was not historical at all, and was borrowed from flood legends in Mesopotamia, especially the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), the Epic of Gilgamesh is often regarded as the first great work of literature. It is contained on 12 large tablets. Perhaps the most interesting story in…

Did Moses borrow the 10 commandments from the Egyptian book of the dead?

It sure looks that way. Apparently, the 10 commandments are based on statements made in chapter 125 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The existence of the Egyptian Book of the Dead was known as early as the Middle Ages, however, it was translated much later in the 19th century by a number of Egyptologists and linguists.

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What makes humans different from other animals? What makes us unique? Our clothes? Well, yes…unless you dress up your pet.

First of all, we are slightly different physically from other animals. Like we have an upright posture. Unlike other primates, we walk on two legs and this frees our hands to do all kinds of things that apes can’t do. We have lesser hair than our primate cousins, and we have opposable thumbs. Primates also have opposable thumbs, by the way. What makes us different…