This relatively new and still emerging way of seeing depends on taking MRI measurements with conventional millimeter - scale resolution, and developing theoretical models to interpret the resulting data in terms of changes occurring at the scale of microns. (cai2r.net)
Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them. (goodreads.com)
To be sure, no one who honestly enters into such a contestation emerges the way one entered; if one did, the contestation was probably less than honest. (religion-online.org)