Reasons to Believe

Human Sociability

August 1, 2003
By Dr. Hugh Ross

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An experiment involving 60,000 email users confirms Stanley Milgram’s hypothesis that any person is connected to any other person in the world through a chain of social ties that involves an average of just six people. This experiment proves that humans are amazingly designed for social interaction.

Peter Sheridan Dodds, Roby Muhamad, and Duncan J.Watts, “An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks,” Science, 301 (2003), PP. 827-829; Mark Granovetter, “Ignorance, Knowledge, and Outcomes in a Small World,” Science, 301 (2003), pp. 771-772.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/301/5634/827

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/301/5634/773.summary

RTB article: Facts for Faith articles on human origins (big bangs of art, language, jewelry, civilization, etc.)

Subjects: Life Design

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Dr. Hugh Ross

Reasons to Believe emerged from my passion to research, develop, and proclaim the most powerful new reasons to believe in Christ as Creator, Lord, and Savior and to use those new reasons to reach people for Christ. Read more about Dr. Hugh Ross.