Feeling rather low after staying up past midnight watching the news, I stepped into the backyard to look at the stars before going to bed. There was a stupendously clear…
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Mystical Experiencing Trumps Reason and Unreason
by Martin LeFevre 2019/04/10‘Higher thought’ is an extremely powerful evolutionary adaptation, allowing humans to create and build all the things in the world. But we idolize it and project it onto the universe,…
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Even people who do not support the status quo, or uphold the Western notion of progress, believe that “humanity is walking a positive evolutionary path.” Why is that? Is it…
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World News – The nearest single star to the sun apparently hosts a big, icy planet.
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Everyone knows Earth has only one moon — or is it three? Astronomers in Hungary say they’ve detected a pair of what some call “ghost moons” orbiting our planet not…
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Philosophy needs to break science’s taboo against any form of teleology, which broadly speaking is the study of evidences of intent and design in nature.
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How can such a powerful creature as man be comprised of such puny creatures as humans? How can such puny creatures as humans compose such a powerful creature as man?…
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World News – When astronomers first spied a weird cigar-shaped object speeding past the sun last October, they could tell from its path that it had come from another star system…