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My father passed away twenty-one years ago this week. In this essay, I remember the man who taught me to think, to question, to explore, to doubt . . . and only then to believe.

Hwang Dong-hee ANN/THE KOREA HERALD – English naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin widely recognised for his contributions to evolutionary biology, published The Origin of Species in 1859. More than 160 years later, Darwin’s theory of evolution is still meaningful to us, said Professor Choe Jae-chun, a renowned expert in the field who received his doctorate […]

Escalating . . . and cloaked, as always, in claims of progress.

The Wedge: Breaking the Modernist Monopoly on Science by Phillip E. Johnson

Humans are good at spotting intelligence that looks like our own. But there’s no rule saying machines have to think like us.

What would Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, a very friendly robot, plus a bevy of scientists, mystics, and wannabe scholars do at a fancy resort in Arizona? Perhaps real harm to the field of consciousness studies, for one thing.

Sarah An Myers is a writer who covers psychology, human rights, and culture. She writes for Psychology Today on the psychosis spectrum and frequently contributes human rights stories to publications who advocate for open democracy and secularism. Having first earned her master’s in behavioral neuroscience in 2021, she is currently pursuing her MFA in creative nonfiction at The New School in New York City.

Shortly after the turn of the third millennium, the New Atheists set the stage for the generations who grew up abused by religion. Gen X and baby boomer atheists and secular humanists heralded authors such as Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett for bringing some scientific perspective (as well some sc ...

Scott Johnson, a composer and guitarist who forged an original style involving the rhythmic cadences of speech and the gestures and timbres of popular

In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the structural rigor of classical composition with the ebullient sound and attitude of rock.