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Conservative evangelical author Eric Metaxas doesn't hold back when the question of atheism arises.

Our era of authoritarian rulers and alternative facts makes the guiding light of philosophy more vital than ever.

Unthinkable: We don’t know how consciousness works, but some theories are better than others

MORE THAN HUMAN 2021.07.21 WED 07:00:47 生体電気による「細胞間のインターネット」で失われた手足の再生に挑む（後篇） いつの日か人間の手足が再生できるようになることは、発生生物学者の誰もが疑って...

Atheist hikers will deliver sanitary pads and school supplies to rural Nepali girls News Provided By Share This Article trekking non-believers will backpack menstrual & education supplies to impoverished communities in Annapurna range to keep girls in school PIEDMONT, CA, USA, July 14, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Atheist Republic Nepal (ARP) is guiding a hiking expedition of USA non-believers into rural Himalayan villages in March 2022. Loaded into their backpacks will be $1,500 worth of washabl...

Maine Voices: Rethinking advice about being our best selves and being true to our selves Rep. Liz Cheney is an example of someone who’d rather risk disapproval with a candid ‘true self’ than put forward a more palatable ‘best self.’ By Barbara S. HeldSpecial to the Press Herald Share A professor at our small Maine college made some people a bit nervous. Jon Goldstein was then a big burly guy who rode a heavy motorcycle and spoke my native-Bronx “tell-it-like-it-is” language. We ...

Figure 1: Hubert, the author’s cheerful plush ladybug flatmate. Meet Hubert. For going on ten years now, Hubert has shared a living space with my wife and me. He’s a generally cheerful fellow, optimistic to a fault, occasionally prone to a little mischief; in fact, my wife, upon seeing the picture, remarked that he looked inordinately well-behaved. He’s fond of chocolate and watching TV, which may be the reason why his chief dwelling place is our couch, where most of the TV-watching and c...

Readers reflect on the role of chance, randomness and responsibility in their own lives Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy Letters Sun 2 May 2021 11.29 EDT Last modified on Sun 2 May 2021 12.01 EDT What high-quality letters (29 April) on free will. My A-level psycholo...

1 He has focused on narratives. Energy narratives Before discussing Kings narrative framework, its worth pausing for some reflection. Scientists who study the biophysical limits of the human economy run head-on into a cultural divide between the natural and social sciences. These two cultures (as C.P. Snow called them) do not speak the same language. I can testify to this divide. I have had many frustrating conversations with social scientists who are incredulous that the laws of thermodynami...

change people’s beliefs, it seems to make no moral difference anyway.Illustration by Triff / Shutterstock Belief is a special kind of human power. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, eloquently claims as much in his recent book Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being. It’s the “most prominent, promising, and dangerous capacity humanity has evolved,” he writes, the power to “see and feel and know something—an idea, a vision, a necessity, ...