Governments and Covid-19 – sniper fire beats a machine gun
The reaction of governments to Covid-19 has been to respond with a one-size-fits-all ‘solution’ that has done far more harm than good.
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The reaction of governments to Covid-19 has been to respond with a one-size-fits-all ‘solution’ that has done far more harm than good.
The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. According to a Pew survey, the percent of Americans having no religious affiliation reached 23 percent in 2014. Among such “nones,” 33 percent said that they do not believe in God – an 11 percent increase since only 2007.
David Bentley Hart on David Chalmers's depressing fantasy of minds in simulated worlds
Stuart Jeffries' 'Everything, All the Time, Everywhere' pins down the condition that governs our existence as blatantly and crudely as a force of nature.
The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.”