Section 1: Introduction More is demanded of myth than of science. A creation myth needs to provide an overall meaning and context for our lives, addressing our values and our hopes as much as our understanding. Physical cosmology, of course, does none of these things. And yet, physical cosmology is globally accepted by all modern…
The complex relationships between our understanding of self and subject, the problem of knowledge (epistemology), and the problem of Being (metaphysics) have long been an important focus of inquiry in philosophy, with equally important ramifications for both science and religion. An extraordinarily interesting and lucid contribution to the analysis of these relationships was made by…
That we have lost a shared cultural foundation in the unity of knowledge is by now a commonplace observation. As knowledge and information grow exponentially, this knowledge becomes further and further fractionated and dispersed, leaving us with a sense of less coherence and greater isolation. In addition, many would say that our increasingly detailed knowledge,…