A review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007. My story begins with the intriguing title of a new book — Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey 2007). The authors are a father and daughter team. The…
I want to argue that it is possible to look at transhumanism as a truly religious endeavor.
Many evolutionists today subscribe to a version of scientific naturalism that claims to be able to explain all aspects of life, including suffering, in purely biological terms and without having to resort to theological understanding at all.
Insight and intuition abound in the realms of religion and the arts. They also abound in the twin realms of science and mathematics. While believers and artists may attribute them to the inspiring (in-breathing) of divinity or the wondrous workings of a daemon, scientists and mathematicians—though equally amazed and often thankful—are less wont to attribute…
His process metaphysics tends to depersonalize God to the extent of rendering theism irrelevant and naturalize moral evil in the service of evolution.
Religion is a complex neurocognitive experience that includes rituals, social groups, and other dimensions not easily replicated in a lab or isolated in individual human minds.
What is thought to be on the inside of religion and what is thought to be outside is something we should continually question. We need to push on these boundaries.
Through Metanexus Institute, I had helped to organize a delegation of Western scholars to participate in this International Congress on Religion and Science. This was the first conference of its kind to be held in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When we talk about biocultural evolution in the 21st century, my bet is that religion broadly understood will take center stage as the most important and unpredictable variable for better or worse.
Examining human creativity within the context of natural history and cultural evolution.