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Can Science Lead to Faith?
The relationship between science and religion has always been vexed. Most scientists I know are nonbelievers, convinced that there...
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Beloved Immortals: Science, Miracles and ‘Jellyfish Time’
What is biological immortality? To be fair, it’s not the promise of a paradisiacal garden. Neither is it the...
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When Is the Next Doomsday (Not) Going to Happen?
Take a deep breath; Dec 21, 2012 is behind us. The Mayan calendar end-of-world debacle is over: zip, zilch,...
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on...
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A God-Free Response to Mass Murder
To be sure, there were calls in the days after the mass murder in Newtown for a deep and...
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Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?
A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact...
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Laws Governing Brain Development May Also Control Growth of Universe
The universe is neither a computer nor a brain, but there are surprisingly similar laws to rule them all....
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A World Without History
According to Aristotelian philosophy, earth was eternal, a world without history and with no end. Only with the advent...
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The Higgs, Boltzmann Brains, and Monkeys Typing Hamlet
Amir D. Aczel blogs about physics and cosmology for Discover’s Crux: If somebody told you that there are angels...
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Remembering Paul Kurtz
Herb Silverman for On Faith’s Guest Voices, reflecting on the life and contributions of Paul Kurtz, who died October...