Atoms and the Miracle of Life
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.
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Baroque Consilience: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Colonial Latin America’s great feminist poet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, combined images of transcendence with the immanence of nature in her eloquent writing.
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Can We Be Awe-Inspired without Thinking Hierarchically?
We are complex animals with complex, multifaceted thought processes. The Darwinian approach to religion is only beginning to scratch the surface here, and adaptive religions like adaptive individuals are complex.
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The Alpha Factor and Religion
The alpha factor is a symbolic principle of organization often attached to religious mapping, but it is one with a firm foundation in evolutionary reality and the biological continuity found among related species.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Seeking Hope in the Far Future
In “The Far Future Universe,” George Ellis poses an overarching question: “Will human life and all intelligence inevitably come to an end as the universe evolves, or is there some way in which they could survive until the end of time?”
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The Feast of the Elements
Might it be our time in history to begin honoring the birth of the elements?
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Multiplying NonZero: Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
In day-to-day life, there all kinds of non-zero-sum games that people play. Robert Wright sees this as “the secret of life.”
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Glorious Contingency
Arguing for a “balanced theory of contingent-necessity in evolution.”
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Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
Although it is a well-written book and Robert Wright is a clever journalist with a bent for spinning evolutionary just-so stories, he forgot to test his hypothesis. As a consequence he has paid the price by being wrong.
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Does the history of our species show any evidence of higher purpose?