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• Cognition, Metaphysics & Teleology

  

  If you are a high-profile professor of computer science at Yale University, it’s quite probable that the view from your room is peculiar (if not positively... Read more

  The 19 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Plant Pantheism

  

  A few years ago I attended a conference where some apparently serious people debated whether plants had consciousness. To me this seemed absurd, given that... Read more

  The 08 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Directed Evolution

  

  What would the world be like if Darwin had never existed? This is the question Peter Bowler asks in Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin (2013). Read more

  The 21 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Without Artifice

  

  Jean Arasanayagam was schooled in Kandy and graduated from the University of Peradeniya. Her name is synonymous with English literature in Sri Lanka, and her... Read more

  The 20 January 2014 by   Stfallen
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• Shooting Theist Ducks

  

  While I have sometimes been critical of Jerry Coyne and his fellow New Atheists, it’s not because I think they are generally wrong. Read more

  The 17 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Profitable Proof of Heaven

  

  In 2012, Eben Alexander published Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. The credulous, who had been smitten by Colton Burpo’s Heaven Is... Read more

  The 03 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Quantum Surreality

  

  Quantum physics is, for laypeople, mind bending stuff. The good news is that it also bends the minds of physicists, who continue to wrestle with the reality... Read more

  The 29 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Quantum Consciousness Redux

  

  Those interested in spinning their brain bosons and fermions should head over to Physics of Life Reviews, which has published a series of open access articles o... Read more

  The 24 January 2014 by   Cris
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• Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 7

  

  The Hebrew Bible records the history of the world in some detail, but the history of Israel in great detail. Rather than a book of myth and legend, the Hebrew... Read more

  The 04 January 2014 by   Mmcgee
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• Unearthing Mother

  

  While reading Tony Swain’s superlative A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being (1993), I came across this passage:In an... Read more

  The 26 January 2014 by   Cris
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