What is the Mind-Body Problem?
How is it possible that mushy masses of brain cells, passing chemicals and shooting sparks, literally are mental sensations and subjective feelings? They seem so radically different.
Do Persons have Souls?
Is the “Real You” a special substance that is both nonphysical and immortal? Most people think “Certainly”. Most scientists think “Certainly Not”. What some theologians think may trouble you.
Why the Laws of Nature?
What’s real? What’s fundamental? There are regularities in nature, things that are or work the same-always, everywhere, across the universe just like in your kitchen. Down deep, what are the laws of nature? What makes them “laws”? And where do they come from?
Is Time Travel Possible?
Some scientists take time travel seriously. Should you? What does time travel reveal about the nature of space and time and the laws of physics under extreme conditions?
Arguing God from Design
The world certainly appears to be designed. Are appearances deceiving? Discover new twists to this old argument.
Why is Consciousness Baffling?
How does consciousness weave its magical web of inner awareness-appreciating music, enjoying art, feeling love? Even when all mental functions may be explained, the great mystery-what it “feels like” inside-will likely remain.
Did God Create Time?
God and Time are two huge mysteries; relating them probes the nature of God, and perhaps even the existence of a Creator. If God is in Time and experiences its passage, then how could God have created Time? Also Leibniz’s famous question: “Why didn’t God create the world sooner?”
Could Our Universe Be a Fake?
Perhaps our entire universe is like a gigantic computer game, the creation of super-smart hackers existing somewhere else? Before you smirk and laugh, watch and think!
Do Science & Religion Conflict?
Don’t let the heated argument or the smooth talk fool you: the struggle between science and religion carries deep significance. Meaning and Purpose hang in the balance as battle rages on many fronts.
Does Evil Disprove God?
Theologians have no tougher task than explaining evil, its enormity even more than its existence. Give the clergy their due: they’ve devised clever, even profound, rationale. But at the end of the long day, do these explanations, or rationalizations, really work?
Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical?
Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously?
Eternal Life is Like What?
Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter: some are collective and ethereal in the spirit, others individual and corporeal in the body. Which would you choose? (Your opinion means nothing, of course.)