Cosmos: Reason? Implications? Consciousness: ESP mean? ESP work? Dualism? Ultimate reality? Meaning: Speculating about God? God intervenes?
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Humanity’s diverse religions have deeply opposing beliefs that conflict and contradict. How then to claim that any one is the ‘true religion’? How to...
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Our universe has been developing for about 14 billion years, but human-level intelligence, at least on earth, has emerged in a remarkably short period of time, measured in...
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Many religions envision a radical transformation of reality. The supernatural intervention of God or God-like forces changes everything. What, conceivably, could this new...
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‘A new heaven and a new earth’ is the grand vision of the Bible. The Judeo-Christian scriptures tell of a future time when all things shall be made new. What...
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I’d like to live forever. Who wouldn’t? But what would living forever mean? What would we do? Almost every religion offers life after death, in one form or...
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There are so many arguments for and against the existence of God. Most we have heard over and over again, without common resolution. Are there new or novel arguments worth...
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Evil is a high hurdle for theists. Given the savagery of moral evil (what humans do to humans) and the horrors of natural evil (earthquakes, tsunamis, disease), how could an...
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Why does alien intelligence hold such fascination? Can we even conceive of what they might be like? To appreciate intelligent, sentient life in the universe, right now we...
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Can God and the enormity of evil both exist? To theists, it’s the problem of evil, which they struggle to resolve. To atheists, it’s the argument from evil, which...
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Atheism fields two kinds of arguments denying the existence of God: arguments that refute so-called ‘proofs’ of God’s existence and arguments that...
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Art delights us, but how and why? What makes art transcendent, and how does the art-transcendence nexus engage the mind? Explore art, appreciate art, with cognitive science,...
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