A flock of small birds lands in the shallows, and a few begin furiously beating their wings in the water. More join in, and suddenly there are a dozen birds…
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Einstein
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If the events of recent weeks have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and emotional irrationality.…
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Philosophers have an expression that has always been more aspiration than actuality. It reflects what I think we all want, whether we’ve spent decades in philosophical inquiry or are simply…
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Does science increase wonder or quash it? Over a hundred years since Einstein poured the foundation for modern physics and postulated the existence of gravity waves, scientists at LEGO, I…
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When cultures were intact and geographically distinct, human relationship was defined in terms of cohesive tradition, group identification, and shared language and custom. Now the world over, affiliations are becoming…
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Galileo spent the last years of his life under house arrest because he found evidence that Copernicus was right, the earth revolves around the sun. But are we just specks…
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Questioner one: I’d like to begin our enquiry today with a statement by a local philosophy professor. He said, “Science and its method is the best available way to explain…
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To a philosopher, a statement like the following is a gold mine: “According to quantum mechanics, particles do not take on formal properties until they are measured or observed in…