In recent years, many of us have sensed that something fundamental is going wrong in the global mind. Our feeds overflow with anxiety, outrage, and confusion. Polarization deepens. Conspiracy theories spread faster than reasoned debate. Young people report record levels of depression and despair. Continue reading Why We Need a Science of Noospherics
Galileo Galilei, regarded as the father of modern science
by Lawrence Rifkin MD
As a pediatrician, I have a seemingly endless collection of hilarious stories. A toddler came in for a visit carrying along his security object—a spatula. Later that day, an otherwise perfectly well-adjusted mother admitted to me that she is terrified of cantaloupes. Then I treated a teenage patient who had been camping and made the fateful and unenviable decision to use poison ivy as toilet paper. Continue reading Wonders, Not Miracles
Almost everybody asks this question at some point in their life. The world is so complex, so confusing. It makes no sense; the universe seems so capricious in its causes and effects. Good people suffer while bad people prosper. It’s all so crazy!
Continue reading “What Does It All Mean?”
I try to understand religion in terms of the evolution of human cognition. One of the great leaps in human cognition probably occurred well before Homo Sapiens. One of our precursors, possibly as early as Australopithecus, developed the capability to attempt to understand basic cause-and-effect relationships. Continue reading How Humans Came To Believe In Gods
By Joshua Shrode
How odd that a compassionate God uses such a mode … a book … to communicate with his mostly illiterate creation. By odd, I mean ridiculous…not of God but of us to look at a book written in a real human language and think, “Perfect! Obviously God’s word!” Continue reading Why Did God Write A Book?
