Category Archives: Meaning of Life-Science

Brian Greene’s “Until the End of Time”

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Brian Greene is a theoretical physicistmathematician, string theorist, and Professor at Columbia University. His latest book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, explores the question of how life can be meaningful in a universe destined for extinction. It is a brave, profound, wise, and erudite work.

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The Time of Our Lives: Human Awareness in the Context of Cosmic Time

A model of the expanding universe opening up from the viewer's left, facing the viewer in a 3/4 pose.

by Lawrence Rifkin MD

I am about to turn 50 years old, a mark of time that perhaps triggered the impetus to try to understand human life in the context of the largest possible backdrop — cosmic time. Continue reading The Time of Our Lives: Human Awareness in the Context of Cosmic Time

“A Meaning to Life,” Reply to Ruse


My last post expressed my effusive praise for Michael Ruse’s new book, A Meaning to Life. I would now like to comment on Ruse’s counsel that we can create and enjoy meaning in life despite the yearning for some non-existent salvific narrative—religious or scientific. Continue reading “A Meaning to Life,” Reply to Ruse