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Science & Reason

How Atheists Pray

July 23, 2020 by Eric Steinhart

Discovery and wonder as forms of prayer…

Categories Free, Philosophy/Wisdom, Science & Reason, Uncategorized 7 Comments

Pilgrimage to the Ancestors

March 21, 2019 by Brock Haussamen

Reading Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale: The Dawn of Evolution…

Categories Free, Science & Reason, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Lessons From the Origins of Life

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 by Brock Haussamen

Exploring the achievement of coming alive…

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Our Actual “Eve”

December 11, 2018November 15, 2018 by Brock Haussamen

Contemplating the mother of us all…

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The Soul of the Matter

April 22, 2023July 19, 2018 by Thomas Schenk

A brief contemplation on the unfathomable depths of matter…

Categories Free, Process Philosophy/Theology, Science & Reason, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Humboldt’s Vision of Nature

July 12, 2018 by Brock Haussamen

Brock Haussamen re-introduces Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most famous scientist of his age…

Categories Complexity Science, Free, Philosophy/Wisdom, Science & Reason, Uncategorized 2 Comments

On the Glory of Being a Body

May 24, 2018 by Eric Steinhart

The author contrasts the position of mind-body dualism with animalism, the view that mind and body are one…

Categories Free, Science & Reason, Uncategorized 1 Comment

400 Million Years of Ferns

May 17, 2018 by Brock Haussamen

A contemplation of the green leafiness of ferns…

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The Biology of Suffering

March 15, 2018 by Brock Haussamen

A brief exploration of the biology of suffering…

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