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Evaluating Others: Checking Our Bias

June 30, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

How we are irrational and what the science says we can do about it…

Categories Free Tags atheism, beliefs, communication, critical thinking, health, psychology, rationality, science Leave a comment

Genesis for Non-Theists

January 16, 2015January 1, 2015 by Brock Haussamen
Human embryonic stem cell

Science’s account of the origin of life contains its own story of the loss of immortality.

Categories Free Tags bible, biology, cells, genesis, immortality, life, myth, origins, science Leave a comment

Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis Part 3: The Cognitive Science of meaning and why that meaning is spiritual

July 6, 2015March 20, 2014 by John Vervaeke

Relevance realization is an inherently spiritual process … it is so fundamental to our agency and identity, it is something in which we participate, and it is foundational to how we connect to ourselves, each other, and the world.

Categories Free Tags cognition, meaning, mind, science 1 Comment

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