Tag: cosmos
Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?
Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski.
John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”
“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began.”
Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism
This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions.
Cosmic Fine-Tuning: A Look at the Implications
Does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists?
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.