Modern day hunter-gatherers from Southern Africa. An AEON article How Trance States Forged Human Society Through Transcendence explores the ideas of Robin Dunbar, a noted anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist with Continue Reading →
Glenn Kirschner- Justice Matters One rarely finds anyone on MSNBC, and certainly not on the major networks, ever mentioning the “R”-word – RELIGION, in any sort of negative sense: as Continue Reading →
The Milky Way-our galaxy in our night sky and an artist’s depiction of it from space. Our Milky way is 100,000 light years across. Light travels at 186,000 miles per Continue Reading →
In an episode of Closer to Truth, Robert Kuhn with his guest the physicist Lawrence Krauss, discussed the Anthropic Principle-which suggests in various ways that the Universe was somehow made Continue Reading →
The physicist David Deutsch. I learn something each time I listen to this guy-its ridiculous. His writings and presentations really exemplify and explicate the SSP-Secular Scientific Perspective, especially with regards Continue Reading →
Two weeks ago I submitted a full-blown 25 page, 13,000 word book proposal on “The Obsolescence of Religious Thought” (TORT), to a book agent that publishes religious titles. Previously, since Continue Reading →
It is time to replace the pervasive “things are always getting worse” outlook that frets that “temptation and sin are always lurking around the corner” or that “disaster is but Continue Reading →
David Chalmers the philosopher has become famous for his musings on consciousness which I have written on before, here and HERE. He has proposed that the supposed “Hard Problem” of Continue Reading →
COVID 11/28/21 Update. Some info, some comparisons. As of today; Japan with 126 million people-1.73 million infected, 18,354 dead to date (a rate of .000146 dead per inhabitant) US- 330 Continue Reading →
Here’s the COVID cases per million for the highest 13 US states again, updated from my previous blog on Feb 21, 2021: 120 day COVID Followup on Red (and Blue) Continue Reading →
