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Back in the Office – The Philosophy of Numbers

Posted in Humor, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Why Does Math Work in the Real World?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

WHY ARE THE LAWS OF NATURE MATHEMATICAL?

Few scientists stop to wonder why the fundamental laws of the universe are mathematical; they just take it for granted. Yet the fact that “mathematics works” when applied to the physical world–and works so stunningly well–demands explanation, for it is not clear we have any absolute right to [...]

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Appropriate Theistic Explanations

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

THEISTIC EXPLANATIONS

But what if God actually did it?
“The butler did it” is a bad explanation unless, well, the butler did it. Does that mean that we, as rational people, are condemned to not believing the truth because to accept a true explanation would be to accept an unacceptable explanation?
Are there any limits on the [...]

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A Dose of Philosophy

Posted in Humor, tagged , , on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

TO BE?

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God Is not a Scientific Problem (Heschel)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »

What are the grounds for our certainty of the realness of God? It is clear that we cannot submit religion to scientific logic. Science is not the only way to truth, and its methods do not represent all of human thinking. Indeed, they are out of place in that dimension of human [...]

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Meant to Be Here

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

MEANT TO BE HERE

I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate. The physical species Homo may count for nothing, but the existence of mind in some organism on some [...]

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On Science and Responsibility (Richard Dawkins)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

RICHARD DAWKINS ON SCIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY

From the page:
“But doesn’t a truly scientific, mechanistic view of the nervous system make nonsense of the very idea of responsibility, whether diminished or not? Any crime, however heinous, is in principle to be blamed on antecedent conditions acting through the accused’s physiology, heredity and environment. Don’t judicial hearings [...]

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This Most Beautiful System

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

THIS MOST BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”
—Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Book III, (1687).

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Our Biocentric World

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

BIOCENTRIC WORLD

“The properties of matter and the course of cosmic evolution are now seen to be intimately related to the structure of the living being and its activities; … the biologist may now rightly regard the Universe in its very essence as biocentric.”
—Lawrence Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment, 312 (1913)

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Pursuit of Happiness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but [...]

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