“Liberals and conservatives not only have different views of the world – their brains process information differently,” reports The Week (September 28th, 2007). In a scientific study New York psychologist David Amodio, reporting in Scientific American, showed in brain scans that liberals showed more activity in the anterior cingulated cortex, an area of the brain …
Epicureanism, like agnosticism and atheism in modern times, appealed to that minority of people who preferred rationality to beliefs in divine intervention and everlasting life. But Epicureanism also appealed to those who claimed to believe in God. Epicureanism was to be the avowed philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, who must have found Epicureanism compatible with the …
The first Christ Church tutor to be re-elected upon marriage was Richard Shute, a layman and philosopher….Much of Shute’s teaching was done through "private conversations between teacher and pupil’, that is, the individual tutorials which became the norm in Oxford by the turn of the twentieth century…..Lavishing time on his pupils, Shute tried to get …
God himself must be irreducibly complex. Who created him?
“……..-there are plenty of radical new ideas for a future in which sunlight is turned straight into the forms of energy we need. Here are just three of my favourites out of scores of great ideas. First, reprogramming the genetic make-up of simple organisms so that they directly produce useable fuels (hydrogen, for example). That …
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