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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 22, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, evolution, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, physicalism, robots, Science Uprising, Thomas Aquinas}

Where and What Is Consciousness?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2021

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
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, __cedited, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Cosmos 3.0, Evolution News, Giordano Bruno, ID the Future, Jerry Coyne, Michael Keas, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New Atheists, pantheism, public education, Richard Dawkins, The Privileged Planet, Unbelievable}

Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2020

Faith & Science

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Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won't alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
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, __cedited, Albert Einstein, aliens, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Evolution News, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Giordano Bruno, Johannes Kepler, Judaism, National Geographic Channel, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, René Descartes, Saint Augustine, Unbelievable}

The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

_{Mike Keas
March 20, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2020

Categories
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Book of Nature, Brian Miller, Carl Sagan, Christianity, coevolution, coronavirus, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, DNA, Fox Broadcasting Company, James Tour, Jews, mind, National Geographic Channel, naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, public education, Signature in the Cell, synagogue}

Cosmos 3.0 Revisits Themes of the Past, with Familiar Historical Mythmaking

_{Science & Culture
March 10, 2020

Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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At a couple of points in episode 1, Neil deGrasse Tyson employs the “Book of Nature” metaphor, but he never gives its proper historical context. It’s actually a Christian concept. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __cedited, Albert Einstein, Auguste Comte, Baruch Spinoza, evolution, Jerry Coyne, John Gray, library, morality, natural selection, New Atheists, pantheism, Racism, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley}

On Science, Morality, and Wonder, an Atheist Rebukes Other Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2018

Faith & Science

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An image offered by Einstein, of the sublimely mysterious library, is sensitive and beautiful. Read More ›