Tag: mysticism

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands}

In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Culture
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, "poor design", ankle, atheism, Big Bang, bioengineering, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, common descent, cosmos, earth, Edward Feser, evolution, intelligent design, Judaism, Michael Denton, mysticism, Nathan Lents, Stuart Burgess, The Miracle of Man, wrist}

Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
October 13, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Culture, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Read More ›

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Date
August 20, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brain, brain scan, ID the Future, meditation, Michael Egnor, mysticism, near-death experiences, neuroscience, podcast}

Listen: Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

_{Science & Culture
August 20, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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What parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues”? Read More ›

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Author
James A. Herrick

Date
August 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Internet, magic, mysticism, Nick Bostrom, noosphere, Ray Kurzweil, Science, Teilhard de Chardin, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, University of Oxford}

C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism

_{James A. Herrick
August 24, 2020

Bioethics, Technology

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The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 22, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, consciousness, earth, environmentalism, Ferris Jabr, humanity, Lake Erie, life, Mars, misanthropy, morality, mysticism, nature rights, New York Times, organisms, religion, rivers, sentience, Toledo}

The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 22, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 3, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Brooklyn, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, Donald Trump, John West, mysticism, New York Times, occult, religion, Richard Dawkins, science}

New York Times Links Darwin, Dawkins, and Witchcraft Chic

_{David Klinghoffer
November 3, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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It's pretty remarkable to see these ideas connected so explicitly. Read More ›