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Can anyone imagine any form of scientific evidence that could explain how authentic free will is possible?

An Alignment for Our Times: 2010 by Bill Streett 1/13/04 Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved The beginning of the next decade has received much attention by futurists, metaphysicians, and historians of ancient civilizations. This brief but important period of time is considered by many to...

God give me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I don't know where this comes from but I think it's a beautiful and inspiring prayer, whether you have faith or not...

I heart Astrologers By MIKE BROWN Professor of Planetary Astronomy Caltech University Please don’t tell any of my fellow astronomers, but I love astrologers. Really I do. Don’t get me wrong. I have absolutely no belief whatsoever in the proposition that the positions of planets or stars or...

What does it mean to be a man? I'm talking about the male sex, not about being a human. We often hear people say ''Come on! Be a man!'' as if being a man is about something very precise. What is manliness beyond having a penis and more facial hair? What is manly and what is not? And why is...

Here's the scenario, a weird cosmic ray suddenly wipes out all digital information. All the little 0s and 1s would be flushed down the drain... Not a single computer in the world would be functional... What would happen?

http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=120607-1 Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We are Becoming More Different, Not Alike Media Contacts Dec. 10, 2007 - Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up - and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had...

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Are human beings slowly evolving towards monogamy? Or not at all?

The left-right duality is used so much in this forum it would be good to have a discussion on what these terms really mean. My feeling is that there is a vague understanding of what the terms mean but in the end, everybody's got their own little interpretation and it causes much confusion and...

Did the US have any appropriate moral reason to be in Vietnam?

The question is simple enough. Was the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki morally justifiable?

"the quest for Gaia is an attempt to find the largest living creature on Earth." -James Lovelock- The Gaia hypothesis proposes that the Earth as a whole is an organism that auto-regulates itself. For some, the hypothesis...

Will the US ever get out of the Republican-Democrat duality?

Is feminism still necessary? Is it necessary in Western society in particular?

Bill 101 paved way for peace HUBERT BAUCH, The Gazette Published: Saturday, August 25 Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the day the Charte de la langue française, commonly known in anglo Quebec parlance as Bill 101, became law in the province. It was at the time, and yet remains, the most...

From a practical point of view, we pretty much all understand what gravity is... When we drop something, it falls to the ground... It's pretty simple... But when you really think about it, gravity is not that easy to comprehend, if it can be comprehended at all... In classical Newtonian...

Minimizing our contributions would have no effects? How about cleaner air? How about no more SMOG?!

A man who declares himself as being a member of Al-Qaida has phoned Radio-Canada (francophone CBC) to say he was in front of the US consulate in Montreal.... with a bomb... It's probably a lunatic... but who knows....

That's a totally ignorant understanding of what the consquences of global warming would be. Global warming means the GLOBAL temperature is warming up. It says nothing about local weather patterns. Texas cooling down is absolutely not in contradiction with the idea the the GLOBAL temperature is...