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After I broke my neck in a 1967 diving accident and learned I would be paralyzed for the rest of my life, I was convinced my life was not worth living. Had it been legal, most people would have thought that euthanasia was a rational choice for me, a depressed…
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Faced with the cultural splendor of pre-Revolutionary France, a different President—John Adams—prophesied American art history majors to come: “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce…
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In fact, given materialism and evolution, it follows that our belief-producing faculties are not reliable. Here’s why. If a belief is as likely to be false as to be true, we’d have to say the probability that any particular belief is true is about 50 percent. Now suppose we had…
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“The Christian Cosmology of C.S. Lewis”
“The old cosmos might not be a very useful map for space travelers, but it does alright as a map for worshippers.” by Stratford Caldecot here. Lewis’ connection of a model of the cosmos and worship comes from the model’s storied tiers. The model was not “geocentric” as if the…
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Compulsion without pleasure, whether provoked by sugar consumption or B-19’ s electrode, seems to be related to a flood of the neurotransmitter dopamine into the middle of the brain, where the mesolimbic dopamine reward system lies. The same neural trigger also fires in the brains of drug abusers and gambling…
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