Two epic struggles—both involving science—rage throughout the Western civilized world. In substantial ways, they define our present moment, and their…
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New Horizons of Possibility in Human Evolution
/ September 11, 2017New Horizons of Possibility A great deal of modern Western culture—the culture that doubtless has shaped you and me and…
Belief & Action in the Age of Science
/ August 22, 2017Does God Exist? Stephen Hawking, Physicist: “Because there are laws such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself…
Science and (or vs.) Religion?
/ July 12, 2017When I was a young child in Denver, Colorado, my parents took us down-town to the magnificent Gothic Episcopalian cathedral.…
Ideas, Culture, & the Freedom to Error
/ June 9, 2017Every great advance in human history—the use of fire, the wheel, agriculture, writing, our highest religious ideals, democracy, the internet—starts…
Straight Thinking v. Thinking in the Round
/ May 24, 2017A few things in nature go in straight lines, or seem to do so—but only a few. And even they…
The End of the World as We Know It
/ May 11, 2017There are a lot of books and articles coming out that foresee the end in one way or another. The…
On Walking, Writing, Publishing, Telling Stories, and the Importance of Ideas
/ April 13, 2017Walking & Talking. On another misty-day hike in a local forest preserve, our little group winds around huge cedars and…
Short Short Story 1: The Joy of Not Fly Fishing
/ February 7, 2017The fisherman wades upstream. His fly rod—light, willowy, deceptively resilient—arcs under the weight of the line, then straightens. When the…
Election 2016: An Unnatural Disaster—Some Concluding Thoughts
/ January 8, 2017Head Scratching. A lot of us are still scratching our heads. What, really, happened to bring about the unnatural disaster…