Modern scientism denies the existence of a soul because it fails to understand what is meant by the human soul from a philosophical perspective. Because religion adopts the concept of the soul for its own purposes, it is considered to exist within the realm of belief in the supernatural. Yet…

In the 13th century, physics was in its infancy. People still believed the Sun went around the Earth. The state-of-the-art theories of the day in Western Europe were 16 centuries old. The medieval period was also the naissance of arguments for God’s existence. These arguments were independent of any religious…

The latest in the quest to understand the world’s most confusing relic — The Shroud of Turin has for many decades been thought to have been a clever forgery, created in the middle ages. The historical record of the Shroud begins in 1350. The Shroud is claimed to be the burial shroud that wrapped the crucified Christ when he was placed in the…

With so much smoke in the air from wildfires these days, you might ask how the human lungs fair from such exposure. The answer is: not good but probably better than other mammals. There is a popular fire pit that advertises on social media. …

The vastness of the universe makes it difficult to understand just how small and isolated we are. The observable universe is approximately 93 billion light years across right now. That is only the part we can see. Think of the Earth as being a tiny island within a vast ocean…

Could we be wrong about everything? — You have been taught that the universe began with a Big Bang, a hot, dense period about 13.8 billion years ago. And the reason we believe this to be true is because the universe is expanding and, therefore, was smaller in the past. …

Robert Greene is a bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, a guide to how to gain and keep power and understand those who do. The book reads like a modern version of Machiavelli’s The Prince, full of tips and tools that can feel at odds with living a…

How a founder of quantum physics and an 18th century philosopher imagined a universe created by the answers to questions — By default, we assume that when we observe something in the world that it was true before we observed it. For example, if I get a biopsy for a tumor and the results come back that the growth is benign, I would assume it was benign all along. …

Many scientists aspire to philosophy with popular books such as Sabine Hossenfelder’s Existential Physics and Rovelli’s Helgoland. Robert Sapolsky, the famed biologist, tackles a perennial favorite in his new book Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will. Sapolsky describes his attitude on free will in this short interview clip…