Scientists Turn to Religion. Is Physics Determined by Psychology? The question itself is offensive to serious physicists who believe they investigate nature, not acting up on their hopes, fears, proclivities and subconscious desires. Pierre Laplace found God and prayer irrelevant: “The present state of the universe is the effect of its past and the cause of its future.” Spinoza boldly asserted: " Contingency and surprise are illusions due to limited human knowledge ." Hob

When a blind man checks an elephant and happens to touch the tusks, he then concludes that he understands what an elephant is like. And if the tusk is cracked, broken, or even pulverized then the blind man mourns the death of elephant, not realizing that the elephant is alive, if not very well, having lost a tusk. The Darwin Cage hypothesis suggests the same for human perception of life and death. The being that we call a person, including ourselves, may be, a limited visible

These and less popular religious movements are applying to God as spiritual in the highest possible way. The Kabbalah assigns the term Ein-Sof, infinity in Hebrew, to the Universal Creator. But from here on Religion21 stands apart. The other religious movements build arbitrary stories about the behavior of this most spiritual God, where the source of these description is a special charge, revelation, flash of wisdom claimed by its leader. Religion21 says: we are in an unboun

Five thousands years of philosophy; five thousand years of chasing our tail; and you won't know it from reading the pompous titles of philosophy books which are customarily the most voluminit ones. The reason is simple. We exercise our philosophical thoughts with our Darwinian brain, which evolved to enhance species survivability -- serving no other objective. Our brain is inherently blind to a fair contemplation of reality such as it is. To practice philosophy we need to fi

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Long time ago we figured out that as impressed as we are with our biceps and other muscles, it is more efficient to harness a horse, or a...