They insisted that he wear the pointy ears. The actor, Leonard Nimoy, complained that the first set was quite uncomfortable and hard to keep on. But would an alien, exactly like us—without the pointy ...

God is everything, and everything is God. That is, according to pantheism, an umbrella term for a set of beliefs that suggest God did not create the universe—but that God is the universe. For hundreds ...

In Vedanta (one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy), God is referred to as “Brahman,” and the word “Brahman” means vast or unlimited. So, Brahman is not limited by time, which means it is ...

“Going to sleep so closely resembles the way I now must go toward my freedom. Handing myself over to what I don’t understand would be like placing myself at the edge of nothing. It will be just like ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...

In my 20s, I had a friend who was brilliant, charming, Ivy-educated and rich, heir to a family fortune. I’ll call him Gallagher. He could do anything he wanted. He experimented, dabbling in ...

It is often overlooked that the role of spirituality was once the same as the role science plays today: to explain how Nature works. As science views reality, objective facts and rational thinking ...

In 1967 British biologist and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar famously characterized science as, in book title form, The Art of the Soluble. “Good scientists study the most important problems they ...