You try; non-living things don’t. What, then, is trying and how did it start? Trying starts with what Darwin called the struggle for existence which he admitted he couldn’t explain and remains ...

There's an argument that many people make: that the natural world, and humanity's existence in the Universe, point towards a divine creator that brought forth all of this into existence. To the best ...

The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

IT HAS been called the Goldilocks paradox. If the strong nuclear force which glues atomic nuclei together were only a few per cent stronger than it is, stars like the sun would exhaust their hydrogen ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

THINK for a moment about a time before you were born. Where were you? Now think ahead to a time after your death. Where will you be? The brutal answer is: nowhere. Your life is a brief foray on ...

This is the third in a series of posts on my book, The Four Realms of Existence. Read parts one and two. Source: Harvard University Press/Used with permission Human beings can be characterized as a ...

Does God really exist? This is a question that has stirred the human heart for centuries, crossing cultures, philosophies, and faiths. In today’s world, the debate is as alive as ever, with science, ...