Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after ...

MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design.

In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called “The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, ...

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are ...

Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that ...

The first episode of the NOVA PBS documentary series Evolution, which aired last night and you can see here, makes it sound like a land animal coming to live full time in the sea is pretty much a ...

Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great ...

Elon Musk, whose ambition for space colonies is legendary, has said, “This is a close match for my philosophy.” ...

Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other ...

The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.” ...

Two decades ago, the book of the breathless hour was The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, ...

The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient ...