Commentary by Joshua R. Farris If you’re a purveyor of recent neuroscience discussions, then you might think that consciousness is just a set of neurons firing in the brain. Nothing more. No soul or spirit behind it. Philosopher Matthew Owen takes this question head-on in his new book Measuring the Immeasurable Mind. In it he […]
Commentary by Joshua R. Farris Another media outlet has become a pawn in larger healthcare control. This time it’s Evangelical’s largest news source, Christianity Today. Christianity Today’s coercive measures are directed at those naughty hesitators. Is it becoming less an outlet for news and culture and increasingly a propaganda platform for religious manipulation and theological abuse? […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com By R. Clinton Ohlers New research is overturning longstanding assumptions about successful families, and doing so with a unexpected twist. Families who participate in church communities have on average both more children and more positive outcomes. Researchers believe they now also know why. Social scientists have long treated family size as a […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com By R. Clinton Ohlers The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life has a surprisingly long history — one as old as the history of science itself. Astrophysicist and historian of science and religion, Parandis Tajbakhsh, recently summarized this history for the International Research Network for Science and Belief in Society. […]
