Tag: religion
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Will affluence replace Christianity?
The current edition of the New Scientist contains a fascinating, if I think ultimately flawed, article on the rise – and putative fall – of moralising religions such as Christianity. Nicolas Baumard, an evolutionary psychologist at the École Normale Supérieure begins by asking how did Jesus go from dying on the cross with a few…
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The second law of thermodynamics and the history of the universe
I had to go on quite a long plane journey yesterday and I bought a book to read – Roger Penrose‘s work on cosmology: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe I bought it on spec – it was on the popular science shelves: somewhere I usually avoid at least for the…
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