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Tag Archives: lucretius
Free Will: I Solved the Problem This Morning!
Or at least I think I have. And I solved it strictly within the bounds of naturalism (a material and closed system multiverse), without any resort to supernaturalism (ghosts entering machines). And I think I can explain it super concisely. … Continue reading
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Tagged determinism, free will, God, life, lucretius, multiverse, philosophy, psychology, stephen greenblatt
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An Infinity of Doppelgängers: The Jaw Dropping NYT Science News Story You May Have Missed
The most nightmarish news bringing in 2013 isn’t coming from Iran or the Republican Party, but physicists and cosmologists: you–yes, you–may have a twin, a doppelgänger. Seriously. Lots and lots and lots of them. As may all of us. Written by science … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, cosmology, God, Jorge Luis Borges, lucretius, Nietzsche, philosophy, physics, science
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Darwin, Lucretius, and End Times Hysteria
Regarding doomsday today, December 21, 2012, the calamity has already arrived: the comet hit in 1859 when Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. I’m referring, of course, to the death of God. Since the Italian Renaissance and Anglo-French Enlightenment, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, atheism, December 2012, End Times, lucretius, Nietzsche, prophecy, stephen greenblatt, the Bible
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Lucretius: Atheism’s John the Baptist and the Progenitor of a Hell Realm
Below is a great (and very contemporary sounding) atheist quote from Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things. Atomism and evolution have always been the poison pills at God’s bedside (or, at least, the religious believer’s). Have you swallowed their implications yet? As an … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, atomism, God, hell, Jesus, lucretius, philosophy, psychology, the Holocaust
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N.T. Wright on Charles Darwin
Theologian N.T. Wright thinks about Charles Darwin in the light of Lucretius, Epicurianism, and 18th century Deism:
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Tagged apologetics, biology, Charles Darwin, creationism, epicurus, evolution, intelligent design, lucretius, philosophy, philosophy of science, science, theology
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