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Sapiens – a critical review - bethinking.org
It is massively engaging and continuously interesting. The book covers a mind-boggling 13.5 billion years of pre-history and history. From the outset, Harari seeks to establish the multifold forces that made Homo (‘man’) into Homo sapiens (‘wise man’) – exploring the impact of a large brain, tool use, complex social structures and more.
What is Truth? (on the Nature and Importance of Truth Today)
Truth and Correspondence. The correspondence view of truth, held by the vast majority of philosophers and theologians throughout history, holds that any declarative statement is true if and only if it corresponds to or agrees with factual reality, with the way things are. The statement, "The desk in my study is brown", is true only if there is ...
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The Libet Experiment and its Implications for Conscious Will
To be precise, we are really talking about the earliest part of the RP, because the timing argument focuses on the RP’s onset. To attribute such a decisional and causal role to this earliest part of the RP seems surprising, because it originates mainly in the SMA (Fig. 1), which has been known for more than thirty years to be strongly activated when subjects ‘programme’ (imagine) a ...
What Does it Mean to be Human? - 6. Consistent Naturalism?
Naturalists are, by definition, atheists, but it is important to realise that not all atheists embrace the full implications of naturalism. Many atheists are humanists and see dignity and great potential in mankind. They believe that human beings can create a destiny for themselves, that we are capable of determining our own future.
What Does it Mean to be Human? - 7. Genesis 1 and 2 on mankind
It is true that God calls humanity in Genesis 1:28 to “subdue” and to “rule”, but to understand what this was intended to mean we must look into Genesis 2, where we have a picture of mankind in harmony with nature. In fact, Genesis 2:15 (quoted above) defines man’s role in terms of working and taking care of a Garden.
Human Life - resources from bethinking.org
Human Life - Resources on Bethinking.org. What does it mean to be a human being? Who am I? Can the search for personal identity and purpose ever really be satisfied? Find out how Christianity provides satisfying answers to our experiences of…
An Introduction to Christian Apologetics - bethinking.org
Biblical apologetics involves both defending the gospel against attack and proactively building a case for the gospel. Biblical apologetics should always lead to the gospel, since it is the gospel that saves. 1 Peter 3:13-16 – “Always be prepared to give an answer for the hope that you have”.
What Does it Mean to be Human? - Bethinking.org
In this first chapter, he lays out some of the difficulties in tackling the question. When I was first asked to speak (and by extension write) on the question of what it means to be human, I must confess to a considerable degree of apprehension for two reasons: a) A concern over the limits of my knowledge. b) A concern over the impossibility of ...