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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
In the epilogue to Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley’s The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, we read: “Finally, after a generation or more...
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
In Nonzero Robert Wright argues convincingly that certain patterns in biological and cultural evolution cannot properly be attributed to contingency or accident but rather point to an underlying teleology”for...
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued that man is some sort of machine. The claim began with French...
Science and Design
When the physics of Galileo and Newton displaced the physics of Aristotle, scientists tried to explain the world by discovering its deterministic natural laws. When the quantum physics of...
The Bible by Numbers
Cracking the Bible Code By Jeffrey Satinover Morrow. 346 pp. $23 The “Bible Code” is the name for computer-generated sequences of letters taken from the Hebrew Bible. Researchers string...
