Palomar Observatory Religion teaches hope for everlasting life, but current scientific cosmology seems to deprive that hope of material support. In The Last Three Minutes, Paul Davies first observes how speculative it is for astrophysics to extrapolate from present trends to a handful of possible …
Is learning a community affair?
Reggio Emilia preschool piazza (common space) It’s generally a good idea to get to know and learn from people you want to teach before you try to teach them anything. Here’s something huge that I just learned from Howard Gardner, who has probably reached more people with a message about the …
Is learning a community affair?
Reggio Emilia preschool piazza (common space) It’s generally a good idea to get to know and learn from people you want to teach before you try to teach them anything. Here’s something huge that I just learned from Howard Gardner, who has probably reached more people with a message about the …
Wisdom from Tagore for transcending foolish polarization
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 1909 When perspectives clash, we do well to keep three dimensions in mind: affirming our common humanity, trying to understand our differences, and cherishing the unique personality of every individual. To disparage the notion of a common humanity (since it is so …
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Love your neighbor . . . realistically!
Freud provides another example of keen psychological observations mixed with needlessly anti-religious philosophy. He challenges the religious idea, found in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself." While Freud approved of altruism in certain …
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Science, religion, and the Fatherhood of God
William Blake, The Ancient of Days Any fact that science truly discovers may be interpreted by philosophy as harmonious with any truth that religion proclaims. Philosophy can harmonize scientific truth with spiritual truth because all truth is God’s truth. When scientific discovery is mixed with …
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