The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the 'experimental' production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [:] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of t…

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the serv…

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

McMahon up the street of Paris came, In triumph from Magenta. Every one Had heard and praised the fearless marshal's name, And gloried in the deeds that he had…

We hadn't invented 'Not Invented Here', yet.