It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design..

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases..

Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indiffere….

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic..

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? .….

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large..

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim..

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene poo….

With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns represe….

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested..

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of w….

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks..

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied c….

The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since ….

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one sp….

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace..

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed..

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure..

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore..

Honor does not have to be defended..

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?.