Sunday, July 25, 2010

brain, mind, soul?

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tundraboy/303703384/

What does it mean to be human? Are we no more than the products of our brains (which are in turn just a bunch of electro-chemical processes), or are our minds and our consciousness something more than that? Could we possibly have non-material souls? Neuroscientists generally focus just on the physical side of things, but not all.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

did jesus really live?

Some people think that the Jesus of the gospels never existed, yet the historians (both unbelievers and believers) are almost unanimous that he did.