“Listening to your gut”, “Deciding with your heart”, and “Trusting your instincts” – these are all familiar phrases we give to a powerful notion: our human intuition. Intuition is a fascinating facet of our psyche, and volumes have been written on why we have it, how it operates and even how we can try to … Continue reading
Let’s start with a quick example. Your friend loses his cellphone and comes to you claiming that your child stole it. Immediately you balk at this suggestion, for two reasons: one your angelic two-year old isn’t a thief! Secondly, your friend hasn’t seen his cellphone since last week when he was in vacation in Tahiti! … Continue reading
In case you’ve missed it, there has been a strong move -in particular in the developed west – towards non-belief in theism. Most of the world’s believers are either followers of the Bible or the Quran or members of the Hindu faith, three religions whose fundamental and literalist interpretations have become increasingly easy to challenge. … Continue reading
There are far too many interpretations of the term “faith” then is possible to deal with in a single conversation, so I think it’s important to set what we mean on scievangelist.com when we use this word. Faith by almost all definitions is a powerful entity; this is an almost unquestionable fact. It leads people to … Continue reading
Ever watch an Olympic 4x100m relay? This is one of those events that just should not be missed when you watch any track meet. It’s about more than just speed and power; it is very much about teamwork and coordination and nowhere is this more evident to me than during the baton exchange. The receiving … Continue reading
We live in the natural world. The universe we inhabit is a wondrous place governed by the seemingly magical laws of physics that brought the material world we know into existence over some 13.5 Billion years. On our planet, our “pale blue dot” as described by Carl Sagan, over the last 250,000 or so years … Continue reading
