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• Hridija Mukherjee

  

  This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins' latest Twitter controversy

  Salon - By Bill Mesler - H. James Cleaves II

  In the seventeenth century, most natural philosophers believed that every type of living organism on the face of the Earth had always existed, from the very beginning of the Earth’s creation. Every organism—every dog, every bird, every human being, and every worm—had been created by God in the form …

• Hridija Mukherjee

  

  How You Justified 10 Lies (or Didn't)

  The New York Times - By Gerald Dworkin

  Thanks to Stone readers who submitted a response — there were more than 10,000 — to my article, “Are These 10 Lies Justified?” Judging from the number of replies, the task of determining when it is or is not acceptable to lie is obviously one that many people have faced in their own lives. Many of …

• Hridija Mukherjee

  

  The Ability to Control Our Dreams Could Help Us Solve The Mystery of Consciousness

  ScienceAlert - Dan Denis

  This article was written by Dan Denis from the University of Sheffield and Giulia Poerio from the University of York. It was originally published by …

• http://themindunleashed.org/2015/12/the-art-of-living-dying.html

  Hridija Mukherjee

  Jan 4, 2016
• Hridija Mukherjee

  

  What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer.

  io9 - George Dvorsky

  The more we learn about the universe, the more we discover just how diverse all its planets, stars, nebulae and unexplained chunks of matter really …

• Hridija Mukherjee

  

  What Makes a Buddhist a Buddhist?

  huffingtonpost.com - Steven Schwartzberg

  photo credit: Steven Schwartzberg Here's an old Jewish joke: Stan has been shipwrecked on a desert island for decades. One day he is rescued. Before …