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Post archive for ‘Faith in Science’

Hard to Believe

We live in a world of five senses. We live in a world that falls in line with the set of expectations we have for it. If I drop a ball, it falls to the ground. If I sit in a chair, I don’t fall through it. If I talk to a person, I have [...]

Living in a material world…or a digital world?

In the movie The Matrix, we explore the possibility that we are human batteries living in a simulation. This of course is an absurd fantasy. It is much more likely that we are not human at all.
Our own technology is quickly advancing to a point in which we can run a simulation so complex that [...]

I want to believe…

Lately I have been interested in life outside of earth. I don’t know if it is because of reading one to many crazy Lost theories or zoning out to the Astronomy Cast postcast, but I’ve been wondering…
Put aside the fact that I saw a UFO years ago, I don’t believe aliens have been spotted by [...]