The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.