Ken miller is the a biologist who debunked the intelligent design arguments about irreducible lexity in cellular structure, things like that. But he's a catholic, anyway. He was at a conference with richard dawkins and asked him if we found a piece of the true cross which people claim existsd but we know this is the right one. Ad kan just kind of stopped him and said, i'm not claiming this is true in an empirical, biological, dana sense. I just mean this, i'm a catholic. Thisis what we believe and full stop. Andi think it's really important to distinguish between those two categories. Not prepared to say
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, natural history, agriculture, medical law and ethics, Charles Foster, in Being a Human, makes an audacious attempt to feel a connection with 45,000 years of human history. He experiences the Upper Paleolithic era by living in makeshift shelters without amenities in the rural woods of England. He tests his five impoverished senses to forage for berries and roadkill and he undertakes shamanic journeys to explore the connection of wakeful dreaming to religion. For the Neolithic period, he moves to a reconstructed Neolithic settlement. Finally, to explore the Enlightenment, he inspects Oxford colleges, dissecting rooms, cafes, and art galleries. He finds his world and himself bizarre and disembodied, and he rues the atrophy of our senses, the cause for much of what ails us. This glorious, fiercely imaginative journey from our origins to a possible future ultimately shows how we might best live on earth — and thrive.