i think the ultimate questions are, in fact, philosophical. We can't help it, we're hard clired to try to answer that question. What does it all mean? Why does religion then sometimes fill that vacum? Well, i think we have to look at it from an evolutionary point of view. The ancient peoples, thousands of years ago, were at the mercy of thunderstorms and the weather,. And they tried to make sense out of these things. So there is no room for nita or kant if you're a scientist. Well, this gets us into ethics and behavior. So i think that science says something about those things. In terms of evolution and evolutionary psychology
This week on the penguin podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science, Michio Kaku. Together they discuss string theory, the unifying threads of different religious beliefs, human curiosity and the barriers to scientific thinking.
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