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“Turtles all the way up and turtles all the way down”: Introduction to March’s theme — Cosmos, by John Halstead

Posted on March 2, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

This month, our theme is the Cosmos. If you have an essay about astronomy or the stars, participle physics or quantum mechanics, or anything with huge numbers or very small ones, send your submissions to humanisticpaganism [at] gmail [dot] com.

We Are (Not) Special: Anthropocentrism and the Evolving Universe (Part 2), by John Halstead

Posted on February 28, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

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Cosmic Evolution As mentioned in Part 1, if we were to go back in time and reset the course of evolution, it is highly unlikely that we would be here the second time around. On the other hand, according to…

We Are (Not) Special: Anthropocentrism and the Evolving Universe (Part 1), by John Halstead

Posted on February 27, 2015 by NaturalisticPaganism

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I had something like a spiritual experience watching a movie recently. The movie Lucy is not what I would call a “good” movie. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Lucy is about a young woman who is kidnapped and has an bag of…