There is a typical rhetorical move often used by atheists, materialists, and pop-science rationalists when the conversation turns to God, […]
There is a typical reply that often appears in arguments with an atheist, a materialist, or a person who considers
There is a very convenient phrase that atheists, materialists, rationalists, and popular science enthusiasts often like to repeat: “Nothing prevents
Introduction Many philosophical systems, scientific theories, and religious worldviews all attempt to answer the same question: what is primary? Matter
I. When Motion Is Born from Within Classical mechanics long believed that motion was the result of an external push.
1. From Philosophy to Mechanics Before physics appeared in the modern sense, the word energy had a philosophical meaning. For
The end of the nineteenth century marked the apotheosis of the mechanistic worldview. The universe appeared to be a perfect
Abstract The story of the Tower of Babel is not just an ancient myth—it is an archetypal scenario through which
Introduction Soviet philosophy textbooks routinely asserted that “the fundamental question of philosophy is the question of the relation between matter
