Politics and religion is a question of our times. The role of the church and Christianity is contested in both Russia and the liberal West. William Blake was aware of the failure of politics in his time, recognising it wasn’t ultimately a failure of leadership or practical solutions but of vision. What politics is for?… Continue reading Forging Golgonooza. William Blake on how to do politics & religion
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From Trance to Extraterrestrials: Developments in Human Evolution, Robin Dunbar, Simon Conway Morris
An MP3 version of this discussion is at my podcast feed, Talks and Thoughts. A discussion of two new books on human evolution by leading evolutionary biologists, Robin Dunbar and Simon Conway Morris. Dunbar offers a revisionary account of the emergence of religion in Homo sapiens. Conway Morris considers widespread myths in Darwinian evolution, of… Continue reading From Trance to Extraterrestrials: Developments in Human Evolution, Robin Dunbar, Simon Conway Morris