Materialism and Christianity

Easter was THE important Christian festival. St. Paul said, “If Christ be not risen, then is your faith vain.” A key purpose to the Council of Nicaea was to set the date of Easter (as calendars in those days had insufficient leap years to prevent the spring equinox from sliding in March towards February). The festival of …

Soul, Consciousness, and Embryology

Is mind a product of brain and body? Does consciousness arise magically out of matter? Are embryo cells individually intelligent, knowing what to do? Like these questions above, the study of Embryology gives us some wonderful leading questions to this subject of consciousness. Here are some more: What were we actually doing when we were …