This is a comment in the February/March 2009 issue of Scientific American Mind - Letters section. The author is "identified as Farlo":
[W]hy do we perceive death to be different from prebirth or, more precisely, pre-conception? That is also a time when our brain is not functioning--when it does not exist. Yet we do not spend nearly as much time pondering what happened to us or where our minds were before we were born.
I stumbled onto this unusual and visually disturbing site. Yes, I gawked. But it made me wonder what the God-is-omnipotent-and-omniscient crowd think of these sorts of occurrences. Are they evidence of God's majesty and ability to intelligently design his creatures? Or do they lead believers to think that human are…
This Chris Kelly headline says it all: America: #1 in Bibles. #37 in Infant Mortality. Here's an excerpt from Kelly's Huffpo article: Europeans are feeling pretty smug lately, with their sturdy currency, "health care," and rising rates of life expectancy, but there's one area where we kick their ass: American…