Author: Jeremiah Bartlett

Among the myriad creatures that inhabit the earth, human beings are, according to prevailing religious opinion, unique for one special reason: they have been endowed by their creator with a soul, an immanent part of human reality that cannot be seen—or, indeed, verified—in any way apart from those same doctrinal precepts that have ordained and …

As everyone knows, human life—and, in most cases, life of any kind—begins when a single egg is fertilized by a single sperm, thus setting in motion a process of gestation and growth that leads in time to the emergence of what we know as life in some form or other. Until that instant, that particular …

To me, one of the more intriguing aspects of life—in particular, “intelligent” life—is that once a life has ended it is as if it never happened, at least to the one who lived it. The reason is simple: As the memory is housed in the brain and the brain would be dead and hence no …