Off The Beaten Track

THEGUARDIAN.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: We post this scathing criticism of the New Atheists to showcase their utter ignorance (or wilful misrepresentations) about Islam. It reflects their similar utter ignorance (or wilful misrepresentations) over arguments against God, per the scathing criticisms against them on that topic in our other posts today.] ARTICLE: Consider this ignorant remark by New Atheist Richard Dawkins: "Islam [is the] greatest force for evil today." Or this ignorant one by New Atheist Sam Harris that "we" -- the civilized peoples of the west -- are at war with "millions" of Muslims. Indeed, Harris repeatedly separates "civilized" people from Muslims: "All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth." Consider, too, another ignorant remark by Harris: "The outrage that Muslims feel over US and British foreign policy is primarily the product of theological concerns.... Because of what they believe about God and the afterlife, devout Muslims tend to reflexively side with other Muslims, no matter how sociopathic their behaviour." Can you believe those primitive, irrational Muslims get angry when ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it's stopped twitching. New Atheism never had a chance. It was intellectual vapor, and its practitioners were repellent fools. They were defeated by atheism's perennial Achilles' heal: they were forced to explain themselves. Atheism never reigns openly and explicitly for long; it cannot withstand even cursory scrutiny. In "New Atheism: An Autopsy," Ben Sixsmith wrote "To be sure, New Atheists could be very, very bad at arguing that God does not exist. There was, for example, Lawrence Krauss writing a book about how something can come from nothing while attributing material qualities to the latter. There was Richard Dawkins trying to refute the famous 'Five Ways' of Aquinas without even attempting to ...

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DISCOVERY.ORG -- On this episode of ID the Future, Jerusalem-based guest host Ira Berkowitz talks with Rabbi Moshe Averick about his book "Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism," a critique of the the new atheists' views on nature. Rabbi Averick shares his spirited takedown of the multiverse theory for the origin of life, dismantles the "God of the Gaps" objection to intelligent design, and wonders why people who criticize books like his think they can do so intelligently without taking the time to read them. ...

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SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM -- We live in some interesting times [2018]. On the one hand, things are better than they've ever been. On the other hand we are more divided than ever as a species. Tribalism and identity politics are rampant on all sides of everything. Intellectuals think the answer is a return to Enlightenment values -- things like reason, individualism, and the free expression of ideas. I agree that this is part of the solution, but I think the problem is more fundamental: all of our egos are just too damn loud. To be clear, a quiet ego is not the same thing as a silent ego. The quiet ego perspective emphasizes balance and integration. The quiet ego focuses on ...

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AREOMAGAZINE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah: "[Muslims] admit that there were similar Divinely inspired messengers in other countries -- Gautama Buddha, Shri Krishna and Shri Ram in India, Socrates in Greece, ..."] ARTICLE: When Socrates was awaiting execution, his wealthy friend, Crito, offers to help him escape. Despite the unjust charges against him and an easy escape, Socrates refuses, arguing that it is worse to commit injustice by violating the law than to suffer injustice oneself. It is better to maintain one's own virtue, even if it means accepting an unjust outcome. Being a just person matters more than injustice generated by institutions. Indeed, for Socrates, it matters more than life itself. Socrates' uncompromising claim about virtue and justice has gone unheeded in our times. Instead, social justice dominates public discussion. Social justice is concerned with outcomes. Whether intentionally or not, social justice tends to destroy what in earlier ages was called natural justice. Natural justice refers ...

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AMERICANMIND.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah: "[Muslims] admit that there were similar Divinely inspired messengers in other countries -- Gautama Buddha, Shri Krishna and Shri Ram in India, Socrates in Greece, ..."] ARTICLE: As Plato (Socrates' greatest pupil) describes it, democracy is basically what American society has become in the twenty-first century -- so much so that one wonders whether he had access to a time machine. Recognizing Plato's profound prescience begins with understanding his psychology, which formed the basis of his political philosophy. Specifically, Plato's four stages by which minds can become progressively disordered, and the ways in which four increasingly corrupt types of society parallel these disorders. The tendency toward disorder and tyranny, that Plato attributes to democracies, is a consequence of their egalitarianism, moral relativism, and sexual license. Plato distinguishes three main parts of the psyche: reason, spirit, and appetite. Naturally, appetite encompasses desires for ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- OFF-GUARDIAN.ORG -- At a Quaker Meeting, occasionally someone will say, "Could we have some silence please?" when the discussion becomes too contentious and not progressing towards resolution. We wait and listen. What are we listening for? As corny and old-fashioned as it may sound, we are waiting for guidance from God. I have felt increasing awe and reverence for this process by which Quakers have conducted meetings for hundreds of years. No shouting. No interrupting. Instead of voting, we try to discern the "sense of the Meeting" before acting. Just one voice can be the one to heed, even if the whole group is going another way -- because we believe that all have direct access to God's guidance, no one person more than another. In this contentious time of lockdowns, isolations, staggering ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- THE WHEATLEY INSTITUTION -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1983: "Science is one means by which man perceives Allah's creation." Hazar Imam, 1982: "When we talk about science ... all that science is doing is discovering small windows on Allah's creation."] ARTICLE: Wheatley Scholar Ed Gantt explains scientism and how we can rely on it too much. ...

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BIOLA.EDU -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1956: "The young Waezin should each try and find new arguments based on the discoveries in all branches of science for keeping the human soul like [sic] the ocean with the Divine wisdom and power."] ARTICLE: Ever had someone say "You can't prove that scientifically"? They may not know it, but they are assuming scientism. Scientism is a position in philosophy, not science and it is the greatest issue facing faith communities today. It is at the very foundation of secular culture and teaching its weaknesses should be a faith community's first priority. Children must be taught to recognize and undermine those ideas that make knowledge of God seem ridiculous. A Barna Group poll found Millennials unable to reconcile scientific claims with their faith's world view was a key reason they abandon faith. Scientism has led to cultural chaos in ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Lots of parents want to check out of public schooling given the coronavirus mess. But they don't all want to homeschool. What are the laws for families hiring a tutor or sharing homeschooling? States like Washington, Alaska, and Michigan define "homeschooling" as parents teaching their own children. Other states are less restrictive in their regulation of who can teach. For example, New York requires the parent to file all the homeschool paperwork, and the parent is ultimately responsible for the child's education, but someone else can teach the child. In North Carolina, two families can homeschool together legally, which means that ...

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THEHOMESCHOOLMOM.COM -- You work. Or you cannot imagine yourself as a homeschool parent. Or your kids are demanding, and you don't mesh with them well. Or you have a child who has special needs you don't feel prepared to help with. Or you have a health problem that will make homeschooling challenging to impossible. But your kids need to be out of school, and they need to be homeschooled. I hear your question: "Can somebody homeschool my kids?" Maybe. Homeschool laws differ from country-to-country, and within the U.S., they differ from state-to-state. The first thing is to determine what your state law allows. In some cases, ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- TEMPLETONPRIZE.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1983: "Those who are most qualified in scientific subjects today are often the most humble and the most convinced in their attitude to the existence of Allah." Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1956: "The young Waezin should each try and find new arguments based on the discoveries in all branches of science for keeping the human soul like [sic] the ocean with the Divine wisdom and power."] ARTICLE: The 2020 Templeton Prize Laureate -- geneticist, physician and National Institutes of Health Director, Francis Collins -- has throughout his career advocated for the integration of faith and reason. At 1.1 million British pounds, The Templeton Prize, is one of the world's largest annual individual awards and recognizes discoveries that yield new insights about religion especially through science. In his scientific leadership, public speaking and bestselling 2006 book, "The Language of God," he writes "This book argues that belief in God can be an entirely rational choice," and encourages religious communities to embrace the latest discoveries of genetics and biomedical sciences. Although, in his youth, Collins veered from agnosticism to unapologetic atheism, his journey to Christian belief would evolve and strengthen over the next three decades. In a statement ...

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WSJ.COM -- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- Colleges are no longer barred from recruiting students beyond May 1 who have put deposits on other schools: schools can dangle bigger discounts in front of a student who has accepted a rival's offer. 'It is a buyer's market,' says Nathan Mueller, an enrollment-management consultant at the firm EAB. After Frances Marcel's third child Ian was accepted this fall, she urged him to write them in early March asking that they go lower. "Really, you have nothing to lose," she told him. For Ms. Marcel, bargaining was a priority this year. When the acceptances arrived and Ian pushed for more, one college cut its price by $10,000 and another by $16,500.The third cut $26,000 off its $63,262 sticker price. Lars Boothroyd's, top choice was ...

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FOXNEWS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: If video does not play in Chrome, try Firefox or Edge.] ARTICLE: Colleges are in trouble. Some may fail. They're getting so desperate, in fact, that they are willing to do something they have never done and that you didn't think possible: respond to markets. Some have even given out last minute tuition discounts. How do you get one? You just ask and make schools compete with each other on price, just like you would on anything else. I know, quite a concept. One family in Massachusetts got a 41% discount off tuition just by emailing the school. Another admitted to the University of Miami initially received no discount, but when she asked for a merit scholarship, the school gave her a $20,000. It is a buyers market right now in education. News you can use. ...

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AREOMAGAZINE.COM -- For centuries, theorists have worried that unrestrained democracy could lead to a tyranny of the majority, where the majority rides roughshod over minorities. What we often see today is instead a kind of tyranny of the minority: where a particularly extreme and motivated minority wields outsized power over a majority, too indifferent or too scared to oppose it. However, activist minorities draw their strength from the tacit assumption they represent more people than they actually do.There is a reason why we make decisions based on how many people like a certain option, rather than how strongly its supporters feel about it: if intensity of feeling is allowed into the picture, that would create an unhealthy dynamic incentivizing ...

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AEON.CO -- If the sultan of Mysore, in southwestern India, had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. After the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, it looked for ways to cooperate with Mysore, France's South Asian ally against Britain. In 1781, Pennsylvania commissioned a warship named the Hyder-Ally, demonstrating American elites' affinity for Mysore's cause. Philip Freneau, one of the country's leading poets, wrote a poem in honour of the ship and its namesake: "From an Eastern prince she takes her name, Who, smit with freedom's sacred flame Usurping Britons brought to shame, His country's wrongs avenging." Clearly, these 18th-century Americans saw faraway Asian peoples as exemplars of liberty. Haider and his son Tipu seem to have approached the status of household ...

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STRATEGIC-CULTURE.ORG -- Benjamin Franklin's French networks had deep connections into India that saw pro-American Muslim leader Hydar Ali attack the British Base near Madras with thousands of Indian soldiers. Ali was supported by French troops on land and sea commanded by Admiral Suffren. Hydar Ali's forces innovated rockets which decimated British troops, forcing Britain to re-direct over 20% of their naval fleet away from the Americas. America's flagship of the Continental fleet was named the Hydar Ali in his honor. In Morocco, the first nation to recognize America's independence, Emperor Sidi Mohammed saved American shipping from the ravages of Barbary pirates. Sidi Mohammed agreed to supply protection for America's ships and guaranteed them safe harbor. The Continental Congress passed an act which ...

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MEDIUM.COM -- The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) wrote in 2009 that, "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on ... authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor." Dr. Relman another former Editor in Chief of the NEJM said in 2002 that "Academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it's disgraceful." The editors of the most important medical journals in the world, gradually learn that their life's work is being slowly and steadily corrupted. The examples in medicine are everywhere. Research ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali: "One of the greatest of crimes is to destroy a work of art."] ARTICLE: Art does not need moral justification. We should not tear down the Coliseum in Rome, the pyramids, nor have allowed the Taliban to blast the Bamiyan Buddhas. It doesn't matter if we don't approve of their original uses. Furthermore, art needs to remain in its setting. Especially memorial sculpture and architecture. You move around it and consider it in relation to the background, the landscape, or wherever it is. In fact, for a lot of modern sculptures, the work is explicitly that relationship between the location and the piece. Time and change become part of a piece. Let time take care of things, as it always does. Nothing lasts and everything passes without human aid. But spare a thought ...

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QUILLETTE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2010: "I am in favour of the widespread distribution of civilian nuclear power.... The positive proliferation that I would dearly love to see happen is based on a simple principle: yes to energy, no to arms.... My sense is we are looking to the future for a massive increase in nuclear use around the world. [We] don't have an alternative."] ARTICLE: Many anti-nuclear environmental groups, including Sierra Club and 350.org, either take money from or are invested directly in, natural gas and renewable energy interests that stand to gain enormously by shutting down nuclear plants.... Already, many influential British environmentalists including Gaia theory inventor James Lovelock, Guardian columnist George Monbiot, and science journalist Mark Lynas advocate nuclear energy. One of the world's leading experts on the health impacts of the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, Dr. Gerry Thomas of Imperial College London, is pro-nuclear. Over time, I believe, the contradiction between preaching climate apocalypse and opposing nuclear energy will become increasingly untenable. The claim that renewables ...

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POLITICO.COM -- An analysis by the National Education Association projects a loss of 1.9 million education jobs in public schools and universities by 2022. A USA TODAY/Ipsos poll last month found 20% of teachers say they are unlikely to go back to school even if their classrooms reopen in the fall, and a parallel poll found 60% of K-12 parents are likely to pursue at home learning options rather than in-person school. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, said "We're not going back to how the school system was any time soon. People are going to have to be ready for it." Kristi Wilson, a superintendent said "It's awful. I don't sleep. I've been a superintendent eight years, and I'm just worried. It's hard to put into words." Even though virtual classes have been a bust in many places, most principals ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Many parents are unsure about sending their kids back to school for a replay of this spring's chaos. Online learning did not exactly cover itself in glory. Parents saw how much learning their children had to sacrifice, and how much they disliked it. Some school districts are proposing schedules like two days on, two days off, and one day of remote learning while children with at-risk teachers continue substandard online instruction. With ridiculous ideas like these, many parents are reconsidering public schooling altogether. An EdChoice poll suggests that more than half of parents, with school-age kids, now have a more favorable view of homeschooling. A May 14, 2020 Real Clear Opinion poll found that 41% of parents are more likely to homeschool this fall. "The vast majority of American school districts have yet to announce ...

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HUMANZOOS.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Human Zoos, is a devastating indictment of what happens when "consensus science" -- created by America's elite institutions: the American Museum of Natural History, Harvard, Yale, MIT, the Smithsonian, Ohio State, UC Berkeley, the University of Texas, even the Supreme Court -- is not only patently wrong but then goes on to set repugnant public policies unguided by religious moral foundations and truths. It tells the story of courageous African-American ministers in New York City who tried, unsuccessfully, to stop the horrors. Human Zoos is the horrifying story of America's scientific elite's effort, in the early 20th Century, to dehumanize entire classes of people in the name of science, specifically the Theory of Evolution, when thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in cages.] ARTICLE: "You have to see [Human Zoos] to believe it, and then wonder why they didn't teach you this chapter in history class. ... a story that will mesmerize you." -- Oregon Documentary Film Festival. Human Zoos has won numerous awards including from the Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Cinema WorldFest Awards and the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards. ...

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[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- PATRIOT ACT | NETFLIX -- Hasan explores how universities became corporatized over the past few decades and if the rising costs of college are still worth it in a post-pandemic world. "Tenure is when a university gives a professor lifelong job security to do research and teach. They're well-paid with killer benefits. But tenured professors are being replaced with a cheaper option: adjunct or part-time professors. Adjuncts are the gig workers of higher education and teaching a lot of classes. I'm not saying that adjuncts are bad. It's just that they're expected to do the same work as tenured professors, while getting treated like s**t. No medical, no dental, no vision, no retirement, no family leave, no sick leave, nothing. 'To support his family, Rob Balla drives to three different Ohio universities, to teach six English classes, and tutors on the side.' 'Ellen Tara James-Penney is an adjunct. On most nights, she sleeps in her car.' If your professor is running from college to college, ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- UCLA.EDU -- THE ECONOMIST -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Essential reading.] ARTICLE: Too many published findings are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis. Biotechnology venture-capitalists assume half of published research cannot be replicated. Even that may be optimistic. Researchers at Amgen found they could reproduce just 11% (6 of 53) "landmark" cancer studies. A group at Bayer managed to repeat just 25% of 67 similarly important papers. A leading computer scientist frets that 75% of papers in his subfield are bunk. The hallowed process of peer review is not all it is cracked up to be, either. When a prominent medical journal ran a test, it found most reviewers failed to spot mistakes deliberately inserted into papers, even after being told they were being tested. Stanford 's John Ioannidis caused a stir with a paper showing why, as a matter of statistical logic, "most published research findings are probably false." As he told ...

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THOMASAQUINAS.EDU -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Essential reading for all parents. Sayers offers the most profound insights into what should be education's objectives and how to achieve them we have ever seen. However, they are almost impossible to accomplish in conventional schools.] ARTICLE: The mediaeval scheme of education highlights what was thought to be the correct object and order of the educative process. The syllabus had two parts: the Trivium and Quadrivium, of which the Trivium is our interest. It consisted of three parts: Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric, in that order. The first thing to notice is these "subjects" are not what we would call "subjects" at all: *they are only methods of dealing with subjects*. The whole of the Trivium was intended to teach the proper use of the tools of learning, *before the pupil began to apply them to "subjects"* at all. First, he learned the structure of a language. Second, how to use language; how to define his terms and make accurate statements; how to construct an argument and how to detect fallacies in argument. That is, dialectic embraced Logic and Disputation. Thirdly, he learned to express himself -- how to say what he had to say elegantly and persuasively. At the end of his course, he was required to ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2003: "The true test [of education] is the ability of students and graduates to engage with what they *do not know and to work out a solution*."] ARTICLE: What we have here is a teachable moment. Can lay people offer a judgment on "a technical debate?" Any argument of the form "Only professional Xs can judge X-ness" suffers from nasty logical problems C.S. Lewis outlines that also apply to controversies over Darwinism. Darwin's theory invokes technical details but, at the bottom, there are simply *chains of reasoning*. Thus, any rational person -- who does some technical homework and studies what Darwinists and their critics have said -- is perfectly able to draw his own conclusions. Especially when prominent evolutionary biologists answer a question like "How did the molecular systems of life arose?" in plain-English: "There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations." Interestingly, C.S. Lewis ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- Expelled's central point is there is no academic freedom to the Darwin juggernaut. Academics who simply bring up intelligent design find they are mocked, fired or their careers over. It's chilling and reveals how incredibly narrow-minded the scientific world really is. As a showcase of how deeply flawed the evolutionist's outlook is, Expelled is an effective, thought-provoking film. Most scientists, particularly radical atheists, love to point out how sensible science is and how fantastical religion is. But watching Expelled changed all that for me. Scientists' ideas are no less outlandish than religious ones. Evolutionists claim that evolution explains everything. Yet when pressed, they all admit that they have no idea how life came about. Both Michael Ruse and Richard Dawkins agreed that if there was an intelligent designer, it certainly wasn't God -- but it could be visiting aliens who came and seeded life onto earth. ...

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RT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In our first Editor's Choice email, we quoted Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, who said in 2015 that "much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." See: http://isma.li/5leskp] [UPDATE: 5 JUN 2020 -- Both The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have fully retracted the Surgisphere papers about purported dangerous affects of hydroxychloroquine.] ARTICLE: The World Health Organization has resumed trials involving the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine following doubts about US research which had led to their suspension. The much-publicized study in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, reported that taking the drug was associated with increased risks of in-hospital deaths. However, serious questions have been raised about the data used in that study and the Lancet issued an "expression of concern" over the study on Wednesday. A *Guardian investigation* found that Surgisphere's employees "have little or no data or scientific background," with one appearing to be a sci-fi author and fantasy artist. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ...

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CONEXAOPOLITICA.COM.BR -- The coordinator of the statement is Marcos Nogueira Eberlin, founder of the Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, winner of the prestigious Thomson Medal (2016), former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, and discoverer of the Eberlin Reaction.... In a study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) the authors declared: "we administer 1,200 mg for 3 days, followed by 800 mg for 12 to 21 days." In other words, they gave a huge dosage of the drug that could reach the absurdity of 20 grams. The recommended HCQ dosage in Brazil is 2 times 400 mg in the first day and 400 mg for 5 days for a total of 2.8 grams. Overdosing on HCQ or any other drug is poisonous. What do you think, was it good science? On the contrary, the study published and carried out by Dr. Didier Raoult in France ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- Our culture has mocked the family, especially fathers, for decades. In a time men are portrayed at best as fools and at worst as oppressors, 'Onward' is a breath of fresh air. The story shows the importance of fatherhood and the consequences of its absence. As fatherhood is to the home, so are ancient values and traditions to the city. Both the home and the city are losing themselves in modern times, and they both have to look back at what made them strong to rediscover their strength. While the story centers on Ian, it is Barley who is in many ways the hero. He is the father figure, the male role model who leads the way. Helping them without their knowledge is ...

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STR.ORG -- STAND TO REASON -- There are everyday evolutionists and then the heavy-hitters. Richard Lewontin is the latter: a geneticist at Harvard and a leading evolutionary thinker for decades. But in an article in the New York Review of Books, Lewontin made a revealing concession--one that should embarrass any evolutionist. He said: "Our [i.e. scientists'] willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs ... because we have a prior commitment to materialism.... Moreover, that materialism is absolute... For we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." This isn't about testable hypotheses or following the evidence where it leads. It's a desperate attempt to keep God from playing any role in reality. It entails being locked into materialistic philosophy that demands ...

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MINDMATTERS.AI -- Neuroscientist Christof Koch just published an article in Scientific American on near-death experiences (NDEs). But when Koch addresses neuroscience's attempts to explain NDEs his discussion goes off the rails. The number and variety of materialist theories he describes conveys a sense of groping for any plausible materialist explanation rather than sober scientific investigation. The lack of evidence for materialist theories is a problem. Koch explains: "As a scientist, I operate under the hypothesis that our thoughts, memories, percepts and experiences are the result of natural powers of our brain rather than of [non-material ones] ... The challenge is to explain NDEs within a natural framework." Koch is mistaken. The scientific challenge is to explain NDEs, full stop. It's sobering that neuroscience has utterly failed to explain how the brain and mind relate. It is as if cosmology had failed ...

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