Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

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Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Source
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Source
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

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Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Source
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