Why I Believe in Immortality

Why I Believe

When I came to UCSD, a professor asked me how I could be a professing intellectual and still be a Christian. The topic came up a few weeks back as well. So I thought I would collect my thoughts about reasons that I personally find helpful when considering whether Christianity makes sense. Note that I do not accept the definition that faith is "belief without reason". Instead I prefer the defini...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Why would I believe your store is better than mine?

Comparing the performance of computer systems leads to measurement techniques and experiments that are often questioned or interpreted with prejudice, faith, opinion or sceptical caution. In the main, such results are usually derived either through empirical analysis or simulation. A third technique, analytical modelling, is less widely adopted but can exhibit a number of advantages over the ot...

L'Chaim and its limits: why not immortality?

Which expert should I believe?

As a reader of this journal you are probably a professional scientist with an interest in communicat­ ing the importance of what you do to the world at large. We share that interest, and advertise to journal­ ists the work we publish that we feel most likely to be of general interest, via press releases on the EurekAlert! website. This works very well, and papers in Current Biology are frequent...