Why Materialists Don’t Have to Be Atheists
Physicist Alan Lightman on evolution and atheism, creativity and spirituality. The post Why Materialists Don’t Have to Be Atheists appeared first on Nautilus.
by Brian Gallagher
Jun 23, 2023
2 minutes
When he was a little kid, growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Alan Lightman realized he was a materialist. Not in the sense of loving “cars and nice clothes,” the acclaimed physicist and author wrote recently in Nautilus, “but in the literal sense of the word: the belief that everything is made out of atoms and molecules, and nothing more.”
Reading a science magazine one day, he
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