10
POPSDo we share Earth with alternative life forms? "The reason why biology’s standard tools would fail to detect an RNA-based organism is because they assume that all metabolisms must be similar to our own." “Why did life have to happen only once on Earth? There’s no real deep reason why.” "One way to find out is to try to create alternative life-forms ourselves and see how they do alongside their bacterial brethren."
5
POPSScience of the Soul? Dr. Haught: “The way I look at it, instead of eliminating the notion of a human soul in order to make us humans fit seamlessly into the rest of nature, it’s wiser to recognize that there is something analogous to soul in all living beings.”
3
POPSThe Biology of the Imagination Simon Baron-Cohen is a professor of developmental psychopathology in the departments of psychiatry and experimental psychology (...) He is best known for his work on autism. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen