The Big Questions
The Foundation runs what it calls Big Questions conversations, a campaign conceived in collaboration with the designer Milton Glaser. A panel of high-profile scholars and public figures are invited to address a question and write a detailed essay in response. To date, the Foundation has posed the following questions:
- Does the Universe have a purpose?
- Will money solve Africa’s development problems?
- Does science make belief in God obsolete?
- Does the free market corrode moral character?
- Does evolution explain human nature?
- Does moral action depend on reasoning?
Contributors have included Bernard-Henri Lévy, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens, Jerome Groopman, Robert Reich, He Qinglian, Stephen Pinker, Francis Collins, Simon Conway Morris, Michael Gazzaniga, Rebecca Goldstein, and Jonah Lehrer.
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before he became a schoolteacher
a great-uncle painted a big picture.”
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