There seems to be some sort of detente between religion and science at this point in Western Civilization, largely brought on by the arrival of Pope Francis on the scene, with his high-impact humanism, one that borders on the secular.
Author: craigshields
An Exercise in Alternative Science
Tagged with: alternative science, carbon dating, Pope Francis, religion and science, Trump's cabinet
We Don’t Have “Opinions” About Science
Nikita writes: Just read your blog; you are writing about things I never thought about. What is your opinion about this invention? It’s a scam. It violates the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. Think about it: this produces energy out of nothing? That doesn’t make sense to you, does it?
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New Commitments to Renewable Energy Popping Up All Over the Globe, But, Sadly, Not in the U.S.
Here’s an update on the rapid migration to renewable energy. This time, it’s Sweden doing something extraordinary. Who will be next?
Good Reason To Remember Johns Hopkins on His 222nd Birthday
When I learned that today was the birthday of Johns Hopkins and began to peruse his biography, I thought I’d be reading about the life of a man extraordinarily devoted to medicine. As it turns out, he was a businessman, …
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Quantum Physics Makes a Real Difference
I’ll be the first to admit that the cartoon isn’t for everyone, but it does have a couple of virtues: 1) It has nothing to do with the imploding U.S. presidency, and I figured readers could use a break from …
Lots of Stuff Happens As Ice Melts on Earth–And None of It Is Good
What happens as the Earth warms? Well, farmland turns to desert, storms worsen, the sea level rises (as 24 cubic miles of ice melts every year in the Antarctic alone), and the oceans lose their capacity to support most animal …
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Burning Coal Is Choking Our Planet and Its People, But Strangely, That’s OK
Here’s something that will put a smile on a few faces, i.e., those investors whose meager integrity and broken moral compass enables them to support coal as an energy source. According to Energy Matters: Nearly all publicly traded US coal …
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Like All Flavors of Renewable Energy, Geothermal Keeps Improving
There is no doubt that geothermal energy occupies an important place in the pantheon of renewable resources. Perhaps the post child of success in this endeavor is Iceland, a place where fossil fuels are hard to come by, and one …
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The Truth Will Set You Free
Here’s an illustration of why it’s impossible for the Trump administration to suppress facts that stand in the way of their aims. The City of Chicago has posted on its website all the climate data that was deleted by the …
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Take a Minute and Get Some Space
I hope you’ll take a few minutes out of your busy day to take a journey, one not measured in the miles required to take the kids to school or to get to work, but one of millions of light-years, …
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