Here’s a short video from Elle Cordova that reminds us that science is something of a rarity in human history. The great tyrants of history have done their best to cause the people they ruled to reject science, simply to …
Category: Renewables – Science
Indoctrinating Children into Religion
All I can say about the meme here is that personally I refused, against considerable pressure from my family, to indoctrinate my children into something I myself could not accept. Is it actually “psychological abuse” to indoctrinate children into monotheistic …
What Type of People We Are
In a recent post, I argued that our brains are wired in a certain way, and that we have little in any control over our values and beliefs. German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte seem to be saying something similar here. …
What Shapes Our Politics?
I may have mentioned that I’m lucky enough to be a part of a group of boyhood friends from our prep school in Philadelphia that meets monthly on Zoom. Yesterday the question came up as to how our political beliefs …
Tagged with: politics
Getting Worse by the Day
To the idiot who sent me this: They told us education is bad because it creates people capable of thinking. Every step we take downward into the depths of ignorance brings a new level of pain and desperation as we …
Social Democracy
At left is an interesting twist on the case for social democracies. In short: Investing in people pays off. As they say, Education is expensive, but the cost of ignorance is far higher.
Science and Religion — A Common Ground?
Yes, in that they are both the results of the human need to make sense of the world around us and to unravel life’s great mysteries. But that’s where the similarity ends; religion is based on beliefs for which there …
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The Problem of God
A course called “The Problem of God” a requirement for all incoming freshmen at Georgetown University, or at least it was in the late 1970s when I was a grad student there. Here’s part of the “problem,” at least for …
Discussions on Religion
Good question here at left. To me, it depends. If the person seems intelligent enough to be able to hold a thought in his head that opposes his current beliefs, I’d actively encourage the discussion. Otherwise, I’m out. No need …
Consequences of Refusing COVID Vaccinations
Well, they were far more likely to be hospitalized and to die by drowning in their own pus and blood that built up in their lungs. Doesn’t sound pleasant. Not sure I’d call it “nothing.”
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