There are so many tragic aspects to life in today’s United States that it’s hard to name them all. For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance. Up until recently, if …
Category: Renewables – Science
How and Why We Conduct Science
To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.” In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted …
Pope Leo on Peace and War
As a non-religious person, I’m generally not a fan of the Catholic Church, but I must admit that it’s most definitely becoming more benign as the years pass, and may eventually confer a true benefit to its adherents, insofar as …
The Acceptance of Science
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 …
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 if 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 …
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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 …
Tagged with: Science and Religion
