It appears that this is precisely what happened to Dr. Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic. He ran into the perfect storm of anti-science crackpots, and the far right-wing, often counterfactual media, e.g., Fox News and Newsmax. There are still people …
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Science and Religion
There actually are some senior scientists who believe in God, and I happen to know one personally, but they are very few in number.
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There’s More than One of Us in There
It’s not uncommon to hear a top neurologist or psychologist say something like what we see at left. Human consciousness is extremely complicated, and there is no reason to believe that we’re anywhere close to understanding it. If you doubt …
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Making the Existing Model Obsolete
We’ve all read what the great 20th Century American engineer “Bucky” Fuller said here at least a hundred times, but maybe it’s time to explore its truths and its limits. If we want to replace landline telephony with cell phones, …
Modernism and Heresy
If by “modernism” we mean further development of science and the use of the scientific method to find answers to life’s most persistent questions, then yes, we can all understand why St. Pope Pius X said what he did at …
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Leibniz lived at a time in which there was much speculation about God and His workings. It’s unclear how many people, then and now, bought into this idea. Voltaire’s Candide was a parody of the concept. Three hundred years later, …
Sam Harris on RFK, Jr.
In this short interview, neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris explains how dangerous RFK, Jr. is to our nation and its people. Pathological liars, especially talented ones, are very hard to catch–but it can be done.
Accepting God into One’s Life
Needless to say, when it comes to the acceptance or rejection of God, people around the world vary wildly. Even those who believe that God created the universe may have a tough time accepting that God has a plan for …
When Science and Religion Began to Pull Apart
There is no definitive answer to the question posed at left. Most people would say that, in the West, the division started in the 16th Century with Galileo and Copernicus. Then we had Newton 100 years later, followed by Mendeleev …
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What the United States Gave the World
Tens of millions of people who don’t believe in science.
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