Another pearl from Pope Francis. If the atheist intellectuals, like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christoher Hitchens had their way, they would eradicate religion, largely for the role it plays in fomenting violence.
Category: Renewables – Science
How To Consider Dandelions
To add some science to the discussion, it’s incorrect to say that a dandelion is not a “weed,” which is defined as an “unwanted plant.” Anywhere they’re unwanted, they’re weeds. Now, perhaps we should rethink what plants we want around …
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We Are Stardust
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics. We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
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There Must Be Republicans Who Can No Longer Put Up with the Lunacy
Not sure about the first part of the meme here. There have to be some Republicans who simply have had enough of the utter insanity of the GOP platform and are refusing to vote for things like bans on abortion, …
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Tagged with: environment collapse
Newton’s Laws of Motion
People who believe the legitimacy of this video don’t understand Newton’s laws of motion. I’m reminded of a grade school science teacher who points out to her students that Superman’s flying through the air would require him to be continuously …
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Americans Forget That Other Countries Exist
As COVID-19 raged around the world, many Americans believed that the pandemic was planned by the U.S. government, as an event to determine to what extend we would tolerate having our liberties taken away. An alternative theory was that our …
Tagged with: QAnon mind
Marjorie Taylor Greene May Be Ridiculous, But Her Fans Can’t Get Enough
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently attacked President Joe Biden for supporting developing wind power on the grounds that it is not always windy outside. From the article linked above: “He thinks wind turbines are the way to go!” she complained. “I …
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Responding to an Alien Invasion
2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood sent me the meme here and notes, I wonder whether an alien invasion would unite the human species. That’s a heck of a good question. Let’s assume that, somehow, all of Earth’s people became aware that …
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Science Has Its Limitations, and Some Are Fairly Pedestrian
When we think about the limitations of science, we normally contemplate things like dark energy or cures for dread diseases. Often, though, we come across eye-openers like the one shown here. No one knows why trees grow like this in …
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Doing One’s Own Research on Scientific Matters–A Distinctly U.S. Phenomenon
I’m sure this isn’t the only Halloween display in this vein in 2022, but it’s certainly clever. Somebody deserves credit. Denial of science in favor of what crackpots say on social media is a phenomenon that, we can only hope, …
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