Here’s my response to the reader who sent me the meme at left. Democrats tend to be: • Followers of science, and most scientists are atheists. • Tolerant of the religious beliefs of others, but aware of the fact that …
Category: Renewables – Science
On Atheism
What neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris says about the thought expressed at left is, “There is no reason for us to have the word ‘atheist’ in our language. Is there a word that means ‘the group of people who …
Why People Become Religious
What Kurt Vonnegut said here is interesting, but I doubt it’s correct. Yes, people talk about religious people’s “imaginary friend in the sky,” which would be, of course, a remedy for loneliness. But I believe that the primary driver for …
The Tragedy of U.S. Healthcare
There must be a reason that our life expectancy here in the United States is slipping, while people in other countries in the developed world are living longer, healthier lives. Is it that, on average, 12 children get shot and …
Near-Death Experiences
Let me guess. He’s from a predominantly Christian country. Do people who have returned to life from brain-dead conditions in Japan or Israel tell stories about meeting Jesus?
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Flat Earth Society
First of all, I believe there are far fewer of these crackpots than are commonly thought to exist. The presence of social media serves to distort this. To answer the question, there are QAnon conspiracy theorists who simply believe that …
Humanism
When I was a boy, I believed that humanism would replace the theistic religions in a fairly short period of time, perhaps within my lifetime. I based this largely on the growing presence of science in our lives. We now …
Building Infrastructure Efficiently
Think of the efficiency associated with driving trucks around and picking up old toilets and sinks that last in homes for many decades, taking them to a facility where they are ground into small porcelain chips, ultimately shipping the chips …
Biodegradable Plastic
Building biodegradable plastic is tricky, because a plastic container can’t fall apart until it’s no longer needed to contain its contents. E,g., you don’t want a plastic milk bottle to last 500 years, but it needs to last at least …
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Denying Vaccinations to Their Pets
Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched. That was before the Trump …
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