What the late Frank Zappa said here about atheism is what I began predicting when I was in my teens, but I’m not so optimistic today. In fact, there seems to be a trend towards the rejection of science, fear, …
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Maybe Religion Is Here to Stay
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Did God Assign Your Gender?
Religion tends to make statements that fly in the teeth of science, but even the most ardent believers in God may have trouble with the meme here. How are genders assigned? Well, ask yourself why men have nipples. It’s because …
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Many Say Fauci Should Go To Prison
We hear all the time that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served Americans’ health needs under seven presidents, created COVID-19 in a Chinese lab and deliberately inflicted it on U.S. citizens, killing millions. The anti-science far-right is cranking up the animus …
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Faith and Reason
People have been dancing around the faith/reason duality for more than 2000 years. Aristotle worked out the rules of logic around 350 BCE, and Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using them to prove the existence of God in the …
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Religion
I love Emerson, but I don’t get this at all. Is there anything amusing about any of the world religions that existed a generation (or many) ago? Were the people of the Renaissance amused by the Spanish Inquisition? Are you …
Breakthrough in Cell Biology
We all know that the basic unit of life is the cell, but have you ever wondered how these tiny cells arrange themselves so as to form our bodies into a particular shape? Why do we have any shape at …
The Existence of God
I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion. No one knows how the universe got here. The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics. How did …
Dr. Brian Cox
As previously mentioned, it’s good to see the rising popularity of astrophysicist Dr. Brian Cox. In this video, he explains that life on Earth is about 4 billion years old, but for the first 3 billion, there was nothing more …
Know Your “Isms”
I present the chart at left, though I do so without any belief that it will change anyone’s thinking. As dozens of the world’s great thinkers have said over the centuries, Don’t expect that reason will have any effect on …
Brian Cox, PhD
It’s always encouraging to see the emergence of another brilliant astrophysicist into our culture — not that his message here is particularly encouraging.
