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February 25th, 2010
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A Conversation with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Part 1)
October 28th, 2009
Sam Ogden, contributing writer for the wildly popular skeptical blog, Skepchick, sits down with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium and the NOVA scienceNOW program for a conversation about the universe, scientific literacy, and sundry other topics. Part 1 covers the latest in astrophysics and the universe.
Carl Sagan – Evolution Explained (Video)
July 23rd, 2009
How can one possibly see a video like this and believe that it was a Creator’s plan to create humans via a 4 billion year “designed” process? Listen to it several times if you must. Looking back from the vantage point we have now, it seems obvious that primitive men with a limited understanding of the world would invent God.
What we have learned in the past several thousand years is that we were not created at all, but evolved along a convoluted, haphazard, unpredictable line. We understand more about our origin now than ever, we shape our living environments, we control the atom, we are driving the earth to it’s next global crisis (and that only took a couple of hundred years). If we WERE created (say 6,000ish years ago), then why were we created in a fairly primitive state only to be allowed the recent advances to enhance our lives and destroy ourselves over the long haul? If that were the idea of our genesis, then god naturally knew the outcome, so then… why the hell would he do that? It makes no sense.
If you want to start to understand the world you live it, watch this video: Carl Sagan – Evolution Explained in Six Minutes. Then, move on to Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot and other mind-expanding ideas — you’ll see how tiny and insignificant we are in the universe… and how fragile.
Obama’s Real Religion
June 17th, 2008
Obama is a true believer in the religion of Environmentalism. Not the science of the environment. Where that science survives, it provides us with a vital service; and it doesn’t take any faith to believe in the findings of genuine scientists doing science properly.
Read more below in the column by Orson Scott Card…
Freeman Dyson’s thoughts on the subject are stunning:
All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming … miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific.
There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.
The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children in kindergartens, schools, and colleges all over the world.
Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion. And the ethics of environmentalism are fundamentally sound. Scientists and economists can agree with Buddhist monks and Christian activists that ruthless destruction of natural habitats is evil and careful preservation of birds and butterflies is good.
The worldwide community of environmentalists — most of whom are not scientists — holds the moral high ground, and is guiding human societies toward a hopeful future. Environmentalism, as a religion of hope and respect for nature, is here to stay.
We have to be cautious of Environmentalism as a religion vs. a science… The Environmental Puritan movement is anti-American to the core. You can’t follow their advice while being president of the United States — we don’t need an anti-American president.
Links of Reason
March 31st, 2008
This post is a little more coarse than my usual fare, but several links I have run across recently I feel compelled to group together and share. Please to enjoy (or click here and enjoy a piping hot mug of STFU):
- ScienceBlog on George Carlin and his most recent act.
- One of George’s previous efforts (well done).
- OK, and just for posterity (and because it’s so damn good).
- Careful about giving away your rights.
- Or this is where we may end up.
- Some really, really good Easter statistics.
- Did Jesus Exist? Does it matter?
Really late here – I gotta get some sleep.
Take care… oh, and question everything!
