Tag: science
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Agreeing with Professor Dawkins
I have long disagreed with Prof. Richard Dawkins’ view on religion. I have no problem whatsoever with Prof. Dawkins’ expressing his personal views on any given topic. I am not even offended by such a public figure using celebrity to influence others – the Catholic Church, for one, has done no less for centuries. I…
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Imagining Science
When once we might have followed the yellow brick road on our way to meet the Wizard, today we must, instead, follow the science. No destination is identified; it is enough that we follow whither it leads and for an indeterminate amount of time. Which seems more reasonable, following a specific root, to a specified…
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Carbon Footprints
According to an online calculator, my carbon footprint is 3.83. Which, apparently, makes me and the average person from Turkey quite a bit less than almost everyone else – except the average Thai. Those Californians should be ashamed of themselves! 22.5! What are they doing? Smoking the stuff? But, of course, shame is the whole…
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Objectivity
In these days of the pandemic, the scientist has finally attained the status always sought. With the development of the vaccine, in such a short space of time, we have our superhero. It may still lag behind in the style stakes, but science has shown itself as the team which assembled to defeat the invader.…
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The Story of Life
“Life? Don’t talk to me about life.”Marvin the Paranoid Android ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘ by Douglas Adams There is so much pressure, these days, to accept the science. We have no need, so we’re told, for faith or belief in anything for which we cannot provide evidence. Reason and the scientific method are…
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Deep Throat
The m0vie blog tells us that we get a “ham-fisted attempt at moral debate” in the first episode of the X Files after the Pilot. One might ask what other kind of moral debate one could expect from a country as morally bankrupt as the United States? The US is a country in which its people…
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