Category: Religion Philosophy
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Solar flares. Catastrophology. Science as a Religion.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation generated on the sun’s surface, each one many times wider than our planet. They can cause disturbances in Earth’s atmosphere, disrupting GPS and radio signals. The disruptions can last for as long as the flares, anywhere from minutes to hours. That is exactly what happened on Tuesday, June…
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Sand castles, dirt, God, "creation"...
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that has two 'foreign' DNA building blocks in…
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ΙΧΘΥΣ. Fish extinction. Science as a Religion. Christianism as a... well, NOT a religion.
Scientists predict the extinction of salty water fish by 2048. (1) Like every new religion, science needs its doom prophecies. But Christianism did not predict doom. Like every new religion, science needs to scare people. But Christianism gave people hope by predicting the coming of Love. Like every knew religion, it needs to capitalize on…
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Old theories. New theories. All the same... (?!)
When physicists translated a 13th-century Latin text into modern equations, they discovered that the English theologian who wrote it had unwittingly predicted the idea of the multiverse in 1225. While the work probably won't advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive. In particular, Tom…
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Killing giraffes. Playing human.
A giraffe killed because its DNA was similar to the others! (what?!?) (1, 2, 3, 4) Genetic screening in its most wrong version. Now you can die because something MIGHT happen in the future! (or maybe cut your breasts, thanks to Angelina Jolie) And the possibility that the giraffe did not reproduce or was hosted…
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