Category: Science as a Religion
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TED, atheists, censorship…
TED is supposed to be a platform to facilitate the organization of talks about interesting subjects by interesting people. But when Sheldrake decided to talk about 10 dogmas of modern science (one of which is related to non-localized consciousness, which, according to the speaker, can exist outside of our brain) and when Hancock decided to talk about consciousness, dreams and psychedelia then…
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Eye, complex to simple, fallen angels...
Evolution-explains-everything-and-answers-to-all-philosophical-problems skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the brain or the eye, are simply too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called 'irreducibly complex' structures could emerge incrementally over time, bit by bit. But a new study proposes an alternative route. Instead of starting from simpler precursors and…
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Transubstantiation, atoms, scientism…
Non-believers are baffled by Christians believing they eat the blood and body of Christ during transubstantiation. We can accept it as a metaphor, but not as something "real". We cannot literally accept that we eat the blood and body of Christ. What are we taking "literally"? We see food and we think it is solid.…
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Detecting nuclear explosions, "detecting" nuclear explosions...
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors - both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) - the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3) This is what technology…
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