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Image from “I, Robot”, 2004, 20th Century Fox “I’m a robot, and you’re a robot, but that doesn’t make us any less dignified or wonderful or lovable or responsible for our actions. Why does our dignity depend on our being scientifically inexplicable?” – Daniel Dennett Why is it that people...
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It would seem that those among us human beings who are lucky enough to travel to space, and are able to view the earth from high above the atmosphere, return to us with a profoundly different and new perspective of their home, and the implications of this new view of the world are far from trivial. From that distance,...
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On Saturday just gone, I had the pleasure of being invited once again onto Jake Farr-Wharton’s podcast, The Imaginary Friends Show Podcast. We were joined by regular guest Pete Darwin, and over the hour we discussed topics including claims that Big-Bang cosmology is consistent with biblical scriptures, miniature...
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ~ Seneca I have been known in my time to seek out activities that scare me. From high-wall rock climbing to skydiving, the fear that I have felt in these situations is apparent and real, and the threat of death hangs...
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. - Hypatia of Alexandria
Recent Blog Posts
May 18, 2013 |
No Magic Required
Image from “I, Robot”, 2004, 20th Century Fox “I’m a robot, and you’re a robot, but that...
May 13, 2013 |
“Overview” – A Short Film by Planetary Collective
It would seem that those among us human beings who are lucky enough to travel to space, and are able to...
May 13, 2013 |
IFS 137 – Smoke and mirrors!
On Saturday just gone, I had the pleasure of being invited once again onto Jake Farr-Wharton’s...
May 6, 2013 |
How Fear Manipulates You
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ~...
April 30, 2013 |
Agenticity, Patternicity, Belief
Historically, humanity has had a very slim understanding of its position in the universe. Ideas and...
April 17, 2013 |
Methodological Humanism – Beyond Belief and Disbelief
Methodological humanism is an attempt to promote true humanist cause beyond the various tenets of...
April 13, 2013 |
Feminism and Humanism
As I touched on in my recent article “Methodological Humanism“, there are many aspects within...
March 31, 2013 |
Transubstantiation, Halal and Kosher – How Food Becomes Magical
A couple of years ago I attended a funeral of a friend of mine’s father, who passed away after a...
March 28, 2013 |
The Great Flood – How Collective Memory Can Become Legend
Image: Gustave Doré – The Holy Bible – Plate I, The Deluge – Via Wikipedia One of the...
March 28, 2013 |
Teach Not Preach
I GOT MAIL! Yeah, I get mail all the time, but this one caught my eye. It came from James Morrison, who...
March 22, 2013 |
The Rape Blame Game
Unless you live under a rock, you would have heard about the Steubenville rape case, in which two teenage...
March 15, 2013 |
Respect for Superstition?
Last week I posted to Twitter a comment which I thought was rather innocuous and self explanatory, but...
March 9, 2013 |
Methodological Humanism
Humanism, as I have eluded to in the past, is not the ideal of placing humanity above the rest of the...
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