The only thing standing between us and coming catastrophe is our ability to learn to think longer term and to face up to these problems we have brought on ourselves with filthy energy.
Sam Harris laid out his arguments in support of a scientific morality in depth and detail in his TED talk The Moral Landscape, and his follow-up essay.
I mean, at what point do you just throw up your hands? Should that be my response to the Pope protecting child rape and torture? Really, who thought they’d live to see that day?
Physorg is reporting that the sense of “oneness with everything” that underlies so much new-age mumbo-jumbo has been correlated by experiments with damage to the right posterior parietal region of the brain.
Robert Lanza, MD, a pioneer in cloning and regenerative medicine, is proposing to rip up the scientific frame in favor of his pet theory of “biocentrism.”
Once upon a time, in a country small, up north, near close to sea and fjord,
so peaceful and pleasantly agreeable, there lived an innocent and friendly old man who loved to draw cartoons to express his thought.
If there was any doubt about the abject inadequacy of the conservative psyche to face modern life, the airport scanner controversy should erase it forever.
The courage demonstrated by a mild-mannered cartoonist in the face of global Islamic death threats is an inspiration. I wish I could say the same about our supposedly ‘free’ press.
I get the sense that, birthers, 9/11 ‘truthers,’ climate change deniers, Alex Jonesers and other New World Order nutjobs all have this one thing in common with fundamentalists: They think that wishing will make it so.