Posted in Religion on Aug 20th, 2010 | Viewed 90 times
Some of you out there may have caught the YouTube video by some fundies that call themselves “RealCatholicTV” that was posted last week. I came across it via PZ Myers blog. The video was describing their vision of a catholic dictatorship (their words) which of course included a vision of enforcing all the kinds of [...]
Posted in Religion, Science on Mar 30th, 2010 | Viewed 973 times
Sam Harris has made an excellent albeit a bit short TED talk about science and moral questions: He naturally got a lot of negative critique for this talk. He is not claiming that science can dictate morals exactly, what he is saying is that there are moral truths to be known. The fact that science [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 9th, 2009 | Viewed 1626 times
This excellent YouTube video takes care of the accusation we sceptics often has thrown after us that we need to be more open-minded. This always bugs me because my inquisitive mind is very open to new ideas. I’ve spent most of this year learning quantum physics for fucks sake. Being open-minded is however not the [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 1168 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen. “Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow [...]