Sapere Aude
Tag: religion
Goodbye limbo, it was fun while it lasted. And it lasted a while – since the Middle Ages. The concept of limbo – the place where dead children go if they die without being baptised – has been abolished by Pope Benedict XVI.
i wish more publications spoke out against religious nonsense. it is 2007, after all.
what is this, the 1800s? geez
The establishment of virtual churches and congregations of avatars would seem to raise some knotty theological questions, which I’m not sure the LifeChurch.tv pastors have fully thought through. In creating virtual worlds, aren’t we usurping God’s role – and hence committing a heresy? Are avatars created in God’s image or our own? Can they be saved? Can they be damned? Does sin even exist in a virtual world? Is there a Second Afterlife?
after the suits, now the religious nutcases are moving in
maybe we can get all the religious nonsense off of youtube and onto this?
wiki tech for the stupid
The Bible and the Koran declare the earth to be motionless.
science is fundamentally not about beliefs, it’s about results. Beliefs are relevant mostly as the heuristics that lead to results. So for example, it matters that David Deutsch believes the many-worlds interpretation because that’s what led him to quantum computing. It matters that Ed Witten believes string theory because that’s what led him to … well, all the mindblowing stuff it led him to. My beef with quantum computing skeptics has never been that their beliefs are false; rather, it’s that their beliefs almost never seem to lead them to new results.
on the silliness of asking scientists about their beliefs
“Wow, that’s a dramatic way of putting it” But however he defines his challenge, Brian is on the cutting edge of a new and emboldened wave of atheism. “There isn’t any good reason to believe in God. It’s that simple.” What’s wrong with God? “What’s wrong with the tooth fairy?. There’s nothing wrong with something that most likely doesn’t exist.”
There are 30m atheists in the United States, and they feel like a persecuted minority.
about time atheists come out of the closet
Several of the new measures were controversial, with some experts worrying it would make things worse. But the scheme was a success. An important step was to introduce a one-way system, with roads designated only for walkers coming from the stoning back to the camp. “Last year you had to push a lot to get to the camp. This year you could comfortably follow the stream all the way. Everyone was very happy.”
fluid dynamics to the rescue. granted, the whole thing is pretty stupid anyways
To sum up, fundamentalists do not appear to commit more crimes, but they live in more unsafe lower-class environments and experience more fear in their daily life. They tend to think that one should always obey the law.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 