Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Logic, Rational, reason, evolution, Earth, designed, design, designer, life, Enceladus, deductive, scientific theory, Carolyn Porco, Saturn, live, life on earth on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I was listening to a recently filmed debate and the idea came across that the earth was designed; this was presented by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. These are the things he mentions, which I have heard before, I would like to summarize them; if the earth were a little closer or further away, then the earth [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Religion, Science, Understanding, method, methods, faith, misconceptions, induction, model, attitude, nation states, history, history of science, enlightenment, Europe, agenda, Vienna, comte, body of knowledge, Ayer, Carnap, Opticks, eugenics, industrial revolution, experiment, experimental, contradiction, science is wrong, world, knowledge, human, society, improvements on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing that amazes me is that science tends to work quite often; I don’t need to tell you that you already know. The point here is that it tends to work, still there are places where the misunderstanding of science comes in, these are my thoughts on how science sometimes is not based upon [...]
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Posted in Religion, tagged atheism, Capital punishment, Catholic, catholic church, evolution, islam, Islamic law, Jew, Jewish, law, Logic, Muslim, Pakistan, rape, Religion, Science, theology, Understanding, Zakir Naik on April 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
* This is not the original video but it has the same gist
I have already done the Christians so it is only fair that I comment about this Muslim man as well. Mr Zakir Naik makes me very angry in so many ways; I don’t recognise his Dr as he does not deserve it. [...]
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www.Ted.com - Interesting talks and discussions on many things, mostly around science, cultural and social problems.
www.richarddawkins.net - The Man that started my belief of in non-religion.
www.patcondell.net - this guy funny and against religion, although sometimes the logic is not there he certainly makes me laugh.
www.hitchensweb.com - insulting and rude, still he always makes a good point!
www.thesciencenetwork.org [...]
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Ok first listen to this guy about how the Koran is wrong and that the bible is a more dependable source for historical accuracy. There are a few interesting things that I will highlight from what he is saying and then we can discuss why he is wrong, I will put his statements in blue [...]
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Posted in Religion, tagged Religion, christianity, god, Ted, church, Karen armstrong, compassionate, Golden rule, divine, conflict, fundamentalists, extremists, charter for compassion, crazy, passion, compassion, anti-Islamic, Catholic, violent, faith on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Karen Armstrong discusses in her Ted presentation the three Abrahamic religions, she is a well educated woman and although she is referring mostly to fundamental extremists I can’t help but apply it to the whole which means that I only agree in part with Armstrong’s points. She comments that compassion is the golden rule of [...]
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Something I have always wondered about is why believe in God? Part of the story I thought was that fear held religion together, creating something of an understanding in people’s life which in turn made the unexplained events into an explainable thing. Still this is not the case; people are just not pushed into religion [...]
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Donnelly is a statistician, please keep reading it’s more interesting than it sounds, in his talk discussing errors that people use when they apply statistics it shows a real example of rational understanding. He goes onto talk about disease tests being right 99%, why this does not mean the chance of the test being right [...]
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Posted in Religion, tagged bible, biblical, Catholic, catholic church, Drugs, islam, Jew, Jewish, Muslim, Religion, stories, story on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
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Ok lets have it out, I don’t like the Daily Mail most of the time its these bloody foreigners taking our jobs or something like that, still one article I read was very interesting. And no I did not buy the paper, I just read it and put it back on the shelf and yes, [...]
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Posted in Religion, Science, tagged argument, Catholic, catholic church, fundatmental, islam, Jew, Jewish, Logic, methods, Muslim, reasoning, Religion, rules, Science on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
*Picture take from CartoonStock.com
Fundamental scientists or to change the meaning to the thing I was trying to say - the fundamental rules that knowledge collection must follow in order to be considered to be science. Plus for contrast I thought I would put in the Fundamental rules that religion seems to follow, of course this [...]
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