Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full…
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Young Earth Activists and the Gap Theory
Folks are working very hard to “prove” their “faith” is “scientific.” I had no idea it was such a massive industry. A Facebook comment today on this story, “Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The…
Jay Greene and Roland Fryer–Clearing a Path for “Liberal” Eugenics
First, Jay Greene makes 150k per annum from WalMart graft through his assignment as the Chief for Change in the Educational Propaganda Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; likely he gets “scholarships” and…
Sunday Sermon: Spirituality Replaces the Unknown, like always
Today, as it is Sunday, the newspaper offers content to match the world of religious observance. In “Losing their religion: Young people rejecting organized worship at an unprecedented rate” (pay-wall) we discover several things about…
The Egalitarian Eagerness of Promethean Fire: The One Story
Here’s my take on the how the world unfolds. We are moving toward climate disaster. We are moving toward global cultural “synchronization.” We are moving toward global mercenary militarization. We are moving toward a “burning”…
Facilitating First Impressions: Education and theTechnological Teat
A book will “drop” at the end of the month called “Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World,”. At the link is a brief interview with the author where he makes one point that…
Clinical Trials and the Cultural Mania for Torture
I am against clinical trials. Rather, I am against clinical trials as they are now conceived and implemented. I am against the mass “treatment” of the desperately ill via the marketing of hope (and often…
Robot Ethics: Gesture Without Motion
Robot Ethics? No such thing of course. But, here’s the problem, there are robots, there are drones, there are killing machines and spying machines already in operation everywhere (yes, everywhere), some of which are in…
Better Angels on Black Ships: Is There Evidence of Moral Progress?
Update Below: Pinker in 2000 Steven Pinker, language guru, descendant and somewhat apostate of Chomsky, has written a book about the “progress” of human morality measured via a reduction of wars and war casualties called…
Those Who Push These Plans…In the Name of Security
Conference on Internet Freedom Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Fokker Terminal The Hague, Netherlands December 8, 2011 Excerpts: After all, the right to express one’s views, practice one’s faith, peacefully assemble with others…