I’m continually amazed by the lengths people will go to in trying to create a rational structure for irrational beliefs. As an engineer, I’m embarrassed when I find other engineers doing it. I guess that I should remember that engineers are just people, too, but it’s tough sometimes. The situation that brought this to mind [...]
“‘Cause we have short memories, we forget it all so quickly, We have short memories, now it’s gone. We have short memories, it disappears just like quicksilver, We have short memories, now it’s gone.” Graham Parker Parker wrote the song above as a bitter commentary on the Vietnam war, but it serves as an accurate [...]
It’s been interesting to follow the posts and comments on the Huffington Post’s Religion section recently. They’ve added a subject area of Science and Religion, as well as posts from a wide variety of religious traditions. One things that I find interesting is that this Religion section has attracted a large number of atheist trolls, [...]
I was inspired to write this article by an exchange of comments on a science blog that I got involved with a while back. It reminded me of how similar people are regardless of their education and point of view, and how fundamentalist behavior can be found just about anywhere. The discussion was started by [...]