Christianity

Engineers, Religion, and the Fox Mulder Syndrome

by Wes

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 [...]

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Short Memories: Northern Ireland and the Mosque

by Wes

“‘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 [...]

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Consciousness and World View

by Wes

I’ve been reading a book from the Institute of Noetic Sciences – IONS – titled “Living Deeply.” It’s a study of the process of transformation in people’s lives, the kind of transformation that is life changing because it changes our consciousness, or our world view. The authors define consciousness as how we perceive the world, [...]

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Science and Fundamentalism

by Wes

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 [...]

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