I was debating the politics of global warming with an old friend recently. He claimed that it was our moral responsibility to enact legislation that forced people into eco-friendly behavior. Not allowing people to drive SUVs being what he specifically mentioned. Now, I was somewhat offended to find out that the reason I drive an [...]
(excerpt from GWYD section 8.1): If you believe that any of the technologies we have talked about are possible (and there certainly are some good reasons to think so), then it would seem that we can look forward to a very interesting future. It may be that we are destined to be a race of [...]
The best real argument for anthropogenic global warming appears to me (and I don’t think I am constructing a straw man here, but feel free to correct me if I am – or if I am missing anything) to be: 1. There is a historical correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperature. This correlation is probably [...]
Recently, I have been thinking about the things that give people faith in science. As a mental exercise I have created some scenarios concerning scientific claims that shed light on when I will or will not believe alarming claims by scientists. In each case, if the given scenario represented reality, I am sure that some [...]
From the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm “Last month, Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years.Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is [...]
Email From: John Senner > > Thank you for publishing ‘God Wants You Dead‘, it was a very very > insightful read. I have only one issue to take up with you; you > advocate correcting others when they reject or accept an ideology, > when ignoring one or more of its parts, but pages [...]
In the book, “God Wants You Dead,” Paul and I talk about the nature of various religious and political philosophies and conclude that they are all examples of the same sort of ideological beast. Our “proof” for this comes from the ways that such entities compete with each other to occupy the same niches in [...]
One of the interesting problems with a new religion like Environmentalism is that it is not yet generally recognized as a religion. This means that some people will not realize that they have to abandon their old religion in order to practice this new one fully. Every collective idea-organism has its traditions that are practiced [...]
I tend to look at the world of ideas a little differently than most people do. I see the ideas that cause people to take group actions (religions, governments, corporations, racial identities, and the like) as closely related ideological organisms. I view them as the equivalent of multicellular lifeforms in idea space, constantly competing with [...]
Pope Benedict XVI released his second encyclical letter today, entitled “Spe Salvi” – or “Hope Saves”. This is basically an open letter from the Pope to all Catholics. However, it is not an Ex Cathedra communication, so the views expressed in it are the Pope’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of [...]
