Archive for April, 2011

When Things Don’t Go As Expected

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14 years
by in Testing Faith

Believers often ignore science, by stating that it is fallible and has changed. They state that you cannot trust science because it may change what is thought to be true, where as the word of God is infallible. Getting things wrong is actually a good thing and is not a reason to disregard science entirely. […]

How Did the People I Knew 20 to 30 Years Ago Become So Conservative?

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14 years
by in Me 5.x, Musings

In the last six months, I have reacquainted myself with people who I knew twenty to thirty years ago and almost all of them are very conservative in politics and thought (whereas, if you haven’t read any of my blogs, I am a very rational liberal, who thrives on scientific knowledge and equality for all […]

Better Than Therapy

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14 years
by in Me 5.x

In a previous entry, I wrote about my social anxiety and about seeing a psychiatrist. The only solutions the psychiatrist could offer me were the following: meditation, pills, and tell him my troubles on a regular basis. Although it felt good to have someone listen to my problems, I can’t imagine it being healthy to […]

Rational Thinking is Not Anti-Belief

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14 years
by in Testing Faith, Virtual Societies

When discussing the facts of science and spiritual beliefs, some interpret my advising them of the facts as an attack on their belief in God. I do no such thing. God can exist within the scientific world (no matter how unlikely that may be) and scientists, such as Kenneth Miller, have written on the subject. […]

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