This is related to my last post, where I mentioned that Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris were criticized for their extreme views of religion. Dawkins defends his position in an article published online at beliefnet, Why I Am Hostile Toward Religion. In the article, he aims to explain why he is not the mirror-opposite of […]
Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are back in the news again. At a recent forum in La Jolla, California, attended primarily by agnostics and atheists (several Christian invitees declined to attend), both men were, at one point, labeled by one fellow non-believer as “remarkably apt mirror images of the extremists on the other side…”.
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It’s not unusual in SF books, movies and games to see scientists experimenting with devices that open up doors to things mankind had never imagined. Before the Code, Dan Brown wrote Angels & Demons. The plot in that book involved a far out experiement by a scientist at the real-life CERN labs, the product of […]
There is so much cool stuff being researched these days that the cool factor bar is being raised higher and higher. What used to be astounding science fiction is now run of the mill. Yet, some things still jump out and make you exlaim, “Cool!”. I just did that when I read about the possibility […]
Researchers at the University of Rochester have done something I can’t quite wrap my head around - they’ve made light travel backward. While I’m still trying to grok the explanation, see how well you can grasp it.