What science is and what it was are very different. What started out as a study of God’s world and a attempt to understand its beauty and complexity was turned into a system bent on pushing all mention of God aside and instead raising nature itself to the position of the creator of all. The study of nature was turned on its head and so was logic and common sense. All the fantastic engineering accomplishments that are declared in living…
One of my most memorable courses I took as an undergrad was, “Developmental Biology of Plants and Animals”. You can discuss the amazing complexity of living things, but when you study how these “living things” go from being a pair of cells to a complete horse, or turtle, or fish, or even a human being you see an orchestrated process that is just as marvelous as the final individual. Those two original cell have to produce all kinds of different…
What is, “wishful thinking”? A common theme in TV shows and movies is the idea that, “if you believe in yourself or something you want to happen” hard enough, long enough and work at it with enough effort that thing will become reality. You hear very little about those that fail in such an effort and there are plenty that face that. “Oh, just believe in yourself and you will succeed!” This is a popular form of, “wishful thinking”. It’s…
How much faith should we have in “science”? Faith is where you place your confidence, your hopes, you view of reality and so on… If our faith is in something other then reality, it will fail. Reality is a win, win for us all if we can see it.