Posts Tagged ‘Crichton’
The Drake Equation
Posted at 1:12 am | Filed Under Science, Skepticism, Webcomics
The Drake Equation, according to the world’s worst encyclopedia is
… a famous result in the speculative fields of exobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake (now Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1960, in an attempt to estimate the [...]
Mirror images: religion and environmentalism
Posted at 2:20 pm | Filed Under Religion, Skepticism
Just a note on an essay from George Mason University’s History News Network blog, on the symmetry between organized religion and environmentalism (or at least the catastrophic kind getting the headlines at the moment):
Both are highly moralistic and use the language and strategies of “sinfulness.” This also involves an implied and often explicit claim to [...]