Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Lord May: Environmentalism and Religious Authoritarianism
Posted at 12:49 pm | Filed Under Religion, Viewpoint, climate science, environmentalism
Strangely enough the climate alarmist blogosphere hasn’t mentioned the latest statements of Lord May, former President of the Royal Society and self-appointed scold of Exxon Mobil.
It seems that the noble Lord has taken it upon himself to reveal his real motivations for his concern for the environment and they have nothing to do with the [...]
2012: Why are we so afraid of the future?
Posted at 2:07 pm | Filed Under Michael Crichton, Skepticism, Viewpoint, environmentalism
It’s a truism that films about the future are more about people’s current attitudes and fears projected into the future than real predictions.
And the next, greatest disaster movie 2012 by Roland Emmerich is no exception. It’s really the message of extreme environmentalism that we humans are sinning against nature and Mother Earth and one day [...]
It’s the end of the world as we know it…
Posted at 4:21 am | Filed Under Religion, Skepticism, environmentalism
My wife found this, but it’s probably the tip of a (rapidly melting) iceberg:
Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. 9They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these [...]
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 [...]