Explore >> Select a destination
|
You are here 
|
everythingstudies.com | ||
| | | | |
historyforatheists.com
|
|
| | | | | The "Conflict Thesis" forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive idea... Read More Read More | |
| | | | |
www.greaterwrong.com
|
|
| | | | | "If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" -variously attributed "I think of myself as running on hostile hardware." -Justin Corwin Yesterday I talked about how humans may have evolved a structure of political revolution, beginning by believing themselves morally superior to the corrupt current power structure, but ending by being corrupted by power themselves-not by any plan in their own minds, but by the echo of ancestors who did the same and thereby reproduced. | |
| | | | |
deusdiapente.wordpress.com
|
|
| | | | | Looks like someone else has come up with the two very different "systems" of cognition that we wade through every day: Contextualizing and Decoupling. The differing debating norms between scientific vs. political contexts are not just a cultural difference but a psychological and cognitive one. Beneath the culture clash there are even deeper disagreements about... | |
| | | | |
www.fourmilab.ch
|
|
| | | The Analytical Engine | ||
