Category: Culture
New Jersey’s Suicide Confusion
With COVID-19, New Jersey officials are worried about a spike in suicide caused by the shutdown.
Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong
Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology.
Marks, Bringsjord: Confound Your Atheist Friends with Gödel’s “God Theorem”
You didn’t know that Gödel was a theist and that a proof of God’s existence was discovered among his papers when he died? Well here it is.
Darwinism, Totalitarianism, and the Lockdown
Hannah Arendt was the leading philosopher of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She explicitly links totalitarian ideology to Darwinism.
From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths
Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion.