Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
ANY Claim Of A Spiritual Entity Is Incoherent
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Spirituality: Does Science Need To Adopt It?
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Free Will: A Definitive Debate
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Meaning And Purpose
Christians uniformly talk about the satisfying spiritual experience of delving deeply into their Bible for truth. Atheists usually are curious about reality and experience the same emotions when they focus deeply on the search for skill and/or knowledge. Click on the link below for one of the better explanations of this human phenomenon:
Friday, December 20, 2019
Who Is Josie Grouse?
- "I’m a Spiritual Educator, Medium, and Angelic Messenger. I am here to bring light and messages from the spirit world. My energy is healing and uplifting to those whose lives I touch."
Monday, July 16, 2018
Why Science CAN Address The Hypothesis Of A Soul
You don’t have a soul: The real science that debunks superstitious charlatans
The following is condensed from a discussion with two scientists and myself. One of the scientists wants to belief that there is a supernatural and tries to support his position by saying that the functions of the mind are immaterial and that “spirit” is supernatural (making a distinction without a difference, a logical fallacy). He offered no evidence for any of this, of course. The lesson? Even some advanced scientists can let their desires overrule science-based thinking. This scientist tried to compare Cyberspace with the mind to make his point. Here are the major points we made:
Cyberspace is made up of transistors and capacitors in computers. Love is a chemical process and chemical processes exert force. Cyberspace is a place of electricity that also exerts force.
Cyberspace exists only because the 0’s and 1’s exist on a hard drive or in RAM somewhere. Cut out those 0’s and 1’s and you are literally cutting out a piece of “cyberspace”. And then, of course, you can put those pieces into a box.
Your mind exists inside the network of your neurons, just like cyberspace exists inside the network of computers. Start cutting out pieces of the brain and putting them in a box (to use your previous analogy) and you will be cutting out pieces of the person’s mind.
Ideas are groupings of neurons that are firing in certain patterns as are behaviors and music is actual sound-waves moving through the air.
The mind isn’t immaterial. it is layers and layers of neural pathways that are processing signals. Stop those signals from processing and the mind goes away.
Information IS the electrons and capacitors. Take away the electrons or the capacitators and the information no longer exists.
Example. Hydrogen is not water. Oxygen is not water. Combine the two in a specific formation and you get water. The same is true of the information in a computer. Combine the hardware with the electricity in a specific configuration and you get information. Take any part of the hardware away, and the information disappears, just as would happen if you took the oxygen away from water.
Computers use 0’s and 1’s to store information. The exact medium changes depending on the storage device. Those 0’s and 1’s when put into the correct pattern ARE THE information. The information is a physical thing made up of 0’s and 1’s put into a specific pattern. Change the pattern and the information is gone.
The internet and love and anger are all material as they all exert force.
Computers don’t have any capacity to access and display immaterial things. Only material things
Monday, August 22, 2016
It's Time To Dump The Term "Spirituality"
Can we please abandon the word “spiritual”?
Friday, July 8, 2016
Blossom Doesn't Get Science
"Bialik is clearly a smart, high-achieving woman, but she’s also an accommodationist (she’s a “neo-Orthodox” Jew). In this short video, she explains how she reconciles her penchant for science with her faith:"
Nobody who really understands science would talk like this.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Spirituality
The Church for People Who are Spiritual but Not Religious.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Critical Thinking And Belief In The Supernatural
Ya, right, not shocking. But the study also showed a correlation between spiritual belief and empathy. The take-away? Science-based thinkers may want to guard against possible de-emphasizing of empathy and make sure the positive aspects of his or her social neurological network are also engaged.
Critical thinking suppressed in brains of people who believe in the supernatural
Friday, April 3, 2015
Deepak, Spirituality And Other Nonsense
"Either you follow logic, reason, and evidence to whatever conclusion it reaches, or you don’t. Faith begins with the conclusion. This is not a false dichotomy but a genuine stark difference in approach."
Deepak can't stop himself.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/there-is-no-problem-with-atheism/
Friday, February 27, 2015
Are There Evil Spirits?
Most atheists I know, including me, totally reject the concept of the spiritual, as modern physics has shown that there is no room for any supernatural entities in our classical, Newtonian reality (see a previous post discussing this). Given this situation with most atheists, and many fundamentalist religious folks thinking us atheists are evil or possessed by evil spirits, why has there not been a documented case of an atheist showing the "signs" of being possessed and then being exorcised of his or her evil spirits? In other words, why is it only "believers" who respond to the rites of exorcism?
Monday, February 23, 2015
Spirtuality Of The Gaps
As Sean Carroll, and other physicists, have stated, there is no room in our classical reality for the supernatural of any sort. Statements to the contrary are '"spirituality' of the Gaps."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/opinion/sunday/the-reality-of-quantum-weirdness.html?_r=0
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
You Don't Have A Soul
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/you_dont_have_a_soul_the_real_science_that_debunks_superstitious_charlatans/
"Nevertheless, while a substantial majority of the American public believes in the soul and its survival after death, mainstream science has abandoned this traditional idea. So here we have two worldviews that could not be more different from one another, and if we really care about being fair and ensuring that different ideas get their share of airtime, I say it’s time to give scientists the microphone."