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Lawrence Krauss makes an interesting point during this video about how we construct the reality around us. Consider the epistemological advantages of finding ideas and theories that fit the reality of the situation, as opposed to trying to shoehorn reality into our limited perception. Having all the answers is a dangerous condition because your actions, most likely, are not based on the truth but rather dogmatic belief. Religion makes life a little to easy, a little too cut and dried and honestly, a little too intellectually stultifying for my tastes.
The good cardinal is out gunned, out classed and out argued on this episode of Q&A. He ends up calling Jesus and ignorant sheep-herder. A great debate, well worth your time.
Skepticon has proven to be a most valuable source of rational thought and interesting fodder for the Sunday disservice. In this episode, PZ Myers takes one creationist talking point and knocks it down, utterly and completely. Plus a small primer on molecular biology, all in under 50 minutes. Enjoy.
It is always funny to watch people try to argue against evolution without actually knowing what evolution is. Constructing straw men to beat down, making appeals to ignorance and arguments from incredulity seem to be the game plan for most arguments of the religious against well established scientific fact. The Living Dinosaur makes a great video rebutting a creationist claim that complex biochemical pathways could not have possibly evolved over time. Making such a claim requires a fairly good understanding of biology and evolution, do you think the creationists did their homework so as to make a defensible legitimate claim? Watch LD and find out.
When the religious compare their dogma of choice to science it is almost always a grand misrepresentation of what science actually is. One can break it down for them categorically for instance:
religion – requires a belief in magic and the supernatural
science – requires a dedication to finding the evidence and testable facts about our existence.
As a person who is solidly in the second camp let me assure you, I have no need to “believe” in science. One cannot believe in science as one does religion, it is a false equivocation from the outset. My belief in gravity has no effect on whether gravity applies to me or not, and as hard as I might pray to the gravity gods, I will still be attracted toward the center of the Earth(this works for religious prayer to as well in terms of efficacy).
But what would happen if science was actually a religion. Dr.Dawkins investigates this premise in this video
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