1. The business of natural selection

Comment #144327 by Terminally Nerdy on March 15, 2008 at 3:52 pm

yay pyschohistory, steve! Lets have telepaths and robots, too, taiwan!

2. Selling science to the masses

Comment #144318 by Terminally Nerdy on March 15, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Hey guys, we have to realize that even crappy 'sciency' docs are still being watched chiefly by the better informed. I think the framing idea isn't the whole answer, but a good start. Anything and everything we can do to break the wall that the scientifically illiterate build around themselves is a good thing. It doesn't matter how cogent your point is if the recipient shuts down because it sounds like what they think they don't want to hear.

3. The atheist delusion

Comment #144109 by Terminally Nerdy on March 15, 2008 at 5:35 am

Someone please help me point out the fallacy of the 'science as an excuse for abuses' statement. Yes, we're all aware of what deluded minds can do with superficial notions of science, it's terrible. CLEARLY, though, science provides far more benefits that harms, not to mention its based in empirical facts. It can be vetted and verified in a way that is fundamentally impossible for religion. The comforts or benefits of religion, however, are such that can be more than adequately substituted by science. Except that you gotta think about them to benefit by them. The required thinking gets us atheists every time. Some people just aren't willing to make the effort.