Is Lou Dobbs A Freethinker?
In a further sign that the apocalypse is nigh, yesterday night Lou Dobbs interviewed Christopher Hitchens for Hitchens' new book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and, if one were of the mind to read between the lines, can come away with the distinct impression that Dobbs is a bit of a freethinker in matters religious. Dobbs manages to expand on Hitchens' previous Daily Show interview with Jon Stewart and draw Hitchens out on his argument that one of the problems of traditional religious thinking is that it elevates faith above all else, which creates any number of problems of which our current battle with Islamic fundamentalism is only the most painful example of....When China Comes to Iowa
My most recent article for Asia Times, When China Comes to Iowa, on the question of how impactful Chinese FDI will be in the manufacturing intensive heartland of the US, has been published and can be read in detail here.eSkeptic: Science Will Never Explain Everything
Today's eSkeptic newsletter had an interesting essay from Robert Ehlrich on the topic of what science does and does not prove, and why science is a trustworthy means of knowing reality: Ideally, scientists who find a discrepancy between theory and experiment must either admit that the experiment was done incorrectly or consider the theory to have been disproved. In the case of a well-established theory, scientists will do everything in their power to find flaws in the experiment before considering the theory to be invalid. In effect, they must put themselves in the role of an extreme skeptic, which is just the opposite of the special pleader who finds excuses why the experiment and theory fail to agree. To do otherwise ... Next Entries »About MysteriousFaith
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