Imagination and the Nature of Science
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy, science
Imagination is both a friend and a foe of science. It is a foe in the sense that it tends to be unrealistic, illogical and anti-scientific. It has a tendency to make something appear appealingly true without evidence. Examples of unbridled imaginations are myths, legends, fictions, and fabrications, among others. What science does is to [...]
Tags: myths, religion, science
How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
When we were born, we were automatically trapped within a culture with a certain belief system. This shapes how we understand all things around us. In most cases, it also dictates how we should behave. It pervades our whole personality so much that when it is challenged and we realize that something is wrong about [...]
Tags: agnosticism, Bible, Christianity, deism, God
God May Be Hiding…For a Good Reason
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
If there ever is a God, he is probably hiding himself sufficiently enough so that our innate insatiable curiosity may lead us to investigate how he made the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets and life. The excitement will be ruined if he’d just appear and say, “hey! stop thinking about it, I made everything”. [...]
Thoughts on a Universe from Nothing
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy, science
I completed watching a lecture of Dr. Lawrence Kraus on the topic of the universe coming out of nothing. It is indeed a hallmark of success of modern cosmology that all events can be traced back now, from pieces of evidence, at the beginning of the universe up to time zero. It goes beyond common [...]
Tags: Big Bang, quantum fluctuations, universe
The Paradox of the Human Brain
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy, science
If the human brain is highly evolved and that the survival of our species critically hinges on a sufficient objective understanding of the natural world, then why is it so susceptible to imaginative and inaccurate models of thinking? Think about how some credulous religious fanatics can kill thousands of people for an anticipation of heaven [...]
Tags: evolution, human brain, religion