Tag Archives: science

Enlighten and Open (Your Mind)

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“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna

Who Is More Humble?

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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”  ― Carl Sagan

One Teacher’s Way Of Teaching Evolution

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I found this on this blog and found it quite refreshing: My biology teacher, Mr. G, used to teach at a K – 12 Christian school many years back, and in his biology class, he taught evolution. Naturally, this made many parents of religious families upset, and he expected quite a lot of backlash at […]

Religulous

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After the stirring (and I say that facetiously) debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, my views did not change one iota about anything. Everything that was said has been reverberated a plethora of times, from Internet debates to television debates to general knowledge and common sense. Calling out scientific theories for often being wrong: […]

Quoted Quotables

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“You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.” — Johnny Cash “Some people are stuck with very hostile entities. Many people are stuck with life-denying, […]