not atheist

I don’t and can’t consider myself an atheist. Part of that comes from my deep disgusm with the rabid and dogmatic campaign against religion that the likes of Dawkins and N are conducting. But that’s just part of it. There are other, more subtle and complicated, or maybe even more important, issues at hand. For, you see, my current position is such that a casual observer would never see the difference between my point of view and atheism.

For lack of a better word, let’s call it ananthropomorfism.

end of science

Do i fear about the future? Yes, of course. But i do not fear what it seems most people are fearing. One of those cases is science. Most people fear that science might pull a Frankenstein, creating monsters by mistake while trying to create beauty. I do think science is on the right track to stop creating monsters and that really worries me!

Sandy and Coughy: a dialogue about Truth

On a particular night, two friends, Coughy and Sandy, were sitting on a beach, listening to some music and seeing people go by. Coughy was passing the sand of the beach through his fingers.

SANDY

The idiots from my university say such stupid things you can’t even imagine. They said there is no truth!

COUGHY

Well, there is no truth.

SANDY

What? You can’t say that! For example: you have sand in your hands. Hold it! Do you not say it is truth?

COUGHY

Actually, I thought it was just sand.

Misunderstood Awards 2008: Darwin

The Misunderstood Awards seek to accolade those champions of the human soul who have, either through hard work or mere brightness, advanced human thought and philosophy beyond the limits in which they lived, just to be held by common sense as having said and argued something completely different from what they believed and proposed.

This year the award goes toooooo:

Charles Robert Darwin

There is no finality in Darwin’s idea of evolution.

Charles Darwin’s impact upon the natural sciences is undeniable, but most allusions to his theories are simply mistaken. They tend to say “evolution” does exactly what he said it didn’t.

The misunderstanding i am talking about might seem too subtle at first. It appears when evolution is said to act directly, as if it had an opinion or a plan.