Church tax exemption has been criticized by several atheist and anti-theist groups as being unfair and have called for the government to tax religious places of worship. These groups often lack understanding of the grand scheme of the global economy. Churches currently do not pay 83.5 billion a year according to some figures. Which is about the same amount of money as food stamps. People are quick to jump to say this is a huge amount of money, when again it isn’t.
Let’s do the math. There are about 450,000 churches in the united states give...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014
Science: Quantum Mechanics; Double Slit Experiment
Quantum physics is a newborn science that is rapidly growing in popularity. In it’s basic essence, Quantum physics attempt to explain phenomena that are not well understood. It has yielded some mind-boggling results. One prime example of these results would be the double slit experiment. Below is a video that will explain what the double slit experiment is in the simplest way.
So let’s recap some of the information that we've learned from watching the video. We have learned that light and possibly any other matter can move as both a particle...
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Philosophy: The Socratic Method
Origin
Socrates is a legendary philosopher born during the Ancient Greek’s golden era over 2 millennia ago. He is regarded as one of the most intellectual philosophers in recorded history. The strange thing about this wiseman is that he never wrote any of his actual thoughts down. All that we know about him and his beliefs were inscribed by his disciples. The most notable one being Plato. Socrates was known for his advanced critical thinking skills and often used several method to find such truth. One his wisest methods of obtaining truth values...
Monday, September 1, 2014
The Wondrous Tree of Life
The concept of the tree of life is one that is present in biology, most forms of religion, and even philosophy. It symbolizes interconnection and in evolutionary context; common descent. It is truly amazing how several bodies of knowledge can come up with the same concept even through separation. It does give a lot of credence to the concept itself.
Biology
The tree of life in modern biology is known as the phylogenetic tree. It is used metaphorically...
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Politics: Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action continues to be a large topic of debate. There have been several court debates on whether it is even constitutional. For those of you who don't know what affirmative action is I have provided an operational definition below
Affirmative Action is the practice of improving the educational and job opportunities of certain groups of people because these groups have faced socio-historical discrimination.
In countries like the U.K. it is known as 'positive discrimination', and is generally used in a positive connotation. In...
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Philosophy: Uncaused Cause/Cosmological argument
One of Thomas Aquinas' five ways. The argument is officially known as the cosmological argument; However in Ancient Greece both Plato and Aristotle were the first to posit them as the Uncaused Cause argument. Like its name, they determined that the universe was created by an "uncaused cause" or "immovable mover." This argument has been subject to debate for centuries by philosophers and even non-philosophers. Perhaps it is the power of this argument which attracts so much attention.
Basic premises
Premise 1 - Everything that exists has a preceding...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
What is Science?
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When we hear the word science, we think of those who are in their laboratories discovering the cure for cancer, or trying to build flying cars. While both of these assumptions are correct, science is much much more than that. Science is a large body of knowledge that observes the natural phenomena of the universe and organizes it into explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science has large ties with philosophy...
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