I have always been fascinated by science. Earth Science is what it was called when I attended college, along with Biology and Chemistry. But I think the author, Ron Patton, hits a nail on the head here. Science and being a scientist meant to always be exploring and testing, it meant one must have critical thinking skills. A skill that was defined by logic.
But, science does not always seem logical as we watch 'spooking things' happen at a distance. Science calls things laws of science, laws of light, laws of physics, water, gravity, etc. They are laws...until they are not.
Science for me affirmed my belief in God, it affirmed it. You see there is a little law in science that everything is bound to destruction/disorganization. But, life is organized when it is created. The answer to that is God.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
Yet HONEST science if allowed to be shared would prove the dishonest science as nothing but a con job.
The author makes some astute points. But by conflating the Inquisition/Crusades with Christianity and by adducing the death penalty for picking up sticks on the Sabbath, he places himself squarely among a lot of pretty aggressive atheists.
So I prefer to seek analysis of the times elsewhere.
By whores, I refer of course to both to the rich and powerful attendees and to the hookers who flock to Davos to service them. None of them deserve respect, except for the hookers, perhaps, as mostly honest tradespeople in a dishonorable line of work. Otherwise, just how are rich and powerful people who take Al Gore and Greta Thunberg seriously to be taken seriously?
As for the unsettling predictions about the future that offer daytime distractions at Davos from the abundance of high grade hookers, I have lived long enough to see numerous predictions of doom evaporate. When I was young, the world seemed destined to go Communist or suffer a catastrophic nuclear war. Then we were said to be doomed by over-population and resource exhaustion. Then it was a devastating energy shortfall that we were warned was coming. Yet we escaped those perils and more -- and always seem to. So it will be with today's alarms about transhumanism and globalism.
Why? Mankind is always in trouble because of our flaws and the difficulties of life, yet we always escape because of our survival instinct and because we flee from bad things. Humanity endures, as does faith because of our recognition that we are more than simple material creatures. Nowadays, even science recognizes that, with physics proving that consciousness is inextricable from material existence.
Tjere has been a recent circulation of the H.G.Wells story,, “Things To Come”. It begins portraying a post’world’war era with warlords among the rubble.
Then, a group of world scientists devise methods to eradicate those warlords, “to usher in a world of peace,”
sound familiar?
And kooks. Don't forget about the total whackjobs.
“…brought together by an ‘extra-terrestrial’ force to save the planet.”
Having an impossibility as your imperative is pointless and, so, is stupid. This ball of dust and everyone on it are doomed. If Nature cracks her whip tomorrow say bye bye.
These select people need to be dealt with. They’re trouble.
Endgame: will enough Democratic senators act like they will convict under an impeachment that Biden resigns to avoid the disgrace.
its about separating humans from any possible relation to the infinite.
confining humans to the finite is their intent for absolute control of humanity
Yes. Delete ALL official government science “authority” positions - 100%.
They are the starkest examples of the fantasy of the Left/Progressive “administrative state” - rule by “experts.
Fantasy? Yes. It is a fantasy to make believe that merely by obtaining a position of an official government expert that such a person is magically endowed with such a superior intelligence and professional expertise as to exceed any possible outside opinion or group of opinions. Such a fantasy is neither rational nor logical.
So why do the Leftist/Progressives cling to and support the adminstrative state? Precisely because it is authoritarian by nature, and not democratic, preferring the democratic process only for the creation of the “expert” positions, after which democracy (elected officials) should not intrude on or dispute their work.
If government should have any approach to the use of expert opinions it is only to, on each and every seperate occasion, bring in multiple and different outside opinions, and review and consider them all, and then with humulity make policies that admit they are not and cannot be perfect and are subject to change as new data and new analsysis suggests.