Brady Phelps
2009 Year of Science to bring science out of today’s disdain
I can imagine a calendar in some physicist’s office that might say, “On this date in history, the Big Bang happened a long, long, long time ago ?” In terms of more “recent” events, Galileo changed the world in 1609 ? For the better. In 1859, Darwin changed the world again ? And again for the better.
Exposure to single view can lead to blind society
Take a kitten and arrange its environment so it only sees vertical (or horizontal) stripes for the first few months of its life. It has access to its mother, and food, even its siblings, but only with those available in pitch blackness. It will just have a restricted visual experience of only seeing vertical stripes.
Religious hatemongers unworthy of heavenly rewards they preach
It’s pretty hard for many of us to buy the idea of a god or a heaven … A benevolent loving father figure who will make it all work out right in a place where we will get our just reward … if we earn it by being “good.” Harder still is the concept of the ultimate boogey man, THE DEVIL (!) and the worst fate possible, being in hell with all the other bad people and THE DEVIL! Life and reality just aren’t so perfect or black and white.
South Dakota Brights unite
What do you call someone who is not religious? Is there a need for a new name for such people? And should not politicians acknowledge them?
Exposing pious frauds and lies
As a result of my last column (“Jesus Christ holds a press conference,” March 11, 2003), I was called a lunatic, damned to hell and accused of having been “blinded by Satan,” among other things. One of the more disturbing things that happened was a visit from a student who presented “facts” to me showing that since evolution had become widely taught in American schools in 1957, teenage pregnancies had skyrocketed and divorce rates had multiplied.
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