Drawing by 7-Year-Old Madeleine Schimming, Charleston
Posted: June 21, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Religion | Tags: Angels, Charleston, Church Massacre, Crayon, Darwing, Faith, Illustration, Madeleine Schimming, South Carolina, Twitter 1 Comment
Christopher Hitchens: Gods and Chimpanzees
Posted: February 7, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Religion, Think Tank | Tags: Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Faith, Humanity+ 1 CommentScientists: White House Climate Report ‘Pseudoscience’ to ‘Provide Cover’
Posted: May 6, 2014 Filed under: Global, Politics, Science & Technology, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Cato Institute, Celsius, climate change religion, Climate sensitivity, Faith, Global warming, Knappenberger, Mass Delusion, NCA, Patrick Michaels, Pseudoscience, United Nations 2 Comments“History tells us that when scientists willingly endorse sweeping governmental agendas fueled by dodgy science, bad things soon happen.”
— Michaels and Knappenberger of the Cato Institute in their comments submitted to the Obama administration
For The Daily Caller, Michael Bastasch writes:

Religious ritual: Natives worshipping the god of climate change
Climate scientists have said the White House’s National Climate Assessment (NCA) resembles pseudoscience more than actual science.
The National Climate Data Center released its third NCA on Tuesday, which warns of an ever-worsening environment and extreme temperature rises due to man-made carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. But it has been panned in some quarters.
“This National Assessment is much closer to pseudoscience than it is to science,” wrote scientists Patrick Michaels and Paul Knappenberger of the libertarian Cato Institute in their comments submitted to the Obama administration.
“It clearly believes that virtually everything in our society is tremendously dependent on the surface temperature, and, because of that, we are headed towards certain and inescapable destruction, unless we take its advice and decarbonize our economy, pronto,” Michaels and Knappenberger added… Read the rest of this entry »
Reason and Faith: Is Evil Irrational?
Posted: October 29, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Think Tank | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Aristotle, Christian, Dennis Prager, Faith, Faith and rationality, God, Good and evil, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Philosophy, Pol Pot 2 CommentsFrom The Greenroom, Ed Morrissey finds Dennis Prager challenging a centuries-old narrative about history’s worst despots.
Reason and faith go hand in hand in the pursuit of truth, but it’s the belief systems employed that serves as that pursuit’s moral grounding.