Science Cannot Replace the Religious Mind
An implicit and unexamined premise has crept into the minds of thinking people. It is that science is the highest act which human beings are capable. It is not. That isn’t to say the opposite...
View ArticleCountries Are History When Speciation Is Required
In an otherwise confusing and contradictory op-ed in the New York Times, Roy Scranton, a professor of English at Notre Dame, makes a true statement: “The problem of climate change is bigger than the...
View ArticleYoung Costa Ricans Meeting About Climate Change
Young people met at the Local Youth Conference ahead of the organized climate meeting, called PreCOP25, being held today through October 10 at the National Convention Center in Costa Rica. They hope...
View ArticleCarter’s Faith and Obama’s Intellect
Jimmy Carter’s faith is plain for all to see. Barack Obama, as far as I can tell, has no faith except in himself, and misguidedly while president, in the American people and system. Yesterday the...
View ArticlePersistently Asking the Right Questions Ignites Insight
“Manshape, that shone sheer off, disseveral, a star, death blots black out; Nor mark is any of him at all so stark but vastness blurs and time beats level. Away grief’s grasping, joyless days,...
View ArticleCosta Rica Participating in Climate Change Summit
The head of Costa Rica’s Climate Change Directorate, Andrea Meza, sees the COP25 climate summit in a positive way and believes the country has a relevant role in the event. The conference opened on...
View ArticleAn Adequate Response to Climate Change
The half moon is blood red tonight. Wildfires have consumed a million and a half acres in California. Under the smoky skies, ominousness pervades the atmosphere day and night. No scientist has any idea...
View ArticleThe Strangeness and Mystery of Being
Covid has spiked so badly in the USA that we’re receiving emergency warnings on our cell phones not to go out. The necessity of physical isolation makes daily contact with nature all the more...
View ArticleWhen Democracy Becomes Mob Rule
This column by Martin LeFevre was written shortly before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We feel it is fitting to re-run it at this moment. Democracy works, in its imperfectly compromising...
View ArticleCan Humankind Make a Leap In Consciousness
In his book, ”The Neanderthal’s Necklace,” Juan Luis Arsuaga, a paleo-anthropologist and professor at the University of Madrid, provides a cogent discussion of consciousness. Arsuaga poses a...
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