Society and Reality

Muslims use the term “the people of the book” to denote people that organize their life around reveled truths, mainly Jews and Christians. For those who stand outside of organized theistic religion and consider themselves spiritual, we might lump all of the theistic religions under the term “the people of the myth”, although holders of […]

From “Realism and Social Science” by Andrew Sayer:
Three definitions of Objective:
Objective (1) -means value-neutral, indifferent or value-free, for example, ‘I personally don’t stand to gain or lose from the situation, so I can perhaps give a more objective account of it.’ Correspondingly, ’subjective (1)’ means value-laden, as in ‘I’ve known her as a friend for […]

At a lunch discussion about theism vs. panentheism, a Christian friend suggested evolution can not explain or demonstrate concretely how non-life crosses over to life, or how an entity with low information can end up with more information. (Although he does admit evolution as a theory can explain it in general terms.)
I suggest the following: […]

In Berlin Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo” played with a scene described by Associated Press as follows:
A powerful male voice called out “stop it!” and “boo!” as the heads of Islam’s founder, along with those of Jesus, Buddha and Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas, came tumbling out of a sack hefted by Idomeneo.
But several voices […]