NSS News feedHere’s an interesting video with Christopher Hitchens discussing his book ‘God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything’. It’s about an hour and 10 mins long with the first 25 mins being a defence of the subtitle. Following this there’s an interesting Q&A session. Well worth checking it out.
Not read it myself but after seeing this [...]
From a religious perspective there are two types: Natural Evil and Moral Evil. Natural Evil will be that of earthquakes and tsunamis etc. Moral Evil is of the sort when acting immorally, such as when someone murders another, or acts in an immoral way against a ‘righteous’ viewpoint etc. But the use of the word [...]
Is mathematics purely a human creation, or does it exist independent of us and we have ‘discovered’ it?
From what I’ve briefly read on Russell, Frege and the history of mathematics is that it seems there is no solid ground that mathematics can depend upon without us (humanity) having accepted a long series of axioms that [...]