Short comment on faith, science and Richard Dawkins

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I’m an evolution fan, although quite convinced of that we don’t yet know how evolution works. It’s such a complex process, and many factors might still be unknown. But the basic idea is convincing to me, and it’s one of my favourite spare time research topics. In that journey I have read some of the work of for example Richard Dawkins, and seen many of the films in which he explains Darwin’s ideas, the theory of evolution, different ideas on altruistic behaviour, etc. He has made so many interesting findings and delivered many fascinating ideas and concepts to the world – like memes (see below). A great mind indeed! Besides, he seems like such a nice person, especially when he holds a lecture for kids.

But even if he seems a really nice person, he can at times come over as a bit too sarcastic and too sure of the truth of his own world view. His atheism is  just as much faith-based as any other faith to me, and his failure to see that (or at least communicate that he realizes that if he does), is sad to see.

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Toronto Hearings and the need of a new commission on 9/11

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When newspapers like Swedish www.DN.se describe people who question the official story of 9/11 as paranoid conspiracy theorists who does not understand what happened on 9/11, and therefore make up stories, one hesitates to go out and say – well, I’m one of those people. What can I say, like so many others I’m just not completely convinced by the official story. But most of all I just do not understand why there should not be a more thorough, official investigation into an event that in so many ways has shaped the last ten years of our history (see quote from Marketwatch here below for some of the points of criticism on the earlier commission).

DN continues with implying that the groups which bring up questions on 9/11 even threatens the general trust in the democratic process, and thus democracy itself. Well, I can agree on that trust is endangered by all twist and turns around this event, but that is not solved by mocking the people who question the official story. I also think that DN and other media outlets which makes similar statements threaten the trust in the democratic process, as well as in the media, with their arrogant attitude in this matter.

I don’t pretend to know what happened on 9/11, but there are a lot of unanswered questions – enough to motivate a second commission on the matter. Continue reading →

The riots, the environment and our responsibility

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In the search for reasons behind the behaviour of the wild rioters in the UK, I’m missing the issue of the vast environmental destruction of our planet, even in articles that contain a deeper social analysis (for more, a Swedish article here, an Austrian article here). Talk about kids feeling that they have no future. Why should they care about the laws of “the grown ups” – about anything – when they are being told that they, or at least their future children, might not have a future at all – not even a shitty one.

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