On science, religion, and scientism...

+ The science within faith: science and skepticism’s place within religious subcultures, which some (especially fundamentalists) see as corruption.

÷ The faith within science: the faith in retrospective science (especially if time flows both ways), uniformity, the law of averages, and reduction.

× The place for scientists of faith (including fundamentalists and atheists).

= The cases for and against stealing, lying, cheating, killing, torture, rape, terrorism, and warfare (especially as expedients).

> The problems with sampling, rounding, uncertainty, ridiculous inference, cultural biases (like racism), and no randomizing being available.

# Dreading nihilism and absurdity: Looking for a cozy hole in the Void left when God died (see: behaviorism, Holocaust).

$ You are “here" and then “after” that where?

% The perils of omnipotence, omniscience, and one-stop shopping: considering the source of evil and suffering.

◇ Is it science, or is it political philosophy?

● Is it religion, or is it yet more political philosophy?

♧ What about Progress...? Mo’ better blues?

□ Seeking answers...

° Seeking evidence...

~ The biology of hope and despair.

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