Author: Rretta

Bad Ideas have Bad Consequences

“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish. The nation is exposed to foreign violence and domestic convulsion. Vicious rulers, chosen by vicious people, turn back the current of corruption to its…

The Battle For Virginia’s Future

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”  Thomas Jefferson Given the dishonesty and lack of moral principles many of our elected and some of the candidates display,  It is clear that…

Surrounded By Toxins

Autism, developmental delays, and chronic illnesses that include allergies and asthma, are at an all-time high affecting 1 in every 6 children across the United States.  Autism alone has increased from 1 child in every 1000 in 1995 to 1…

A Goldilocks Universe

At a 2013 conference in Nice, France, on the question of whether or not the universe was designed or at least “fine-tuned” to make intelligent life, Scientists and Mathematicians from Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley and Columbia, came to a clear or almost…

The Loss of Medical Ethics

“The moral worldview of any scientifically literate person, one who is not blinkered by fundamentalism, requires a radical break from religious concepts of meaning and value….The worldview that guides the moral and spiritual values of an educated person today is…

Technological Singularity

The advent of human technological hybridization is upon us – we have entered the dawn of a new age. Neuralink, an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and others in 2016, is preparing to launch clinical human trials by…

Creepy Patents

Collaborations between the powerful American Silicon Valley Overlords and Chinese overlords of population surveillance and control portend dark omens which should greatly concern us all. Here, as in China and other countries, spy cameras are sprouting up on lampposts and…

Science Is Not Infallible

Having read a 2012 article by Shawn Lawrence Otto of Scientific American, Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy, I felt compelled to add my two cents. According to Otto’s article, America is slipping off its science foundation fostered by the political right.  “…Science…

The False Equation of Atheism

“It is a common myth of our day, not surprisingly propagated by atheists, that religious believers are undereducated folk who have abandoned the use of reason in favor of blind faith.” Thomas D. Williams, LC Richard Lynn, professor of psychology at…

Nothing from Nothing

Science is the process of determining the behavior of matter using observation, testing, and reason. Faith on the other hand is based on that which is unobservable and untestable, any belief beyond the discovery of reason, or as John Locke…

Freedom and Responsibility Go Hand-in-Hand

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”  President Ronald Reagan The left continues its agenda of taking America in a new direction, away from the free association of self-governing individuals envisioned by our founders, toward a…

Embracing Satan

If madness is sanctified through a wave of pop-culture affirmation and nature is chased out with a pitchfork, what real argument does society have to declare anything wrong? Throughout most of Western history both philosophy and religion took for granted…

The Methuselah Star

When you build a scientific philosophy based upon an assumption,  you are bound to get  conclusions that conflict with your supposed truths. When the evidence leads to  a conclusion that does not fit the evolutionary paradigm the only alternative is …

Geoengineering The Earth’s Demise

The controversial subject of geoengineering or weather modification, popularized and oversimplified with the term Chemtrails, is once again stepping from the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny. A Harvard team, led by scientists Frank Keutsch and David Keith,…