What will you do when the robots take your job? If you reflect on the last 40, and particularly 20 years, you might discover that they already have taken jobs. Whether telephone automation, ATM’s, or express checkouts at the grocery store, technology works faster, more efficiently, and quite simply, better, than humans. Companies know that machines increase profit without the complexities of…
A recent NPR article covered the increasing popularity of a flat-earth cosmology. Several prominent retired, and current professional basketball players, among those, Shaquille O’ Neal, and Kyrie Erving have been vocal advocates of the view. Though not scientists by any stretch, Shaq and Erving’s views have been increasingly persuasive to young fans. The article explains that some middle-schoolers have remained unconvinced by their…
This post is the third of an ongoing series on the Pensees by the 17th-century Apologist Blaise Pascal. In his Pensees, Blaise Pascal pursues his apologetic task in A LETTER TO FURTHER THE SEARCH FOR GOD [Fragment 681] an essay concerned with answering the objection often asserted by skeptics of Christianity, that insufficient evidence exists to believe the faith, namely, direct, universal,…