Religion and Science and the Space in Between

 With Religion you find a belief and then spend your days exploring and improving your faith in that belief. In Science, you find a belief and then spend your days trying to prove it wrong.

~ Glenn Hefley

Biden Losing His Mind and ... WAIT! There's More!

We are currently inside the grips of a pandemic that has been going on in the U.S. since January of 2020. Right now we are in the Delta phase, and heading toward a yet to be understood Mu phase.  

Yesterday, ~500 people died in the state of Florida. The daily average is 350, a day. Not a week or a month. Every day.  These days most of them are young.

Framed in DEEP.

Really, he's right. We're never going to get this past the political panics and walls in time. You can tweet its Dems or Reps, but that's not helping. Tweet what one side or the other is DOING about it. https://t.co/uPfu9LtgWI

— NeuroRomancer -- Author (@glennhefley) September 7, 2021

Hospital Bed Capacity -- Oklahoma

 Bed Capacity and usage in Oklahoma. Used this to partially verify a claim that gunshot victims were having to wait for attention because of the number of OD case from horse dewormer - a story which broke this morning -- perhaps you saw it. As far as capacity, well.. OK doesn't have many "hospitals" with ICUs.

Infrastructure (Ports and Rail)

And on top of All of THAT... infrastructure. Oh, yeah, we need that... This is the current view around the Port of Los Angeles. Most of the problem is that these ships ... these cargo ships are now twice the size they were 20 years ago. We haven't upgraded for 70 years, so these ships don't fit like they should. And once we unload them, we don't have the trains to take the cargo out of the docks -- or trucks. Some of these cargo ships have been floating out there for more than 3 months.

Science and Belief

 All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

~ Albert Einstein

This has always been a puzzle to me. The demand for separation between the spiritual grasp of the infinite and the physical exploration through the tools of science.

At the present time, we literally know 0% of the universe and understand far less. Yet we will jump like a frog from a skillet and into war when these two appear to conflict, which -- if our understanding of the infinite is near enough to the mark to be useful at all --- is an impossibility of such magnitude, we're not even close enough in our error to be wrong.

Those who do not feel that religion and science are compatible and in fact required by each other to exist, simply don't understand either well enough to argue the point.