G’DAY WORLD 187 – Mark Pop on Solar Energy

by | Jan 15, 2007 | Australian politics, climate change, energy debate, environment, Podcast

The word of the day is “Enterdrainment“: Any passive form of entertainment that is so incredibly mind numbing that it sucks the intelligence from the listener or viewer; ultimately over time reducing (or limiting) them to a simplistic proto-human mental state, incapable of cognition or rational thought.

Kind of like this show. 🙂

To give you a break from my attacks on religion, my guest tonight is Mark Pop who is a Sydney-based expert in solar energy and climate change. We talk about the economic and political challenges to solar energy as well as discuss the truthiness of climate change.

Some links from the show:

Blacktown to become Australia’s first “Solar City”
Solar power plant being built in Victoria

Get the United Nation’s version of “the facts” about climate change at:
United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change

The CSIRO’s website on climate change

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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.

G’DAY WORLD 186 – Nicaragua vs USA, Libet’s Free Will experiment, and Charles Darwin’s birthday

by | Jan 13, 2007 | Podcast, science

The word of the day is “epiphenomenalism”.

Benjamin Libet did an experiment which suggests that thoughts happen inside our brains BEFORE we are even aware of them:
Wikipedia bio
More on Libet’s experiment.

You don’t believe a country like the USA could be involved in state-sponsored terrorism? The United Nations would disagree. Listen while I tell you about Nicaragua v The USA.

Feb 12 is the birthday of Charles Darwin, one of the greatest minds in human history. Did you know he studied theology?

Now… back onto the subject of faith versus reason. Let me state my premise as clearly as I can, one more time:

To believe something exists (let’s say unicorns) without any evidence to support the theory, is not rational.

To not believe something exists (or to hold no opinion on the matter either way) because there is a complete lack of evidence to support the theory, is completely rational and is not a matter of “faith”. Is it a matter of reason. They are complete opposites.

It’s quite simple.

Oh and one more thing. Science is the on-going pursuit of truth through the search for evidence. It is the only rational model for seeking truth. Every other model dispenses with evidence, reason and logic and are, ipso facto, irrational.

And I vote for logic, reason and evidence. And I also suggest that people who are irrational are a danger to us all. You wouldn’t let an irrational person become President of the United States, would you? Oh… bad example.

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G’DAY WORLD 185 – Church and State, Apple’s Double Standards, and Why Faith Is Inferior to Reason

by | Jan 11, 2007 | Podcast, science vs religion

A little early with the show today.

Here’s what I rant about:

Apple has double standards when it comes to copyrights


The Separation of Church And State

Sargon I of Akkad, the first Empire builder

IODA PROMONET previews not working

I’ve still only had a couple of people sign up for my $50 Amazon voucher promotion. You know, at this stage, it could be REALLY easy to win.

Check out Miriam’s idea. The old reverse psychology trick. Then go and read her post on her background in self-harm.

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