Religion for Scientists

These Hubble photos from HubbleSite sum it all up. Studying nature with rigor is a high spiritual calling.  In my mind, honoring the scientific method is a much higher calling than cherry-picking vague passages from old books of questionable origin. 

The following photo is of the Crab Nebula, taken by the Hubble telescope.

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Go to HubbleSite for a high-res version of this Hubble photo and more than 1,000 others. 

From Wikipedia, we learn that the Crab Nebula was first observed in 1731 by John Bevis, and corresponds to a bright supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. Located at a distance of about 6,300 light years (2 kpc) from Earth, the nebula has a diameter of 11 ly (3.4 pc) and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second.

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Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of bhujjy
    bhujjy

    Thanks for the link. It is good.

    Speaking of the religion of science, you You might like a link called "Driven mad by paradoxes." on Clifford Pickover's site. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realit

    on cherries: pick the ones you like. We're here for a good time, not a long time.

    🙂

  2. Avatar of Skblllzzzz
    Skblllzzzz

    And there is some amazing footage available of the centre of the nebula, where the pulsar sits.

  3. Avatar of bhujjy
    bhujjy

    Touché! lol

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