July 28, 2009
School and Religion
The idea that injecting religion into schools would somehow undermine education, particularly science education, is ludicrous. All we need is to look at a few facts. Take myself for example, I studied in Hong Kong up until the equivalent of the ninth grade.
Hong Kong boasts an education system consistently ranked among the top in science and mathematics [1]. Most schools there are religious, subsidized by the government. Most religious schools are run by either Catholic or Protestant organizations. A few are operated directly by the government [7].
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June 26, 2009
The Religion of Science
It is conventional wisdom among the secular world that people who believe in any religion must possess a considerable amount of “blind” faith, and the only basis for such faith is words of some divinely inspired figure. The truthfulness of this notwithstanding, many who do not believe in religion display precisely this “blind” faith in science. Case in point, most non-scientists who argue in favor of the man-made global warming disaster inevitably cite the “fact” that most creditable scientists believe in such theory. For many, this is their only basis.
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