In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 465 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (2) December 6, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Let's talk about the whole deal, the use of Evangelicals in politics. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The political use of religion. Rosner: There is a better word than "use." The energizing of the base. Jacobsen: The zeal? …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 464 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (1) December 5, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Conceptions of the world apart from factual knowledge. We take the scientific knowledge or a theology from the past, then they are applied to describe the real world in some way, either to …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 463 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (5) December 4, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A functionally unlimited of them, too. It is a "for all intents and purposes" infinite. Rick Rosner: Yes, although, that gets scary. But when you say, "Unlimited," it …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 462 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (4) December 3, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: However, you and I have been talking about IC for years now. IC still proposes a unifying set of principles that account for what goes on; although, those principles …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 461 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (3) December 2, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: In the 160 or so years since Darwin, halfway through it, you have Big Bang theory coming up, which postulates a world without any special agency. Nobody had the …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 27 - Oldie Goodies December 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's your advice for taking advantage of the new early getting old? Rick Rosner: In general, just get current. If you’re under 70 or if you’re 60-70, you should be able to …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 460 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (2) December 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: But I don't think there the level of conflict seen in the past 100 years seen between religion and science. Science wasn't seen or embraced as a program …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 459 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (1) November 30, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: One of the main conflicts over time has been religion and, well, theology which comes from religion and changes in the scientific framework of looking at the …
In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 458 - The Future of Cultures (11) November 29, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If someone feels warm to their Jewish ancestry, they educate their families, get together with their families, have some meals, and feel a connection to their ancestors and those who are alive and present. Some …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 457 - The Future of Cultures (10) November 28, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Based on the interviews, the issue is a religion per se. It is fundamentalist forms of it. The liberal forms are fine. The fundamentalist forms of non-religion can, sometimes, be more dramatic than that. My …
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