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 Religion Without Lies: Why We have Free Will The Final Great Awakening of the human race, wherein we throw off the yoke of evolution by natural selection and embrace intelligent design of our morals to create a world of abundance. The Future. And Welcome To it!  It's up to you. You have Free Will. (You know you do.) Just as Rene Descartes could not doubt that he existed, "I think therefore I am"; you cannot doubt that you are and that you have that choice of doubting. You can doubt yourself and you can doubt that you have Free Will, but the act itself shows that you are and that you have Free Will. You are not a zombie. You are not a puppet. You are a sentient human being that can read and write and reason. You are a miracle of evolution about to take control of your own destiny. As it ever was, it will be. Consciousness is the original secular sin: awareness creates responsibility. To argue that there is no Free Will is arguing that evolution doesn't exist. And we k...

  What is Corruption?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. It’s essentially the protection racket: unless you pay me, you will be threatened and you will not get what you want; even though they are legally required to provide aservice. Corruption: why is this a secular (real) sin? It causes individual and societal harm causing everyone to be poorer and bullies to be crueler. Because it breaks the golden rule of ethical requirements.  Kant : Categorical Imperative. The same rule must apply to everyone. Copernicus : Anthropomorphic principle. You are not the center of world,  Dawkins : Intelligent Design: Morals must be supported with reason. Dennet : The basis of morals come from evolution, but they are not constrained by it. Ethics must be universal : All men are created equal in the eyes of the law (the state must not play favorites...

If evolution can create it, so can man. There is and will be intelligent design. It's only a matter of time. We are in the midst of the last great battle of reason over evolution -- why is this happening now? Because evolution developed the first great singularity [1] about 300 thousand years ago. And it happened to our ancestors and they learned to talk somehow, really talk. Talking lets you pass information between generations at an exponentially faster speed than evolution does. Evolution is slow. We evolved complex language which let us talk about abstract concepts very quickly, in evolutionary terms. This happened a long time ago in human terms (in the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms.) This ability to know thyself and talk about it is the genesis of the tree of knowledge story. Not only did humans name all the animals, they could now talk about and reason about what an animal would do. [2] Darwinian evolution signed its own death warrant that day. In evolutionary time ...

Growing up in the Milky Way Galaxy (with apologies to Timothy Ferris) Watching the stars was the way Humanity figured out where it was in the cosmos. You can't tell if you don't look Science is an ever growing body of knowledge that continues to expand exponentially. This points to a singularity sometime in the near future. We've built machines that can imitate speech (passing the Turing test[A] soon.) And it all started with a singularity in the past where Humanity learned to speak. When did science start? Did it start in pre-history? Before people could write? Does science include the ability to make stone tools and slowly improve them so they are easier to use and more efficient? Of course. Science is the observation of objective reality and the ability to construct models with reproducible predictions. Take two rocks of a certain type and shape and bang them together this way and you get a hand axe. It’s magic! Not a miracle but real magic. An incantation with the right...