Category Archives: Science and Reason

There’s a long tradition of religious people calling on various thinking systems to help them make sense of life.  Religion, in my opinion, is at its best when it is helping us make meaning of our lives, and that is … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed through self-observation that there is a difference between what I think and feel about an event and what I think and feel about that same event once I am actually experiencing it or after I have experienced it. … Continue reading →

So much of what we think of as “reason” revolves around language.  Reason requires thoughts, and thoughts require words, and the words we use immediately fall before the court of public opinion.  Therefore, as we attempt to exercise reason, to … Continue reading →

Why do you believe?  Why do you believe something? Belief shows up in our language in more ways than perhaps we are aware.  We believe someone is in their office.  We believe that the weather today is going to be … Continue reading →

No experimentation, no evolution.   Grant Boulanger, 2016 Minnesota Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Grant is a friend and colleague of mine, and he issued these brief but poignant words in an ongoing conversation among teachers of second languages. … Continue reading →

. . . hypotheses are not summaries or categories for existing data and observations, but must pass the test of accounting for new data. If our current hypotheses are able to predict new events, they survive. If they fail, even … Continue reading →