Last week astrophysicist and science populariser Neil deGrasse Tyson held a speech at Greensboro Coliseum, addressing the current crisis of science illiteracy that we are facing. Here is a summary of that speech: “Americans overall are bad at science. Scared of math. Poor at physics and engineering. Resistant to evolution. This science illiteracy,is a threat […]
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Category: Philosophy
The World From Another Point Of View
This very interesting talk with Dr Richard Feynman takes on the issue of questioning everything. Scientific literacy makes you view the world in a very different way.
Carl Sagan On The Issue Of ‘God’
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying… […]
Atheists to man made Gods, Agnostic to the unknown and undis...
Atheism to man made religions is not something that we can categorize as unprovable. See, we atheists aren’t the ones making outlandish claims about the universe lacking evidence and reason, that belongs to religion. So with all due respect, I disagree with religious people on a lot of things. Agnosticism is truly the more […]
Welcome to Scientific Literacy Matters
So what is this website about? Everything to do with the universe that we encounter. We are here to bring about the beauty in scientific literacy.