Our Global Society

Understanding history as accurately as possible is important because a person’s orientation toward the present and the way that they go about life is very much based on their conception of the [...]

In the Twenty First Century, the news media landscape has become overwhelming.  There is 24 hour continuous coverage that often features obsessive real-time analysis of minute details and also [...]

Any legitimate scientific research, whether it is conducted within academia or governmental agencies or private corporations or professional societies, should include certain self-correcting [...]

Science is one of the most dominant forces in our global society, for better or worse.  Steven Goldman gave this assessment of the relation between science and society in his lecture Science [...]

In a previous post, we saw how there are many different ways of categorizing worldviews. In a more recent post, we saw how people with different worldviews often clash with each other, which [...]

We know that there is incredible diversity among the peoples of the world, but there is something that most of us would agree on: that we all have fundamental beliefs about reality and about [...]

Before we can develop any new and innovative means of addressing the greatest challenges in our world, we need to understand a little more about the world.  There are different notions of what [...]

We live in a world with many problems and it is often a violent and dangerous place.  It can be pretty scary out there for a lot of people and it often seems like things are getting worse.  We [...]

We know that in our world there are unnecessary conflicts that are often quite violent and destructive to the lives of innocent men, women, and children.  Our natural environment is being [...]

In the last post, I explained the concept of a worldview. In short, a worldview is consistent and integral sense of existence and provides a framework for generating, sustaining, and applying [...]