Dr. Stephen Miles is author of the 2006 book Oath Betrayed. He is an expert on medical ethics during wartime. His book provides a gloss on Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as centers of the torture conducted on prisoners of war or merely persons termed detainees. In the news today is that the U.S. sponsored regime in Afghanistan has been torturing its prisoners and detainees as well.
See this link for more on Dr. Miles and his writings and professional work as a medical ethicist:
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/bioethics/facstaff/miles_s/home.html
Friday, October 14, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Anniversary of Essay "Reflections on the Water"
One year ago, October 1, 2010, I wrote for this blog an essay entitled "Reflections on the Water." In this essay as author of the The Search for Completion, I wanted to assert the primacy of the scientific method which is the basis of knowledge of the physical universe (including negative matter).
Again, I applaud those who rigorously apply principles of research, logical thinking, and honesty about what is real as opposed to imagined. I however know that the truths of the human psyche are also the seeds of what should become of us as a species.
If you should read my blog entries, you shall see that our ways of knowing are also in part felt and intuited. It really matters to me when I say to a student, "But what do you think?" So oddly enough even my scientist friends, at least the creative ones, leap to a useful hypothesis to explain the derivation or behavior of identifiable singularities (i.e. the set of all fish who have lost gills and can be said to have lungs).
Our public policy makers who believe that the Theory of Evolution should not be taught to school children as in conflict with the creation story of the Bible are plainly policy makers, not educators. They would decree reality is a product of officialdom. That's just plain stupidity in high places! How does one reduce a religious explanation of relevance to the human psyche (which is true of the creation story) to a scientific theory. This shows a profound ignorance of the spiritual domain (which domain is definitely not reducible to science or even successfully to be treated as the object of scientific study).
Again, I applaud those who rigorously apply principles of research, logical thinking, and honesty about what is real as opposed to imagined. I however know that the truths of the human psyche are also the seeds of what should become of us as a species.
If you should read my blog entries, you shall see that our ways of knowing are also in part felt and intuited. It really matters to me when I say to a student, "But what do you think?" So oddly enough even my scientist friends, at least the creative ones, leap to a useful hypothesis to explain the derivation or behavior of identifiable singularities (i.e. the set of all fish who have lost gills and can be said to have lungs).
Our public policy makers who believe that the Theory of Evolution should not be taught to school children as in conflict with the creation story of the Bible are plainly policy makers, not educators. They would decree reality is a product of officialdom. That's just plain stupidity in high places! How does one reduce a religious explanation of relevance to the human psyche (which is true of the creation story) to a scientific theory. This shows a profound ignorance of the spiritual domain (which domain is definitely not reducible to science or even successfully to be treated as the object of scientific study).
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