Archive for August, 2008
Don’t Work on the Wrong Machine
Fred Brooks: Build one to throw away My version: Build every one to throw away. Fred Brooks’ classic The Mythical Man-Month made this observation developing a new piece of software – inevitably, many of the problems that will need to be solved won’t be known until you try to solve them. The first try will [...]
The Tower of Babel Part Two: Science Again!
I was previously discussing a rather simple but unconventional idea: If Christianity has flaws that atheists reject, why not redesign Christianity (or any other religion) to correct for those flaws? The last time we discussed this, the subject was the problem of suffering on earth. This time, we will address the question of science and [...]