It seems that traditional cultures have their "eternal verities" - things that seem to be immutably true about fundamental aspects of the human condition. I put the words "eternal verities" in scare quotes because some of these things may not be verities at all, and certainly not eternal ones. And they won't be ...

(Crossposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.)  Now <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org:80/pub_releases/2008-02/uow-rca021108.php">this story </a>is really weird. Apparently, most Americans reject the morality of nanotechnology on religious grounds. At least that's the inference drawn by Dietram Scheufele, a ...