Corinne Friesen Blog

Know your chances.

Question everything – including our own basis for questioning and examining everything. What are the assumptions science still makes? How are those assumptions holding us back?

We are social animals. Social animals successfully reproduce not just by spilling their genes all over the place, but by cooperative and well chosen behaviours that help the family group of shared genes survive.

In the beginning, God thought of a joke but had no one to tell it to – or play it on.

Bam! The universe was born!

Here are a few places where we got the joke.

When I raised my boys, I had a few precepts I worked with.  One was that “all feelings are allowed, but you need to learn to chose your actions wisely”.  This worked remarkably in producing two self assured, self aware, responsible young  men.  As I get older, though, I would add to that message.  All [...]

Science will win the hearts and minds of the religious right when it becomes the first side of the debate to show understanding of and respect for the other.

Science is not about ‘truth’.

When night falls in the forest, animals take to their nests.  We imagine them finding refuge in the one cozy spot where they are safe and warm for the night.  We imagine this because this is what we have; this is what society has built for us. What it is to be an animal at [...]

The most effective negotiators in situations of extreme danger or conflict are always those whose experience of their own continuing inner conflicts make them human and humble and who work not to exclude anyone — even those who have continually indulged in acts of brutality and destruction — from the circle of humanity and forgiveness.

Bertie, when you have quite finished telling God what to do…