Ruse: People joined Gaia groups; churches had Gaia services, sometimes with new music written especially for the occasion.
Month: September 2013
Emptying Darwin’s waste basket: Brain errors
This of course has nothing to do with false memory, nor is the caution most people display under the circumstances described in the story an example of error.
Broadcaster tells new atheists: Quit whinging
Enright: Atheists are not being prosecuted or silenced. They are lovingly tended by media interviewers, me included, and their nuanced arguments are politely acknowledged.
Does the mere thought of science trigger morality?
So claims a science journal. This sounds so like a religious group struggling with the wake of a scandal: The people who sin are not applying our belief system correctly.
Alien life found floating 27 km above Chester, England?
Well, maybe. Trouble is, earthly life forms have often surprised, amazed, astonished researchers with hitherto unrealized capabilities.
What’s science and what’s not: ET vs. Bigfoot
There is a fun and revealing book for a cultural historian in how each gets classified as science or non-science .
Endowed Chair at Johns Hopkins named after ID proponent
Philanthropist, world-renowned eye surgeon James Gills co-authored two ID-friendly books Darwin under the microscope and The Mysterious Epigenome and spearheaded an ID-friendly project related to the epigenome. Named after him is the James P. Gills Professorship in Opthalmology at Johns Hopkins University. Here is a nice narrative of Dr. Gills: TARPON SPRINGS – The blue-masked […]
Quit saying you are a Nobel Prize winner if you are not
Why did it take so long to even try to put a stop to this abuse?:
Humans descended from ape-like creatures? A skeptical look at the fossil record
Luskin: In fact, scientists are quite sharply divided over who or what our human ancestors even were.
New at The Best Schools
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Fri Nite Frite: Supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way will erupt again
National Geographic: The question is not if there will be another eruption, but when, scientists say.
Latest consciousness theory: Rocks have minds?
So instead of nothing is mind, the latest proposal is, everything is. Hush, listen when your coffee cup is talking …
Another rabbit jumps the hat: 419 mya JAWED fish
Fish guy, yer gettin’ ta be a rabbit with me.
FYI-FTR: TSZ post, Sept 12, 2013 describes “creationists” — ENEMIES OF HUMANITY
Sometimes, it is necessary to shine a spotlight on behaviour that is beyond the pale of reasonable civil discourse. Especially if, after repeated attempts to call for correction, we see instead the blog owner — here, EL of TSZ — and others insistently pretending that such falls within the circle of reasonable freedom of expression. […]
Commentator Ed Driscoll on Popular Science’s “No Comments” editorial tantrum …
He’s got a point. If they weren’t treating their theories about global warming and evolution as a religion, they’d hardly care so much about the fact that their combox is not a total fan club.