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November 30, 2006

Brighter than Isaac Newton?  permlink

Category: Science

In his presentation for Beyond Belief 2006 Neil deGrasse Tyson offered Isaac Newton as his candidate for the most brilliant intellectual ever. Because he is trained as a physicist Tyson can be accused of some bias, but the impact on...

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November 29, 2006

Radical Muslims are similar to moderates  permlink

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Foreign Policy has a interesting selection of charts. They show that "radicals" and "moderates" in the Muslim world are not that different. Below the fold is a chart which offers two facts 1) Radical Muslims are, on average, more educated...

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God or tongue?  permlink

Category: Culture

Over at Michael Brendan Dougherty's place a debate broke out over the relative importance of language vs. religion in the Irish identity. This could perhaps be abstracted and extrapolated to many peoples and nations. In the comments Daniel Larison offered:...

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My "dialect"  permlink

Category: Blog

I grew up in the Northeast (almost New England) and the Pacific Northwest. Here is a map of American English dialects. Via Shaitan. You can take the quiz here....

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November 28, 2006

Neandertal teeth  permlink

Category: Evolution

Science Daily summarizes findings that Neandertal teeth grew at the same rate as modern humans. John Hawks applies the skeptical eye of a scientist. N matters.......

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November 27, 2006

Eugenics, the genetics that dare not speak its name  permlink

Category: Genetics

Orac has a rather thorough post on eugenics, and what Richard Dawkins has recently had to say on it. Here is the dictionary.com definition of eugenics: ...the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the...

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November 26, 2006

Scientism, huh?  permlink

Category: Blog

Update: Chris has a follow up post. Chris leaves nothing unsaid. A sample: In that talk Dawkins sounds, at times, like a 5-year old with the vocabulary and factual knowledge of a world-renowned scientist.... I find it hypocritcal and, as...

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Viva proportional representation!  permlink

Category: Politics

Interesting article which surveys the confusion in Europe right now as countries whose electoral systems are based on proportional representation are seeing a tendency by the populace to vote for parties of the far Right and far Left. This has...

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November 25, 2006

Heritability of religiosity  permlink

Category: Religion

Below I made a reference to the heritability of religiosity. In a chat with Christer Chris that the heritability for religiosity was 0.5, and he was surprised at the result. I decided to double-check, and here is the latest paper:...

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November 24, 2006

Kat  permlink

Category: Blog

Samuel 17:36 - Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God....

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You're either with us, or against us....  permlink

Category: Blog

How has your post-T-day been if you are a citizen of the Greatest Nation in the World?TM Wow, I woke up this morning to a flare up in the Ed vs. PZ battle here on SB and elsewhere. Bora has...

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Friends with unbelievers?  permlink

Category: Religion

Does Islam Forbid Befriending Non-Muslims?. It is obvious that Jews patronize the Jews and Christians patronize the Christians, so why not Muslims patronize Muslims and support their own people. This verse is not telling us to be against Jews or...

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Ass-kicking is stochastic  permlink

Category: History

Via Kambiz I found this post which argues that the high-protein diet of the Mongols was important in allowing them to defeat their enemies, who were relatively nutritionally deficient. Perhaps. But history isn't that simple, after all, if "more meat...

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November 23, 2006

Colored folk - we ain't all the same  permlink

Category: Culture

Shelley Batts has a post, Whites-Only Scholarship as "Reverse Affirmative Action". Shelley sayeth: ...In order to ensure that universities, and students, benefit from a diverse education, often pro-active techniques are utilized to recruit minorities. When the race war comes all...

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Copy number variation in genes  permlink

Category: Genetics

A new paper in Nature, Global variation in copy number in the human genome, suggests that it isn't just SNPs that matter in regards to human variation. Those of you who are "in the know" aren't surprised, so this press...

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The Messiah on In Our Time  permlink

Category: Evolution

The Messiah will be on In Our Time to discuss the evolutionary origins of altruism. They are pretty good about getting the archive up in a day or so. Interesting that they illustrate the idea with Mr. a priori Kant,...

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