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Don't faint. I met some people at this meeting. What did you think, I'd strip half-naked, paint myself blue, and start swinging a broadsword?...
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If theology were a part of reasonably inquiry, there would be no objection to an atheist's being a professor of theology. That a man's being an atheist is an absolute bar to his occupying a chair of theology proves that theology is not an open-minded and reasonable inquiry. Someone may object that a professor should be interested in his subject and an atheist cannot be interested in theology. But a man who maintains that there is no god must think it a sensible and interesting question to ask whether there is a god; and in fact we find that many atheists are interested in theology.
Richard Robinson, "Religion and Reason" Critiques of God (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1997) pp. 117-18.
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October 31, 2009
William Wimsatt—Why Development is Crucial to Cultural Evolution
Category: ChicagoDarwin2009
Man, philosophers sure take a long time to get to the point. OK, his outline: 1) development and differential entrenchment in evolution. 2) application of these principles to culture. 3) what new phenomena this theory can capture. Plunges into "thick,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:59 PM • 175 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hopi Hoekstra—The Causes of Evolutionary Change: What Darwin Did and Didn't Know
Category: Science
Darwin didn't know the basic mechanisms of evolutionary change. Mechanism of inheritance was a black box. Darwin's last publication before his death was "on the dispersal of bivalves". Why are freshwater bivalves so homogeneous in morphology? Describes a beetle with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:14 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Michael Ruse—Is Darwinism past its ‘sell by’ date? The challenge of evo-devo
Category: Science
How can I resist an opportunity to see Ruse gibbering on the stage? I'm curious to see whether he annoys or enlightens. It could go either way. He's not going to talk about evo-devo! OK, I'm already annoyed. Criticizes the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Neil Shubin—“Major Transitions” in Evolution: Fossils, Genes, and Embryos
Category: Science
Shubin had a tough act to follow, coming after Kingsley's great talk. I'm sure it will be good, though — last night I got a tour of his lab, saw the original Tiktaalik specimens and some new ones, and some...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:18 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photos from the conference!
Category: Personal
Jerry Coyne has put up a few photos from the conference, including one of me hunched over my teeny-tiny note-taking laptop doing the exciting live-blogging thing. It doesn't look as glamorous as it actually is....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:02 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Kingsley—Fishing for the Secrets of Vertebrate Evolution
Category: Science
This talk should put me back in my comfort zone—developmental biology, evolution, and fish, with the stickleback story, one of the really cool model systems that have emerged to study those subjects. What is the molecular basis of evolutionary change...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:56 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Jablonski—Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology: The Revitalized Parnership
Category: Science
Darwin had problems with the fossil record that he explained as a result of imperfections. Modern paleo has corrected some of that with the discovery of many intermediates. Jablonski is going to talk about the fossil record as a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:52 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I thought it was just razor blades in the apples
Category: Kooks
Kimberly Daniels of the Christian Broadcasting Network has a warning for trick-or-treaters. "[M]ost of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches," Daniels wrote. "I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:17 AM • 105 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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