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Christianity has done it's utmost to close the circle and declare even doubt to be a sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature - is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on it's origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
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I'm very fond of Chris Turney's book, Bones, Rocks, and Stars. It's a slender, simple description of the many tools scientists use to figure out how old something is, and when arguing with young earth creationists, it's become the...
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If you've got an hour, this conversation between Carl Zimmer and Paul Ehrlich is well worth listening to. Ehrlich has a somewhat controversial reputation as an ecological Cassandra…but remember, Cassandra was right....
Posted on June 30, 2008 7:44 AM • 83 Comments
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Posted on February 28, 2008 5:33 PM • 90 Comments
This is something that will cause a few heart palpitations at UMM — we've begun this big push towards being a green university, exploring alternative energy and conservation, and we are very proud of our campus wind turbine, with plans...
Posted on February 28, 2008 1:18 PM • 82 Comments
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Posted on December 23, 2007 4:27 PM • 3 Comments
The first part of this video bugged me — it sounded like Pascal's Wager for global warming warriors — but hang in there. He admits that treating the alternatives as equal in probability is bogus, and what you need to...
Posted on December 17, 2007 4:19 PM • 36 Comments
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Posted on December 13, 2007 10:07 AM • 12 Comments
IRONY OVERLOAD! The pope opened his mouth again....
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Posted on December 13, 2007 8:11 AM • 58 Comments
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Posted on November 20, 2007 9:53 AM • 82 Comments
After urging you all to do something to save the Tasmanian devil, I discover now that Tara wrote about DFTD last month. I guess I have to work harder to keep up with all these science bloggers....
Posted on November 18, 2007 11:34 AM • 9 Comments
Kentucky, you're on notice. The chairman of the joint Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee is holding hearings to promote ignorance and denialism. This is appalling. Chairman Jim Gooch, D-Providence, a longtime ally of the coal industry, said he purposefully did...
Posted on November 17, 2007 4:01 PM • 36 Comments
If you've been wondering what to do in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr, the people to watch Chris and Sheril and influential blogger Greg Laden. Some specific information is available here and here, but I'm sure more will be...
Posted on November 17, 2007 10:38 AM • 2 Comments
We had a seminar from Marco Restani of St Cloud State University yesterday — he's a wildlife biologist who talked about Tasmanian Devils. Just a little tip: don't ever invite wildlife biologists or conservation ecologists to give talks. They...
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Posted on November 16, 2007 12:44 PM • 72 Comments
Sidr is currently officially a Category 5 cyclone, and is about to make landfall in Bangladesh…and has also finally made the top news story at CNN. You can get more timely info from a Bangladesh blog and the Bangladesh online...
Posted on November 15, 2007 10:26 AM • 22 Comments
Try checking the major American news sites: CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the New York Times, you can even try the BBC. There's a major news story missing. You'll have to read Chris Mooney's blog to find it. There's a potential Category...
Posted on November 14, 2007 6:50 PM • 52 Comments
