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October 22, 2006
The C.S. Lewis Society is sponsoring the Evidence of Design conference upcoming in Florida (Nov 3rd + 4th) and featuring Walter Bradley, Paul Nelson and Tom Woodward. The goal?
[To] thoroughly equip church members and leaders with generally non-technical, cutting-edge information. It will…
October 22, 2006
I'm no fan of pro football and only really watch the odd Monday night game (while relaxing after work) and the Super Bowl (if family are over). Last Monday I watched the Arizona Cardinals choke big-time against Chicago, the only Cardinals game I've watched in nearly thirteen years of living in…
October 22, 2006
Benedict is at it again:
"Contemporary life gives pride of place to an artificial intelligence ever more enslaved to experimental tecnhiques [sic], thereby forgetting that all science should safeguard mankind and promote his tendency to authentic goodness."
"Letting yourself be seduced by…
October 21, 2006
As some of you may know, in 1650, the Irish archbishop, James Ussher dated the beginning of the universe using the Book of Genesis and calculated the date of creation to be October 22, 4004 BC. That would make the universe 6002 6009 years old today.
October 21, 2006
Over at Fark.com there's an interesting thread asking for answers to the following:
If you could go back in time and tell your 12-year old self one thing, what would it be?
I was twelve in 1980. It seems so long ago ... maybe because it is. I guess I'd go with:
You're not going to be able to…
October 21, 2006
It is Homecoming here in Tempe and ASU (3-3) are playing the only team in the PAC-10 with a worse record than their own - the 0-7 Stanford Cardinal.
This - and the next two ASU games - wont be televised and as I hate listening to football on the radio, I wont have much to say beyond end-of-game…
October 21, 2006
AC Grayling over at The Guardian:
It is time to demand of believers that they take their personal choices and preferences in these non-rational and too often dangerous matters into the private sphere, like their sexual proclivities. Everyone is free to believe what they want, providing they do not…
October 21, 2006
HowManyOfMe.com
There are:2,216people with the name John Lynch in the U.S.A.
How many have your name?
Apparently, there are just shy of 135,000 Lynchs and there are 23 Charles Darwins.
HT to Joseph.
October 21, 2006
Keith says:
We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens "Unlawful Enemy Combatants" and ship them somewhere -- anywhere -- but may now, if he so decides, declare you an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant" and…
October 20, 2006
Sometimes I despair:
[E]ight lifelike lion statues across from what soon will be Arizona's largest cineplex apparently are a bit too lifelike for some tastes.
Guarding the entrances of a children's water fountain park at a high-profile West Valley retail project, the concrete beasts are depicted…
October 20, 2006
From Kevin Tillman, Army Ranger and brother of Pat:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile…
October 20, 2006
the Filter? Media to help you, help others, "get" science. David Ng has more details here.
The site features a pic that I used to gross out humanities students (in the mid-90's):
Ah, good times.
October 20, 2006
Seed asks "What's the best science TV show of all time?" As I grew up in Ireland in the 70's & 80's, my answer obviously features British science shows. Bora has already mentioned Don't Ask Me with the wonderful Magnus Pyke. I'll add "Tomorrow's World" (more of a future tech show) and "Life on…
October 19, 2006
Lizards And Snakes
On the summer road that ran by our front porchLizards and snakes came out to sun.It was hot as a stove out there, enough to scorchA buzzard's foot. Still, it was funTo lie in the dust and spy on them. Near but remote,They snoozed in the carriage ruts, a smileIn the set of the…
October 19, 2006
I had to post this - it's just such a great photo. From here via here.
October 18, 2006
I've been waiting for this for a while. The Darwin Online project is now live and ready for customers - your one-stop-shop for scans and transcriptions of not only Darwin's published works (and reviews thereof) but also his notebooks, lesser known papers, and other materials. Props to the good…
October 16, 2006
It appears that now, even the Joyce scholars think they know biology. From the recent edition of The New York Review:
If we turn now to Darwinian theory itself, which purports to explain these discoveries and which is taught in most schools and colleges in the developed world, we find that it is…
October 15, 2006
From the Telegraph:
The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function. The research, conducted by French scientists, which is published in this month's Neurology journal, involved men and women aged between…
October 15, 2006
Jake, Evil Monkey, and Shelly are at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. Jake has this to say about the state of research:
There are the researchers of breathtaking sophistication who hide tiny details in the fine print of their poster that are more interesting than my entire thesis. But…
October 15, 2006
Yesterday's Miami versus Florida International game "featured" a bench-clearing brawl that should result in more than just a few token one-game suspensions. The NCAA needs to get involved and I agree with Kevin that scholarships should be lost. Miami seem to be a little out of control, what with…
October 14, 2006
Detroit sweeps Oakland 4-0 with a 6-3 comeback today in the Motor City ... as an honorary Michigander by marriage, I approve of this.
October 14, 2006
ASU are playing #3 USC this evening. The game last year was a classic, although ASU lost 38-28 after leading 21-3 at the half. Here is what I wrote last year. I have my doubts that today's game will be quite as close.
Update #1: End of the first half and ASU are down 21-7. Once again, ASU have no…
October 14, 2006
Mike S. Adams writes (and Denyse O'Leary concurs):
In the famous 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial, Clarence Darrow stated: "For God's sake, let the children have their minds kept open - close no doors to their knowledge; shut no door from them. Make a distinction between theology and science. Let them…
October 14, 2006
What is the "one institution free society is dependent upon for its survival"?
Why it is "heterosexual marriage" of course. Or at least says self-proclaimed "muscle head" Kevin McCullough. Free society depends on heterosexual marriage. Silly liberals, everyone knows that.
October 14, 2006
Over at Effect Measure, Revere gives an update on the Tripoli Six (see my earlier post). Some readers may have noticed that the New York Times devoted an editorial to the case today and the editors of Nature also weighed in [pdf]:
Most readers of Nature take it for granted that they can travel to…