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What-If and What-Is: The Role of Speculation in Science
James Gorman - New York Times - 25 May 2012 3 Comments
Woody Allen once said that when you do comedy, you sit at the children’s table. The same might be said of speculation in science. And yet speculation is an essential part of science. So how...
Science, Religion and Society: The Problem of Evolution in America
Jerry Coyne - Evolution - 25 May 2012 0 Comments
Abstract: American resistance to accepting evolution is uniquely high among First World countries. This is due largely to the extreme religiosity of the United States, which is much higher than...
Hemant Mehta - Washington Post - 25 May 2012 12 Comments
Last year, Christian apologist Josh McDowell made a remarkable claim about the Internet, stating that “the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will...
CFI student leaders need your help!
- - Center for Inquiry - 25 May 2012 0 Comments
Dear Friend, We at the Center for Inquiry believe it’s important for young activists to learn from experienced leaders who have been involved in grassroots outreach and organizing for...
The living fossils of brain evolution
- - PhysOrg.com - 25 May 2012 4 Comments
(Phys.org) -- In the course of its evolution, the architecture of the mouse brain may have barely changed. Similar to the tiny ancestors of modern mammals that lived about 80 million years ago,...
Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’
Benedict Carey - New York Times - 24 May 2012 57 Comments
The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean...
Human Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be
Matt Ridley - Wall Street Journal Online - 24 May 2012 12 Comments
If you write about genetics and evolution, one of the commonest questions you are likely to be asked at public events is whether human evolution has stopped. It is a surprisingly hard question to...
Richard Dawkins - Prospect - 24 May 2012 47 Comments
Richard Dawkins's review of The Social Conquest of Earth , by Edward O Wilson (WW Norton, £18.99, May) JBS Haldane quipped that any Creator must have had “an inordinate fondness for...
The beauty of creation: an interview with Richard Dawkins
Heather Catchpole - COSMOS Magazine - 24 May 2012 13 Comments
Thanks to Quine for the link. Heather Catchpole: We very much enjoyed both of your performances in the last couple of days… Richard Dawkins: Good. HC: I wanted to start with The...
A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?
Tom Bartlett - Religion Dispatches - 24 May 2012 34 Comments
For a while, their message was everywhere. They paid for billboards, took out full-page ads in newspapers, distributed thousands of tracts. They drove across the county in RVs emblazoned with verses...
Ancient walking mystery deepens
Helen Briggs - BBC News - Science & Environment - 23 May 2012 7 Comments
Reconstruction of the body of Ichthyostega One of the first creatures to step on land could not have walked on four legs, 3D computer models show. Textbook pictures of the...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally to Discuss Risks of Internet
Michael M. Grynbaum - The New York Times - 22 May 2012 67 Comments
Thanks to neovision for the link. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men were at a rally in Citi Field on Sunday on the dangers of the Internet. Women watched the event at viewing parties elsewhere....
Rare neurons found in monkeys’ brains
Laura Sanders - Science News - 22 May 2012 4 Comments
A mysterious kind of nerve cell that has been linked to empathy, self-awareness, and even consciousness resides in Old World monkeys. The finding, published May 10 in Neuron, extends the domain of...
Moral Clarity and Richard Dawkins
Carson - Reasons for God - 22 May 2012 92 Comments
Moral confusion is a common problem. When a conversation begins about the difference between right and wrong, everyone can feel the tension, because admitting you’re wrong isn’t just about saying...
Brian Greene - The Daily Beast - 22 May 2012 46 Comments
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world.” That’s how Albert Einstein, in his characteristically poetic way, asked whether our universe is the only possible...
Take a stand for public access to taxpayer funded research
Bonnie Swoger - Scientific American - 22 May 2012 5 Comments
Sign Petition In my first post here at Information Culture , I made the argument that in order for science to progress, the results of scientific studies must be shared with others. One of...
Rewritable memory encoded into DNA
Erika Check Hayden - Nature - 22 May 2012 5 Comments
Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA. The arduous work involved in building the system is almost as notable as the achievement itself, says Drew Endy of Stanford...
Debate: Can Atheists and Believers work together for the common good?
-- - Rationalist Society of Australia - 21 May 2012 73 Comments
On Monday 16 April 2012, the day after the fabulous Global Atheist Convention, we brought together three fiercely articulate freethinkers to argue the question "Can Atheists and Believers work...
Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution Is True - 21 May 2012 11 Comments
The Mencken quotes this week will all, of course, deal with religion and theology. Here’s your Sunday lesson, from Mencken’s Notebooks, p. 373: It is often argued that religion is valuable...
The Moral Necessity of a Godless Existence
Tauriq Moosa - big think - 21 May 2012 77 Comments
In a previous post , I indicated what I consider the “dangerous” realisation that there is no top-down meaning; that our actions aren’t found to be important by anyone (or One) other than...
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