1. British Book Awards shortlists 2007

Comment #25135 by Lady GG on March 10, 2007 at 9:53 am

Thanks Henri - will get down to my local bookshop asap!

:)

2. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24795 by Lady GG on March 8, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Quoting from Eclectic's post re Conservapedia's view on Relativity: "The theory rests on two postulates that are difficult to test, and then derives mathematically what the physical consequences should be. Those two postulates are that the speed of light never changes, and that all laws of physics are the same in every (inertial) frame of reference no matter where it is or how fast it is traveling."

ummm, I vaguely recall learning about Galileo noticing something about the laws of physics being the same in all inertial reference frames.....Galilean Relativity!

As for BillySand's gem on the Second Law.... oh dear, I guess these people skipped their science lessons on photosynthesis, or any other science lesson in general!

3. British Book Awards shortlists 2007

Comment #24791 by Lady GG on March 8, 2007 at 2:56 pm

All voted - may the best man win!!

Faouloki: here's to the celebratory Richard and Judy interview!

Henri Bergson: I'm intrigued, never read Nietzsche before, can you reccommend me some books please?

4. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24616 by Lady GG on March 7, 2007 at 3:32 pm

Thankyou BaronOchs, I feel much more enlightened now I know both sides of the story - tho I never doubted our Richard for a second!

These websites make me sad because I know many people may be deceived by the out of context quotations and general biased ramblings...

5. Conservapedia v Wikipedia

Comment #24604 by Lady GG on March 7, 2007 at 2:24 pm

my my my whilst searching for Richard Dawkins on creationwiki, I stumbled upon this little gem:

"In 1997, Richard Dawkins, normally an eloquent man, appeared to be somewhat speechless when he was asked in a filmed interview the following question: "Professor Dawkins, can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?".[4]

He later gave various excuses for not answering the question, but despite a number of opportunities, he has yet to answer it. Rather, he has attacked the producer of the video and creationists generally, and used the incident as an excuse to avoid debating creationists."


Excuse to avoid debating creationists?

6. Why there are almost no genuine atheists

Comment #24595 by Lady GG on March 7, 2007 at 2:10 pm

oh here we go again, I must eat babies because I'm an atheist.....

7. If God is talking to you, too, Mr Cameron - don't listen

Comment #23436 by Lady GG on February 28, 2007 at 3:58 pm

"Many fine things are done by people because of their faith. As an MP I sawa number of examples. And as we mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade we are reminded that William Wilberforce, who brought it about, was a man driven by religious conviction who eschewed political ambition."

I cringed at this bit, especially after reading Sam Harris' "Letter To A Christian Nation", which so enlightened me on what the bible had to say about advocating slavery....

Other than that, and the indoctrination mumbo jumbo as commented on by SMART, that guy talked a lot of sense!

8. James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son

Comment #23120 by Lady GG on February 26, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Well hopefully this "DNA analysis" will finally dispel the "born of a virgin" myth by finally proving that Jesus has a diploid chromosome complement! Although, we really don't need that to figure out it's a myth now, do we!?