Sunday School FEB 7, 2010
let's get right to it!
Jerry Coyne calls out New Scientist for once again irresponsible coverage of idiotic evolution critical tripe.
tiny galaxies reveal how the first stars formed.
"super Earth"? try super-Io! recent exo-planet discoveries may be closer to Jupiter's moon Io than to Earth.
vjack at Atheist Revolution is boycotting the Super Bowl over CBS's relationship with Focus On The Family and their decision to
air that group's anti-choice ad during the game. what do you guys
think? still going to watch the game? maybe you need to read up more on
CBS's ideological bias?
Matt McCormick at Proving The Negative: can't be moral without god?
James McGrath explains the basic misunderstanding that Jesus-mythicists have of the historian's endeavor.
one year into President Obama's presidency... faith based initiatives? still unconstitutional.
Turkish girl, 16, is buried alive by her family for the despicable crime of............ talking to boys. Barry Duke at The Freethinker comments too.
Tom Rees at Epiphenom dissects the new research showing that prayer makes people more forgiving.
an astronaut on the ISS is using Twitpic to post jaw-dropping images of Earth from space. meanwhile, NASA has started live streaming from space. among the views is one from a porthole looking down on Earth as it spins by at 8km/second!
the first paper describing results from the LHC has been published.
if you haven't quite gotten enough of dinosaur coloring, you're in luck! find more here, here, here, and here.
algae use quantum mechanics to boost the efficiency of photosynthesis!
MRI brain scans show signs of consciousness in rare cases of vegetative status.
NASA has extended Cassini's mission until 2017.
Austin Cline: godless children vs. religious families. how to cope.
lots of buzz all over the internet on Andrew Wakefield's bogus paper
connecting the MMR vaccine with autism being retracted by the Lancet.
check it out here, here, here, here, here, and, finally, here. of course anti-vaxxer groups are standing behind Wakefield anyway!
in the wake of the recent news surrounding Wakefield and the Lancet paper Chris Mooney writes that some bridge building between medical institutions and the anti-vaxxers is required. Jerry Coyne and Orac disagree.
meanwhile, Orac explains how not to report science and medical news.
Hubble exposes Pluto's dynamism.
Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, is in some hot water for sparing a man jail-time apparently only because he is religious. Barry Duke at The Freethinker weighs in.
faith healing parents have been found guilty of killing their son.
how much are you worth to god? (i'm worth 50 shekels.)
a group of 1000 rabbis warn that letting gays in the military will cause more natural disasters.
for the first time a ground-based telescope has measured the atmosphere of an exo-planet.
new look at WMAP data necessitates a slight revision in the age of the universe.
what's it like to live under "don't ask, don't tell"?
evidence is steadily mounting for cosmic life.
last week i included a link to a description of a new paper that proposed a new
theory of the Moon's formation in a naturally occurring nuclear
explosion. Smriti Rao at 80beats speaks to the plausibility of the theory.
a new study reveals a potential evolutionary role for same sex attraction.
an anti-evolution bill in Mississippi is dead.
scientists hash out the uncertainties of climate sensitivity.
fossils show earliest animal tracks and date to 565 mya.
the subject of NASA's next observatory? our own sun.
it appears as if altruistic behavior is infectious.
Ratzinger has a problem with..............equality.
for Valentine's Day this year tell Focus On The Family about your loving gay spouse!
more and more Muslim women in Italy are trapped in polygamous households.
Timesonline has posted a list of the top 30 science blogs as they see it.
new research rejects 80yo "primordial soup" theory of life's origins.
Hemant Mehta has a problem with what he calls "atheist publicity stunts." what do you think?
a new study seems to provide the first evidence that abstinence only sex education can work. but does it actually show such a thing?
the best bet for life in our solar system? Jupiter's moon Europa.
Hubble snaps pics of two asteroids colliding. amazing. check it out here and here.
does Christianity deserve the respect it demands?
there is a place for hate in at least one Wyoming school district.
hope you enjoy reading! have a great week and as always don't forget to check out Johnny's Sunday Morning Service!
Jerry Coyne calls out New Scientist for once again irresponsible coverage of idiotic evolution critical tripe.
tiny galaxies reveal how the first stars formed.
"super Earth"? try super-Io! recent exo-planet discoveries may be closer to Jupiter's moon Io than to Earth.
vjack at Atheist Revolution is boycotting the Super Bowl over CBS's relationship with Focus On The Family and their decision to
air that group's anti-choice ad during the game. what do you guys
think? still going to watch the game? maybe you need to read up more on
CBS's ideological bias?
Matt McCormick at Proving The Negative: can't be moral without god?
James McGrath explains the basic misunderstanding that Jesus-mythicists have of the historian's endeavor.
one year into President Obama's presidency... faith based initiatives? still unconstitutional.
Turkish girl, 16, is buried alive by her family for the despicable crime of............ talking to boys. Barry Duke at The Freethinker comments too.
Tom Rees at Epiphenom dissects the new research showing that prayer makes people more forgiving.
an astronaut on the ISS is using Twitpic to post jaw-dropping images of Earth from space. meanwhile, NASA has started live streaming from space. among the views is one from a porthole looking down on Earth as it spins by at 8km/second!
the first paper describing results from the LHC has been published.
if you haven't quite gotten enough of dinosaur coloring, you're in luck! find more here, here, here, and here.
algae use quantum mechanics to boost the efficiency of photosynthesis!
MRI brain scans show signs of consciousness in rare cases of vegetative status.
NASA has extended Cassini's mission until 2017.
Austin Cline: godless children vs. religious families. how to cope.
lots of buzz all over the internet on Andrew Wakefield's bogus paper
connecting the MMR vaccine with autism being retracted by the Lancet.
check it out here, here, here, here, here, and, finally, here. of course anti-vaxxer groups are standing behind Wakefield anyway!
in the wake of the recent news surrounding Wakefield and the Lancet paper Chris Mooney writes that some bridge building between medical institutions and the anti-vaxxers is required. Jerry Coyne and Orac disagree.
meanwhile, Orac explains how not to report science and medical news.
Hubble exposes Pluto's dynamism.
Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, is in some hot water for sparing a man jail-time apparently only because he is religious. Barry Duke at The Freethinker weighs in.
faith healing parents have been found guilty of killing their son.
how much are you worth to god? (i'm worth 50 shekels.)
a group of 1000 rabbis warn that letting gays in the military will cause more natural disasters.
for the first time a ground-based telescope has measured the atmosphere of an exo-planet.
new look at WMAP data necessitates a slight revision in the age of the universe.
what's it like to live under "don't ask, don't tell"?
evidence is steadily mounting for cosmic life.
last week i included a link to a description of a new paper that proposed a new
theory of the Moon's formation in a naturally occurring nuclear
explosion. Smriti Rao at 80beats speaks to the plausibility of the theory.
a new study reveals a potential evolutionary role for same sex attraction.
an anti-evolution bill in Mississippi is dead.
scientists hash out the uncertainties of climate sensitivity.
fossils show earliest animal tracks and date to 565 mya.
the subject of NASA's next observatory? our own sun.
it appears as if altruistic behavior is infectious.
Ratzinger has a problem with..............equality.
for Valentine's Day this year tell Focus On The Family about your loving gay spouse!
more and more Muslim women in Italy are trapped in polygamous households.
Timesonline has posted a list of the top 30 science blogs as they see it.
new research rejects 80yo "primordial soup" theory of life's origins.
Hemant Mehta has a problem with what he calls "atheist publicity stunts." what do you think?
a new study seems to provide the first evidence that abstinence only sex education can work. but does it actually show such a thing?
the best bet for life in our solar system? Jupiter's moon Europa.
Hubble snaps pics of two asteroids colliding. amazing. check it out here and here.
does Christianity deserve the respect it demands?
there is a place for hate in at least one Wyoming school district.
hope you enjoy reading! have a great week and as always don't forget to check out Johnny's Sunday Morning Service!
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Comment by Wonderist on February 10, 2010 at 1:15am -
For one who doesn't want to argue about this in these comments, you sure go out of your way to expand the argument in these comments.
Unfortunately, I'm not biting. IMO, you did not address my substantive point. You keep taking the focus back to McGrath, when the substantive point I made was in regards to your action of linking to his post uncritically. That's it. The rest is the scent of a red herring.
""I pointed out McGrath being a committed Christian not as an attack on him, but to identify why I thought the linking to him was uncritical."
so you'd have wanted me to post the link with a note saying "watch out, he's a Christian!"?
LOL. that's another fallacy: poisoning the well!"
No. See, this is again you shifting the focus to McGrath, and ignoring that my statement was about the uncritical linkage. It is not poisoning the well, because I'm not arguing that McGrath is necessarily wrong. I'm arguing that your linking to him was uncritical. Why uncritical? Because I saw a bias, which it appeared that you did not (and have since confirmed, IMO). Why biased? Because he presented a straw man (as I explained in my very first post). What may be the source of the bias? I implicitly speculated that perhaps it may have been that he's a committed Christian. Is this genetic fallacy? No, because I saw the bias first, and speculated the source second. Nor did I claim that the possible source of bias is the justification for my claim of bias (instead, I described the straw manning and provided a link to resources debunking the straw man). Is it poisoning the well? No, because my point is not about McGrath per se, it's about the uncritical linkage.
You interpreted that original post in the opposite order: "Ah, he's a Christian. Therefore he must be biased. Therefore, your link is uncritical." When I corrected your misinterpretation, you simply shifted it back to McGrath, ignoring my substantive point.
In any case, I've re-iterated my point enough. If anyone cares to re-read my first comment, they'll see it is brief and speaks only about McGrath in order to support the main point that your linkage was uncritical.
The debate/discussion you appear to want to engage in with me is not one that interests me. I'm a spectator in the mythicist debate. I leave it to the people who've done the reading, and I read their digested opinions. Having read some of them, I feel it's fair for me to speak up when someone mischaracterizes the opinions that I've read, and when someone else (especially an atheist, posting a bulletin for other atheists who may not be as familiar with the issue) posts an uncritical link to it. In fact, I feel it's important to do so.
If you're interested in debate/discussion, the person you want to engage with has already responded to McGrath here: James on Jesus: Reopening Pandora’s Box. He will give you a very vigourous debate. Enjoy.
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