Sunday School OCT 30, 2011
BOO!!!! Everyone's FB LIKE's, +1's and shares on Google+, your thumbs up on StumbleUpon, and your tweets on Twitter were positively horrifying! That you all find Sunday School ghoulish enough that you would want to share it with others makes me SCREAM!! It makes the time spent on putting each edition together absolutely blood curdling!! Spread the word. The information is out there. Let's get it into people's hands, and into their minds. Happy Halloween! ;););)
This week we're presenting our interview with University of California Santa Cruz and NASA Astrobiology Institute biochemist Dr. David Deamer. His work centers on the role of membranes in the origin of cellular life on Earth. His research over the last 30 years has contributed greatly to solving the riddle of abiogenesis. He is the author of the newly published First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began. Dr. Deamer joins us to talk about the latest research into the origin of life on Earth!
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"Why do Wall Street traders have such faith in their powers of prediction, when their success is largely down to chance? Daniel Kahneman explains how cognitive illusions skew our thinking."
Slate reviews Kahneman's new book, Thinking Fast and Slow. I'm in the middle of the book now and it's rapidly climbing the charts of my favorite books ever.
"William Lane Craig went ahead with his “empty chair for Dawkins” stunt in his Oxford appearance. While many of his fans loved the trick, Craig didn’t get off unharmed by his stalking of Richard Dawkins." Turns out a certain number of people in the crowd were appalled at Craig's justification of biblical genocide. And as well they should be! Ken Perrot takes a closer look at Craig's defense of biblical genocide.
And on the subject of Craig, sometimes he's just dumb...
Why do we think there's a multiverse, not just our universe?
The White House responds to the petition to remove "under God" from the pledge. The reply leaves something to be desired...
Space.com is close to wrapping up their 8 part series on the cosmos, past and future. This week saw the next edition in the series, what the universe looks like today.
After the American Cancer Society refused to take an atheist organization's charity money they made some vague but nonsense statements apparently hoping the whole thing would blow over. But now they're just lying.
Mass species loss stunts evolution for millions of years.
"A new study claims to confirm Archaeopteryx as one of the earliest birds, but what does the ongoing debate about this feathered dinosaur mean for the way science works?"
This is the test that needs to be done to confirm or refute the faster than light neutrinos finding.
Fossil dino teeth point to dino migrations.
"Should science bloggers stick to popularizing science and fighting creationism, or does blogging have a wider role to play in the scientific discourse?"
Evidence of the earliest oxygen breathing life on land discovered.
The difference between science and common sense.
The Republican war on science and reason.
The Jurassic Park scientist that plans to turn chickens into T. rex.
I never understand when gay persons stand up and identify as Catholics. Doesn't look like they understand why either.
Saturn's moon Titan, its hazy history and potential for life.
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Tags: atheism, cosmology, evolution, naturalism, neutrinos, physics, sunday, sunday-school, theism, weekly-recap
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Comment by Shawna on October 30, 2011 at 4:16am -
Uh, that guy who plans to "turn [a] chicken into T-Rex" might just want to re-read Jurassic Park. It did NOT end well.
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Comment by Nelson on October 30, 2011 at 4:20am -
@Jim: Glad you enjoyed! I like it when I can post a link that's nice and short too, sometimes it's just not possible if I want to be able to convey just what the link is though. But I do agree! Thanks!
@Shawna: Yeah, I had the same thought! Fascinating research though. So cool how the genes are all still there, they're just not being turned on during embryonic development. So we switch them on and watch the expression of the long dormant genes. Amazing! :)
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Comment by Steve-O on October 30, 2011 at 4:51am -
Where are the doughnuts?
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Comment by Nelson on October 30, 2011 at 4:56am
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Don't look at me, not my turn this week! :)
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Comment by Steve-O on October 30, 2011 at 5:00am
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The chicken guy is right. Chickens don't look like dinosaurs, but a cassowary does. Look at those feet....
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Comment by Nelson on October 30, 2011 at 5:06am
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Did you see Inside Nature's Giants when they dissected the cassowary? Incredible.
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Comment by Jason on October 30, 2011 at 6:25am -
Andrew Sullivan is Catholic? Andrew Sullivan is religious? Andrew Sullivan believes in a sky daddy? Hmmm ….. I thought he was smarter than that?
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Comment by UnTarded on October 30, 2011 at 11:42am -
I found the comments on "The Republican War On...." quite troubling.
The amount of willful ignorance and cog/dis that is so pervasive in American society truly make me fear for the future of my nation.
I tell the young people to learn to speak Chinese.
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Comment by Gary Bergeron on October 30, 2011 at 12:39pm -
I remember Ronald Reagan's take on scientific research: Why should Americans spend their hard-earned taxes on intellectual curiosity?
That "intellectual curiosity", according to Carl Sagan, is the seed corn to scientific discovery and other nations are investing heavily in it and we are going to fall behind....but, it's okay..God is going to save us all...right?...
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Comment by Dale Headley on October 30, 2011 at 3:16pm -
Everything the Republicans do and/or claim, including the rejection of science and reason, stems from one central imperative: they MUST be, as they have ALWAYS been, the party of the rich. ANYTHING that contributes to the increase in the wealth of the top 1% of Americans is good. ANYTHING that empowers the remaining 99% is bad because it is seen as stealing from the entitled rich to give to the undeserving masses. If, for instance, science says that the world is warming and that it might require even the smallest financial sacrifice by corporations to slow it down, then science must be dismissed.
The Republicans suffer from the Marie Antoinette Syndrome: "Let them eat cake." But though they not be chastened by the anachronistic guillotine, they should be paying close attention to the Aesop's Fable of the emperor turtle who climbed on the backs of the lesser turtles to better survey the extent of his empire. Eventually the turtle at the bottom of the stack was crushed by the burden and the whole stack came crashing down, including the 1% of turtles at the apex.
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