Sunday School FEB 27, 2011
does dark matter exist? (the most important thing science has to teach philosophy.)
Dembski pwned again: ant trails and intelligent design.
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries.
new arguments against "New Atheists"
scientists convince people they have three arms.
lots of talk recently about solar storms. how about some facts?
turtles use the Earth's magnetic field as a global GPS.
what Newton's 3 laws can teach you.
scientists have modified a fungus to carry scorpion toxin and battle malaria mosquitoes.
as i have had occasion to say over and over, The Onion does it again!- "NASA completes 52 year mission to find and kill God"
another negative review of Harris' The Moral Landscape, this time by anthropologist and author (In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion) Scott Atran.
PZ Myers pointed to a well done video debunking the fine-tuning argument.
"walking cactus" fossil is one of the earliest ancestors of all arthropods. Jerry Coyne commented on the find.
high school atheists are organizing, why are schools pushing back?
surely nothing will come of it but charges have been initiated against the pope for crimes against humanity.
monkeys display self-doubt just like humans.
ex-apologist pointed to a new paper by Chris Heathwood (PDF) that argues against Plantinga and others that Kant's objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument (existence isn't a predicate) does have force.
Parenting Beyond Belief author Dale McGowan tells the story of how he got into it with his daughter's school over the teaching of evolution and has some tips for how to engage in these types of interactions.
why it's not a "safer bet" to believe in god (why Pascal's Wager sucks)
a vestigial trait in humans: the arrector pili
why non-religious Americans die younger.
Luke at Common Sense Atheism recently gave an interview in which he said some things about Christian apologist William Lane Craig that Chris Hallquist took issue with.
both Hemant Mehta and Alonzo Fyfe commented on a piece in Psychology Today about the effect that saying the pledge of allegiance has on kids when they're forced to profess a belief in god out of patriotism that they know their parents don't believe.
unclear on just what Einstein's "twin paradox" entails? this video should help.
what do you mean when you say "rational"?
Luke Muehlhauser, finding that the question of god's existence is settled and now somewhat boring to him, has decided to move away from addressing questions from the Philosophy of Religion. Luke's post prompted Chris at TPA to ask "why bother?"
R. Joseph Hoffman on the recent spate of atheist books attempting to explain religion as a meme.
50 billion planets in our galaxy. (no, that's not a typo- billion. with a 'b'.
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Comment by Nelson on February 27, 2011 at 9:00am -
check out previous editions of Sunday School:
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Comment by wyocowboy on February 27, 2011 at 9:46am
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'Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries' this does not surprise me that religion would minimize the issue. Religion seems to go from one extreme to the other...either they totally minimize the issue or exploit the issue!
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Comment by Albert Bakker on February 27, 2011 at 10:32am -
Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance reacted to the McGaugh study of MOND fitting a certain sample of gas rich galaxies better than DM and makes some very good points.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/02/26/dark-ma...
I thought it particularly sad that McGaugh found it necessary to compare DM to epicycles as quoted in the Science Daily piece. That sort of thing is beneath a proper scientist.
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Comment by Lindsey on February 27, 2011 at 3:08pm -
Thanks for the links :) They provide a nice escape as my roommate blasts the christian rock station.
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Comment by James on February 27, 2011 at 5:02pm -
Amazing class this week!
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Comment by Wesley on February 27, 2011 at 7:58pm -
I enjoyed your links as usual Nelson.... I think Scott Atran shows his true colors in his review of The Moral Landscape. (but I've begun to expect that from him.) I also liked the author of the Dark Matter article,,,,though I disagree with him about morality and tend to lean more Sam Harris's way.
Science IS and OUGHT to have a say on the Moral Landscape. I can't think of another system that would have a more objective and self-correcting take on the subject.
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Comment by Cara Coleen on February 27, 2011 at 10:54pm -
Hmm. I have to take issue with the "Why non-Religious Americans Die Younger" piece. I would wager this is a case of "correlation does not equal causation". Non religious people are more likely to be divorced? Please. Ever been to church? Pretty sure divorce is quite common among the pious. lol I'm taking statistics right now and I'm very skeptical of what these numbers suggest... kinda like the correlation between lyme-disease-cases-in-relation-to-death-by-drowning problem I'm working on. :)
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Comment by Greg Gorey on February 28, 2011 at 12:55am -
great stuff as always'
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