Last day to give a laptop & get a laptop (U.S. & Canada)
A few hours left for those in North America to participate in the One Laptop Per Child program. $399 plus shipping pays for two of these special laptops: one for a child in a lesser developed nation and one for you.
All chance, no purpose.
Myers wants to wriggle out of the implications of Darwinism. In general the liberal Darwinists have misleadingly put a pleasant face on the harsh reality of Darwin’s egregious theory. Read the rest of this entry »
A War On Science
BBC
Reposted from: Dawkins site
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6227704432876595996
This video covers the rise of Intelligent Design through the lens of the Dover trial. Interviews the major players on both sides, and features brief appearances by Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough. Includes some interesting pieces not seen before, such as a short interview with the Director of the Vatican Observatory (an astrophysicist who thinks Intelligent Design is anti-scientific nonsense).
Evolution furor flares on Florida science proposals
Evolution and the 150-year national battle over its merits comes to Tallahassee’s doorstep in February when the state Board of Education decides whether to approve an overhaul of state science standards that would make it a major topic in classrooms for the first time.
Counterpunch
Goodbye 2007 and Good Riddance!
Hello 2008 and You’d Better Shape Up
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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December 31, 2007
Editorial
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Here is a rare and little known work on Indian religious history, with data below:Library of Congress page for Role of the Bhagavad Gita in Indian History
In light of the previous post by James this is a work that will clarify matters considerably, if you can ever catch up with it! Written by a leftist determined to expose the stifled history here it depicts the saga in terms of a Buddhist revolution emerging from the Axial Age, attempting to reform the legacy of Vedic sacerdotalism and Brahmin caste, confronting the neo-Brahmin reaction in the period ca. the time of Christianity, and the subsequent emergence of the Gita as reactionary counterrevolutionary propaganda, with the triumph over Buddhism and its destruction proceeding apace into the medieval period.
The book is quirkly, yet solid, but deserves some amplification from conventional scholarship, if only someone thereto associated determines to speak the truth of that history.
It is important to see that the New Age Indian religion we see now with its gurus and ashrams is silent about this history, and no student should get lost in this world without information about what it is really about, so sanitized for liberal westerners.
LC Control No.: 75904001
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Bazaz, Prem Nath.
Main Title: The role of Bhagavad Gita in Indian history / Prem Nath Bazaz.
Edition Information: 1st ed.
Published/Created: New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, 1975.
Description: xii, 747 p. ; 23 cm.
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CALL NUMBER: DS423 .B34
Copy 1
James comments on Seeing Through The Gurus
Good points. I’ll let it stand as is.
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Gene-targeting therapies could one day offer relief from allergies
such as hayfever, say UK and Swiss scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7161351.stm
The era of the hunter-gatherer was not the social and environmental
Eden that some suggest
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278703
DHA, found in oily fish, helps destroy Alzheimer’s-causing plaques.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-capsule31dec31,1,6783743.story?coll=la-headlines-health
A surprising number of icons in the business world have overcome
dyslexia. In fact, it could be argued that dyslexia offers some
advantages in the business world. Julie Logan of London’s Cass School
of Business is about to publish a study on the subject.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17611066
Parents of children with distinct genetic mutations are seeking out
others to form support networks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/health/research/28dna.html
Review of Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c142d322-ad11-11dc-b51b-0000779fd2ac.html
James comment onGuru radar alert: Da free john gang.
We have stumbled on a key point about gurus, for those who are at risk, or who need to defend themselves from being exploited by their frequently successful mystique. Without getting intellectually arrogant about it (we are all limited beings), it is nonetheless true that behind the veil of these all-wise guru games there is usually a half-educated second-rate mind who hasn’t done any homework on any subject. There is no law against being the opposite of onmiscient, but to claim otherwise is fraudulent. Read the rest of this entry »
Future of Socialism
by Randhir Singh
An address to the journal Itihasbodh at Allahabad on March 8, 2007. See below
Blog comments: The basic insights of Marx remain as they were at the beginning of his career, and if it weren’t for that it would be pointless to discuss the issue. But the question of socialism is now so hopelessly confused that it is hard to see how anything can come of the idea in the current socio-political scence. Randhir Singh at least does something long overdue which is to renounce the prior history of communism and the failed experiment it represents. Read the rest of this entry »
Fact and theory in Science
These terms are undoubtedly close to semantic entropy, but…
The confusion arises, not only from creationists, but from the theory of the dynamic claimed for evolution, natural selection. We can feel confident in the fact of evolution, which is a theory of the evidence, an empirical data set about deep time. It is unreasonable to deny the fact of evolution, thus. But it is true that a complete theory of the evidence does not exist yet. We don’t have enough evidence to see how evolution actually happens, only that something we call evolution is the obvious inference from the facts. A completer theory of the evidence might claim, e.g. that the evidence shows different rates of evolution, i.e. some kind of punctuated equilbrium. A refined theory of the evidence is thus still lacking. And this lack of a complete theory of the evidence might be confusing theories of the dynamics, leading us to infer natural selection, in the misleading thinness of the evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
Questions in evolution: How did caterpillars start to become butterflies?
Or perhaps one should ask, how did butterflies start to become caterpillars?
Some life forms go through stages that bear no resemblance to each other. The caterpillar, for example, bears little resemblance to the butterfly that it becomes. How did that process evolve?
Biological Evolution and NFL Theorems
“I will argue now that simulations of evolutionary processes only demonstrate good programming skills - not much more. In particular, simulations add very little, if anything at all, to our understanding of “real” evolutionary processes.”
It is possible to be moral without God
We should recognise and celebrate good wherever we come across it, while being ready to acknowledge and counter the darker side of human nature
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Two authors, a rabbi and an atheist, debate religion and science
Religion and science take center stage in a forum analyzing the role of faith in public and private life.
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The dogmatic atheist
By A. ASOHAN
Atheist good, believer bad? Lots of books on the best-seller lists would have you think so of late. But it’s never as clear cut as that – especially when some atheists are becoming as shrill as the fundamentalists they decry.
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man with the gun who is seen opening fire on Ms. Bhutto just a few meters from her wore a short haircut similar to those of plainclothes intelligence officials
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Znet
A Tragedy Born Of Military Despotism And Anarchy
by Tariq Ali
Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto’s behaviour and policies - both while she was in office and more recently - are stunned and angered by her death. Indignation and fear stalk the country once again.
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