05.29.09
A Critique of Darwinism
A Critique of Darwinism
On Evolution
By JAMES C. FARIS
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Antibiotic Multi-resistance
Antibiotic Multi-resistance: Why Bacteria Are So Effective
ScienceDaily (May 28, 2009) — In an article published in Science, teams from the Institut Pasteurand the University of Limoges, associated with the CNRS and Inserm, decipher for the first time the molecular mechanism that enables bacteria to acquire multi-resistance to antibiotics, and that even allows them to adapt this resistance to their environment. This discovery highlights the difficulties that will have to be tackled by public health strategies if they are to address the problems created by multi-resistance.
Flipping addiction switch
Flipping The Brain’s Addiction Switch Without Drugs
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2009) — When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain’s pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
Heatwaves in the American West
Hot times ahead for the Wild West
American west threatened by more heatwaves than past models have predicted.
Hannah Hoag
More heatwaves in the western United States?Utah Division of Water ResourcesExtreme temperatures are expected to become more common in the western United States by 2040 if greenhouse gases continue to rise, researchers say.
What would it look like to do everything we can imagine?
Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by YES! Magazine
Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?
by Madeline Ostrander
Climate change is big, the biggest problem we’ve ever faced as a nation. In March, British economist Nicholas Stern said that inaction on climate change could cost the world one-third of its wealth. Last fall, the Global Carbon Project reported that world carbon emissions have risen and are in line with scientists’ worst, most catastrophic scenarios for climate change. Bill McKibben has said, “If we’re to have any chance of heading off catastrophic temperature increase, we have to do everything we can imagine.” How big are our imaginations? What would it look like to do everything we can imagine?
GW: 300,000 deaths a year
Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by the Guardian/UK
Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan thinktank
Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe
The Casino Class
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The Casino Class The Looting of America
by Les Leopold. Reviewed by Bill Onasch
Chelsea Green. Paper, $14.95.
http://www.kclabor.org/casino_class.htm
The shot that changed Germany
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stasi-spy-fired-shot-that-changed-germany-1691833.html
The Independent 28 May 2009
Stasi spy ‘fired shot that changed Germany’
Revelations from secret files force radical left to re-examine their past
Wall: A Monologue
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22611
New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 7 · April 30, 2009
Wall: A Monologue
Guantanamo Appeasement
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http://marjoriecohn.com/2009/05/obamas-guantanamo-appeasement-plan.html
Obama’s Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
by Marjorie Cohn
Portside: May 25, 2009
Bush Admin Committed War Crimes
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http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/coonsey/2009/05/us-general-says-bush-admin-com.php?ref=reccafe
May 28, 2009 U.S. General Says Bush Admin Committed War Crimes
You don’t see this story in the headlines. It’s being listed as a ‘side’ or ‘back page’ story.
Abu Ghraib photos
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html
Daily Telegraph 28 May 2009
Abu Ghraib abuse photos ‘show rape’
Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent and Paul Cruickshank
05.28.09
Waiting on the sidelines, the eonic effect and the religion/darwinism clash
Looking at the debate opening up between Biologos and Faith and Evolution, I am struck by the fact that neither side is really equipped to take on Darwinism. The Biologos people, of course, don’t even want to. They are content to vitiate religion by false hybridization with Darwinism. I don’t want to give the ID folks a leg up on this, but their impatience with theistic Darwinism is entirely to the point.
How can you reconcile Darwinian thinking with the day to day ‘design’ logic of those who pray to a divinity? And how make sense of the history in the Old Testament?
The whole game is hopeless on all sides, all three sides including the Darwinian.
I know just thing! Where can we find a perspective that can assist in bringing religion and evolution together?
Answer: the data of the eonic effect, and the eonic model. Tailormade for this confusion where the evolutionists get evolution wrong and the religionists are confronting the collapse of their religious historicism.
Animals can tell right from wrong?
Animals can tell right from wrong
I find the material here interesting, and if it were from any other source than Darwinian scientists I would even be enthusiastic, but since it is from Darwinists a full red alert takes effect immediately.
Part of the problem is the title here: it is obvious that animals can’t tell right from wrong, so why say so, and why distract from the interesting evidence given with this tricky summary-title? Answer: slapping man down and destroying his ethical sense is the grudge match of scientism which knows it can’t resolve ethical issues, evolutionary or normative, and hence wants to make sure man isn’t really ethical at all.
Unfair?
Three way debate
Christians battle each other over evolution
The summary of the positions here strikes me as unfair, perhaps not, but figuring out the beliefs of the ID-ists can sometimes be confusing.
Is this seemingly neutral depiction of the two sides by New Scientist complacent, or secretly/unconsciously hoping the two sides will kill each other off?
The element of condescension here is ill-advised: there are few mindsets more obtuse than the robotically fixated darwinism of the major sci orgs and their followers. And given that mindset, they seem to enjoy seeing religionist squirm, as if they were omniscient, and we know for sure that in the battle of oversimplifications Darwinism is strongly equipped to do damage to traditionalist religion.
But is that what we want? We can’t manage religion. But a culture of pure Darwinian scientism would be dreadful and lead immediately to religious warfare trying to escape such an endgame.
Are scientists completely incapabable of understanding their situation here? I fear they are. Those otherwise are never heard from in public.
In any case, these two sides: ID and theistic Darwinism are both, to me, inadequate. That makes three, adding Darwinism the Religion of Scientism to the other two.
So it will be a three way gladiator show, and all three will be losers. Losing faith in religion, and losing faith in science lies at the end.
Too much propaganda from all parties.
Christians battle over evolution
Christians battle each other over evolution
by Amanda Gefter – NewScientist
from Dawkins site
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17203-christians-battle-each-other-over-evolution.html?DCMP=OTC-rss
Maps of War
History – of – Religion
Maps of War
from Dawkins site
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html
Animals and social ‘ethics’
Animals can tell right from wrong
by Richard Gray – telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html
World without god
Rowan, Dostoevsky and a world without God
On a good day for God at Hay, AN Wilson talked to Rowan Williams and Richard Bauckham won the Michael Ramsay prize
Transgenic monkeys
‘Glowing’ Transgenic Monkeys Carrying Green Fluorescent Protein Gene Pave Way For New Disease Models
ScienceDaily (May 28, 2009) — A transgenic line of monkeys carrying a gene encoding green fluorescent protein fully integrated into their DNA has been created for the first time. The research, published in the journal Nature, marks the first such feat in non-human primates and paves the way for developing new models of human diseases.
Man and mouse
More Genetic Differences Between Mice And Humans Than Previously Thought
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2009) — A new article in PLoS Biology explores exactly what distinguishes the human genome from that of the lab mouse.
Genetic Basis Of Musical Aptitude
Genetic Basis Of Musical Aptitude: Neurobiology Of Musicality Related To Intrinsic Attachment Behavior
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2009) — Music is social communication between individuals — humming of lullabies attach infant to parent and singing or playing music adds croup cohesion. The neurobiology of music perception and production is likely to be related to the pathways affecting intrinsic attachment behavior, suggests a recent Finnish study. The study gives new information about genetic background of musical aptitude.
Extinct lemur
New Extinct Lemur Species Discovered In Madagascar
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2009) — A third species of Palaeopropithecus, an extinct group of large lemurs, has just been uncovered in the northwest of Madagascar
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527073030.htm
Sauropods Held Their Heads High
Giant Dinosaur Posture Is All Wrong: Sauropods Held Their Heads High, Research Finds
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2009) — Famous depictions of the largest of all known dinosaurs, from film and television to museum skeletons, have almost certainly got it wrong, according to new research.
Permafrost threat
Permafrost melt poses long-term threat, says study
Print Melting permafrost could eventually disgorge a billion tonnes a year of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, accelerating the threat from climate change, scientists said Wednesday.
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