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02.27.10

The problem with secularism

Posted in secularism at 1:56 pm by nemo

The problem with secularism – Opinion – International Herald Tribune
by Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst – The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/opinion/21iht-edblond.3974655.html?_r=3

Published: Thursday, December 21, 2006
LONDON — Geopolitically, the resurgence of religion is dangerous and spreading. From Islamic fundamentalism, American evangelism to Hindu nationalism, each creed demands total conformity and absolute submission to their own particular variant of God’s revelation.

Common to virtually all versions of contemporary religious fanaticism is a claim to know divine intention directly, absolutely and unquestionably. As a result, many people demand a fresh liberal resistance to religious totalitarianism.

But it is important to realize that this reduction of a transcendent religion to confirmation of one’s own personal beliefs represents an ersatz copy of liberal humanism. Long before religious fundamentalism, secular humanists reduced all objective codes to subjective assertion by making man the measure of all things and erasing God from nature.

This was a profoundly secular move: It simply denied natural knowledge of God and thereby eliminated theology from the sciences. Religion, stripped of rationality, became associated with a blind unmediated faith — precisely the mark of fanaticism. Thus religious fundamentalism constitutes an absence of religion that only true religion can correct.

Although the cultured despisers of religion are once again making strident appeal to secular values and unmediated reason, they do not realize that the religious absolutism they denounce is but a variant of their own fundamentalism returned in a different guise.

Richard Dawkins’s barely literate polemic “The God Delusion” declares that religion is irrational without ever explaining the foundations of reason itself. Sam Harris’s diatribe “The End of Faith” has to falsify history by claiming that Hitler and Stalin were religious in order to make its case for the malign influence of faith. The attacks on religion are becoming ever more shrill and desperate — a clear sign of atheist anxiety about the status of their own first principles and explanatory frameworks.

WH meets ‘atheist’ groups

Posted in atheism at 1:53 pm by nemo

Right wing slams White House for meeting with atheist ‘hate groups’
by Daniel Tencer – the raw story
from dawkins site

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/obama-meeting-atheist-hate-groups/

Some conservative commentators are accusing the Obama administration of inviting “hate groups” into the White House by holding a meeting with a coalition of secularist and atheist groups.

Officials from the Justice and Health and Human Services departments met Friday with representatives of the Secular Coalition for America, an umbrella group that includes American Atheists and the Council for Secular Humanism. The coalition called it “the first time in history a presidential administration has met for a policy briefing with the American nontheist community.”

President Barack Obama was not scheduled to make an appearance at the meeting, nor were any policy changes to be announced, McClatchy news service reported.

But that didn’t stop a number of religious conservative groups from attacking the meeting as a sign the president has an anti-religious agenda.

“It is one thing for Administration to meet with groups of varying viewpoints, but it is quite another for a senior official to sit down with activists representing some of the most hate-filled, anti-religious groups in the nation,” said Council Nedd, chairman of the religious advocacy group In God We Trust.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, suggested the Obama administration may have an anti-religious agenda.

“People of faith, especially Christians, have good reason to wonder exactly where their interests lie with the Obama administration,” Donohue said in a statement. “Now we have the definitive answer. In an unprecedented move, leaders of a presidential administration are hosting some of the biggest anti-religious zealots in the nation.”

Genome, evolution, and plants

Posted in Evolution at 1:52 pm by nemo

Genome sequencing and plant evolution

Booknotes: The Darwin Myth

Posted in Booknotes, Evolution at 1:40 pm by nemo

The Darwin Myth

Darwin/theist/atheist?

Posted in Evolution at 1:38 pm by nemo

Faith basher relies very much on faith
Bryan Patterson
SOME of the most controversial words in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species come at the end.

Monkeys and forest decline

Posted in Evolution, global warming at 1:34 pm by nemo

Threat to Monkey Numbers from Forest Decline
ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2010) — Monkey populations in threatened forests are far more sensitive to damage to their habitat than previously thought, according to new research.

Science and crime

Posted in General at 1:33 pm by nemo

Can Math and Science Help Solve Crimes?
Scientists Work With Los Angeles Police to Identify and Analyze Crime ‘Hotspots’

Antarctic iceberg

Posted in global warming at 1:31 pm by nemo

Large Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica’s Mertz Glacier
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2010) — A joint Australian-French study has discovered the calving of a large iceberg from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory. The iceberg — 78 kilometres long with a surface area of roughly 2,500 square kilometres, about the size of Luxembourg — broke off the Mertz Glacier after being rammed by another iceberg, 97 kilometres long.

The Progress of Man

Posted in you've got mail at 1:28 pm by nemo

Published on Saturday, February 27, 2010 by Common Wonders
The Progress of Man
by Robert C. Koehler
How much longer can we tolerate soulless progress?

Whales

Posted in In the News at 1:25 pm by nemo

CounterPunch Diary
Feed Pete Peterson to the Whales
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Call him, just for now, Spartacus. He was two years old when the slavers captured him in 1982 and hauled him off to Oak Bay, near the town of Victoria, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in the far Canadian west. And there he met his fellow slaves, Nootka and Haida. Day after day, in slave school they learned their tricks. Day after day, they did their act for the paying customers. And then, on February 20, 1991, in the tank operated by Sealand of the Pacific, the three struck back at their captors.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02262010.html

Did Olympic Athletes Peak in the 1980s?

Posted in you've got mail at 1:21 pm by nemo

gnxp
As the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics draw to a close, future athletes will likely have to work harder than ever to beat any world records set during the games, says a recent study that found the results from many events are now close to the limits of human performance

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100226-vancouver-2010-olympics-new-world-record/

Physically fit and school

Posted in you've got mail at 1:20 pm by nemo

gnxp
Getting students to exercise more might not just address obesity issues but also improve their grades with a U.S. study finding physically fit students tend to score higher in tests than their less fit peers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100226/hl_nm/us_studies

New guidelines for elderly

Posted in you've got mail at 1:19 pm by nemo

gnxp
New guidelines published Thursday offer people in England and Wales broad hints about how to help a gravely ill loved one end their life with minimal fear of prosecution

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100225/ap_on_he_me/eu_britain_assisted_suicide

IVF kids show shift in gene activity

Posted in you've got mail at 1:18 pm by nemo

gnxp
Team finds differences related to metabolism and growth

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56496/title/IVF_kids_show_shift_in_gene_activity

Happiness

Posted in you've got mail at 1:17 pm by nemo

Being cheery can make you selfish, and that’s just the latest in a series of findings that happiness changes you – not in a good way

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18585-happiness-aint-all-its-cracked-up-to-be.html

Depression’s upside

Posted in you've got mail at 1:15 pm by nemo

gnxp
Is there an evolutionary purpose to feeling really sad?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html

Health care battle

Posted in In the News at 1:13 pm by nemo

What Happened to Health Reform?

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/26

Healthcare Summit Ends in Deadlock; Single-Payer Advocates Excluded

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/26-0

The warmest decade

Posted in you've got mail at 1:08 pm by nemo

RG mail
by Saul Landau
ZCommunications.org (February 19 2010)
The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface
temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration show … 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880,
when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-hottest-decade-by-saul-landau

02.26.10

Need for social democratic left

Posted in 1848+, Ultra Far Left at 4:50 pm by nemo

Inequality

James said,
February 26, 2010 at 1:43 pm ·
“It’s important to realize how rapidly our inequality has grown, and how different our societies used to be. Inequality isn’t some entrenched characteristic. It’s become much worse since the 1970s. And we can shift things back.”
The inevitable currency crisis should take care of this. When that time comes, most Americans will be equal in impoverishment.

The American system has suffered from the lack of a genuine left and the promotion of Social Democracy, long established in Europe.

Amazon review system and Darwin books

Posted in Booknotes, Evolution at 4:47 pm by nemo

Scientific incompetence on evolution

Stephen said,
February 24, 2010 at 2:53 pm ·
The Darwin groupies are back on the war path on Amazon with their compaign voting and comments.

The Amazon system of reviews has ironically had a very negative effect on potential Darwin critics, since the hoard of one-star groupies you refer to can intimidate authors severely.
Authors should realize that Amazon, usually, will remove such reviews on requrest, since it is obviously an outrageous system where anonymous reviewers, without reading the books in question, can say and judge as they please.

Inequality

Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy at 1:34 pm by nemo

It’s money that matters
A new book says economic inequality is the social division we should be worrying about

If you like to think of America as The Greatest Country on Earth, and you’d rather not examine its claim to that title too closely, “The Spirit Level” will not be your favorite new book. On nearly every one of its 250-plus pages, a stark, unflattering graph shows the USA topping the charts among developed countries for some social ailment: drug use, obesity, violence, mental illness, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy. But authors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, a pair of British social scientists, have another, more enlightening point to make. With striking consistency, they say, the severity of social decay in different countries reflects a key difference among them: not the number of poor people or the depth of their poverty, but the size of the gap between the poorest and the richest.

The ‘end of history’ confusion

Posted in The Eonic Effect at 1:28 pm by nemo

André Glucksmann
The Velvet Philosophical Revolution

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on.

The discussion of the ‘end of history’ is completely confused due to its propaganda tactics. Consider this clarification:
Last and First Men

Birds are dinosaurs?

Posted in Evolution at 1:18 pm by nemo

Birds Are Dinosaurs…Or Are They?

NCSE newsletter

Posted in Evolution, you've got mail at 1:17 pm by nemo

Dear Friends of NCSE,

NCSE honors three Friends of Darwin. Two members of NCSE’s staff
surface in the blogosphere. And a controversy in Israel erupts over
the ministry of education’s chief scientist’s denial of evolution.
Read the rest of this entry »

Mazur: Peer review

Posted in Science at 1:14 pm by nemo

David Noble: Peer Review, Where Are The Scholars?
Friday, 26 February 2010, 2:43 pm
Column: Suzan Mazur

No, passing peer review is not the scientific equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. . . I confess that decades ago as a Hearst Magazines fledgling I would on occasion pass by, and with some curiosity, peek in the glassed-in Good Housekeeping Institute where the coveted seal of approval was given to mattresses able to withstand umpteen thrusts, to pantyhose, pots and other utilitarian items. And how can I forget running into Johnny Weissmuller in the hall one day? The seal meant something – even Tarzan wanted to be associated. But to help me flesh-out what scientific peer review IS exactly, I contacted the Tarzan of science and technology historians, David F. Noble .

David Noble is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. His activism about matters involving the politics of science first surfaced in the early 1970s when he says he was “coerced” by the University of Rochester to sign away rights to his doctoral thesis in history in order to get his PhD.

ID puzzles: photoshopped?

Posted in General at 1:07 pm by nemo

The pictures

Facts and values

Posted in Science & Religion at 1:04 pm by nemo

Doing what comes supernaturally: Stanley Fish on fact and value
by Russell Blackford – Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Original link
from dawkins site

Genome of ancient Greenlandic man

Posted in Evolution at 1:01 pm by nemo

Genome of ancient Greenlandic man decoded
By Vivek Sinanan
The genome of an ancient Greenlandic man was recently decoded by a large team of researchers led by Morten Rasmussen and Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen using a tuft of hair so thick, it was thought to be from a bear.

His is now only the ninth of human genomes that have been fully decoded, joining a list of a Yoruba African, a Han Chinese, two Koreans and four Europeans. These genomes were decoded using relatively new advances in DNA sequencing technologies.

Continuous evolution

Posted in Evolution at 12:59 pm by nemo

Species have to continue evolving to survive

Stickleback genomes

Posted in Evolution at 12:58 pm by nemo

Stickleback genomes shining bright light on evolution
University of Oregon labs combine emerging technologies to identify gene regions underlying adaptation

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