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12.30.11

OWS and 9/11

Posted in General at 1:59 pm by nemo

How Occupy Wall Street Flashed New York Back to 9/11

Dec 30, 2011 10:36 AM EST How Occupy Wall Street, in the shadow of Ground Zero and the rising Freedom Tower, unwittingly brought New York back to the dark days just after 9/11.

This article (Daily Beast) unwittingly touches on an important point: the connection to 9/11 of the OWS is direct. The reason is simple, if you can get unhooked from the ‘official version’ of events. That conspiracy of the US government (state terrorism) and the crypto-fascist years unleashed by that false flag op have produced or accompanied/accelerated the terminal deadlock of government in the resurgence of the right. The OWS is a protest, then, against 9/11, like it or not.

Fantasy science

Posted in General at 1:50 pm by nemo

A glimpse of evolution

Debates over evolution are usually delusive because they are about the principles religionists and/or scientists believe in, and how ‘evolution’, unobserved, can be grafted onto those beliefs.

The failure to have observed ‘evolution’ before constructing a theory seems absurd, and is, but it is the reality of Darwinian fantasy science, and, these days, religious ID fantasy science.

Platinga/Dennett

Posted in General at 1:47 pm by nemo

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/alvin-plantinga-sophisticated-theologian/
Debates between people like Platinga and Dennett generate a sense of hopelessness: the debate is a monopoly of two power groups, Darwinian and religious. And both are filled with confusions. As we noted yesterday the issue of evolution and purpose is muddled by theologians who try to hybridize that with Xtian dogmas, as here.

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As I’ve noted before, Plantinga sees no conflict between science and religion, but a definite conflict between science and naturalism. His premise here is that science, conceived as a mechanism for finding truth, is incompatible with naturalism’s claims that humans evolved by unguided evolution. According to Plantinga, there’s no reason to assume that unguided evolution would provide humans with senses that would give them reliable information about the universe, and so our ability to apprehend truth is compromised. But we can get back on the rails if we’re theists, for God has provided us with that essential supplementary way to find truth, the sensus divinitatis

NCSE inbox: Evolution = Nazism?

Posted in General at 1:42 pm by nemo

Some news of note!

Two new anti-evolution bills are heading to the New Hampshire state
legislature. House member Jerry Bergevin (R-District 17), who introduced
one of the bills, blames the acceptance of evolution for the atrocities
of Nazi Germany and the 1999 Columbine shootings. House member Gary
Hopper (R-District 7), who introduced the other bill, admits he would
like to see “intelligent design” taught in classrooms. Yikes.

The details:

http://ncse.com/news/2011/12/monitoring-antievolution-bills-new-hampshire-007000

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Robert Luhn
Director of Communications
National Center for Science Education, Inc.

Mazur as Darwin critic

Posted in General at 1:40 pm by nemo

Suzan Mazur, about whose book on Darwinian we posted here many times, has been sending me some links to articles she has written, some of them (auto)biographical vignettes of some interest.

I am posting these here with a suggestion that she write an account of how she became Darwin critic, as a journalist and fashion model. The account might be useful for future ‘gals’ (and guys) getting up the nerve to defy the Darwin establishment. Here’s the link:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1112/S00165/gil-noble-pianoman-broadcaster-tenaciously-human.htm: Gil Noble: Pianoman, Broadcaster, Tenaciously Human

and here is her book at Amazon: The Altenberg 16

Orangutans and iPads

Posted in General at 1:26 pm by nemo

Orangutans ‘could video chat’ between zoos via iPads By DAVE LEE – BBC NEWS
Added: Friday, 30 December 2011 at 7:04 AM

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644416-orangutans-could-video-chat-between-zoos-via-ipads

Case Closed? Columbus Introduced Syphilis to Europe

Posted in General at 1:24 pm by nemo

By CHARLES Q. CHOI – SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Added: Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 5:56 PM

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644411-case-closed-columbus-introduced-syphilis-to-europe

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but when he returned from ‘cross the seas, did he bring with him a new disease?

New skeletal evidence suggests Columbus and his crew not only introduced the Old World to the New World, but brought back syphilis as well, researchers say.

Syphilis is caused by Treponema pallidum bacteria, and is usually curable nowadays with antibiotics. Untreated, it can damage the heart, brain, eyes and bones; it can also be fatal.

The first known epidemic of syphilis occurred during the Renaissance in 1495. Initially its plague broke out among the army of Charles the VIII after the French king invaded Naples. It then proceeded to devastate Europe, said researcher George Armelagos, a skeletal biologist at Emory University in Atlanta.

“Syphilis has been around for 500 years,” said researcher Molly Zuckerman at Mississippi State University. “People started debating where it came from shortly afterward, and they haven’t stopped since. It was one of the first global diseases, and understanding where it came from and how it spread may help us combat diseases today.”

Stigmatized disease
The fact that syphilis is a stigmatized sexually transmitted disease has added to the controversy over its origins. People often seem to want to blame some other country for it, said researcher Kristin Harper, an evolutionary biologist at Emory.

Armelagos originally doubted the so-called Columbian theory for syphilis when he first heard about it decades ago. “I laughed at the idea that a small group of sailors brought back this disease that caused this major European epidemic,” he recalled. Critics of the Columbian theory have proposed that syphilis had always bedeviled the Old World but simply had not been set apart from other rotting diseases such as leprosy until 1500 or so.

ID American phenomenon?

Posted in General at 1:20 pm by nemo

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/12/the_year_in_rev054561.html

2011 Breakthrough of the Year

Posted in General at 1:16 pm by nemo

HIV Study Named ’2011 Breakthrough of the Year’ by Science
ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011) — The journal Science has chosen the HPTN 052 clinical trial, an international HIV prevention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The study found that if HIV-infected heterosexual individuals begin taking antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems are relatively healthy as opposed to delaying therapy until the disease has advanced, they are 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners.

Are Superluminal Neutrinos Possible?

Posted in General at 1:15 pm by nemo

Are Superluminal Neutrinos Possible? Pions Don’t Want to Decay Into Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011) — When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein’s theory of special relativity and couldn’t find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to take a second look at their experiment.

Socialism over capitalism

Posted in General at 12:57 pm by nemo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/young-people-socialism_n_1175218.html

Young People More Likely To Favor Socialism Than Capitalism: Pew
by Alexander Eichler
Young people — the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall Street movement — might be getting more comfortable with socialism. That’s the surprising result from a Pew Research Center poll that aims to measure American sentiments toward different political labels.

Academic publishers

Posted in General at 12:54 pm by nemo

http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2011/12/academic-publishers-suicide-bombers.html

“For-profit academic publishing is a suicide bombing mission against
the academy. In pursuing their doomed business model, the big
publishers risk turning the work we do as scholars into a giant echo
chamber. Students take on a lifetime of debt, partly to pay for
journal subscriptions that enrich a few corporations. Scholars are
turned into serfs who must feed the beast new product for it to sell,
or risk losing their already tenuous livelihoods. Institutions
bankrupt themselves paying for ever more expensive journals without
which they cannot compete. Fewer and fewer people can read the rapidly
increasing number of scholarly articles.

Is that grim enough for you? It’s all true.”

Someday I Want to Own a Yacht

Posted in General at 12:49 pm by nemo

Matt Hern: Someday I Want to Own a Yacht

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/29-8

Repeat After Me

Posted in General at 12:49 pm by nemo

Bill Bigelow: ‘Repeat After Me: The United States Is Not an Imperialist Country—Oh, and Don’t Get Emotional About War’

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/29-5

The Year of Nonviolence?

Posted in you've got mail at 12:48 pm by nemo

Jake Olzen: 2012: The Year of Nonviolence?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/29-4

Occupy Our Food

Posted in General at 12:48 pm by nemo

Occupy Our Food

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/28-0

The Face of Homelessness

Posted in General at 12:47 pm by nemo

The Face of Homelessness: Eli on the Pursuit of Happiness and the American Dream

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/29

Occupy Geeks

Posted in you've got mail at 12:46 pm by nemo

Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/29-2

Another Gaza Invasion?

Posted in General at 12:46 pm by nemo

Israel Threatens Another Gaza Invasion

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/29

Plan to ‘Dominate Green Economy’

Posted in General at 12:45 pm by nemo

Corporate Monopolies Intend to ‘Dominate Green Economy’

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/29-8

‘Pathetic’

Posted in you've got mail at 12:44 pm by nemo

‘Pathetic’: FDA U-Turns on Regulating Big-Ag Antibiotics

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/29-10

New World Disorder

Posted in General at 12:43 pm by nemo

The Guardian Editorial: United States as a Global Power: New World Disorder

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/29-1

Free market economics

Posted in General at 12:41 pm by nemo

by Ian Fletcher

Real World Economics Review (December 18 2011)

If there’s one thing everyone in America knows, it’s that free-market
economics is true and free markets are best.

After all, we’re not communists, are we? They starved and lost the Cold
War because they believed otherwise. And their watered-down European
cousins the socialists? More of the same, only less so. Even liberals
get this nowadays. All hail the free market!

Trouble is, things “everyone” knows are often wrong. And this is no
exception.

http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/why-free-market-economics-is-a-fraud/

12.29.11

WTC7 contradictions

Posted in General at 1:47 pm by nemo

Comment on WTC7: Reece Sullivan is right. The known facts simply don’t make sense from the standpoint of the official version. Check out David Ray Griffin’s book on this.

Link Log

Posted in General at 1:41 pm by nemo

There is a link log to old posts on the sidebar (I have been neglecting it, but will try to catch up).
The back issues here are stupendous, and we get a huge number of page views (average,17000/day, three/four per visitor) for the archive (over 30K posts).

New additions to link log page (in sidebar)
http://darwiniana.com/2011/12/28/repost-barzun-before-the-synthesis/
http://darwiniana.com/2011/12/26/penniless-student-so-greek/
http://darwiniana.com/2011/12/26/defining-scientism/

South in denial

Posted in General at 1:23 pm by nemo

Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery

Mystery behind Hitchcock’s Birds is solved at last

Posted in General at 1:20 pm by nemo

http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap2_1.htm: Mystery behind Hitchcock’s Birds is solved at last
Scientists link eerie avian suicides of 1961, which inspired cinema classic, to poison in the food chain

Teleology, ambiguity, and creative outcomes

Posted in General at 1:16 pm by nemo

Teleology is a highly ambiguous term, and has very little meaning. It depends on its essential meaning in a specific case. Note the resemblance, perhaps, to determinism! Is future determined? It would seem teleological. But that’s only is the telos is a fixed state. Suppose a teleological system was ‘evolving freedom’. It could not resolve a fixed future: it would evolve a ‘free creative potential’ for freedom to manifest. And this could not produce a fixed ‘telos’, since the outcome would be subject to creative amiguities.

Should you despair of the Darwin debate?

Posted in General at 1:07 pm by nemo

Frankly, I recommend it! When both sides of a debate, here science and religion, indulge in confusing and inaccurate distortions of basic positions, the result is an intractable muddle that never resolves itself, and just continues in a dialectical infinity.
The question of ‘purpose’ is likely to be of this type. You just won’t get it straight from theological belivers, or mainstream scientists. Both sides will get it wrong.

Let the dust settle, and take a long slow look at the way in which the purposive appears in world history (in the incomplete pattern discovered). You can see where religionists get confused: the Axial Age is clear, until you try and interpret the history of the Old Testament. There religionists will bungle the issue of purpose in history, while scientists, having played ostrich will be issuing press releases from their back holes.
Since these two sides control the airwaves the conclusion lurks that public resolution of the issues is hopeless.
Despair?
Truth hides itself, and is rarely a public reality.

Noumenon, phenomenon; teleology, directionality

Posted in General at 1:00 pm by nemo

Climbing Mt. Improbable

The previous post on scientism and purpose was accurate enough up to a point, but when theologically inclined thinkers try to get specific they will bungle the whole question.

As I noted in that post: treat yourself to a case where the issues are clear, and you can do the job right: the eonic effect as a pattern of historical directionality. We see how a teleological system might operate. Note that ‘teleology’, pace Kant, is a phenomenal/noumenon casualty: we never really see ‘teleology’, we see instead the phenomenal aspect in a natural context. How would that work? No amount of philosophy will help. An example is needed, and that given in the eonic effect, though partial, is a spectacular possible answer: the noumenal ‘teleology’ shows a phenomenal cyclicity as its exemplar in the form of directionality.
Note that temporal observers may be unable to verify teleology because they don’t see the ‘end’ of a process. They might predict, but maybe not. Directionality is less stringent: you can see the relative progression of something in stages, suggesting a progession toward a ‘teleo’, but then again maybe not.

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