‘In the name of Darwinism, he has become the scourge of the religious, the atheist’s answer to Billy Graham.’
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My review of Mary Midgley’s ‘The Myths We Live By’ and Ursula Goodenough’s ‘The Sacred Depths of Nature.’
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Buddhist neurology.
“These are the Olympic athletes, the gold medalists, of meditation.”
Don’t you just love it when a reductionist decides that other people are dogmatists?
“It’s easier than you’d think to become science fabulous.”
This little site has somehow crept into the blogging ecosystem!
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More on multiverses.
”It’s very easy to misconstrue the anthropic principle, and draw ridiculous conclusions from it.”
“The multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language, but in essence it requires the same leap of faith.”
Plans for humanitarian relief when war starts in Iraq involve estimates of “anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers,” plus another million displaced people inside Iraq.
“It’s like refusing to recognize someone who doesn’t believe in gravity for a PhD program in physics.”