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Category Archives: Astronomy
Cat Faber’s “The Words Of God”
February 6, 2011 – 6:55 pmThis is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]
Scientists’ Spiritualities As Alternative Models Of Religiosity
January 5, 2011 – 8:19 amIn my last post, I made clear that I am by no means an “accommodationist” who wants to let religious claims to hegemony over ethics, metaphysics, or epistemology go unchallenged as part of a deal whereby it agrees to either cooperate with or, minimally, not interfere with science education and science-based public policy. In a [...]
Just How Intelligent Are WE Anyway?
April 26, 2010 – 8:06 pmEarlier, I quoted some of Greg Mayer’s ruminations with some students on whether or not alien forms of intelligent life would even recognize us as intelligent life. In reply, on Facebook, John suggested Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s argument on the matter is decisive: Your Thoughts?
Dawkins On The Anthropic Principle
October 30, 2009 – 12:49 pmInteresting remarks on the possible implications of Darwinian thinking for thinking in physics. Is it possible that there is natural selection among many universes? Watch Dawkins’s entire talk from which this clips comes: Your Thoughts?
Bill Nye The Non-Creationist Guy
October 10, 2009 – 9:14 amvia Unreasonable Faith, comes this tidbit about a speech Bill Nye The Science Guy gave in Waco, Texas in 2006: The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and [...]
Confirming Galileo: Hammer Vs. Feather On The Moon
September 29, 2009 – 4:16 pmWell, you know which one this website’s going to be pulling for: From the YouTube information listings: WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com On the surface of the Moon at Hadley Rille Apollo 15 Commander David Scott verifies Galileo’s discovery that all objects in gravity fields fall at the same speed. (via) Your Thoughts?
Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error
September 19, 2009 – 5:09 pmdjarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?
Anatomy Of A Black Hole
August 18, 2009 – 3:01 pmA neat presentation of the nature and workings of black holes. Your Thoughts?
Richard Dawkins Interviews Jesuit Astronomer Father George Coyne
July 23, 2009 – 8:06 amAn utterly fascinating dialogue, Coyne throughout is a novel, deeply scientifically informed, and riveting thinker and Dawkins puts exactly the right questions and brief challenges to him. Watch all 7 parts, they’re great. Your Thoughts?
The Scientific Purpose Behind Cathedral Designs
July 6, 2009 – 10:44 pmSancte Pater has the skinny from Thomas Woods, Jr.: “The Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini, a student of the Jesuits Riccioloi and Grimaldi, used the observatory at the splendid Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna to lend support to Kepler’s model. “Here we see an important way in which the Church contributed to astronomy that is [...]
The History Of The Universe With Physicist Michio Kaku
July 6, 2009 – 9:51 pmFive Videos, start with this one: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geJa5ZFO1JU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01] Thanks to Atheist Media Blog.
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