February 8, 2010 – 11:01 pm
I don’t know if I’ve seen such a well-scripted bit of comdy about metaphysics and cosmology before:
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By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Cosmology, Hilarious, Metaphysics, Mr. Deity, New Atheism, Parody, Religion and Science, Satire, Videos
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Tagged Nothingness, Time
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January 6, 2010 – 4:04 pm
Ozmoroid both hilariously and scientifically refutes a video which claims it does…
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January 3, 2010 – 3:03 pm
One YouTuber claims it does and this highly informed video both presents and refutes his claims most educationally and, in the last half, hilariously:
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October 30, 2009 – 12:49 pm
Interesting 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.
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September 29, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Well, 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.
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September 19, 2009 – 5:09 pm
djarm67, 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.
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August 25, 2009 – 6:40 am
I was thinking about the argument for the existence of God that hinges on the question of how something could come from nothing. And I wondered, is nothing even an intelligible concept? Everything we experience is something. We have a concept of zero since we can imagine there being zero of some particular thing either [...]
By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Cosmology, God, Metaphysics, Philosophy
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Tagged Anything, Everything, Nothing, Paradoxes, Plato's Sophist, Something, That Which Is Not, The Non-Existence of Nothing, Victor Stenger
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August 18, 2009 – 3:01 pm
A neat presentation of the nature and workings of black holes.
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An 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.
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By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Astronomy, Cosmology, Evolution, Faith, Philosophy, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Religion and Science, Science
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Tagged Cosmological Arguments For Existence of God, Existence of God, George Coyne, God of the Gaps, Multiverse, Non-Overlapping Magisteria, Pope John Paul II, Prime Mover, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism
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Jason Streitfeld weighs in on the question of naturalism or supernaturalism, treated by Sean Carroll here, John Pieret here, and Shane and me in these this post and then this one. Streitfeld’s post is excellent so read it in full.
Scientists do not rely on any notion of the supernatural to formulate their conception of nature. [...]
By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Atheism, Biology, Creationism, Divine Intervention, Evolution, Law, Naturalism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Religion and Science, Science
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Tagged Creationism, Intelligent Design, Jason Streitfeld, John Pieret, Metaphysics, Methodological Naturalism, Occam's Razor, Philosophical Naturalism, Scientific Demarcation, Scientific Method, Sean Carroll, Simplicity, Supernatural, Supernaturalism
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John Pieret is not thrilled with Sean Carroll’s foray into the philosophy of science and metaphysics from Thursday. Particularly, he is (rightly) critical of Carroll’s dismissal of major theories of scientific demarcation as mere “mottos” and his apparently unnuanced and uncritical preference for Occam’s Razor in all cases. Only in the final paragraph does [...]
By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Academic Disciplines, Cosmology, Divine Intervention, Epistemology, Law, Naturalism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Religion and Science, Science
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Tagged Creationism, Disciplinary Rigor, Intelligent Design, Inter-disciplinary, John Pieret, Metaphysics, Methodological Naturalism, Occam's Razor, Philosophical Naturalism, Samir Okasha, Scientific Demarcation, Scientific Method, Sean Carroll, Simplicity, Supernatural, Supernaturalism
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An excellent question posed by a Scot, a reader at The Friendly Atheist. While Richard gives a fine answer supposing belief in a supernatural version of Karma, I find several of the comments interesting and more akin to the way I’ve used the term. Gary says:
Actually, the word “karma” is sanskrit and simply [...]
Via PZ Myers, comes a long and recommendable argument by Sean Carroll on the philosophy of science and how scientific understanding of the world thus far precludes any room for miracles (thus making the religion and science incompatible). Excerpted from the much longer article with interesting things on the philosophy of science which I recommend [...]
By Daniel Fincke
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Also posted in Atheism, Biology, Christianity, Cosmology, Divine Intervention, Naturalism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Religion, Religion and Science, Science
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Tagged Methodological Naturalism, Scientific Method, Supernatural, Supernaturalism
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Five Videos, start with this one:
Thanks to Atheist Media Blog.
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