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TED | Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
Beau Lotto: So, this game is very simple. All you have to do is read what you see. Right? So, I’m going to count to you, so we don’t all do it together. Okay, one, two, three. Audience: Can you read this? BL: Amazing. What about this one? One, two, three. Audience: You are not […]
Saving Darwin | Notes & Review
August 18, 2012
Karl W. Giberson. Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. HarperOne, 2008. (248 pages) Foreword Giberson’s carefully documented history provides a sobering response to the claims of those who think that the current controversy can be quickly resolved. Just as with other great world conflicts, such as the current war in […]
From The Dust | Notes & Review
June 26, 2012
http://fromthedustmovie.org/ The question of where we come from is a mystery man has explored throughout human history. As Charles Darwin composed his theory of natural selection, he began defining for the modern generation a suitable, if altogether scientific answer for the origin of man. While this theory has gone largely unchallenged scientifically for the past […]
TED | Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
June 26, 2012
All right. So, like all good stories, this starts a long, long time ago when there was basically nothing. So here is a complete picture of the universe about 14-odd billion years ago. All energy is concentrated into a single point of energy. For some reason it explodes, and you begin to get these things. […]
Why Evolution Is True | Notes & Review
May 6, 2012
Jerry Coyne. Why Evolution Is True. Penguin, 2009. (282 pages) Preface …while the Dover trial is an American story, creationism isn’t a uniquely American problem. Creationists — who aren’t necessarily Christians — are establishing footholds in other parts of the world, especially the United Kingdom, Australia, and Turkey. The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And […]
TED | Peter Diamandis: Abundance is Our Future
March 4, 2012
(Video) Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden’s death, have spiked. Announcer Two: Famine in Somalia. Announcer Three: Police pepper spray. Announcer Four: Vicious cartels. Announcer Five: Caustic cruise lines. Announcer Six: Societal decay. Announcer Seven: 65 dead. Announcer Eight: Tsunami warning. Announcer Nine: Cyber-attacks. Multiple Announcers: Drug war. Mass destruction. Tornado. Recession. Default. […]
Something From Nothing? | Notes, Review, & Response
February 26, 2012
A conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss. 7pm | Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | ASU Gammage Auditorium http://richarddawkins.net/videos/644930-dawkins-krauss-discussion-from-asu-4-feb http://origins.asu.edu/ NOTES [I have striven to be completely accurate in the following transcription. I take full responsibility for any typos or misrepresenting punctuation or grammar.] Krauss: [Introductory remarks] Krauss: Now, the title for this evening is […]
What Technology Wants | Notes & Review
November 27, 2011
Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. Viking, 2010. (405 pages). http://www.kk.org/books/what-technology-wants.php. Video: http://www.qideas.org/video/what-technology-wants.aspx 1. My Question Should we allow human cloning? Is constant texting making our kids dumb? Do we want automobiles to park themselves? But as my quest evolved, I realized that if we want to find satisfying answers to those questions, we first need […]
Why We Believe in god(s) | Review
September 15, 2011
Andy Thomson’s talk, ‘Why We Believe in Gods,’ given at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia: — VIA — The discussion of science and religion continues to the arenas of neurobiology. I appreciate Thomson’s work, his careful attention to the studies, and the references to good scientific work. I consider this to be […]
Curiosity: The Questions of Life – Did God Create the Universe | Notes & Review
August 14, 2011
Discovery Channel’s page. Regarding the solar eclipse, the vikings believed that “skoll,” the wolf god would “eat the sun.” Without a scientific explanation imagine how disturbing it would have been to see the sun vanish. The vikings then responded through some sort of violent “scaring away” of the wolf, and believed it was them. They […]
The Language of Science and Faith | Notes & Review
April 1, 2011
Karl Giberson & Francis Collins. The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions. InterVarsity Press, 2011. (250 pages) http://biologos.org/blog/the-language-of-faith-and-science-a-brief-history/ God has provided two distinct, complementary and reliable revelations–the Bible and the natural world. (8) Introduction In the pages that follow we share this good news [that we do not have to make […]
What Darwin Never Knew | Notes & Review
November 20, 2010
NOVA Production, December 29, 2009. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/darwin-never-knew.html. Based on the books: Endless Forms Most Beautiful and The Making of the Fittest by Sean Carroll. While Darwin’s idea was brilliant, there was one big problem: How does evolution actually work? Science is uncovering answers to this question, and ultimately the question of what makes us human. There […]
The Grand Design | Review
October 1, 2010
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. Bantam, 2010. [VIA: I usually post reviews only from books I've read. However, this one exception (written by Edgar Andrews, with thanks to Challies.com) is of value for this blog. I'll get to reading it, hopefully soon...] Cosmologist Stephen Hawking sold over nine million copies of his […]
In The Shadow of the Moon | Notes & Review
August 29, 2010
http://www.intheshadowofthemoon.com/ THiNK FiLM, 2008. DVD [PG] This is a fascinating documentary of the Apollo missions during the 1960s in which the United States was in a race to land a man on the moon. Ron Howard interweaves politics and culture into the narrative to bring in the broader context of this space endeavor (JFK, Vietnam, […]
Life’s Solution | Notes & Review
September 26, 2009
Simon Conway Morris. Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (464 pages) “Life’s Solution sets out to demonstrate that what we already know gives some strong indicators of what must be: even in this book pigs don’t fly. The central theme of this book depends on the realities of evolutionary […]
Finding Darwin’s God | Notes & Review
July 16, 2009
Kenneth R. Miller. Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search For Common Ground Between God and Evolution. Cliff Street Books, 1999. http://www.findingdarwinsgod.com/. Kenneth Miller’s Home Page. Criticisms by Arthur Lodge. SchansBlog 5-part review link. An Imperfect Union: Darwin, Divinity, and Design. A Science & Spirit article. A very short William Dembski response article from the Action […]
Flock of Dodos | Notes & Review
May 31, 2009
Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus. Randy Olson, 2006. http://www.flockofdodos.com/ NPR’s Program. A few NYTimes.com listings. My notes from the film: res ipsa loquitur – it speaks for itself “Something has gone seriously wrong in the communication of evolution to the general public.” Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box. “What is Intelligent Design? […]
Ida Google That!
May 21, 2009
Google’s home page made me laugh out loud! If you haven’t heard the news yet, check out THE LINK’s promotional website, National Geographic’s news page, the BBC report, and the book, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor by Colin Tudge. The research article Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology […]
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
May 11, 2009
This program, was released by NOVA November 13, 2007. I just recently ran into it while renting Evolution: A Journey Into Where We’re From and Where We’re Going. Program description here, full program available for viewing online here, and the transcript is available in full here. The full transcript of the actual court case is […]
An Inconvenient Truth | Notes & Review
April 11, 2009
An Inconvenient Truth. Paramount Classics, 2006. National Geographic article. Washington Post fact-checker and Pinocchio test. Several months ago, I found myself in a fairly heated (no pun intended) discussion with a family member who believes the earth is only 6 – 10,000 years old, that oil is a renewable resource, and that global warming is […]
TED Talks Worth Talking About | Daniel Dennett – Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny: An Evolutionary Riddle
March 20, 2009
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_cute_sexy_sweet_funny.html I find Daniel Dennett to be one of the most challenging atheist philosophers for several reasons. First, he is, in my perspective, respectable and reasonable as well as intelligent in his argumentation. While others are vitriolic, Dennett continues to pose thoughts and ideas that are honorable to the field of science, philosophy, and even […]
The Huxley Memorial Debate, Oxford Union – February 14, 1986
January 5, 2009
My copy just arrived in the mail today! I’m listening to the Introduction of what is sure to be a lively and exciting debate (3 hrs. 49 mins.) And because of its setting in England, the tone and tenor is of the same energy and vigor of the House of Commons (at least of what […]
Evolution | Notes & Review
December 26, 2008
This 4-part, 8 hour series by PBS and WBGH is a fascinating and well-done production that charts through the issue of evolution, its development and socio-cultural implications. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/index.html Part 1, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Darwin’s Dangerous Idea charts the, shall we say, the “evolution” of Darwin’s ideas and thoughts in and through the science community in […]
Church of England to Apologise to Darwin
September 28, 2008
This article is of interest for the continued strenuous relationship between the faith and science communities. Perhaps we can learn something about how we, in the faith community, can, and ought to listen more intently, and judge a whole lot more slowly. 23:40 AEST Sun Sep 14 2008 The Church of England will make an […]
Antikythera Mechanism and Living in the Tension of Humanity’s Existence
August 11, 2008
My wife pointed out this article from the NYTimes.com on the Antikythera Mechanism. A video production is available at the Nature.com site. UPDATE: 2010-12-10, a reconstruction of this ancient mechanism, made out of Lego! I offer this post as a testimony to the amazing ancient world. We often believe, due in part to the Enlightenment, […]
Evolution in Genesis
August 6, 2008
A recent article at JPost.com entitled “Evolution of a slither – study tracks snake’s loss of legs” suggests that perhaps evolution can be interpretively found in the book of Genesis. The original Nature article can be downloaded here for a [not so] small fee. Though technical, it is the source for the JPost.com article. Below […]
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