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EMERGENCE: It is naïve to believe that the fashionable scientific model of a... →
It is naïve to believe that the fashionable scientific model of a particular age—cosmological, horological, electronic, or neurobiological—can explain human action. It cannot.
The modern neuroscientistic search for the seat of the mind as choice-maker is but a new version of the medieval…
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I’m sorry Professor Dawkins but that is just not true. There is far more to “religion” than your repressive Anglican upbringing. Tao, Buddhism, Jainism, Native American Spiritualism, Sufism, Aboriginal animism, Hinduism, Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, Paganism. None of these religious traditions claim to have all the answers. They simply provide a means of experiencing the universe, a context, a language of symbols and shared experiences.
Is it your contention that generations of great thinkers, theologians, mystics, prophets, rabbis, Zen masters, Imams, poets and prophets is totally without meaning or value simply because you lump them all into the term “religion”? Would mankind be so profligate with its great thinkers to spend it one something without meaning or value. Science is wonderful. It teaches us about the universe which can be measured, weighed and described. However, the universe is so much more that gas clouds, dust particles and light. Why approach the universe with one eye blinded? Use all of the tools you have available. One of these tools is the shared experiences of five thousand years of human experience.Being “against religion” is to ignore this accumulated wisdom and experience simply because your English Public School education was constricting.
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Dedicata a tutti quelli che: i telefonini non fanno nulla, a Harrisbourg non c’era poi sta gran radiazione etcetc…
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Environmental toxicants causing ovarian disease across generations →
Washington State University researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations.
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Scientific evidence proves why healers see the 'aura' of people →
Researchers in Spain have found that many of the individuals claiming to see the aura of people –traditionally called “healers” or “quacks”– actually present the neuropsychological phenomenon known as “synesthesia” (specifically, “emotional synesthesia”). This might be a scientific explanation of their alleged “virtue”. In synesthetes, the brain regions responsible for the processing of each type of sensory stimuli are intensely interconnected. This way, synesthetes can see or taste a sound, feel a taste, or associate people with a particular color.
On neo atheism, again
As Warsi was on her way to catch her flight to Rome she heard Dawkins, the supreme prophet of neo-atheism, on Radio 4’s Today programme. He was attempting to celebrate a survey that proved, at least to his satisfaction, that supposedly Christian Britain was a fraud. People who said they were Christians did not go to church and knew little of the faith. Giles Fraser, a priest of the Church of England, then challenged Dawkins to give the full title of Darwin’s Origin of Species. Falling into confusion, he failed. Fraser’s point was that Dawkins was therefore, by his own criterion, not a Darwinian. Becoming even more confused, Dawkins exclaimed in his response: “Oh, God!”
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It was in the midst of this that Fodor and the cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini published What Darwin Got Wrong, a highly sophisticated analysis of Darwinian thought which concluded that the theory of natural selection could not be stated coherently. All hell broke loose. Such was the abuse that Fodor vowed never to read a blog again. Myers the provocateur announced that he had no intention of reading the book but spent 3,000 words trashing it anyway, a remarkably frank statement of intellectual tyranny. Fodor now chuckles at the memory. “I said we should write back saying we had no intention of reading his review but we thought it was all wrong anyway.
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