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Be Here Now
There’s something eschatalogical about the above clip that I like. It contains within it the seed of the idea that life goes on in a functional way, but when a very particular “presence” arrives on the scene you drop everything and enter … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, a thief in the night, End Times, eschatology, hamlet's ghost, Messiah, second coming, the call, The Gong Show, ufo abduction
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Telos and Contingency: Jim Manzi v. Jerry Coyne
Jim Manzi defends Robert Wright against atheist biologist Jerry Coyne’s thumbs down New Republic review of Wright’s new book, The Evolution of God, here. Money quote: [T]he evolutionary process does not add any incremental randomness to outcomes beyond what is … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, evolution, jerry coyne, jim manzi, philosophy, religion, robert wright, science
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Evolutionary Progress: From Darwin to Hitler?
Richard Weikart is Professor of Modern European History at California State University, Stanislaus. He has a new book that has just come out. It is titled Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). I got the book … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 