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Daily Archives: September 22, 2009
Strict Materialism, Intelligent Design, and a Potential Crime Scene (by Way of Analogy)
Barry Arrington is an intelligent design advocate, and he recently offered a detective analogy for thinking about the tensions between strict materialists and intelligent design advocates. His analogy seems pretty sound to me. Imagine a scene where someone is killed … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, columbo, creation v. evolution, creationism, crime, Darwin, evolution, God, intelligent design, philosophy, science
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I Went to a UFO Conference! And I Took Pictures!
This past weekend, a UFO conference came to Burbank, California. It wasn’t far from where I live, so I went. The event was sponsored by Project Camelot, and was held at the Burbank Marriot (by the airport). Here was the event’s poster … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, ant people, atheist, Nefertiti, pictures, project camelot, reason, richard dolan, science, skeptic, ufo conference, UFOs
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Ants Eat a Gecko. 21 Hours. Time. Lapsed.
“Because I could not stop for death . . .” Emily Dickinson would have written a disturbing poem about this: Do you suppose she would have laughed at the ants carting off the skull? There’s something funny about it somehow, … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo v. dionysus, biology, death, Dionysus, Emily Dickinson, Halloween, life, nature, Nietzsche, poetry, skeletons
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Google’s Press
According to Anthony Grafton at the New Yorker, Google is in the process of passing yet another milestone in the digitizing and distribution of books: Google announced [on Sept. 17th, 2009] that they would allow On Demand Books to produce paperback … Continue reading
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Tagged book industry, books, college, economy, Google, gutenburg, kindle, newspapers, students
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Prometheus Unbound 