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Daily Archives: June 26, 2010
Does Megan Fox Foreshadow Our Posthuman and Atheist Future?
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses (in Book X), Pygmalion carves a female figure out of ivory and falls in love with it: And I couldn’t help but notice, in this Interview magazine cover promotion, the ivory-skinned Megan Fox making of herself a Pygmalion aesthetic object: Ernest … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, genetic engineering, God, humanism, Jesus, megan fox, ovid, philosophy, posthuman, pygmalion, the singularity
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Why I am not a young earth creationist
When it comes right down to it, the tensions between science and biblical literalism boil down to epistemology: how do we go about knowing things, and when is it reasonable to say, “I know something”? In this, the scientist, in his or … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Biblical literalism, creation, epistemology, evolution, evolution v. creation, Genesis, God, Jesus, John Macarthur, Richard Dawkins, the Bible
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Red State
A nervy image. And Andrew Sullivan explains: This is a map of global temperature anomalies for last month. Pretty uneventful until you get to the Arctic, where the feedback loops of warming, loss of ice-reflection, more warming and so on … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, ecology, environment, global warming, life, Red State, rush limbaugh, science
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Prometheus Unbound 