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New post on the ethics of being an anti-vaxxer:
http://theappleeaters.wordpress.com/2009
theappleeaters.wordpress.com
For some reason that completely eludes me, an unusually high number of people seem to have jumped on the anti-vaccine bandwagon. I’m not going to say anything about the safety and efficacy of vaccines ...
Tim Clayton Just in time for X-Mas!
Teach the Controversy - Intelligently designed t-shirts urging you to show both sides of every story
controversy.wearscience.com
Teach the Controversy - intelligently designed t-shirts urging you to show both sides of every story
Apple Eaters sorry about the lack of posts recently. i expect to be posting much more often again. -Jim
Apple Eaters
New blog post on "Lying for Jesus": http://theappleeaters.wordpress.com/2009
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First, I guess I should address the fact that I haven’t posted in a while. It isn’t that I’ve quit on the blog. This is just one of those cases where life got in the way of plans that were ...
Tim Clayton Awesome.
scienceblogs.com
Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The ...
Apple Eaters
New blog post on the "Argument from Morality":
http://theappleeaters.wordpress.com/2009
theappleeaters.wordpress.com
There is a kind of argument for God that seems very common amongst the “New Apologists” that is commonly called the “Argument from Morality.” I am bothered by this argument for a couple of reasons, and I’ll spell them out here. This argument runs something like this:
Apple Eaters
The nerds among us are really going to like this.
-Liza
www.nytimes.com
A comic-book tour of logic, math and madness, populated by Bertrand Russell and other superheroes of philosophy.
Tim Clayton Ah, Kirk. You are no Captain, Kirk.
www.youtube.com
Kirk Cameron (sssnake!) and Ray "the banana guy" Comfort video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN9zpf5cT0M Ray's 50 page "introduction" : http://assets.livingwaters.com/pdf/OriginofSpecies.pdf So gross *pukes*
Tim Clayton As a dev, I found this pretty interesting.
www.neosprockets.com
Many of you know this, but I’m a genetic algorithm fanboy. I’ve coded dozens of simulation programs and tools using these evolutionary algorithms, and even recently presented a paper on GAs at the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference in Chicago.
Apple Eaters
Apparently, all existential crises are Darwin's fault. Click to watch the promo video:
http://shepherdproject.com/idconf/
-Jim
shepherdproject.com
Christian conference exploring the impact of 150 years of Darwinism and the new evidence for intelligent design.
Apple Eaters
New blog post about the Armstrong/Dawkins debate in WSJ:
http://theappleeaters.wordpress.com/2009
theappleeaters.wordpress.com
On the 12th, the Wall Street Journal published two essays together that had the author of each answer a seemingly straightforward question: "Where does evolution leave God?" ...
Apple Eaters New Blog Post on the value assumptions implicit in every economic theory.
theappleeaters.wordpress.com
Paul Krugman’s recent article in the New York Times Magazine traces the history of two competing schools of economics from the Great Depression to the current great recession. Without being over-the-top, ...
Apple Eaters
In my new post I look at the connection between anti-abortion activists and disability rights groups. I make the case that many reproductive practices are eugenic and that not all eugenic practices are morally problematic.
-Liza
theappleeaters.wordpress.com
In this post I make the argument that the practice of eugenics is common and generally not morally problematic. I make this argument in order to motivate another point about the rhetorical dishonesty ...
Apple Eaters
Post by Steven Novella about the Sedalia High School band tshirt debacle that I posted on yesterday. He shows the absurdity of this whole business by making the analogy of Krishnas complaining about a tshirt using imagery of the Apollo moon missions as violating religious neutrality. It's a good post.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?
-Jim
www.theness.com
In the small community of Sedalia Missouri there happens to be a substantial Krishna community. (I won’t get into the various names for specific Krishna religions, but will just refer to them as ...
Apple Eaters
"Pope says atheists are responsible for global warming":
http://www.secularism.org.uk/113418.html
-Jim
www.secularism.org.uk
