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"Let no one detract from Wallace's genius and achievements, but he had a lifelong affinity for minority - some would say crackpot - positions. Evolution (before it was acceptable), spiritualism, socialism, feminism, land reformism, vegetarianism (for health reasons he was forced to eat raw chopped liver) and more. Progress was meat and drink to him."
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— Oct 06, 2014 01:32PM
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Consider the claim "that Reason rules the world, and that world history has therefore been rational in its course." This was once an extremely serious philosophical idea (the quote is from Hegel, and served as motto for Brian Keeley's 1999 paper on epistemic flaws in conspiracy theories).
— Oct 21, 2014 05:52AM
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An interesting case is the Australian geologist and creationist Andrew Snelling. Despite working on mining and petrogeology that covers millions of years, and publishing work on that basis, Snelling nevertheless contends that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.
— Oct 17, 2014 02:51AM
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Popular religion pays little heed to theology, as revealed by research into theological incorrectness. Theists may be able to reproduce theologically correct dogma when explicitly required to, but they seem to operate with much simpler and less counterintuitive supernatural beliefs than those condoned by theology.
— Oct 12, 2014 02:52AM
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Creationism is an attractive doctrine, argue Steffan Blancke and Johan de Smedt, because we are wired by evolution to see agency everywhere. "Evolved to be creationist". That would fit well on a T-shirt, wouldn't it?
— Oct 12, 2014 12:57AM
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Sedgwick speculated that so vile a work must have been written by a woman; he then pulled back and opined that no woman could have fallen so far as to write such a dreadful book: "the ascent up the hill of science is rugged and thorny, and ill-suited for the drapery of the petticoat"
— Oct 06, 2014 02:48PM
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I visited a Truther group in my hometown, and was shocked to the core to discover that its members included not only scientists and engineers, an editor of a journal in applied mathematics, an author of a book critical of traditional theological language, but even former graduate students and colleagues in philosophy of science!
- Noretta Koertge
— Oct 05, 2014 10:33AM
- Noretta Koertge
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In McClean v Arkansas, 1981, it was legally necessary to establish to the court's satisfaction that creationism was pseudoscience. Merely establishing that it was bad science, on the grounds that it had been refuted, was insufficient, since the US Constitution does not forbid the teaching of bad science.
— Oct 04, 2014 02:36PM
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Avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.
- 1 Tim. 6:20
— Oct 04, 2014 07:32AM
- 1 Tim. 6:20
Manny
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As Newton put it, investigation must start from phenomena known to exist, not from Cartesian hypotheses. Such a view is not antireligious, since "the book of Nature" is directly God's creation, hence more reliable and less subject to human misinterpretation than sacred scripture.
— Oct 03, 2014 12:41AM
