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Atheism, Fundamentalism and Possibilianism
by Robert Lamb | November 22, 2010
Is there a God? Did some unimaginable divine hand set the course of human events or does it all boil down to a genetic mandate of propagation? Do you lay your offerings before the strict, atheistic machinations of science or at the feet of a patriarchal deity? I think a lot of us would opt for a third answer, a middle path of open-mindedness between the extremes of religious fundamentalism and strict atheism — and that’s why the concept of possibilianism is so attractive.
Podcast Goodness: No Sleep and uh, House Swapping.
by Charles W. Bryant | October 15, 2010
Hey there, folks. Time is short, short, short today but I don’t want to deny anyone the chance to leave some comments here at podcast goodness central. Our trivia night this week has put me way behind!
This week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast program, we discussed some thing pretty interesting and one that wasn’t so great. Heh – sort of true.
As this article points out, NASA and ESA are about to put the most expensive science experiment ever – the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) – on the International Space Station…
Leigh cuts my hair. She cuts all of the kids’s hair too. She has been doing this for more than 10 years. It started because one day we were at a K-mart and they had a bunch of remaindered books on a table for a quarter each. One of the books was “How to cut [...]
Is the sense of taste subjective? Why are some wines bad news for people with particular allergies? If you’re anxious for the answers, never fear: In this episode, Allison and Robert take a look at science and wine.
This past weekend I had my first chance to observe the Science Olympiad as a parent. That is, this is David’s first year in middle school and his school sent a team to the regional competition. If you’ve never been to a Science Olympiad, it is a fascinating thing. In the case of the regional [...]
The walls appear to be closing in more than usual on the field of psychology these days. The bad press over antidepressants — a survey of six clinical trials found that placebos work just as well as the actual pharmaceutical — has made psychiatry look a bit bumbling. Psychiatry is, of course, the same discipline that prescribed Ecstasy for marriage counseling in the early 1980s before it was listed at the top of the federal controlled substance schedule. This is not to say that the couples entering counseling in that era didn’t have fun, but anyone who’s ever made a connection with another person through synthetic chemistry can tell you those ties are fleeting and tenuous. Once the sun comes up at the party, things just aren’t the same.
Yesterday I blogged about Vatican astronomer Guy J. Consolmagno’s thoughts on the relationship between science and religion — and the conflict that sometimes emerges there. I thought the planetary scientists turned Jesuit brother presented a very positive, thought-provoking view on the matter. But in the interest of providing another take less rooted in Western monotheism, I thought we’d turn to Varadaraja V. Raman.
My friend Bill made an interesting statement on Twitter today: “Maybe we can cut a deal where all the biologists can believe in God in return for evangelicals believing in evolution.” This was particularly amusing because I attended a lecture last night by a man who was taught evolution by nuns and who studies meteorites while wearing a clerical collar.
American research astronomer Guy J. Consolmagno spoke at Agnes Scott College last night on the ethics of exploration and planetary astronomy (see my post at Discovery Space). He also happens to be a Jesuit brother and a planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory.
Podcast Goodness: Vanishing Honeybees and Doomsday Vaults
by Charles W. Bryant | January 22, 2010
Greetings, good people of planet Earth. I would say “take me to your leader” but I’d worry about who that might be. Please say it isn’t Josh. This week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast program Herr Clark and I discussed something very earthy and something very much out of this world. Tuesday’s show [...]
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