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I am just reading this: Debating Darwin – Adventures of a Scholar, by John C. Greene.

A wonderful mind. I regret that I didn’t look him up in 2007, when I first picked up the book…

Of all the writing in this book, his correspondence zings loudest and clearest, (as it does with many of us – we know our audience, and are trying to make our point with wit and force). His mind so nicely, cleanly and lucidly understands and separates the biologists’ fiction of having it both ways: That we have a supernaturally all-powerful, choosing, remaking, selecting and altering “nature,” always spurring on life to ‘greater’ accomplishment and ‘higher’ levels of expression; which we also and simultaneously must, by definition regard as a dead, ‘chance-driven’ evolutionary machine.

The book takes the form of several essays, together with long excerpts from considerable correspondences with two evolutionary biologists, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and Ernst Mayr. Below is an excerpt from one exchange with Mayr.
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Prediction: The iPad (“Apple’s Genius New Product”) will further erode the world of private versus public life, thinking freely and independently, and reading anything that requires meditative consideration.

- The iPad, soon to take over your life, or the life of every twenty to thirty-something near you.
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Please?

Please?

Please?

No, really. Please?

I’ll take half. Less. I’ll take less than half. Less than that even. A quarter. A quarter of 33 million dollars for sucking up the airwaves with an unwatchable late-night show.

– Unfunniness squared. “Conan O’Brien” from the Urban Dictionary.
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Here in the great State of Massachusetts, a great many irritated people, tired of immense taxation, voted for a pretty decent, hard working fellow from a local town to represent their interests and to oppose D.C. desires, as State Senator.

And it’s good as far as it goes. It might hold up the massive health care fraud. It does announce that many old Dems will be vacating their positions soon, and Congress and the Senate will see some new blood, most of which will be quickly corrupted.

New can be good, but it only goes so far…

Democrats will remain what they have been, and so will Republicans. Read the rest of this entry »

Will Massachusetts elect another pay-for-play Hack? Or will it vote for an actual REPRESENTATIVE of the PEOPLE of the State?

Martha Coakley is a member of the Democratic machine in Massachusetts, campaigning against a truly hard-working local Republican, Scott Brown.

I’m not Republican, I’m an Independent. I didn’t and don’t believe in the invasion of Iraq. I believe U.S. policy under Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Rove was pre-planned, but not pre-thought. Blowback is now the name of the world we live in, because we helped so very much to create it. Those Neo-Cons are not my friends, nor my representatives.

But, I’m an Independent, and I know a hump and a hack when I see one.

- Attorney General Coakley, Proud Member of the Hack-a-rama (Left – Coakley, Middle – Her Royal Guard, Left (on the ground) – Journalist being prevented from asking her a question about why she was meeting with Pharmaceutical Reps on the eve of the Health Care Sham vote).
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Greetings free thinkers and other trouble-makers,

I’ve recently had an experience with the very friendly Facebook platform, which has made me evaluate its friendliness and utility.

I had accrued some massive coterie of ‘friends’ on the site – most of whom I did not know (that’s the great lie of the internet age – that we’re all one happy group of well-informed people just amiably chatting with each other (about the end of the world and other topics))…

I began to use the site for longer for conversations in topics of my interest, such as religion, philosophy, science, etc, and was enjoying some of that banter, and so was somewhat put off when I arrived one day at the sign in to find that I could not sign in! I had been deleted, in total, and without explanation.

Following the advice of the ‘you no longer exist here’ page, which was displayed before me, I wrote the Facebook architects, wherever they may be on earth, and asked them for some assistance in returning use to me.

Alas, four letters over a week sent, and nary a response.
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by Liam Scheff
Jan 1, 2010

– The Big Scam

The first thing you should know is that I don’t really believe in the Big Bang. I mean, no, I don’t believe in it at all, for a variety of reasons, which I’ll boil down into a singular potato for you:

I don’t believe it because it’s not true.

Okay, I’ll do better. But it requires some explanation of my particular philosophy.

I am of the opinion that the sciences have taken the place of the religions of the past. That they have inherited the position of ‘answerer of existential questions,’ that used to fall to the Church elders, before the Church was up-ended by Galileo, Bruno and Copernicus – but really, by the relentless march of technological progress by the human species.

Today’s sciences now hold the place of dispensers of great truths, and of great mysteries. “Why are we here? Where do we come from? What are we made of? Why do we get sick? How do we get better? Why do we think these thoughts? Where does our creative spirit come from? Where do we go after we die? What is the meaning of it all…?”
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Have you been out to see the greatest movie ever made?

“Oh, Avatar! It’s the best movie I’ve EVER SEEN! It’s about US! We, the oppressed people!!! US!!! US!! MEEE!!!! MEEE!!!!”
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Originally from Dec 1, 2007. Happy Saturnalia…

From today’s Wall Street Journal, a very good, and succinct History of the holiday, by historian and author John Steele Gordon. A few excerpts:

“In its earliest days, Christianity did not celebrate the Nativity at all. Only two of the four Gospels even mention it. Instead, the Church calendar was centered on Easter, still by far the most important day in the Christian year. The Last Supper was a Seder, celebrating Passover, which falls on the day of the full moon in the first month of spring in the Hebrew calendar. [...]

By the time of the Council of Nicea [325 AD], the Christian Church was making converts by the thousands and, in hopes of still more converts, in 354 Pope Liberius decided to add the Nativity to the church calendar. He also decided to celebrate it on Dec. 25. It was, frankly, a marketing ploy with a little political savvy thrown in.

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Yes, we’ve had two, maybe three stolen elections in a row. Yes, 9-11 was a false flag event. Oh, come on. Three buildings falling at free fall speed? (Three, not two). They  had help. Call it infiltration, if it makes you feel better. Yes, the government is being run and ransacked by douchebag socialist arsefugs. Yes, it’s all true.

But, it struck me like a shovel in the kisser. We’re gonna be okay. Maybe not all of us – maybe not me! Maybe not you. But, we, as a group, will be alright. India, China, Amexico. All of  us.

Why?  Nuclear POWER! Oh, kiss my grits. We can run out of oil, and we’ll still be wanking away on our iPods, thanks to unstable radioactive material. That’s right. Nuclear Power. Kiss the blarney stone, the future is bright GREEN.

The NASA folks need their money! So it’s time to tap dance out another song of hope and promises for a deeply disoriented and poorly-informed public.

Have a glance at Dr. Krauss’s mini-essay on Dark Matter and let me know if you find anything that you can hold in your hand:

Dark Matter and Other Magic Unicorns.

No, no, it’s really called:

A Dark Matter Breakthrough?
New evidence of the invisible matter that could make up 90% of the universe.

But, well. Read it and let me know if you see the flying ponies.

Here is my comment, left at the WSJ website:

Oh, the pain, the pain.

How much money has been spent to date on Georges Lemaitre’s neo-Christian pseudo-scientific jaunt into astrophysics (otherwise known as “The Big Bang”)? Yes, it was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest who combined the very (very) little known about outer space, with the very, very well traveled tale of creation ex-nihilo (“first there was nothing, then, Poof! Bang! There was Everything”). And gave us: The Big Bang. A hardly subtle slight rejiggering of Genesis.
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Or will you?

Science, Politics and Global Warming
by Wal Thornhill

The unpleasant reality is that modern science is an inverted pyramid of hypotheses and beliefs teetering on a foundation of surprising ignorance and historical wrong turns. For example, the ideology of climate science is based on the story of the history of the solar system and the Earth. However, the usual story is a fable based on gravitational theory while gravity itself remains a mystery. Many-body gravitational systems are inherently chaotic, so that it would be a miracle if the order we see in the solar system today were long established, according to that model. But the climate change models take for granted an undisturbed Earth. The models also rely on steady radiant energy generated in the interior of the Sun. But what if that global-warming plasma ball in the sky is powered from the outside? Would not all the planets share in some of that energy? And if so, there is no climate model that accounts for it.

I wrote in February 2007, in Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance, “Like Darwin’s theory of evolution and Big Bang cosmology, global warming by greenhouse gas emissions has undergone that curious social process in which a scientific theory is promoted to a secular myth. When in fact, science is ignorant about the source of the heat — the Sun.”

Climatologists rely on astrophysicists for the basic assumptions they employ in their climate models. In particular, it is assumed that the Sun is a steady source of radiant energy and that the Earth and its atmosphere have been a closed, undisturbed system for longer than man has walked the Earth. However, the theory of how the Sun works is of Victorian vintage. It was formulated in the gaslight and horse and buggy era, long before the space age showed that space is not empty.

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What can be said?

– Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev). Somebody please help grandpa with his pills, he’s gone koo-koo.

They feel free to ignore every one of their constituents, state by state, city by city, town by town.

We do not want another trillion dollar buy-out, bail-out, belly-flop.

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