People writing books, I have to imagine, are much like people with babies. This newborn thing has been the center of their life, and will continue to be, for some time; and one naturally presumes that the rest of the world shares one’s fascination with it. This presumption, alas, may not always be true. …
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Does Philosophy Make You a Better Scientist?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/0...Steve Hsu pulls out a provocative quote from philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend : The withdrawal of philosophy into a “professional” shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrodinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. …
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Catching the waves
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/0...I spent last week at Columbia University attending the Edoardo Amaldi Conference , the largest annual international meeting on gravitational waves. Short synopsis: GWs have not been found. I was reminded that I still owe CV readers a discussion of gravitational waves, following-up from an ancient post on their convoluted theoretical history . …
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Resource List: Faith In An Age of Science, July 12
http://blog.sbc-va.org/archives/470Mix “ Robert Pennock quote available here. I obtained it from Bradley Monton, Seeking God In Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design, pre-press review copy, page 64. Quotes from Sean Carroll at Discover Magazine Blog, “ Science and Religion Are Not Compatible” (I blogged a response to this on July 11.) Dennis Danielson, “ Copernicus and the Tale of the Pale Blue Dot “ Quotes from Jaki and Dales Thomas E. Woods, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, page 93. The Dales
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Resource List: Faith In An Age of Science
http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2009/07/resource-list-...Mix “ Robert Pennock quote available here. I obtained it from Bradley Monton, Seeking God In Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design, pre-press review copy, page 64. Quotes from Sean Carroll at Discover Magazine Blog, “ Science and Religion Are Not Compatible” (I blogged a response to this on July 11.) Dennis Danielson, “ Copernicus and the Tale of the Pale Blue Dot “ Quotes from Jaki and Dales Thomas E. Woods, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, page 93. The Dales
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Further Readings on ‘Clash Of The Atheists’
http://www.lousycanuck.ca/?p=1526Here we go, another attempt to round up the happenings and syndicate all the correspondences in this Epic Clash of Titans. This one’s slightly older, but Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance explains exactly how science and religion are actually incompatible, and this is an excellent starting point for understanding why pro-science folks are so adamant that any accomodation of religion necessarily erodes the very science an accommodationist claims they’re trying to boost. Mike Haubrich chronicles
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“Science and Religion are Not Compatible” — Discover Magazine
http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2009/07/science-and-re...the existence of God and/or other supernatural phenomena. (St. Thomas Aquinas, were he alive today, would undoubtedly agree, as would many religious people who actually are alive.) It’s just not the world we live in. (That’s where they would disagree.) [Link: Science and Religion are Not Compatible | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine] Bravo! And Well Done! Carroll makes some important and useful points in this article. He raises a warning against the Stephen Jay Gould mistake of “Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA),” which suggests that science and religion can get
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in the shadow of the moon
http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2009/07/in-the-...One of the beauties of physics is the cleverness used to measure something. Cosmic Variance points out a new idea (pdf) for sorting out the nature of cosmic rays Observation of shadowing of the cosmic electrons and positrons by the Moon with IACT P. Colin, D. Borla Tridon, D. Britzger, E. Lorenz, R. Mirzoyan, T. Schw
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