Posted in charlatanry, pseudo-science on Jun 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Alright, I waded through Behe’s Edge of Evolution.
It provides no positive argument. At all. Counting here its argument from incredulity just for what it is: what biologists can’t readily explain to Behe’s satisfaction must allow for some other explanation. His acceptance of some features of evolution turns out to be complete non-acceptance because he’s enthused […]
Posted in charlatanry, pseudo-science on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Wow!
An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridges writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. Bridges admits, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo:
Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the […]
Posted in charlatanry, folk psychology, philosophy, religion on Nov 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion. Harrumph.
Dawkins is aggravated at magical precepts and objects of belief. Moreover, as many are, he finds the religious game of king of the hill destructive. But, Dawkins is somehow prevented by the mote in his eye from realizing that faith, belief, are completely normal features of the consciousness the most […]
Posted in charlatanry, consciousness, new paradigms, philosophy, science on Jan 21st, 2006 No Comments »
“Now this is called the “quantum measurement paradox.” It is a paradox because who are we to do this conversion? Because after all, in the materialist paradigm we don’t have any causal efficacy. We are nothing but the brain, which is made up of atoms and elementary particles. So how can a brain which is […]
Posted in charlatanry, philosophy, religion on Nov 9th, 2005 1 Comment »
In the other direction, the foundationalism implicit in Intelligent Design is easy to identify. Although the ID cabal tries to ‘fuzzify’ and fudge this issue and insulate themselves from this obvious implication by severing a tie made by association, the tie follows from the very clear and direct association to a specific religious belief system.
The […]
Posted in biology, charlatanry, philosophy, pseudo-science, science on Oct 16th, 2005 2 Comments »
The essential humorous take on the evolution non-controversy has quickly passed into legendary status on the internet. Of course I’m speaking of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its infinite creative unraveling as both parody and pastadigm. The Verganza site is worthy of any and all attention the reader with a sense of humor can deploy. […]
Posted in charlatanry, religion on May 27th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s a web page is dedicated to the charlatan guru Osho. (Exemplifying our point of departure for this entry.) It’s hard to say his early Bagwan Shree Rajneesh persona covered up his later crazy tendencies, or those tendencies developed in his effusive identification with his “powers,” especially powers over people. His story is well-known, (positively, […]
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