Monthly Archives: July 2010
A conversation about scientific evolution
I recently had an interesting exchange with an anonymous poster called “Himself” on the talk.origins USENet group. I thought I’d put it up here with some links and the typos corrected. Since it’s visible on Google Groups, I’m not breaking … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Science, Social evolution
The Return of the Linking Dead
Can philosophers use the iPad? Hell, yes. Of course, we would say that, wouldn’t we? Also, check out this TeX for Philosophy site. Is this when journalism lost its moral compass? When it stopped calling torture “torture”? Well, not really, … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Epistemology, General Science, History, Journalism, Links, Philosophy, Pop culture, Science
Evolution Quote
Q. Speaking of islands, when an apelike fossil was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, a great controversy broke out among anthropologists. Some said this three-foot tall small- brained creature was a new species of hominid — … Continue reading
Thomas Browne on compelling religion
For, as it is no reasonable proceeding to compel a religion, or think to enforce our own belief upon another, who cannot without the concurrence of Gods spirit, have any indubitable evidence of things that are obtruded. So is it … Continue reading
Last year in Lisbon…
I attended an excellent conference organised by the wonderful Nathalie Gontier at the Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa, in April last year. Now, the proceedings has been published in a special issue of Theory in Biosciences here. … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Evolution, History, Philosophy, Science, Species concept, Systematics
I am an idiot
I decided not to continue being the manager of a technical computing graphics department when I realised that my staff knew more than I did. I hadn’t realised until a few minutes ago that I now must relinquish the title … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative
A technical hitch
I have so many things to write about, but my offline editor has decided to die. Well, okay, I don’t have much to say right now, but if my editor worked I could do a links post. Well, I could, … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative, Philosophy, Species concept, Systematics
Test post
WordPress and ecto are not talking to each other Okay, maybe they are, but ecto is confused and thinks it’s posting to somewhere else. Damn. I lost the folds.
Filed under Administrative
Full Metal Links
More on PepsiGate: Neuron Culture leaves, Mike doesn’t, ScienceBlogs apologises, Brookhaven explains and clarifies (and Josh discusses this), PZ, James Hrynyshyn, Erik Klemetti and Greg Laden move on [Later: as does Mike Dunford], Knight Science Journalism Tracker explains why that … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, Censorship, Evolution, General Science, Links, Philosophy, Politics, Religion
