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		<title>Evolution quotes: Theories are not the whole of science</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/evolution-quotes-theories-are-not-the-whole-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I opened Structure of Scientific Theories asserting that the &#8220;most central or important&#8221; problem in philosophy of science is &#8220;the nature and structure of theories . . . . For theories are the vehicle of scientific knowledge and one way &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/evolution-quotes-theories-are-not-the-whole-of-science/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution quotes: Socialism</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/evolution-quotes-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/evolution-quotes-socialism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empirical Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/empirical-perspectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Goetz, frequent commenter here, has started up what looks to be a physics and science blog at Empirical Perspectives. Go visit and make rude comments.]]></description>
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		<title>Why eat meat?</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/why-eat-meat/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/why-eat-meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 02:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics and Moral Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, the New York Times held a blog competition on justifications for eating meat, in 600 words or less. I submitted mine, but I bet it didn&#8217;t get far up the selection tree, as the winner is effectively &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/why-eat-meat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Analytic thinking, religion and science – the rhetoric and the psychology</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/analytic-thinking-religion-and-science-the-rhetoric-and-the-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/analytic-thinking-religion-and-science-the-rhetoric-and-the-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few decades there has been an increasingly large literature on styles of thinking and cognitive biases (to which I am grateful to Jocelyn Stoller, a reader of this blog, for introducing me) in psychology, culminating in the marvellous &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/analytic-thinking-religion-and-science-the-rhetoric-and-the-psychology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution quotes: Arguments</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/evolution-quotes-arguments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 05:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival of Evolution 47: All the Evolution News that&#8217;s Fit to Blog</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/carnival-of-evolution-47-all-the-evolution-news-thats-fit-to-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/carnival-of-evolution-47-all-the-evolution-news-thats-fit-to-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology and Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 47th edition of the Carnival of Evolution. We have had our science reporters out in force hunting down the best of the blogosphere on evolution and related subjects, and here they are for your delectation and delight &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/05/carnival-of-evolution-47-all-the-evolution-news-thats-fit-to-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Get your Evolution Carnival posts in soon!</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/get-your-evolution-carnival-posts-in-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/get-your-evolution-carnival-posts-in-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://evolvingthoughts.net/?p=6193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s only a week left to submit to the next Carnival of Evolution hosted here! Hop to it folks, or I&#8217;ll have to link to my own posts, and nobody wants that.]]></description>
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		<title>Community, unbelief, and the rise of secularism</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/community-unbelief-and-the-rise-of-secularism/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/community-unbelief-and-the-rise-of-secularism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creationism and Intelligent Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://evolvingthoughts.net/?p=6187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that losing full use of a limb causes, is that everything takes four times as long as it used to. So I haven’t blogged due to my being very busy, tired, or both. Sorry. I promised &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/community-unbelief-and-the-rise-of-secularism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/update/</link>
		<comments>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://evolvingthoughts.net/?p=6178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the weekend going to the Global Atheist Conspiracy Convention, courtesy of PZ Myers, the organisers, and Neil Thomason who drove me. I will write some extended reflections on it over the next few days, but I have a &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/04/update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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