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[Shtetl-Optimized] Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Religion's rules of inference: People that are immersed in very hard problems of naturalistic science, computation, or complex systems - be it Quantum Computing, Evolutionary Biology, or (my own field) Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding - can tend to mistake their aptitude and/or rigor in that domain to be easily transferable to another domain with minimal effort.

[Sataguini] 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode | Cracked.com: Which leaves you with this: all those particles that spurted forth from that singularity during the Big Bang and formed ninety gazillion-bajillion stars and galaxies that constitute the mind-boggleingly massive embarrassing stain we call the universe are still right there occupying the same point in space and time desperately trying to get half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way to half way… get the picture?

[Uncommon Descent] Darwin reader: Darwin's racism | Uncommon Descent: In other words, the all-too-human foibles and failings of some members of the Church’s leadership are no reason to think that the Catholic Church was not otherwise solidly anti-slavery and do not in any way discredit the core message of Christianity. If I agree to that will you concede that the campaign to undermine Darwin’s theory of evolution on the grounds of his alleged racism is both based on a logical fallacy and a black propaganda campaign unworthy of a place on a website that claims to be devoted to science?

[Parchment and Pen] Parchment and Pen » The Gospel of the Young Earth: In response to recent discussions regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has placed on their web page a 1969 Theological Statement on the issue, indicating that, “Neither Scripture, our Confession of Faith, nor our Catechisms, teach the Creation of man by the direct and immediate acts of God so as to exclude the possibility of evolution as a scientific theory…Some form of evolutionary theory is accepted by the majority of modern scientists…We conclude that the true relation between the evolutionary theory and the Bible is that of non-contradiction”

[Roger Ebert's Journal] Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives: Allow me for a moment to suggest to you some theological thinkers you may appreciate: Soren Kierkegaard (so ahead of his time in his ability to be so strivingly obscure and lofty, while committed so deeply to every day experience), Karl Barth (at times strikingly orthodox, at times strikingly unique, but possibly one of the greatest "go to" persons for anyone interested in understanding where we are at theology at this moment in history) Simone Weil (for some reason I believe you would especially enjoy the way this woman thinks), (Rowan Williams (the Rich Anglican theologian/archbishop of Canterbury who has some fascinating contributions in the arena of creationism/evolution, as well as the religious pluralism arena), Walker Percy (of course there's 'the Moviegoer', a film that combines intensely the fields of existentialism, Catholicism and the way movies bring our lives meaning). I find myself deeply indebted to what film and theology add to my experience of life.

[Daylight Atheism] Daylight Atheism > Who Says You Can't Disprove God?: In other words, until the doubtful invention of the supernaturalometer, we all one day will test theories of the supernatural realm personally, with the only actual results being noted by the observer in the event a suitable supernatural realm does indeed exist. Thus, it seems, the supernatural may be empirically verified apart from the philosophic drawing board, a state of affairs it is difficult to conceive of for non-supernatural philosophies, which under the discipline of definiton, includes conceptions of God.

[Making Light] Making Light: The perfect uselessness of Warren Whitlock: The music would be based on jazz trombones and amplified arch-top guitars, and the sermon would involve the priest reading from the local Sunday paper and then riffing on what the stories told us about morality, illustrating this with plot lines from classic films. (Scholarship would be an important part of the priesthood, and a priest who could illuminate current EU foreign policy by referring to the Poverty Row pictures of Bela Lugosi would be especially prized.)

[Docstoc feed for: Financial] 247 Secrets of PeopleNology Ebook Free Survival Guide: Reading Blanchot in this regard, in his essay Sade's Reason, the libertine is one, of a type that sometimes intersects with a Sadean man, who finds in stoicism, solitude, and apathy the proper conditions. Blanchot writes, "...the libertine is .

[Making Light] Making Light: The Pitch Bitch: I'm not buying it: They touched swords, and the man in black immediately began the Agrippa defense, which Inigo felt sound, considering the rocky terrain .Naturally, he countered with Capo Ferro which surprised the man in black, but he defended well, quickly shifting out of Agrippa and taking the attack himself, using the principles of Thibault...

[Tendance Coatesy] The Spirit of Factions and Sects. « Tendance Coatesy: They are in perpetual motion and they form constellations of singularities and events that impose continual global configurations on the system.” While Empire stands over its subjects, like “a new Leviathan”, the multitude, its body (as in the famous frontispiece of Hobbes’ book and the Shakespearean metaphor) may be part of it, but it is boundlessly creative, “This ontological apparatus beyond measure is an expansive power, a power of freedom, ontological construction, and omnilateral dissemination.” That is the Hobbessian surrender of all stasis considered as a real structure.

[NPR Blogs: All Songs Considered Blog] NPR: The Sound of a Generation: For my generation, music has mutated into a personal experience, which is fine because experiencing art is rather interior, but the next step of sharing thoughts, feelings, or interpretations of different tracks or performances has suddenly been deemed "useless" or "irrelevant." (In defense of my generation, however, there is very little intellectual material one can derive from horrendous songs such as Soldier Boy.) If one peers back into the history of music, however, he will see that music has a discernibly communal conception that brought people together because, utlimately, music reflects life and life reflects music.

[The Comics Curmudgeon] The Comics Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Kung Fu basketball follies: However, within the structure of the Celtics' offense, both players mostly play the wings, and their offensive roles overlap to some degree. That's a bit of an oversimplification, since Boston's offense - and those of any other NBA team - are much too sophisticated to be .

[God's Politics] God's Politics - Jim Wallis blog, faith blog, religion, christian ...: I've recently done some study on the Protestant Reformation, and I've noticed that it also represented power politics of the worst kind, with the nobility backing one theology or another for supremacy. (Eventually the mercantile/middle classes decided, "A pox on all your houses!", which is why Europe is so secular today.) Theologically I come from a Reformed background, and I've learned that in those days Calvinists subscribed to the idea that the state itself should be subject to Biblical edicts.

[The Comics Curmudgeon] The Comics Curmudgeon » Blog Archive » Today on The Real Family ...: Okay, maybe just that MW can't depict ponytails, and that I have so little to do at work that I have gone back and started reading this blog FROM THE BEGINNING”¦ but I'm holding out for these two story lines to intersect. Lynngineering says: .

[scanners] No Country For Old Men: Out in all that dark - scanners: (And we've seen what happens when he gets his boots dirty.) I read it the second way you describe -- as Chigurh's sadistic way of saying there will be no "coin toss" for this guy -- but I love that the movie doesn't feel the need to show us a definitive outcome. The murders move offscreen later in the movie (even the non-murders: we don't even see the driver of the vehicle that hit's Chigurh's).

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