Russell’s Teapot
January 30, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion
Ross Douhat does a post on Russell’s teapot. I think he misses that Russell was working on a fairly narrow point: that inability to disprove something does not make it credible, not that belief in God is in all ways like belief in a celestial teapot. And Russell was pretty clearly right about this.
Similarly, with [...]
NOMA
January 30, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion, science
More religion doesn’t deal with the empirical realm stuff at Sullivan’s place. Really, where do people get this? Where? If you follow the links, mainly you get a Templeton page where people are taking all kinds of views.
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January 30, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under admin
Okay, so for everyone who’s spent the last 6 months or whatever it’s been hating my blog template, I will soon have a new, more conventional one. I’d like you to all take a look at the draft here:
http://www.watersdesigns.com/clients/hallq/
And tell me what you think. (I have my own list of changes I want made, but [...]
Galileo (and Sagan and Wilson): Symbol of Collaboration Between Science & Faith?
January 29, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under biology, mind, politics, religion, science, social and literary criticism
Check this Matt Nisbet post. Read it? Now my comments:
First, it’s fascinating how Nisbet approaches the issue of turning Galileo into a symbol of science/relgion harmony. For Nisbet, the problem here isn’t that the claim may be false, but that it might be a hard sell from a propaganda point of view. A surprising claim, [...]
Mocking Obama
January 28, 2009 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under language
One of Sully’s readers argues Obama’s unmockable because he’s just so genuine. But mocking Obama is trivial.
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