It's worth reminding them that if every atheist left, America would lose 85 percent of its scientists -- not that the fundamentalists love science exactly -- and a fraction of one percent of its federal prison population
---Steve
Monday, March 31, 2014
Atheists Are .07% of the Federal Prison Population, a Threatening Fact for Christian Fundamentalists | Alternet
It's worth reminding them that if every atheist left, America would lose 85 percent of its scientists -- not that the fundamentalists love science exactly -- and a fraction of one percent of its federal prison population
---Steve
Pastor says he tried to save man swept out to sea during baptism - latimes.com
Pastor says he tried to save man swept out to sea during baptism - latimes.com: ""A big wave came and took Benito," Cervantes said. "I tried to take him out -- he was heavy -- and then another big wave came.""
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Have You Signed Away Your Right to Sue? | Mother Jones
Have You Signed Away Your Right to Sue? | Mother Jones: "Judges have another reason to love arbitration: The growth of private justice has created for them a new and lucrative job market. U.S. district court judges earn $165,200 a year, less than some second-year law firm associates. Private arbitrators can make $10,000 in a day. Some judges now even seek coaching on how best to tailor their résumés for future arbitration jobs. Lucie Barron, the founder of Action Dispute Resolution Services in California, encourages judges to keep lawyers' business cards for use in marketing their arbitration services to the legal community later on. "
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Theory and Observation in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Theory and Observation in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): "t laws and theoretical generalization seldom if ever entail observational predictions unless they are conjoined with one or more auxiliary hypotheses taken from the theory they belong to"
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Slate: “There Is No Question That We Live in a World Already Altered by Climate Change.”
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
"There Is No Question That We Live in a World Already Altered by Climate Change."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/31/new_ipcc_report_the_planet_is_warming_and_it_s_going_to_get_worse.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/31/new_ipcc_report_the_planet_is_warming_and_it_s_going_to_get_worse.html
---Steve
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Track Track (3/29/14, 7:48:56AM) from GaiaGPS
I made a track named Track (3/29/14, 7:48:56AM) in GaiaGPS. You can view a map of it on GaiaCloud.
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Alan Sokal highlights the incompatibility of science and religion « Why Evolution Is True
And here, it seems to me, is the crux of the conflict between religion and science. Not the religious rejection of specific scientific theories (be it heliocentrism in the 17th century or evolutionary biology today); over time most religions do find some way to make peace with well-established science. Rather, the scientific worldview and the religious worldview come into conflict over a far more fundamental question: namely, what constitutes evidence.
---Steve
Friday, March 28, 2014
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