Archive for June 9th, 2006
Does failure come from “fear or laziness”?
The puzzle goes like this: young student actor Wiley Wiggins, star of the trippy, philosophical film Waking Life, walks into a bar. There he finds University of Texas Professor of Philosophy Louis Mackey, who muses on two kinds of human suffering: those that suffer from an “overabundance of life”, like Professor Mackey himself, and those [...]
NASA cancels/delays global warming projects
Today, the Boston Globe reported that NASA is “canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth’s changing climate and environment.” The paper further reports that The space agency has shelved a $200 million satellite mission headed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor that was designed to [...]
Creationism vs Logic: Gaming the gaps in the fossil record
The discussion this week about cognitive dissonance has gotten me thinking about creationism, a religious “theory” that virtually screams with cognitive dissonance. Let’s look at how creationists game the gaps in the fossil record. Let’s imagine we start with two fossils — we’ll call them A and Z to illustrate that they are widely separated [...]
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