Most theories of communication these days consider the word uniquely in the sense of transmitting information.
Now, in all forms of animal and human communication there is the will or the desire on the part of the emitter to modify the behaviour, ideas, thoughts and attitudes of the receiver. There are no exceptions. Read more »
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“On the whole, people are not unbelieving. Some people will believe anything, provided it is not in Read more »
Em 1931, Kurt Gödel desferiu um golpe devastador nos matemáticos de sua época
Em 1931, o jovem matemático Kurt Gödel fez uma descoberta-marco, tão poderosa quanto qualquer coisa que Albert Einstein desenvolveu. Read more »
Whenever you’re having a discussion about God and science, someone will say, “There’s no possible way that X could have happened all by itself, therefore there is a creator.”
Invariably you hear this retort: Read more »
I had a conversation with a guy who explains why he rejects Common Descent:
“Where I’m not buying evolution in large scale, again goes back to the collection (or lack) of “transitionals” to prove this happened on a grander scale. All need to be in place for the large scale to have existed.
It’s one thing to make claims on microorganisms (and I can see it justified). It’s a far greater stretch to make the other areas fit. Read more »
Journalist: Richard Morgan
HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA – NASA has announced their choice of evolutionary biologist, Dr Richard Dawkins to head the team that will be studying and analysing the UFO that landed intact in the Arizona desert six months ago.
Why Professor Dawkins? His research program came Read more »
Alexander Tsiaras is an artist and technologist. His work explores the unseen human body, developing visualization software that enables him to “paint” the human anatomy:
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“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber.
“Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”
-Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer, 1888-1959
The first book to explain how evolution actually works has finally been written.
What most people think they know about evolution is 30 to 70 years out of date. The most popular books (even recent ones by very famous authors) make it sound as though the last five decades of scientific research never happened.
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For 25 years Richard Morgan was a card-carrying atheist and flaming Richard Dawkins fan. Born in the UK, living in France, he came to Chicago to tell this special story. Read more »
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