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As Universe Today puts it: A new computer simulation is showing Earth’s magnetosphere in amazing detail – and it looks a lot like a huge pile of tangled spaghetti (with the Earth as a meatball). Or perhaps a cosmic version of modern art. Read much more about what it means for our planet to be tangled in [...]
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The Atheist Wheel of the Year
January 3rd, 2012 
Eric Steinhart The Wheel of the Year involves eight solar holidays (the sabbats). The sabbats include the solar quarter days (the solstices and the equinoxes) as well as the solar cross-quarter days intermediate between the quarters. For theistic Wiccans, these days symbolize events in the life-cycles of the god and goddess. These days are marked by sabbat [...]
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68 Comments »“Not Everything In Life Is Logical”
October 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke When we rationalists, naturalists, and other assorted atheists insist that no one should form beliefs that disregard logic and evidence, the defenders of faith often tell us that “Not everything in life is logical”, or use some variant of this phrase. What might they mean by this? Where is their confusion exactly and how best [...]
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Tags: "Not Everything In Life Is Logical", Logic, Naturalism 17 Comments »What is Life?
March 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Can we define it? Can we recognize it elsewhere in the universe if we cannot even define it? Thanks to Helen. Your Thoughts?
Cat Faber's "The Words Of God"
February 6th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]
Scientists’ Spiritualities As Alternative Models Of Religiosity
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In my last post, I made clear that I am by no means an “accommodationist” who wants to let religious claims to hegemony over ethics, metaphysics, or epistemology go unchallenged as part of a deal whereby it agrees to either cooperate with or, minimally, not interfere with science education and science-based public policy. In a [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Astronomy, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Biology, Biology, Cosmology, Cosmology, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Religious Secularism, Religious Secularism, Science, Science, Secularism Tags: Accomodationism, Adam Frank, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Chris Mooney, E. O. Wilson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, James Moore, Peter Doherty, Rudolf Otto, The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate, The Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle 4 Comments »Just How Intelligent Are WE Anyway?
April 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Earlier, I quoted some of Greg Mayer’s ruminations with some students on whether or not alien forms of intelligent life would even recognize us as intelligent life. In reply, on Facebook, John suggested Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s argument on the matter is decisive: Your Thoughts?
Dawkins On The Anthropic Principle
October 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Interesting remarks on the possible implications of Darwinian thinking for thinking in physics. Is it possible that there is natural selection among many universes? Watch Dawkins’s entire talk from which this clips comes: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Biology, Evolution, Physics, Science, Videos Tags: Anthropic Principle, Richard Dawkins No Comments »Bill Nye The Non-Creationist Guy
October 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Unreasonable Faith, comes this tidbit about a speech Bill Nye The Science Guy gave in Waco, Texas in 2006: The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Atheism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Religulous, Science Tags: Bill Nye The Science Guy No Comments »Confirming Galileo: Hammer Vs. Feather On The Moon
September 29th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Well, you know which one this website’s going to be pulling for: From the YouTube information listings: WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com On the surface of the Moon at Hadley Rille Apollo 15 Commander David Scott verifies Galileo’s discovery that all objects in gravity fields fall at the same speed. (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Physics, Videos Tags: Apollo 15, Commander David Scott, Galileo, Gravity, Hadley Rille, Moon No Comments »Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error
September 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke djarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Cosmology, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics, Religion and Science, Science Tags: Anthropic Principle, Big Bang No Comments »Anatomy Of A Black Hole
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A neat presentation of the nature and workings of black holes. Your Thoughts?
Richard Dawkins Interviews Jesuit Astronomer Father George Coyne
July 23rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke An utterly fascinating dialogue, Coyne throughout is a novel, deeply scientifically informed, and riveting thinker and Dawkins puts exactly the right questions and brief challenges to him. Watch all 7 parts, they’re great. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Cosmology, Evolution, Faith, Philosophy, Physics, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Religion and Science, Science Tags: Cosmological Arguments For Existence of God, Existence of God, George Coyne, God of the Gaps, Multiverse, Non-Overlapping Magisteria, Pope John Paul II, Prime Mover, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism No Comments »The Scientific Purpose Behind Cathedral Designs
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Sancte Pater has the skinny from Thomas Woods, Jr.: “The Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini, a student of the Jesuits Riccioloi and Grimaldi, used the observatory at the splendid Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna to lend support to Kepler’s model. “Here we see an important way in which the Church contributed to astronomy that is [...]
The History Of The Universe With Physicist Michio Kaku
July 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Five Videos, start with this one: Thanks to Atheist Media Blog.
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