Read what you said earlier and did not get a chance to reply. As such, heck, its been an education reading along as you brought an additional light on the subject that could be shared far and wide.
Good one!
Darwin's Black Box - Michael J. Behe and Intelligent Design
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Read what you said earlier and did not get a chance to reply. As such, heck, its been an education reading along as you brought an additional light on the subject that could be shared far and wide.
Good one!
Yes, of which prof Coleman seemed especially ridged, osit - somewhat agitated with the ideas of Kastrup in the face of dearly held positions that they (he) harbor. As Joe said, these were abstract positions being argued (most difficult with materialist minded).
Kastrup, with his PhD background in computer engineering and now accepted in philosophy, is a very interesting position. His supervisor at the end mentions (fist that it is odd he being a supervisor at all given the circumstances), with some words and tones of marvel at how Kastrup's ultimate acceptance happened. So, the supervisor seemed very pleased (he had skin in the game) and was obviously much more open to Kastrup's ideas than the more ridged even if he did not agree on all points.
Thanks for posting, this was a fascinating discussion! I also like how the panel members were open minded and positive in their questions and responses.
It was very interesting, though I'd like to listen to it again, to really follow the questions and Kastrup's reasoning as he answered them. You could just feel the panel's brain gears grinding, as he parried their questions with such well thought out answers. I'll bet they don't often get such a spirited defense of a subject that some don't think are worth inquiring into.
There's a book that was recently discussed on Mind Matters, about the small-p psi experiences of everyday objects appearing and disappearing without any rational explanation.
MindMatters: Unstable Reality: When Objects Disappear And Reappear, And What It Means
"Just one of those things." Sometimes you just can't find your keys. Sometimes you lose your TV remote. But sometimes, an object might fall from your grasp, never to be seen again. Sometimes objects might disappear from their usual home, only to...
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The author of the book being discussed, JOTT (just one of those things), extrapolates from these everyday, but mysterious events, a theory of the nature of reality that is remarkably close to Kastrup's proposition of individual consciousnesses as being spit off alters of a larger one and contained within it. She even goes so far as to call it Cosmic Mind! Not only that, she makes the proposal for several levels of consciousness within the all encompassing Cosmic Mind. It's a light-hearted read, but the last two chapters are pretty surprising. I really recommend it.
zak
The Living Force
Someone can give me the relevant pages my copy of "Undeniable" hibernates in a distant box.
If your library participates in hoopla, Darwin's Black Box audiobook is now available for free.
Edge of Evolution is still available.
Edge of Evolution is still available.
For those interested in reading about genetics, I've posted about a book I'm reading about populations that immigrated to the US. Reading this book led to a little search for what other readers thought of it and that led me to some articles about Behavioral Genetics. These latter articles appear to be written by a guy who has a totally materialistic perspective, but still the facts elicited by the studies he cites are really interesting and give us a good idea of what genetics are available to "marry" with a soul.
cassiopaea.org
Albion's Seed and much more
I recently began reading a book entitled "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America" by David Hackett Fischer. My original intention was just to get a better background on immigrants to America as a possible help to my genealogy hobby, but I got a lot more than that. Albion's Seed: Four...
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zak
The Living Force
In looking for some enlightening ideas on photosynthesis, i crossed the way of this article of the mathematician Granville Sewell (" Clearly something extremely improbable has happened here on our planet, with the origin and development of life, and especially with the development of human consciousness and creativity.") on "Evolution News":
Once Again: Who Designed the Designer?
With inside two videos, one of them of Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig biologist/geneticist ("Normally the better your arguments are, the more people open their minds to your theory, but with ID, the better your argu - ments are, the more they close their minds, and the angrier they become. This is science upside down.")
The video interview:
And the article.
Once Again: Who Designed the Designer?
With inside two videos, one of them of Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig biologist/geneticist ("Normally the better your arguments are, the more people open their minds to your theory, but with ID, the better your argu - ments are, the more they close their minds, and the angrier they become. This is science upside down.")
The video interview:
And the article.
Mandatory Intellectomy
Jedi Master
I have just finished reading Shattering the Myths of Darwinism by Richard Milton.
This has become one of my favourite evolution-related books, together with the ones by Behe and Signature in the Cell by Meyer.
It's very accessible, doesn't go into any biological details like DNA and proteins, and focuses more on the overall picture and the various aspects of Darwinism that don't add up. It has a lot in common with the already-mentioned The Bone Peddlers. There's much about fossils and what they do and don't show, about the inaccuracy of pretty much all dating methods scientists use, and about a lot of things that have been established as "true" with hardly any evidence to support them.
What's also cool is that the author makes it clear that he's not religious in any way, so a nice change from all the books where the last chapter suddenly smuggles Jesus in.
Highly recommended to anyone who's still only beginning to get into this topic and isn't ready for complicated explanations about nucleotides and such. (Still very valuable for anyone who's already read a dozen books on the topic.)
This has become one of my favourite evolution-related books, together with the ones by Behe and Signature in the Cell by Meyer.
It's very accessible, doesn't go into any biological details like DNA and proteins, and focuses more on the overall picture and the various aspects of Darwinism that don't add up. It has a lot in common with the already-mentioned The Bone Peddlers. There's much about fossils and what they do and don't show, about the inaccuracy of pretty much all dating methods scientists use, and about a lot of things that have been established as "true" with hardly any evidence to support them.
What's also cool is that the author makes it clear that he's not religious in any way, so a nice change from all the books where the last chapter suddenly smuggles Jesus in.
Highly recommended to anyone who's still only beginning to get into this topic and isn't ready for complicated explanations about nucleotides and such. (Still very valuable for anyone who's already read a dozen books on the topic.)
Mandatory Intellectomy
Jedi Master
I came across this article: 9 Scientific Facts Prove the "Theory of Evolution" is False
The guy who posted it notes:
There's no creationism in the posted article, just the science, and it's a pretty good summary.
Some highlights:
Curiously enough, there's also a video interview with Richard Milton (mentioned in my previous post above) at the end of the article.
Also there's a video where somebody asks college students about what evidence for Evolution they can actually show. They all fail to produce any, of course, although they all start by saying they totally believe in evolution. Fun video, interesting article.
The guy who posted it notes:
There's no creationism in the posted article, just the science, and it's a pretty good summary.
Some highlights:
Curiously enough, there's also a video interview with Richard Milton (mentioned in my previous post above) at the end of the article.
Also there's a video where somebody asks college students about what evidence for Evolution they can actually show. They all fail to produce any, of course, although they all start by saying they totally believe in evolution. Fun video, interesting article.
This just highlights the tactic employed by the whole gang of Left/Libs/Dems/Neo-Darwinists/Postmodernists/Whatever: They LIE.
Either they do not read, or do not read with comprehension, or just out-and-out make stuff up - YCYOR so to say - and they are off and running.
The awful thing is: it looks like a lot of them actually believe their own lies.
Mandatory Intellectomy
Jedi Master
@luc
Congratulations on your new article! Excellent stuff. It's all pretty simple and obvious from where I'm standing, but apparently most people are standing somewhere else, and these things should probably be repeated quite often, so this is really helpful.
It pretty much all revolves around "just think for yourself, goddamn it!", but for some reason most people never learn to do that. Constant reminders are therefore required, so thanks for this one, for everyone's sake.
For those who may have missed it:
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Congratulations on your new article! Excellent stuff. It's all pretty simple and obvious from where I'm standing, but apparently most people are standing somewhere else, and these things should probably be repeated quite often, so this is really helpful.
It pretty much all revolves around "just think for yourself, goddamn it!", but for some reason most people never learn to do that. Constant reminders are therefore required, so thanks for this one, for everyone's sake.
For those who may have missed it:
Darwinism Is Dead, Now What? Towards A Rational Spirituality
There is a great debate going on at the moment about Darwinism, especially after Yale professor David Gelernter published an article in which he basically agreed with the devastating criticism leveled at the theory by the scholars associated with...
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