Tag Archives: science

No, no I’m not a rationalist

Posted on 12 June 2010 by dlhitzeman

A continued popular thread around the internet is the self-declared righteousness of so-called rationalists: that is, people who believe that everything in the universe and outside of it can be explained only by empirical observation that accumulates facts that then, … Continue reading →

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Worldview Web Roundup for 20100606

Posted on 6 June 2010 by dlhitzeman

Remembering D-Day and understanding today. Lumberjack Commandos. The fourth verse of The Star Spangled Banner. Eight rules for writing fiction from Kurt Vonnegut. Via Wired, Scitable, a social networking site for science and scientific collaboration from the Nature Publishing Group. Not for the … Continue reading →

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Does synthetic life prove something else?

Posted on 21 May 2010 by dlhitzeman

Certain parts of the interwebs are atwitter with the news that scientists in the United States have managed to create a cell containing a synthetic genome (that is, one that was manufactured as a copy of an existing genome) that … Continue reading →

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And you’re still defending climate science as overwhelming and irrefutable?

Posted on 11 February 2010 by dlhitzeman

Via Cranach: researchers studying the nature of climate science discover that climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data measurements by selectively eliminating the number of data collection stations: In a January 29 report, they find … Continue reading →

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This is science?

Posted on 18 December 2009 by dlhitzeman

There are people who claim that my skepticism of modern scientific claims about the environment and evolution stem from a lack of understanding rooted in the fact that I am a Christian. Their claim is that, because I have faith … Continue reading →

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