TED | Talks | David Deutsch: What is our place in the cosmos? (video)
Sunday, February 17, 2008
TED | Talks | Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration (video)
This video talks about a new economic order that uses sharing as a way to maximize wealth. It fits with the strange performance of people in voluntary organizations and with people having excess property which they then give or sell very cheaply. IE bikes along the road in Michigan.
TED | Talks | Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration (video)
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Listen Up TV
Listen up TV is a website on modern religion with a far more mature outlook than average. I plan to return to it when possible.
Video Search the golden compass
Video Search the golden compass
This is a deeper view on the impact of "the Golden Compass" from a conservative point of view
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Richard Dawkins - Biographical resource about the author / scientist and his research and books
Richard Dawkins does a wonderful job of explaining biology and science. He is less convincing in has role promoting atheism as a religion. Both views deserve careful study however. This website is as good as any to begin that study.
Richarddawkins.org is another site that presents opposing positions.
"In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, the celebrated evolutionary biologist, Oxford Professor, and author (The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale), gives us a carefully-reasoned yet entertaining treatise on atheism that is equally eloquent and provocative. His basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious in its resulting intolerance, oppression, bigotry, arrogance, child abuse, homophobia, abortion-clinic bombings, cruelties to women, war, suicide bombers, and educational systems that teach ignorance when it comes to math and science. Sure to provoke his adversaries, Dawkins not only portrays the "psychotic" God of the Old Testament as "arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" (p. 31), but also challenges, quite convincingly, every major argument for God's existence, and shows that the Founding Fathers considered religion to be a threat to democracy. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, claimed "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man" (p. 43). Benjamin Franklin said "Lighthouses are more useful than churches" (p. 43). A 1796 treaty signed by John Adams declares, "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" (p. 40). Adams also said, "this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it" (p. 43). Even conservative icon, Barry Goldwater, threatened to fight fundamentalists "every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans" (p. 39)."
Richard Dawkins - Biographical resource about the author / scientist and his research and books
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