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The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge
Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions that transcends and subsumes the causal links propounded by grapholectic culture. At the limits of s
If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube
Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards
Science Cannot Fully Describe Reality, Says Templeton Prize Winner -- Lindley 2009 (316): 1 -- ScienceNOW
What is reality? French physicist Bernard d'Espagnat, 87, has spent a lifetime grappling with this question. Over the years, he has developed the idea that the reality revealed by science offers only a "veiled" view of an underlying reality that science c
Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All | Scientific American
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding, say, an object’s position inevitably degraded the level of c
Alan Watts - Wikipedia
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience.
He wrote more than
Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief
As a British citizen I watched the inauguration speech of America's 44th President with a warm but distanced interest. But as someone who was brought up in a non-religious family, and has thrived without any belief in a deity, I listened to Barack Obama's
A nation of nonbelievers | MetaFilter
"The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature." ~ Thomas Jefferson / "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion." ~ Abraham L
Books about the human brain | The Guardian
Half a century ago, passionate to study the brain, I began my graduate research in a gloomy, red-brick building in south-east London - the Maudsley Institute of Psychiatry. In the biochemistry department I was rapidly disabused of any idea that my researc
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia
This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed.
(This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.)
Agnostic Machinery
Bill Maher hoped to use science to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the researchers in his film Religulous hold a more complex picture of why we have faith.
What Happens to Religion When It Is Biologized?
oloft works better than God,” a Catholic priest once told me during a conversation about depression. This is not the kind of man to give up on faith; our talks always finish with his reminders to pray. But in matters of body, and in matters of mind more a
What's wrong with science as religion | Salon
PZ Myers is a true believer, a science crusader with the singled-minded enthusiasm of a televangelist. A biologist at the University of Minnesota at Morris and a columnist for Seed magazine, Myers has earned notoriety with his blog, Pharyngula, in which h
Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?
Can a lobster ever truly have any emotions? What about a beetle? Or a sophisticated computer? The only way to resolve these questions conclusively would be to engage in serious scientific inquiry—but even before studying the scientific literature, many
New Curriculum Designed to Unite Art and Science
Jointly conceived by David Sloan Wilson, a professor of biology, and Leslie Heywood, a professor of English, the program is intended to build on some of the themes explored in Dr. Wilson’s evolutionary studies program, which has proved enormously popula
A Templeton Conversation: Does science make belief in God obsolete?
Does science make belief in God obsolete? This is the third in a series of conversations among leading scientists and scholars about the "Big Questions."
Brain Science & The Biology of Belief
For years, Eugene and I have been studying the relationship between religious experience and brain function, and we hope that by monitoring Robert's brain activity at the most intense and mystical moments of his meditation, we might shed some light on the
William James (Online Resources)
"It has sometimes crossed my mind that James wanted to be a poet and an artist, and that there lay in him, beneath the ocean of metaphysics, a lost Atlantis of fine arts: and that he really hated philosophy and all its works, and pursued them only as Herc
Portrait: 'Charles Taylor' in Prospect (Charles Taylor's new book A Secular Age)
'A Secular Age' is well timed. Begun long ago, it is now published in the middle of intense public discussion about religion. But though the book reads like an argument with Hitchens and Dawkins, it won't be joining theirs at the front of the bookshops
John Frum - Wikipedia
John Frum (or Jon Frum; John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is depicted as an American World War II serviceman, who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him.
God, Science and an Unbeliever's Utopia
Last year's wildly popular Beyond Belief 1.0 scientific conference primarily focused upon and championed irreligion. The Beyond Belief 2.0 conference held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., this past November was wider in scope. Rather than aiming
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