Incompatible goals meet, tangle, thrash about, retire to corners again.… Read the rest
Whither virtue?
Nov 4th, 2006 10:21 pm | By Ophelia BensonI’ve been pondering (off and on, mostly off) this question of suffering and compassion – this idea that you can’t have one without the other, or that the one makes the other worthwhile, or acceptable, or the world that includes it more attractive. Swinburne said, as we saw:
… Read the restTheodicy provides good explanations of why God sometimes – for some or all of the short period of our earthly lives – allows us to suffer pain and disability. Although intrinsically bad states, these difficult times often serve good purposes for the sufferers and for others. My suffering provides me with the opportunity to show courage and patience. It provides you with the opportunity to show sympathy and to help alleviate
Anthony Giddens on Climate Change and Greens 
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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Many greens are hostile to science and technology, which are needed in responses to climate change.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo Take Moses to Meet the Barmaid
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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He’s an outgoing guy.… Read the rest
Bad Science on a Pricey Cure for Dyslexia
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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What was wrong with the paper? Quite a few things.… Read the rest
On Hannah Arendt
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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Seyla Benhabib, Michael Hardt, Martin Jay, Julia Neuberger, Ilan Pappe, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, others.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Richardson’s William James
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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James once described the history of philosophy as the record of a ‘certain clash of human temperaments.’… Read the rest
Alan Boyle on Allen Esterson on Mileva Marić
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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The evidence and historical documentation are not there.… Read the rest
Who did Einstein’s Mathematics?: A Response to Troemel-Ploetz
Nov 4th, 2006 | By Allen EstersonIn an article in Time magazine in July 2006 Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and former chairman of CNN, stated that Einstein’s first wife Mileva Marić was a “Serbian physicist who had helped him with the math of his 1905 [special relativity] paper”[1]
From the unequivocal way that this information was presented by Isaacson, readers would be forgiven for assuming that this a straightforward factual statement. Yet this is far from the case. For a start, the mathematics in the 1905 relativity paper was quite elementary: as Jürgen Renn, an editor of the Albert Einstein Collected Papers, observes, “If he had needed help with that kind of mathematics, he would have ended there.”[2] Then there is the … Read the rest
Ivory-bill Sightings Reported in Florida
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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No photos, but repeated sightings, suggestive physical evidence.… Read the rest
British Male Elite Plots to Unveil Assertive Women
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Hysterical vigilantes against assertive women who wish to maintain their self-identity in public spaces.… Read the rest
Visiting With Some Atheists
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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If you become an atheist, do you have to start preaching?… Read the rest
Politicians Support Elkin Deligöz
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Parliamentarian received death threats after urging Muslim women in Germany to take off headscarves.… Read the rest
Ocean Fish Will be Gone in 50 Years
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries; the rate of decline is accelerating.… Read the rest
‘Equality Now’ Campaign Against FGM
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Many grassroots organizations are fighting within their own tradition and culture to eradicate FGM.… Read the rest
Ethiopian Reaction to FGM Sentence
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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‘The punishment is appropriate,’ said Bulti Gueteema, of the Ethiopian Ministry of Women’s Affairs.… Read the rest
Evangelist Ted Haggard Resigns
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Strong opponent of same-sex unions said to have had three-year sexual relationship with male prostitute. … Read the rest
Kent Hovind Convicted of Tax Fraud
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Pensacola evangelist founded and runs Dinosaur Adventure Land and Creative Science Evangelism.… Read the rest
Man Sentenced to Prison for FGM of Daughter
Nov 2nd, 2006 |
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Khalid Adem found guilty of aggravated battery and cruelty to children by a Georgia court. … Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Lawrence Levine
Nov 2nd, 2006 |
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He looked at the diversity of cultural traditions making up American life. … Read the rest
