If there was some way I could force you to “read this comic about inteligent design”:http://www.xkcd.com/c154.html I would. Come on, it won’t take but a second.
JBruno had “a discussion with one of his professors”:http://thevoltagegate.blogspot.com/2006/09/danger-of-siding-with-intelligent.html about Intellegent Design and religious response to science:
bq. Raesly believes that most people that identify with and support ID are fundamentalist Christians that are truly concerned with the directions our country has taken towards secular humanism. It’s a distaste for what is called “methodological naturalism” that is [...]
In the “comments here”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/08/24/were-not-all-atheists/#comment-4641, Renali reminds me of the MANTRA II study by Dr. Mitchell Krucoff of Duke University Medical Center. (”Forbes discussion here”:http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/07/14/hscout526845.html, “BBC discussion here”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3193902.stm.) In this study, it was concluded that noetic healing — prayer — performed remotely, and without knowledge of the patient, had no apparent effect on patients undergoing heart surgery. It is often [...]
Science writer Carl Zimmer writes in his weblog “The Loom”:http://scienceblogs.com/loom/ about the rehabilitation of the image of alchemists:
bq. Once the icon of the bad old days before the scientific revolution, alchemy has been emerging in recent years as more of a proto-science. Indeed, a fair number of the heroes of the scientific revolution were dyed-in-the-wool alchemists. [...]
Here’s “an interesting article from Salon”:http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/07/21/muckraker/index.html about Al Gore getting together with Wal-Mart to green the company. Wal Mart sees it in their best financial interests to do this, and I’m not surprised.