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ONE SIDE CAN BE WRONG
Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne[8.31.05]The seductive "let's teach the controversy" language still conveys the false, and highly pernicious, idea that there really are two sides. This would distract...
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THE CASE AGAINST INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Jerry Coyne[8.31.05]In the end, many Americans may still reject evolution, finding the creationist alternative psychologically more comfortable. But emotion should be distinguished from thought, and a...
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WHO DESIGNED THE DESIGNER?
Marcelo Gleiser[9.2.05]If I had the opportunity to meet the assumed designer, I'd ask what, to me, is the most important question of them all: ''Mr. Designer, who designed you?"If the designer answers...
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DANGLING PARTICLES
Lisa Randall[9.18.05]The very different uses of the word "theory" provide a field day for advocates of "intelligent design." By conflating a scientific theory with the colloquial use of the word,...
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THE OPIATES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES
Nassim Nicholas Taleb[9.25.05]We humans are naturally gullible — disbelieving requires an extraordinary expenditure of energy. It is a limited resource. I suggest ranking the skepticism by its...
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THE VAGARIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
ByDaniel Gilbert[9.28.05]Is God is nothing more than an attempt to explain order and good fortune by those who do not understand the mathematics of chance, the principles of self-organizing systems, or...
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THAT FAMOUS EQUATION AND YOU
Brian Greene[10.5.05]Einstein's derivation of E = mc² was wholly mathematical. I know his derivation, as does just about anyone who has taken a course in modern physics. Nevertheless, I consider my...
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TURING'S CATHEDRAL
George Dyson[10.23.05]My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was...
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THE EDGE OF COMPUTATION SCIENCE PRIZE
David Deutsch[11.13.05]THE $100,000 EDGE OF COMPUTATION SCIENCE PRIZE For individual scientific work, extending the computational idea, performed, published, or newly applied within the past ten...
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THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY
George Dyson[11.29.05]Why does this strike such a nerve? Because so many of us (not only authors) love books. In their combination of mortal, physical embodiment with immortal, disembodied knowledge,...
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