http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://t.co/xjay4VC/great-read-theology-is-dead-quotthere-is-in-accord-with-reasons-movement-no-name-to-which-another-is-not-opposed-httptcoxjay4vc-x Great read: Theology is Dead "...there is, in accord with reason’s movement, no name to which another is not opposed” http://t.co/xjay4VC #x ]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:52:46 -0700 http://t.co/xjay4VC/great-read-theology-is-dead-quotthere-is-in-accord-with-reasons-movement-no-name-to-which-another-is-not-opposed-httptcoxjay4vc-x http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7350819493 “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing. Stable, immutable, redundant. It recopies the same writings, with the same atom-letters. The law is the plague. Reason is the fall. The reiterated cause is death. Repetition is redundancy. And identity is death. Every­thing falls to zero: the nullity of information, the emptiness of knowledge, non-existence. The same is Non-Being.”

- The Birth of Physics by Michel… ]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:03:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7350819493 http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of the fact that gullibility seems to be a disease of other people was provided by Martin Gardner, a great American debunker of pseudoscience, who died this year. In the second edition of his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957), Gardner reported that most of the irate letters he received in response to the first edition criticised only one of its 26 chapters and found the rest… ]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:12:00 -0700 http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-mooney11-2009aug11,0,6581208.story This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book, "The Greatest Show on Earth," will inform and regale us with the stunning "evidence for evolution," as the subtitle says. It will surely be an impressive display, as Dawkins excels at making the case for evolution. But it's also fair to ask: Who in the United States will read Dawkins' new book (or ones like it) and have any sort of epiphany, or change his or her mind? Surely… ]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:32:00 -0700 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-mooney11-2009aug11,0,6581208.story