I'm not going to be the first one to share my results, because I know they'll pale in comparison to your guys'. When you get done, there's a flattering...
I'll take Jane Goodall's word for it that her chimps felt something akin to awe at a moonlit waterfall, but Barb King is way out on thin ice when she equates...
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Feb 1, 2007 9:52 pm
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I thought that King was careful not to claim evidence of religion in the ape population , but that researchers had observed what appeared to be evidence of...
Yeah, but what's that got to do with religion? Those same four primate behaviors could just as well be described as the basis of human cooperation,...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 1, 2007 11:55 pm
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... From: Jim Bechtel To: CellaQ@... Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Darwin Day Celebration Mon., Feb. 12 This is great! Thank you!!...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 12:04 am
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Okay, I see what you mean. Still, I think it's useful to make a distinction between organized religion (which makes the assumptions you speak of), and what...
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday February 2, 2007 The Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/> Scientists...
I agree with what you say here. I've used Goodall's report of the chimps acting weird at the moonlit waterfall to help students understand Weber's...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 4:15 pm
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Wouldn't it be great if every time one of AEI's talking heads appeared on the Lehrer News Hour and elsewhere it was identified as "an Exxon-Mobil funded...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 4:27 pm
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Is there any natural selective advantage in believing in transcendent realities? Would such believers have a fitness advantage over nonbelievers? ds. ...
That's an excellent example, and a nice divergence to use in this case, I think. But, (as my old English professor used to say without a hint of irony, I'd...
In another of his amusing editorial essays in our daily paper, UNK "Philosopher" Tom Martin claims the fetus does too have a soul, so there! Take that, you...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 7:18 pm
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Tony Judt, Director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, has written a great analysis and detailed history of the UN and its challenges and problems....
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 8:41 pm
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Judy Abarbanel World Ahead Publishing Phone: (310) 961-4170 E-Mail: marketing@... Friday, February 02, 2007 Publisher...
I got a call back: The WH person confirmed that Opinion pieces are not available from the website, UNLESS you're a seven-day subscriber (I am) AND you track it...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 2, 2007 10:02 pm
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 2 Feb 07 Washington, DC 1. THE LIMITS OF GROWTH: IT'S TIME TO REVISIT THE 1972 CLASSIC. The somber warnings of Dennis...
Jim Bechtel
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Feb 3, 2007 3:35 am
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Fellow Reasonistas - I do not know if this specific topic has been thrashed out here or not, but I have just watched the movie, Who Killed the Electric Car?...
... Or, it could be the Tooth Fairy. Maybe heat generated by all those rotting teeth she squirrels away is responsible for global warm.. er, climate change. ...
Harv, Sucking free electricity from Motel 6 gets me excited enough to think about buying one of these modified hybrids, but I'm puzzled about the CO2 reduction...
-says Eric M. Jackson, president of World Ahead Media. "Our company is calling on writers of children's books to pick up their pens to support intellectual...
Interesting. When I'm in the market for a car (which probably won't be for another 2 years or so), I'll have to check where they're at. But it looks like a...
... Also practical and economic. An airline did a poll of its passengers to try to improve their service. The result of the poll: more legroom. So, they...
CLAY SEZ - ...I don't know the answer, but I do know that coal-burning releases at least as much CO2 as burning petroleum, and that most of our electricity...
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