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Ein kanning har spurt verður m.a. um skapan, úrreiving og religiøsar fatanir hjá einum amerikonskum president kandidati.

Is this REALLY proof that man can see into the future? the Daily Mail
Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists nowbelieve that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen

Deepak Chopra skrivar um sama evnið í seks pørtum í The Huffington Post
The Mind Outside the Body (Part 1)

Hygg eisini: www.sheldrake.org

Scientific American: Should Science Speak to Faith?: "The need to believe in a divine intelligence without direct evidence is, for better or worse, a fundamental component of many people’s psyches" eins og tað er ein varandi partur av menniskjans natúru at vísa romantiskan kærleika, sjálvt um vit vita nógv um okkara kognitivu evni, sum kanska kundu tikið grundarlagið undan hesum.

Hetta sjónarmið førir Lawrence M. Krauss, teoretiskur fysikari, fram í eini samrøðu við Richard Dawkins, har teir tosa um, hvør háttur er skilabest at nýta í møtinum millum vísindi og trúgv.

b3ta.com challenge: creationism:
"Creationists believe that everything in the universe was created absolutely by a deity, and that evolution is hocus pocus, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Please portray this conflict using God's own image-manipulation software."

Ein síða við tekningum, ið vísa konfliktina millum skapan og úrreiving. Onkur er stuttlig og aðrar álvarligar:

Breaking the Spell of Religion

"“Religion is a powerful force in the world. Now more than ever. We need to study it scientifically so that we can anticipate its changes”."

Soleiðis sigur amerikanski filosoffurin Daniel Dennett, í hesari samrøðuni á Reset DOC

Tome truths
Eru sannleikarnir í teimum umleið seks bókunum, sum í seinastuni eru útgivnar "søtur tónleikur" ella eru tær militantisk álop á religion? Bretski filosoffurin, AC Grayling, sigur at "The hard truths spoken about it in these books and the public debate surrounding them are as genies freed from the bottle: they cannot be put back.

Sutt viðmerking frá AC Grayling

2007 Prize acclaimed books: "1405313293"
Her er ein listi yvir 'góðar' vísindaligar bøkur (almannaskilligar), ið Royal Society hevur útvalt til bestu bøkur fyri 2007.

Áhugavert er eisini at síggja, at vísindaligar bøkur eisini eru fyri børn. Ná - hetta var mest bert fyri at minna meg sjálvan á hendan listan!

Vísindi og skil - heimasiða hjá Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins Foundation hevur eina umfatandi heimasíðu.
Slagorð íð tú finngur á síðunir: for science and reason og ein oasa fyri greiðar tankar
Síðan er verd eina vitjan....

Var tað hann sjálvur í neðra í fekk hann at gera tað?
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Gud fordervar alt!
Er hetta ein bók, ið er verd at lesa?
Amazon.com: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: Books: Christopher Hitchens

Mytur um úrreiving - evolutión
Nakrar nýggjar bøkur um Darwin og hansara áskoðanir.
Evolution myths - TLS Highlights - Times Online

Tað kann vísindi ikki svara uppá
Theologian & atheist debate at ‘Point-Counterpoint’ forum
Dennet og McGrath kjakast um religion. McGrath sigur m.a. at spurningar viðvíkjandi meiningin við lívinum ikki eru spurningar, sum vísindi kann svara.

Believers are away with the fairies
"We'd be better off without religion, argues AC Grayling, who is a keynote speaker in a major debate on the futility of faith in London tomorrow.
Telegraph newspaper online

This is what the clash of civilisations is really about
Julian Baggini skrivar "Relativism has made liberal openness appear weak, empty and repugnant compared with the clarity of dogma"

The book of nature

Galileo's famous metaphor of the "book of nature", which he used to
defend the work of scientists from religious authorities, can be
dangerous today, says Robert P Crease

Halting progress

AC Grayling, skrivar: "Protests outside parliament by religious groups tonight will represent an obscenity against human rights"

Samrøða við Simon Blackburn

Nigel Warburton tosar við filosoffin Simon Blackburn.

A dubious distinction

People are allowed to refuse medical treatment, yet doctors still cannot assist a patient's death. Peter Singer skrivar.

Jaja, so er aftur ein filmstuppi um heilamegi! James Hydrick paranormal claim put to the test by James Randi

Mind power teachings by an old Chinese master, or simple trickery?. You judge.

Stop all the clocks: Julian Baggini on the tyranny of time

The clock is ticking - 2006 is history and a new year has begun.Today we'll take stock, make resolutions and start planning the next 12 months. But why do we treat 1st January as such a milestone in our lives? After all, it's just another day, isn't it? The philosopher Julian Baggini explains the human obsession with the passage of time

Eksploderandi froskar - humbuk

Í apríl hoyrdu vit um eksplodernadi froskar. Nú vísir tað seg, at likkur (crows) sum eru orsøkin til at tær ekspoldera - tað verður Der Spiegel endurgivin fyri at siga.

100 things we didn't know last year

Each week, the Magazine chronicles interesting and sometimes
downright unexpected facts from the news, through its strand 10 things
we didn't know last week. Here, to round off the year, are some of the
best from the past 12 months.

No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future

People's fascination for religion and superstition will disappear
within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to
get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final
theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.

Hvøjum skal eg takka?

Týski filosoffurin, Ernes Tugendhat, spyr um hvør skal hava okkara tøkk, tá tað er eyðsæð, at Gud ikki er til.

Guðsfatanir

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy viðgerð ymiskar gudsfatanir

Hóttur eftir lívinum

Fraklands mest seljandi heimspekingur, Michel Onfray, er hóttur eftir lívinum, eftir at hann hevur givið til kennar hansara áskoðanir um m.a. skipaða religión. Ein viðmerkjari hevur sagt, at hansara analysa av religiøsari fanatismu og fyri skili brúkar somu metodur sum fundamentalistarnir. Long grein í Toronto Star, eftir Brad Spurgeon.

Tíggju mytur um ateismu

Sam Harris skrivar í stuttum um tíggju mytur um ateismu.