Sunday, June 24, 2007

USA TODAY/Gallup Poll results - USATODAY.com

USA TODAY/Gallup Poll results - USATODAY.com
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

Friday, May 11, 2007

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!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

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?
FOXNews.com - Did the Devil Make Him Do It? - Blog Blogs Popular Blogs Video Blogs
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"

Friday, January 05, 2007

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.