by Carl Howard | Nov 2, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
This post follows the posts on Galileo’s trial background and what happened at the re-enactment. Time to give my verdict. The most common “populist” argument is that the Galileo verdict was a travesty that represented a clear case of religion repressing science...
by Carl Howard | Oct 30, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Chapter 31 completes the main part of the book of Job (the only thing left is Elihu’s speeches and God’s cameo). The one thing of note is this: I have covenanted with my eyes Not to gaze on a maiden […]Calamity is surely for the iniquitous; Misfortune, for the worker...
by Carl Howard | Oct 28, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Now that I’ve given some background on the historical trial of Galileo, time to report on the Monday night retrial at UNSW. It had an audience of about 900 and was taped by the ABC for Compass (a show focussing on religion). You can watch Compass online no matter...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Tonight, the University of NSW is hosting a re-trial of Galileo, organised by my honours supervisor Peter Slezak. I was lucky enough to to retry Galileo in my undergrad degree (when Slezak taught a couse on it) as a prosecutor*, so it’s great to see that this has been...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2009 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
First World Third World Plentitude Starvation Liberal Democracy Genocidal Dictatorship Education Superstition Whites Non-whites Technology Poverty High life span Death before 40 2 child families 9 child families Widespread contraception Genital mutilation You...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2009 | Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism, Sex
Laura Schlesinger once said: “If you’re gay or a lesbian, it’s a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex” (Source). This created a lot of uproar, but it got me thinking about whether she could “technically” be right (despite her...
