Posted in Science on Nov 24th, 2009 | Viewed 669 times
Yesterday a testrun of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN produced the first collisions and collision data after 20 years of construction and preperations. They produced collisions in ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb. The beam was running at injection energy, so no acceleration. Next steps will be to crank up the power. This is looking [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 9th, 2009 | Viewed 987 times
This excellent YouTube video takes care of the accusation we sceptics often has thrown after us that we need to be more open-minded. This always bugs me because my inquisitive mind is very open to new ideas. I’ve spent most of this year learning quantum physics for fucks sake. Being open-minded is however not the [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 974 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen.
“Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow for [...]
Posted in Books, Religion, Science on Jul 19th, 2009 | Viewed 404 times
The Bible Unearhed is a book written by the archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. It covers the historical parts of the old testament of the Bible and how it fits into the picture archaeology in the Middle East paints of its ancient history. Not surprisingly it turns out that most of the early [...]
Posted in Religion, Science on Jun 7th, 2009 | Viewed 461 times
This is an interesting video of a lecture by Professor Robert Sapolsky, anthropologist at Stanford.
It explores some of the evolutionary reasons behind religion.
Source: blip.tv/file/2204956
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on May 29th, 2009 | Viewed 377 times
This story popped up both in my New Scientist and my Panda’s Thumb feeds today.
New Scientist: Christians battle each other over evolution
Panda’s Thumb: But it’s not about religion …
So basically, we have the Discovery Institute, the pseudo-scientific Seattle organization, promoting Intelligent Design, who has launched a new website, Faith+Evolution. There they ask: “Can you believe [...]