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This Roguish Commonwealth: IV. Interlude: What about the social sciences?
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. IV Interlude: What about the social sciences? I think that this is getting a bit unwieldy - unsurprising considering how many directions we've gone toward.). And, yeah, it is. Massively unwieldy. I'll also maintain it's been a much more productive/educational use of my study time than most o...Also,...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: III. ... and Einstein doesn't help.
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. III and Einstein doesn't help. 1 Evolutionary biology does give us predictions which we're able to test (for example, what we've just found out about the Y chromosome). 2 The God of the gaps is one of the most common apologist ways to get religion back into line with science, and it never works.
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This Roguish Commonwealth: V. How do we define "religion"?
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. V How do we define "religion"? Yeah, everyone wants to have Einstein on their side. (WWED? Why go through all this work rather than just marginalizing the fundamentalists and excluding them from conversations entirely? As for defining religion, I don’t think you’re ever going to arrive a...Has a han...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: VIII. Some olive branches and an end
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. VIII Some olive branches and an end. The truism that people don't always act in their own best interest and use language imprecisely? Even though Wired Science plays fast and loose with science news sometimes.). Oh, sure. There's definitely value to having and being able to us terms like "postmo...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: March 2009
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Here's what we are doing this summer! This is the abstract from our research grant proposal:. The acts of Somali piracy resemble historical piracy in several aspects, including the pirates’ position as outsiders in a broken, exploitable system. In both cases, motivations for piracy are econom...We will...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: VII. What is language?
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. VII What is language? If you do come up with such an equation, let me know and I'll construct a multi-colored graphical representation of it :) However, I think that doing in doing so, I would miss the point just as much as J. Evans Pritchard, PhD does ( http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? The only way to...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: Grant Proposal
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Here's what we are doing this summer! This is the abstract from our research grant proposal:. The acts of Somali piracy resemble historical piracy in several aspects, including the pirates’ position as outsiders in a broken, exploitable system. In both cases, motivations for piracy are econom...We will...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: I. Can religion and science be partners?
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. I Can religion and science be partners? Early last week, I came across this article. Richard Dawkins, et al., please take note:. Http:/ www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/151704.shtml. Http:/ www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/essays/nathist/holywars. TO BE CONTINUED . Holding forth at great. II Relig...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: II. Religion and science are not unproblematic ...
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. II Religion and science are not unproblematic . Why work harder to get the jump on quickly mutating viruses? Why develop better genetic tests for life-threatening diseases? I agree that God isn't necessary to fill in the gaps of human knowledge. (But I kind of suspect that's not how many contemp...
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This Roguish Commonwealth: VI. How do we define anything?
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THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA(N UNIVERSITY). Comprising a Pertinent and Truthful description of the principal Acts of Research and Writing on the subject of representations of Pyrates. Thursday, January 28, 2010. VI How do we define anything? Sure, dictionaries are handy things (as for how dictionaries get there definitions, I highly recommend this book: http:/ www.amazon.co.uk/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary/dp/0060839783. And why wasn't I in that class? Again, maybe it would help to inform my ...
