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http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=121990&catid=2
Article reads: Over the weekend, during a whistle-stop train trip through the Midcoast, LePage told reporters that his opponents had claimed LePage was not fit to be Governor because he’s French and Catholic. He claimed the comments had been made in blogs by Arden Manning, manager of the Democrats’ statewide campaign effort, called Victory 2010.
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Article reads: Marjorie R. Esman, ACLU Louisiana chapter executive director, said she is concerned about the “purportedly” religious-based evidence from a handful of people who have a religious agenda. “If we want Louisiana school children to be educated then we teach them real science, everything else is not science,” Esman said. “The only science is evolution, everything else is religion.”
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Read: A ‘spirit to spirit’ framework for spiritual caregiving respects individual personhood,” Edwards says in a statement. “This was achieved in the way physical care was given, by focusing on presence, journeying together, listening, connecting, creating openings and engaging in reciprocal sharing.”
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http://www.physorg.com/news199440678.html
Article reads: The discovery that the hemoglobins of jawed and jawless vertebrates were invented independently provides powerful testimony to the ability of natural selection to cobble together similar design solutions using different starting materials.”
Note the automatic faith in natural selection to explain biological convergence, ignoring the teleological possibility. In fact, this purported “natural selection” looks no different than teleology.
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http://www.physorg.com/news199424641.html
Article reads: Researchers studying human conversation have discovered the brains of listeners and speakers become synchronized, and this “neural coupling” makes for effective communication. In essence, the participants’ brains connect in a kind of “mind meld.”
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Opinion reads: If researchers can in theory predict what human beings will decide before they themselves know it, what is left of the notion of human freedom? How can we say that humans are free in any meaningful way if others can know what their decisions will be before they themselves make them?
Opinion reads: The problem was that while our senses can only ever bring us verifiable knowledge about how the world appears in time and space, our reason always strives to know more than appearances can show it. This tendency of reason to always know more is and was a good thing. It is why human kind is always curious, always progressing to greater and greater knowledge and accomplishments. But if not tempered by a respect for its limits and an understanding of its innate tendencies to overreach, reason can lead us into error and fanaticism.
Opinion reads: The point to stress, however, is that this catalog is not even legible in theory, for to be known it assumes a kind of knower unconstrained by time and space, a knower who could be present from every possible perspective at every possible deciding moment in an agent’s history and prehistory. Such a knower, of course, could only be something along the lines of what the monotheistic traditions call God. But as Kant made clear, it makes no sense to think in terms of ethics, or responsibility, or freedom when talking about God; to make ethical choices, to be responsible for them, to be free to choose poorly, all of these require precisely the kind of being who is constrained by the minimal opacity that defines our kind of knowing.
I make the same point as Egginton using Trinitarian philosophy, see my essay: /causation-and-two-sided-actions/ . A knower that knows from all points within space and time is called a symmetry condition, and such symmetries hold actions that are recognized as laws. But because these action are two-sided, the question of cauation become complicated and free will cannot be eliminated.
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Opinion reads: One of the ideas that has proved to be almost impervious to evidence is the idea that wise and far-sighted people need to take control and plan economic and social policies so that there will be a rational and just order, rather than chaos resulting from things being allowed to take their own course. It sounds so logical and plausible that demanding hard evidence would seem almost like nit-picking.
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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Save+from+scientism/3292648/story.html
Opinion reads: In high school — a long time ago in the 1960s — I once argued “science” would soon free women from the painful and inconvenient task of child-bearing, by supplying mechanical incubators; that it would likewise provide means of artificial insemination; and that trained scientific experts were best equipped to genetically program, nutrify, and indoctrinate replacement humans, in child factories. Therefore, some day, everyone would be truly equal, and “family” would become a thing of the past.
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Article reads: Naturopaths strive to uncover the cause of the disease by understanding the client as a whole system comprising the mind, body and spirit. They attempt to restore the client’s health in a holistic manner that is both gentle and efficient by stimulating the body’s own healing powers. Naturopaths use a variety of natural therapies and techniques that can include herbal medicine, nutrition, vitamins and minerals, diet and lifestyle recommendations, massage, flower essences and homeopathy.
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Article reads: But Miller, biology professor at Brown University and co-author of the most widely used biology textbook in Kansas, is firmly on the side of science and its importance to society. Because of that, he believes voters must educate themselves on the views candidates have on scientific issues.
Trinity: The Scientific Basis of Vitalism and Transcendentalism 