Thunderf00t & Confirmation Bias 2b Sirius 2015-11-28 | Thunderf00t doesn't revise, doesn't retract and doesn't admit mistakes. Unfortunately, he also often does not thoroughly research a topic before he post a video on it either. Link to factcheck.orghttp://fullfact.org/factcheck/law/men_accused_rape_dont_have_to_prove_woman_said_yes-38719Other linksNoelplum99's video response to Thunderf00thttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wowCNPnYmC0D Landon Cole's articulate response to Thunderf00t on another subject, but he also points out that TF needs to fact checkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwNnwjZe44Finally Thunderf00t's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGgVovpTEzMThe title of the video itself creates the impression that in the UK those accused of rape will now be presumed guilty until they are proven innocent, and that is simply NOT so.
Atheist Challenge 2b Sirius 2015-11-04 | Text of comment: The truth is there's more and more money in making drama videos here and less and less in making videos informing viewers about science, culture, philosophy or much else. "That's true and completely understandable as well. We humans are social animals who tend to love drama. One can make the case that e-drama is very philosophical. It's the struggle to reformulate collective ideas of morality within a population that has rejected religion. Religion for all it's ills at least provided a framework of acceptable behavior that everyone agreed upon. What we may be seeing is how solipsism actually tears a community apart, creates balkanized factions who no longer share a common understanding of right and wrong and vomits up the most sociopathic leaders one can imagine. balkanize verb, bal·kan·ize often capitalized \ˈbȯl-kə-ˌnīz\bal·kan·izedbal·kan·iz·ingDefinition of BALKANIZEtransitive verb1: to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units
Ism & Schism How about trying a different strategy? 2b Sirius 2015-10-25 | We can only hope that the Thunderf00t & Laughing Witch debacle has come to an end . Seems like it's time to stop, think and defuse this volatile situation. Continuing to exact revenge for this does not seem like a good idea to me.
MIRROR: To The Mens Rights Activist Movement Its time we talked 2b Sirius 2015-10-24 | Original video:youtube.com/watch?v=Deb1YyrjDkwI mirrored this video with the YouTube Video Editor (youtube.com/editor)
Laughing Witch, Thunderf00t & Free Speech 2b Sirius 2015-10-15 | Laughing Wtich's channel has disappeared. I don't know why.Here's the full text of my comment:Obviously you have the right to decide what kinds of comments are posted in YOUR videos' comment section. And no one has the "right" to post violent, abusive content. But I do have some misgivings. I am no fan of Thunderf00t. I think he knowingly and routinely uses his fan base to abuse those who attempt to disagree with him. But I wonder about some of your tactics. This is ancient history now, but a YouTuber I found intellectually interesting was forced off YT after he was targeted with letters to his employer. (He is an academic, and I know TF is working in a research lab, so the situation is a bit different, I guess.) However, I have to wonder if these tactics aren't a slippery slope where every disagreement could result in a kind of Stasi mentality: With everybody informing on everybody whose opinions they dislike or disagree with? I also think it's important to keep in mind the distinction between actual Islamophobia and what is legitimate criticism of misguided religious ideas. There is nothing racist, for example, in raising valid questions of any religion which can result in a court judgement to behead and crucify a young man of twenty-one for protesting oppression in Saudi Arabia. So this whole thing is very nuanced, and as usual on YT tends to ignore that and go for black and white thinking, which is too often the default mode on YT.Sorry about the sound. It will be better after I've gone to the new computer.
Are we all rats in the giant internet social marketing maze? 2b Sirius 2014-05-10 | The answer to the question I asked in the title of my video is a resounding YES. Check to links to discover why what I'm saying is true:http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/skinner-marketing-were-the-rats-and-facebook-likes-are-the-reward/276613If you're interested in seeing the cynical ways in which these techniques are practiced, here's some more info for you. We're all marketers now according to the Financial Times:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/28ca6290-b169-11df-b899-00144feabdc0.html#axzz31Jj11WRvWe all are either selling or sold too according to according to Grant Cordone in his best seller by that title:http://www.amazon.com/Sell-Be-Sold-Your-Business/dp/1608322564
If My Channel Disappears 2b Sirius 2014-03-11 | The original strike on my last video was withdrawn, BUT now a new claim has been filed. The first claim for only for the first 19 seconds. It has been withdrawn. However, a new and totally different claim has been claimed for the first 15 seconds. In exhaustion and rather than let these con-artists extort my cooperation, I did an audio switch. It wasn't worth the energy it was taking...Google needs to get a grip on this nonsense imho. The original music in my last video was called Slow Walker and it was from the Sparkol music collection as a part of Sparkol Video Scribe software...
THINKING ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS 2b Sirius 2014-01-14 | http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3407500187.htmlhttp://4dlab.info/article_the_fourth_dimension_as_seen_from_flatland.htm(My old video was used to illustrate this entry. I had no idea it had been used until I began researching sources for the present video....Strange world, don't you think?)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6kn6nXMWF0Music:http://incompetech.comDarkest Child
The tragedy of the heroic 2b Sirius 2014-01-12 | This is a response to a video of Professor Anton's video, youtube.com/watch?v=q62a_h3ZUqIDAMN COPYRIGHT VIOLATION FRAUDS! The soundtrack to this was a pretty good version of Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra which was from Kevin Macload's great site Incompectech, but the video was slapped with some fraudulent copyright claim almost as soon as I'd uploaded it. The claim was WRITTEN IN CHINESE and so was unreadable to me. I had to change the music asap...DAMN! Full text of Nietzsche's poem:At the bridge I stood not long ago.Venetian nights.From far away a song arrivedFlowing like champagne across the trembling surface.Gondolas, lights, music—My soul, a lyre,Invisibly touched,Quietly sang a gondola song,Trembling with ecstasy.— Was anyone listening? ...(From a translation by Jurgen Kleist)
TMI about my dog Charlie 2b Sirius 2014-01-10 | Charlie has a lot of pain right now, but I hope he'll improve soon. I guess fourteen-and-a -half is pretty old for a springer spaniel. He'll never be young again, but I want his quality of life to get better. It seems cruel for him to have to suffer pain. He has a serious auto-immune disease and has had two operations for it so far and will likely need more. :(
How rational are we in the way we treat other living things? 2b Sirius 2014-01-06 | http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201308/is-dogs-life-worth-more-personsYes, it's Psychology Today. I'm aware that it would not be consider a serious source, but I thought the dilemma was interesting. How rational on we in our treatment of other living things?
Are we living in a simulation? 2b Sirius 2014-01-05 | And if we are living in a simulation would the programmer of that world then be god? For more:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1978/07/24/1978_07_24_026_TNY_CARDS_000325918http://themindi.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/chapter-19-non-serviam.htmlyoutube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHshttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/18/martin-rees-computer-universe-simulation_n_4121022.html
Will machines ever become consciousness? 2b Sirius 2014-01-04 | The ratings on this are going to be crap. I was rushed in making it, but I said I'd make a video every day. Therefore, I did this in a hurry to fulfill that promise to myself...I Tomorrow's video will be worth watching, so please give it a look in. It has some ideas about artificial intelligence I've been thinking about since I was very young. If you're interested:http://themindi.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/chapter-19-non-serviam.htmlApologies for the quality of this one though :(
This is the really hard question (at least for me) 2b Sirius 2014-01-03 | How exactly did matter become conscious, aware and self-reflexive? How, at some point did matter evolve to the point that it is able to ask itself the question of how it became conscious? I have always found it impossible to understand why this question is not the most important question we ask ourselves....
Exiting the Sea of Bullshit? 2b Sirius 2014-01-01 | This video is, in part, a response to Islandletter's thought-provoking comment which I have posted in full below. islandletters3 hours ago +Karen Chimera You are raising very good points. How would peer citation help us transitioning from the rage of trolls and the stupidity of crowds toward a robust, informed discussion. Well, for one, it could provide transparency. Imagine, for instance, a graph of all comments a user makes. Where does she/he comment, about what, what are the top ten words used, etc. Admittedly, citation indexing would only help a little. The next one, would indeed be good referencing. It actually amazes me, that YouTube is not linked to Google Scholar. Are you referencing a paper? Provide the link! Are you referencing a book? Provide the page #! Sound citations only take you so far. What we'd need best is peer voting of users and their comments. How to get good root peers? Let us vote for them, all of them, and only those with 75% of the votes would be nominated. And the root peers in turn would nominate temporary review peers. Slashdot ran such a model (has run?). That of course runs into the problem of sock puppets. Well, I do not know how to solve that. Thinking about it, YouTube probably is structurally set up in the wrong way for achieving robust debates (anonymity and sock accounts). Maybe its time to set up something like HumeTube, where users can only have verified accounts, where you get booted for sloppy referencing, and where peer rating is gently applied. For the time being I stick to blogging. Less attention but also way, way fewer brainless comments.
Oversimplification is a logical fallacy 2b Sirius 2013-12-16 | http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/skepticism/blfaq_fall_oversimp.htmhttp://www.kevinbondelli.com/2013/02/25/moving-beyond-the-single-cause-fallacy/#.Uq7h9_RdWSoI'm using a new software drawing program, and made this video as a trial for that...However, I also wanted to explore how many misunderstandings on YouTube and elsewhere could be overcome if we could discuss complex problems as exactly what they are--complex. It's when we reduce complicated situations and problems to an inaccurate level of simplicity that discussions get sidetracked. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, But not simpler," as Einstein phrased it.
Computer Scientists Prove The Existence of God 2b Sirius 2013-11-13 | http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/scientists-use-computer-to-mathematically-prove-goedel-god-theorem-a-928668.htmlhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4526http://www.amazon.com/Types-Tableaus-G%C3%B6dels-Trends-Logic/dp/9401039127/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1384351644&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=Types%2C+Tableaus+and+G%C3%B6del%27s+God+Melvin+Fitting.
Rape and the Magic Sandwich Show 2b Sirius 2013-10-21 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/100000-assaults-1000-rapists-sentenced-shockingly-low-conviction-rates-revealed-8446058.html
For Every Woman 2b Sirius 2013-10-19 | ...and for every man too, by the way.The text of Nancy R. Smith's poemFor Every WomanBy Nancy R. Smith, copyright 1973For every woman who is tired of acting weak when she knows she is strong, there is a man who is tired of appearing strong when he feels vulnerable.For every woman who is tired of acting dumb, there is a man who is burdened with the constant expectation of "knowing everything."For every woman who is tired of being called "an emotional female," there is a man who is denied the right to weep and to be gentle.For every woman who is called unfeminine when she competes, there is a man for whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity.For every woman who is tired of being a sex object, there is a man who must worry about his potency.For every woman who feels "tied down" by her children, there is a man who is denied the full pleasures of shared parenthood.For every woman who is denied meaningful employment or equal pay, there is a man who must bear full financial responsibility for another human being.For every woman who was not taught the intricacies of an automobile, there is a man who was not taught the satisfactions of cooking.For every woman who takes a step toward her own liberation, there is a man who finds the way to freedom has been made a little easier.
What is Life? 2b Sirius 2013-10-04 | http://philosophynow.orgyoutube.com/watch?v=9MxJE22LZx4The link above is for Conferencereport's video on how to post a response to the comment section of a video. If you want to enter the Philosophy Now question of the month, their address is:Philosophy Now43a Jerningham RaodTelegraph HillLondone SE14 5NQBe sure to write QUESTION OF THE MONTH on the front of the envelope. The deadline is December 9. Entries should be 400 words or less.
Questions for Efilists 2b Sirius 2013-09-29 | These questions are directed at any efilist who is interested in responding.
universal options? 2b Sirius 2013-09-27 | Here's a link to the Russell/Einstein Manifesto:http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/texts/doc_russelleinstein_manif.html
Gender wars and equality 2b Sirius 2013-05-31 | youtube.com/watch?v=RQ2VC7qIiggWhy are men and women at war with each other. Who gains from that war? Certainly not men or women. This video is about a question: WHY does money speak so loudly that nothing else can be heard? I want YOUR opinion. Please...
YouTube as a Finite or Infinite Game 2b Sirius 2013-05-02 | "[T]he whole tendency of the human personality is to solidify into the corpse. You don't change corpses. Corpses aren't bubbling with enthusiasm. You spruce them up a bit and make them fit to be looked at." "The Die Man" by Luke Rhinehold This video is a response to Pyrrho's video: youtube.com/watch?v=K7FiEob3QX0This video touches on some of the same ideas:youtube.com/watch?v=49nJvwWWw2wThis video seems to have been born dead. It has no view after more than an hour of its upload. But on the positive side, it's a beautiful day here in Cambridgeshire. I think I'll go for a bike ride.
Reading in the 21st Century 2b Sirius 2013-04-25 | The two books from the video:http://www.amazon.co.uk/From-Codex-Hypertext-Reading-Twenty-First/dp/1558499539/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366922318&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=codex+to+hypertexhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Was-There-Reading-Electronic/dp/0226669785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366922241&sr=8-1&keywords=there+was+a+book+piper
Hangout 2b Sirius 2013-04-20 | The video of the hangout did not record, but it was fun and interesting. Thanks to those who showed up.Since the hangout has come and gone, I should take this video down, but I like the comments, so I'll keep it up.
Absinthe and books 2b Sirius 2013-04-06 | The hangout is over. Unfortunately, I did something wrong and it did not record. It was fun though. Sorry about the sound quality :(
Worlds End 2b Sirius 2013-02-28 | A speculative account of what might happen on our first trip to a nearby exoplanet. CREDITSImages:Esa/Hubble Images were used in this video under creative commons licence 3.0. Their use is non-commercial and not for profit. Here is a link to the ESA/Hubble image archive:http://www.spacetelescope.org/imagesSome of the other images came were from Wikimedia Commons, and are licenced under creative commons licence 3.0.Music"Just too Soon" by Kevin Macleod at the royalty free site Incompetech:http://www.incompetech.com
Re: Is vegetarianism the issue? 2b Sirius 2013-02-23 | Cows and other sentient creatures are not cabbages.Response to Pyrrho314's video...
Hyperspace, Superstring and Visitors from Another Dimension 2b Sirius 2013-02-23 | I made a lot of videos with me in the private sometime back...So I'm sorry if this appears as a new video in your sub box. The Scientific American article: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:7lk0xMYoWE8J:www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fermilab-looks-for-visitors The complete text of Abbott's novel Flatland, including illustrations:http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTMOr the Amazon entry:http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Edwin-Abbott/dp/0554354128/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235410420&sr=8-1For background on Kaluza-Klein, the Wiki article is pretty good:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theoryFor interesting videos about the mathematics of dimensions:http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_reg_E.htmFor more about finding proof for multi-dimensions in the left over radiation from the big bang:http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/27065********************************Here are two physicists who doubt String Theory. The first is the blog by Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong. It's probably the best know blog that debunks String theory:http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/Also check out Lee Smolin's 2006 book, The Trouble with Physics:http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physics-String-Theory-Science/dp/0618551050
How to find true love 2b Sirius 2013-02-09 | Music Credit"How Lucky I Am" by Old Doghttp://ccmixter.org/files/CiggiBurns/19964Photo CreditsSome of the photos in this video are taken from Wikimedia Commons and are shared under the standard creative commons licence. Some of the others are from flickr (sportreporting) and are subjected to creative commons licence with attribution. The inclusion of those photos does not imply endorsement of the contents of this video. http://www.flickr.com/photos/29792566@N08/5245317466Thanks for watching.
Inmendham doing what he always does 2b Sirius 2013-01-29 | This is Inmendham's counter to my last video. http://inmendham.com/gd1/1258.htmlSo now the last fifty years of the history of the Holocaust are "made up".... Do you mind proving that Inmenham?
The Cosmic Language of the Primes 2b Sirius 2013-01-25 | A clitch [hope it's temporary] won't allow comment on this video for now. I wanted to add a comment about whether primes would still exist in other number based systems [i.e., base 6 or 8 rather than 10. I can't do that for now, so I'm posting it here: The prime numbers are prime no matter how you look at it. One way to see this is pictorially. If you have 10 beads, you can make a nice neat rectangle of 1 row of 10 beads, or 2 rows of 5 beads. It doesn't matter if you number two and five in a different base, they still multiply to the same thing. If you have 7 or 13 or 41 beads, the only neat array you make out them is only 1 row of 7 or 13 or 41 beads. I don't care if you use base 7, and write seven as 10, it's still prime. two base seven time 5 base seven gives you 13 base seven. Here's a number written as '13', but that's not 'thirteen,' because you're in base seven. So, if you want a way to write '13' and have it not be prime use base seven, but the actual number of things are prime no matter how you name them. What form will the first extraterrestrial language take? [The links provided are in descending order of reliance to the video. Each link is clearly labeled for subject.] Here's an interesting speculative article from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13739?feedId=online-news_rss20 Good paper on this: http://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/extraterrestrial.pdf For more on Carl Sagan's use of primes in "Contact": http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6FyF148SPj0J:www.arn.org/docs/newman/Cosmos%2520and%2520Contact.ppt+sagan+contact+prime+numbers&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf55 An article from Astrobiology Magazine: http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&task=detail&id=860 Link for "The Music of the Primes: Unsolved Problems in Mathematics" by Marcus du Sautoy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Primes-Unsolved-Problem-Mathematics/dp/1841155802 This slightly quirky article gives you a glimpse of some of the strange patterns that can be found in prime numbers: http://www.fermi.franken.de/wschildbach/primes.html Wiki on the Rare Earth Hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis Finally, here's a great link suggested by CasinoMacul: http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/r120204
Determinism vs Free Will: A Response to Das American Atheist and Honest Discussioner 2b Sirius 2013-01-25 | youtube.com/watch?v=7Ob4c_iLuTw(This conference series consists of over ten hours of videos, but it's worth watching from the beginning if you can find the time.}http://www.youtube.com/dasamericanatheisthttp://www.youtube.com/honestdiscussionerTheir video exchange:youtube.com/watch?v=KC-TSfRFX2oyoutube.com/watch?v=Wq5l28vDfyI
Doing Life 2b Sirius 2012-12-16 | http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Life-Pragmatist-Manifesto-Thayer/dp/1469163438/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355695881&sr=1-1&keywords=lee+thayer+doing+lifeIt's pricey except on Kindle. I got the UK Kindle version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doing-Life-Pragmatist-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B007IVC5T8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1355695995&sr=8-2
Sarcasm of the Lamb 2b Sirius 2012-11-30 | If you haven't read "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal," check it out:http://www.amazon.com/Lamb-Gospel-According-Christs-Childhood/dp/0380813815Even though most of the novel is contemporary, I used biblical dress for the characters because it seemed in the spirit of the humor.Music:Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeodhttp://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free
Why I Am Not an Efilist 2b Sirius 2012-11-01 | Why I am not an Efilist. If you are an Elilist, I'd like to know know why. If, like me, you are not, I'd like to know why as well.
You are stardust 2b Sirius 2012-10-28 | The universe is made up of only 4.6% atoms. More than 95% of the energy density in the universe is in a form that has never been directly detected in the laboratory! The actual density of atoms is equivalent to roughly 1 proton per 4 cubic meters.http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/dark_energy/de-what_is_dark_energy.phpSources:"The New Universe and the Human Future" by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primackhttp://www.amazon.com/The-New-Universe-Human-Future/dp/0300181248Some of the footage and images are from Hubble/Esa image galleries and are used here for educational purposes only and not for profit:http://hubblesite.org/galleryMusic:Dust from the Stars by theDICEhttp://www.ccmixter.org For more:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nnwvoH-4XIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
Death, Personal and Universal, in Melancholia 2b Sirius 2012-10-16 | http://philosophynow.org/issues/91/Melancholiahttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186You might also want to check out egophobia, a magazine Stefan Bolea writes for and edits. I'm including one of his pieces, We do not believe in anything anymore, at the link below: http://egophobia.ro/?p=8892(You will likely need to translate it from Romanian into English using the tab at the top of the page.)For the music:http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Soundtrack
Homework 2b Sirius 2012-10-11 | Melancholia:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186The Cabin in the Woods:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521If you do watch both films and you wish to participate in a Google hangout discussion of them, please PM me.
pyrrho314 2b Sirius 2012-08-04 | My attempt to say something comprehensible in an incomprehensible situation.
Scientific metaphors 2b Sirius 2012-05-10 | This video is a response conferencereport's on youdoubled:http://youdoubled.com/watch_video.php?v=7BGSXUXK6YOSMusic Reverie (small theme) ghost on ccmixter:http://ccmixter.org/files/_ghost/25389
Re: Why Was Giordano Bruno Burned? 2b Sirius 2012-04-28 | This video is not for general viewing...and you will likely find it boring, so rather than wasting your time, you'll be better off going on to the next video in you sub box, unless you're Barklord. Thanks.http://www.amazon.com/Giordano-Bruno-Renaissance-Science-Hilary/dp/0801435293http://www.luxinarcana.org/en/documenti/personaggi/un-heretico-impenitente-pertinace-et-ostinato-giordano-brunoThis is a response to this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWhCqZ_Meug
Literalism, Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Metaphors and Selfish Genes 2b Sirius 2012-04-26 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2I8f4lpBLUFor more background, watch this as well:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1C0MBK3r8[Professor Rose expresses some friendly criticisms of Dawkins in the link above. Notice especially that Rose cites Dawkins's use of the metaphor of "the selfish gene" and the problems that LITERALISTS have caused (not Dawkins himself btw) when they misrepresent what Dawkins is saying through their LITERALISM. Noice also Dawkins's citing Conrad Waddington's METAPHOR of the blanket. It's brilliant!Here's a fast paraphrase of what Dawkins says about it:"You imagine a blanket hanging from the ceiling by thousands of rubber bands, and all the rubber bands are criss-crossing and muddled up together. And the shape of the blanket is governed by the tensions in all of these different rubber bands and the different rubber bands at the top are the different genes but they interact with each other all of the way down. Now if you cut any of these rubber bands anywhere, you don't get a simple effect on the blanket. You get a shift in the entire conformation on the entire balance of the blanket. That's the kind of image that I would want to build on. I think you'd agree with that."]Some background on literalism:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptural_literalismThe Oxford English Dictionary definition of literalism:LITERALISM--Pronunciation:/ˈlɪt(ə)r(ə)lɪz(ə)m/--noun[mass noun]The interpretation of words in their literal sense: biblical literalismHere is a good instance of misplaced literalism I found on Jerry Coyne's often interesting blog, "Why Evolution Is True":http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/a-simple-answer-to-a-common-creationist-questionSome people can't access the full Beautiful Minds video, so here's a VERY BRIEF excerpt, but it's not a real substitute for the full programme:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjCKuEaYXE
The Art, Science, and Mathematics of Tiling 2b Sirius 2012-04-16 | Or why patterns in nature are NOT proof of a creator.http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/07/04709733/0470973307-237.pdfGraphic Credits:Many of the images in this video were taken from Wikimedia Commons and are licenced under creative commons. The image of the Eden project architecture is requires a credit attribution to Eva Krocher as follows:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eden_Hexagonal_Structure.jpgThe tessellated birds:http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/art-techniques13.htmMusic:http://ccmixter.org/files/hisboyelroy/430
