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May 2011
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ourdumbcentury asked: just copypasting what i added to your left-brain right-brain article when reblogging it, 'cause it has too many notes and i doubt you'll see it :) so here it is:
hi there :) ehem. k. first of all. incredible article! i mean, i just find it fascinating.
one thing i noticed though, i think what “scientists” mean by using “10% of the brain”...
hi there :) ehem. k. first of all. incredible article! i mean, i just find it fascinating.
one thing i noticed though, i think what “scientists” mean by using “10% of the brain”...
Anonymous asked: Hello there,
I read your post titled "Materialism and Naturalism are Myths" and thoroughly enjoyed it. I, too, am a materialist (or naturalist or physicalist) and I would thoroughly enjoy it if you pointed me any articles, books, or movies that would help me reach a more mature understanding of the arguments for (and against) materialism. So that I can employ better (more...
I read your post titled "Materialism and Naturalism are Myths" and thoroughly enjoyed it. I, too, am a materialist (or naturalist or physicalist) and I would thoroughly enjoy it if you pointed me any articles, books, or movies that would help me reach a more mature understanding of the arguments for (and against) materialism. So that I can employ better (more...
agrain asked: I stumbled across your page through atheistbiblestudy, and I am mightily impressed by your posts so far.
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
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Materialism and Naturalism are Myths.
At least according to Anthony DeStefano, that is. A self-proclaimed authority in Christian spirituality and writer of a book called The Invisible World: Understanding Angels, Demons and the Spiritual Realities that Surround Us.
If there is one thing that must be credited to the New Atheists, it is that they have managed to inspire a lot of religious folk to take a new approach to writing or...
April 2011
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March 2011
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What to do with the people being idiots about the...
Please refer them to this site.
www.godhatesjapan.com
That is all.
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A "stroke of insight"? Yes. Into complete...
I got acquainted with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her TED talk on her “stroke of insight” through two very different sources, both within one day of each other. Just last morning through a friend of mine who’s father suffered a stroke this week, and today through a blogger who sent me a comment after reading my blog post debunking the pernicious left brain vs right brain myth.
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schwarbage asked: Hey there, I saw your post debunking certain myths about the right/left sides of the brain and wanted to draw your attention to a TED presentation by Jill Bolte Taylor: http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
I believe you may be interested in this video as she makes some really fascinating points with regards to function of the mind and how it affects...
I believe you may be interested in this video as she makes some really fascinating points with regards to function of the mind and how it affects...
February 2011
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Left Brain vs Right Brain and Other Myths About...
Last night I ran across Mercedes-Benz’s newest cool-yet-so-cringe-worthy ad campaign. While the artwork itself is pretty damn awesome, the idea that our personalities and skills are a product of the prevalence of one hemisphere of our brain over another is rubbish. Another popular claim is the one that we only use 10% of our brains, while geniuses like Newton, Einstein, Michaelangelo and Da...
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On Darwin Day...
It has often and confidently been asserted that man’s origin can never be known. Ignorance most frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Exactly two hundred and two years ago, one of the most brilliant minds in the history of...
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What the first civilized humans can teach us about...
You have to understand the past to understand the present.
-Carl Sagan
Ancient literature is a field that has many things to teach us. By studying the first texts that humans ever wrote we can gain valuable insights into the origins of written language and its subsequent evolution and ramification. We can know, for example, about the different physical media and storytelling techniques that...