Ken Silber looks at the universe according to Hoyle.
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|3.30.06 @ 10:12AM|#
Theories like Hoyle's are one of the reasons I think many religiously inclined proponents of Intelligent Design are somewhat misguided. Is the typical anti-Darwinist going to be happy if schools started presenting something like Raelian creation theories?
[Insert standard boilerplate denouncing public schools as Prussian influenced social soul destroying institutions and such]
|3.30.06 @ 2:14PM|#
"Still, it is a worrisome sign for scientific literacy that nobody really fills their shoes today. "
I think that Bill Bryson does a pretty good job.
Search for his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything".
|3.31.06 @ 6:54AM|#
proponents of Intelligent Design
If the physical universe implies an intelligent designer, what does the intelligent designer imply?
|3.31.06 @ 9:23AM|#
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a possible heir to Sagan. He's not ubiquitous just yet, but he is popping up more and more often. He did a Nova multi-part special on astrophysics and was on the presidential commission that dealt with the "vision" for manned spaceflight. He's also one of the "Superstar Teachers" for the Teaching Company.
|3.31.06 @ 9:29AM|#
Nested turtles all the way down of course.