May 21, 2007

Haastatteluja

GDay World podcast: haastatteluissa Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ray Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey ja Ben Goertzel.

Lisäksi Kurzweilin puhe Killer App Exposta.

Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death! - Haastattelussa Michael Anissimov.

MagicMouse - Sormushiiri.

Masdar, Abu Dhabi tähtää saasteettomaan kaupunkiin.


“Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science”
Historians and creationism watchers have long noted several strong and quite reliable psychological generalizations that can be made about creationists – e.g., how creationists jump to conclusions based on what naively seems like “common sense” to them, an almost instinctual dualism- and design-based thinking, a place of pride for “childlike faith”, an old-fashioned Baconian attitude to science (Facts good! Theories bad!!), a severe difficulty with probabilities and other abstract topics, a severe case of typological thinking and an inability to even correctly conceptualize a particular proposed “transitional” organism, an amazingly uncritical acceptance and blind repetition of anything their own authorities say, etc… These generalizations apply to young-earthers right through to old-earth creationists (and therefore IDers, which are a mix of the two).

Posted by kaksoisagentti at May 21, 2007 04:55 PM
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