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Post by James Hannam on Jun 17, 2010 16:12:20 GMT
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Post by merkavah12 on Jun 17, 2010 17:01:39 GMT
Congratulations James!
I'm was surprised to see that David Sloan Wilson's "Darwin's Cathedral" wasn't up there as well.
Salud, Senor Hannam! A toast to your deserved success!
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Post by unkleE on Jun 17, 2010 23:54:03 GMT
That's really wonderful, James, that you have received this recognition. Very best wishes for the next stage. It would be wonderful if you could actually win, though I suppose that's long odds.
But if you do, you could perhaps shout us all when we gather in Oxford for the next Quodlibeta reunion! : )
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Post by Al Moritz on Jun 18, 2010 2:56:27 GMT
Congratulations James!
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Post by perplexedseeker on Jun 18, 2010 9:12:37 GMT
Congratulations James! I'm was surprised to see that David Sloan Wilson's "Darwin's Cathedral" wasn't up there as well. I haven't actually read it, although I've read some of Sloane's essays and thought they were pretty good. Would you recommend the book?
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Post by merkavah12 on Jun 18, 2010 9:40:29 GMT
I haven't actually read it, although I've read some of Sloane's essays and thought they were pretty good. Would you recommend the book? Well, it's certainly interesting (and Wilson is an excellent writer). It also helps that I am a fan of Wilson himself for being an example of an Atheist Scientist who does not allow polemic and ideology to cloud his judgment.
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Post by perplexedseeker on Jun 18, 2010 11:05:09 GMT
That's what I liked about the essays of his I read. In particular his critical discussion of the meme concept was illuminating. I had never considered the analogy between memes and demonic possession legends before. Sloan seems to think that, ironically, the whole concept is an outgrowth of an inborn religious mechanism.
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Post by James Hannam on Sept 1, 2010 6:13:37 GMT
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Post by merkavah12 on Sept 1, 2010 7:34:01 GMT
Oh I love this one James:
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Post by timoneill on Sept 1, 2010 8:03:40 GMT
Oh I love this one James: Someone claiming to be an atheist has replied. But given what he has said, I suspect he is just a crypto-Christian. Or possibly Hannam himself. Pathetic really.
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Post by humphreyclarke on Sept 1, 2010 8:22:31 GMT
Oh I love this one James: You missed the best part, his last sentence where he said: 'Here is one of the most scholarly sound (and enjoyable) books on the subject.'And then links to 'The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn' by Lucio Russo. Enjoyable, yes. Scholarly, not by a long way! Among other things he argues that argue that the Roman engineer Hero invented motion pictures, the ancients used proper telescopes and that Hipparchus and Archimedes were heliocentrists who had achieved a complete Newtonian dynamics.
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Post by wraggy on Sept 1, 2010 8:44:44 GMT
Oh I love this one James: Someone claiming to be an atheist has replied. But given what he has said, I suspect he is just a crypto-Christian. Or possibly Hannam himself. Pathetic really. I was on the IMDb board earlier and they are onto him there. Hannam has shamefully stolen the identity of one Tim O'Neill and poses as an atheist. As Derryn Hinch was fond of saying, "shame, shame, shame."
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Post by ignorantianescia on Sept 1, 2010 21:24:46 GMT
I looked in vain for Hannam to mention that Bradwardine also died of the Black Death. "This first wave of the Black Death took Thomas Bradwardine with it." (p. 195; paragraph starting with "The deadly incursion...") Maybe he should have been more patient or perhaps he should have looked in the index before saying stuff like that. It reminds me of this quote: "I enjoy going to online boards to complain about games I never played." It was also greatly comical that the other tried to pass off a palimpsest as "the most colourful example" of Christian knaves "destroy[ing] a great deal of ancient learning".
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Post by humphreyclarke on Sept 1, 2010 22:13:46 GMT
I'd love to login and contribute to that discussion but it seems that when RD.net hit the self destruct button it wiped the last vestiges of my account and won't let me create a new one.
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Post by unkleE on Sept 2, 2010 1:07:46 GMT
I'd love to login and contribute to that discussion but it seems that when RD.net hit the self destruct button it wiped the last vestiges of my account and won't let me create a new one. It's a conspiracy, Humphrey, and Lord Kitchener would never have stood for it!
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