A response to a video by ImpurfektFaith ( at www.youtube.com ) which claims that teaching evolution causes huge social problems. The statistics he uses are far too simplistic and I argue that care needs to be taken by both atheists and theists to include all data (even the uncomfortable ones) before forming an opinion. Promised links: www.youtube.com (Potholer54debunks video) moses.creighton.edu Bibliography: RELIGION AND CRIME REEXAMINED: THE IMPACT OF RELIGION, SECULAR CONTROLS, AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY ON ADULT CRIMINALITY†T. DAVID EVANS, FRANCIS T. CULLEN, R. GREGORY DUNAWAY, VELMER S. BURTON JR. Criminology, Volume 33, Issue 2, pp.195-224 Rates of atheism: www.adherents.com Crime rates: www.disastercenter.com Christianity discourages drugs, but not other crimes: www.informaworld.com Divorce rates: www.cdc.gov Religious devotion does not impact abortion decisions of young unwed women: www.eurekalert.org Teen birth rates highest in most religious states: www.msnbc.msn.com
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters—the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness since the dawn of …
Includes essays by Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and other noted scientists and scholarsThe modern environmental movement began with the publication of three seminal works, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth. These books’ dismal visions of a poisoned, over-populated, resource-depleted world spiraling down toward env…
Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There’s more to the story of “deep Alberta” than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all their favourite beasts here…
In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics.He discusses light green or anthropocentric ethics w…
Do you see the differences in the people that use these words?
1)character, virtue, discipline, tough it out, get tough, tough love, strong, self-reliance, individual responsibility, backbone, standards, authority, heritage, competition, earn, hard work, enterprise, property rights, reward, freedom, intrusion, interference, meddling, punishment, human nature, traditional, common sense, dependency, self-indulgent, elite, quotas, breakdown, corrupt, decay, rot, degenerate, deviant, lifestyle.
2)social forces, social responsibility, free expression, human rights, equal rights, concern, care, help, health, safety, nutrition, basic human dignity, oppression, diversity, deprivation, alienation, big corporations, corporate welfare, ecology, ecosystem, biodiversity, pollution,
hint
one is propaganda and believed by many,
think tanks create this worldview
it is liberals and conservatives
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farm…
A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us–whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed–he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is…
A century ago, malaria was killing Washingtonians, Londoners, Parisians. Today HIV, along with various cancers, has taken its place among worldwide epidemics. Quinine, extracted from the cinchona tree of the Amazonian rainforest, quelled malaria; alkaloids taken from trees in the West African rainforest may well yield a cure for AIDS. Yet those woods, Mark Plotkin tells us, are fast disappea…
The crucial interdependence between humans and their environment is explored and illuminated in this revealing overview of the major environmental issues facing society in the twenty-first century. With attention to detail and cogent language, the author describes how human health and well-being are inextricably bound up in the web of interrelationships that characterize life on this planet. The p…
FAU Projects Selected to Receive BP Funding for Oil Spill Research
Florida Atlantic University research projects have been selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography Council to receive BP funding to examine the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico. Policy Analysis and Management Student Research
This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can m…
Changes in the Land is an origianal and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England’s plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance….
Author is Bjorn Lomborg is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
This books offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media. It is essential reading for anybody with a serioius interest in current environmental debates….
