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Jimmy Carter's Talking Smack (Gawker 9-20-10)
Jimmy Carter is sick of taking shit for the last 30 years, so guess what? He's just going to brag now. In an interview today he said he's the best post-president ever. Don't like that? Deal with it.
Fidel Castro admits Cuban Missile Crisis 'wasn't worth it at all' (UK Daily Mail 9-8-10)
In a candid interview with an American journalist - one of the first since the 84-year-old placed himself back in the public eye after falling ill four years ago - Castro claims his attitudes have been diluted.
Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day (UK Guardian 9-7-10)
Charles Darwin never patronised his audience but presented his evidence modestly; Richard Dawkins, on the other hand, lacks the patience to let natural history speak for itself.
The fine-structure constant and the nature of the universe (Economist 8-31-10)
RICHARD FEYNMAN, Nobel laureate and physicist extraordinaire, called it a “magic number” and its value “one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics”. The number he was referring to, which goes by the symbol alpha and the rather more long-winded name of the fine-structure constant, is magic indeed. If it were a mere 4% bigger or smaller than it is, stars would not be able to sustain the nuclear reactions that synthesise carbon and oxygen. One consequence would be that squishy, carbon-based life would not exist.
As a scientist I'm certain Stephen Hawking is wrong. You can't explain the universe without God by John Lennox (UK Daily Mail 9-4-10)
Against Neurotrash by Roger Scruton (Big Questions Online 9-3-10)
Is human uniqueness really nothing more than a neurological phenomenon?
Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe (UK Telegraph 9-2-10)
The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
Are we living in a designer universe? (UK Telegraph 8-31-10)
The creators of the world were closer to men than to gods, argues John Gribbin
Doctors without religious beliefs more likely to help patients to die