AndúniëAndúnië :: confessions of a failed polymathViggo who- August 22, 2005 Can&39;t say as I&39;ve ever heard of him&8230; Kidding, of course: although last week&8212;and not for the first time&8212;I deeply, deeply wished that Peter Jackson had been able to convince Daniel Day-Lewis to play Aragorn. Mortensen is such a piss-headed moron that he still believes that the liberation of Afghanistan was an example of evil American imperialism. More on Viggo and this month&39;s running farce here (scroll to end). See also here and here. And then there&39;s this...http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000851.php dog daze (II)- August 17, 2005 Over at The Panda&39;s Thumb, Nick Matzke is raising hackles. But the very reason that Michael Ruse has to pound the table so hard is that a certain segment of evolutionatheism popularizers stubbornly, and in the case of Jacob Weisberg, defiantly, refuses to separate their science and their religious argumentation. Basically, they take the lazy step of saying &8220;Look, folks, it&8217;s science or religion,&8221; and attempt to force people to chose their favorite, rather than actually...http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000850.php when genres collide- August 17, 2005 ELENDIL THE TALL, son of Amandil, Lord of Andúnië, became leader of the Faithful upon his father&39;s desperate mission to the uttermost West. In seven ships the remnant fled the wrack of Númenór, and were cast upon the shores of Middle-earth. With his sons Anárion and Isildur, Elendil founded Arnor and Gondor, the Númenórean realms-in-exile; and with the Elven-king Gil-galad, he formed the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, which at great cost...http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000849.php nocturne- August 14, 2005 Repost from 6 June 2005. Since I&39;m getting thick into debate over which side of the political divide is most guilty of politicizing science, here&39;s a slightly different sort of take. Just because. THE DREAM is always the same. I am wandering, for hours it has seemed&8212;a maze of cavernous corridors leading to intersections and locked doors and dead ends. There is no one about, although presently I hear voices: not near, but muffled, as if coming from a great distance and then..http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000825.php dog daze- August 10, 2005 Last fall, Editor and Publisher summarized the results of a recent Gallup poll on evolution. &8220;Public acceptance of Charles Darwin&39;s theory of evolution is well below the 50% mark, a fact of considerable concern to many scientists,&8221; Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of The Gallup Poll, observed today. He noted that given three alternatives, only 35% say that evolution is well-supported by evidence. The same number say evolution is one of many theories and not well supported by...http://www.andunie.net/mt-archives/000848.php |