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Open Parachute

http://openparachute.wordpress.com/

Discussion of science, religion and art from a philosophical direction and in the interests of promoting respect and toleration

• Added on: May 22nd, 2007
• Country: New Zealand
• Language: English

• Author: Ken Perrott
• Listed in: Science Religion
• Tags: art religion science new zealand diversity astheism

Recent Posts

• Richard Dawkins in Auckland next March

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 22:09 in science, atheism, Evolution, agnostic, agnosticism, creationism, intelligent design, Belief, wellington, darwin, science and society, richard dawkins

  This guy leads an extremely busy life. I know he is promoting his recently published books The Greatest Show on Earth and consequently gets into book tours. But his publishers certainly work him hard. Next March (Wednesday 10th) he is speaking in Wel...

• “Climategate” – the smoking gun?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 18:00 in global warming, science, environment, climate change, humour, satire, email, diversity, Belief, george w bush, superstition, nuclear power

  Some of the more extreme climate change deniers, and others who have an anti-science agenda, continue to dredge through the domestic debris of the emails stolen by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. Their concl...

• Appropriate thanks

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 10:00 in religion, christianity, United States, God, atheism, supernatural, Faith, holiday, tradition, agnosticism, thanks, religion and spirituality

  With the US Thanksgiving holiday coming up I thought it worth repeating this article from 2 years back. There are many religious ceremonies and prayers giving thanks to a god. I often think these are rude on two grounds: I many case these are impos...

• Awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 18:55 in science, images, space, solar system, NASA, saturn, cassini, spacecraft, enceladus, rings of saturn

  It’s amazing how much we are finding out about other bodies in the solar system these days. And the images we get back from some of our robotic spaceships can be incredible. Here’s one taken by Cassini during a deep swoop past Enceladus, ...

• Those “climategate” emails

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 18:09 in religion, global warming, environment, climate change, email, christian apologetics, earth, scientific method, fossil fuel, peer review, environment and ecology, east anglia university

  The current “scandal” erupting around the hacking of servers at the University of East Anglias’ Climate Research Centre is rather predictable. The public release of stolen emails has been seized on by climate change deniers as evide...

• An Introduction to Evolution

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 in religion, science, book review, Evolution, creationism, whale, darwin, natural selection, charles darwin, origin of species, ambulocetus, tiktaalik

  Book Review: The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution by Carl Zimmer Price: US$43:16 Hardcover: 394 pages Publisher: Roberts and Company Publishers; 1 edition (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0981519474 ISBN-13: 978-0981519470 ...

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