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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/08/2011 : 13:58:35
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The local "Secular Book Club" is reading this book for our October meeting. I loved it! I just posted a full review of the book on my blog Humanist Mom. Here's the intro to my review:
This isn't a book about parenting or even necessarily for parents. It is a book written by a professional science writer, for the layman, about a recently developed and controversial hypothesis: that the earth can become, and has at least once frozen over completely, and that one such "snowball" likely played a role in the development of complex life on earth.
I see this book (and books like it) as relevant to humanist parenting in that this is the sort of book that has the potential to intensely pique the interest of how science works for any teenager or child old enough to read it, as well as, of course, adults. |
Read the rest here.
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"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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Edited by - marfknox on 10/08/2011 13:59:43
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WestpalmRoofing
Spammer
USA
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Posted - 01/12/2012 : 04:49:24 [Permalink]
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Wonderful post. I would definitely try to incorporate the tips you have shared. I would be glad if you could refer me some more stuff of niche.
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My company is too cheap to pay for proper advertising, so we spam random Internet forums instead, desperately hoping that someone local will see our links and use them. Think about that when you consider the sort of effort and material we might put into your roof. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/15/2012 : 06:48:44 [Permalink]
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| I was under the impression that a snowball earth(at some point) was widely accepted, that it would have an impact on abiogenesis is news to me. What mechanism does it imply? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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wowlijetgold
Spammer
USA
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Posted - 06/14/2012 : 00:43:22 [Permalink]
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Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
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Snow Ball Earth by Gabrielle Walker
