Blogging Heads has a couple of diavlogs this weekend: one featuring Charles Johnson of LGF on his famous break with the right, another with our old friend Razib Khan talking with Nicholas Wade,who has a new book on religion from an evolutionary perspective.
Islam News @ NYT- Women’s Rights in Mideast:
- Driving Miss Saudi: Young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in “Saudi Time.”
- A Dispute on Using the Koran as a Path to Jesus: “The Camel Method” for preaching to Muslims has prompted controversy among Southern Baptists.
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razib, murtad fitri 3:11 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink |
tx for the link. 60 minutes was really short. prolly should stuck to evolutionary aspects in hindsight, since i didn’t want to get into arguments about christian or muslim history as it’s unsqueezable into 30 minutes.
shams 10:50 am on January 4, 2010 Permalink |
I very much liked the analogy to language. I think ill buy the book.
SBH, blushing and waterfall displays indeed.
I suppose the chomskyian “deep grammer” model of language is analogous to spandrels while Wades model is analogous to Pinkerian cognitive anthro….as I favor SBH and cog anthro…..I think I prefer Wade as I prefer Pinker.
I wonder if there if there is not only a positive correlation between IQ and atheism…..and a negative correlation between religiousity and IQ …..but a negative correlation between …..oh say….. music, dance……umm….. cultural fluency and atheism…..like lack of appreciation for hiphop?
I’m inspired to look up my old work on evolution of dance and chimpanzee waterfall displays.
Waterfall displays are not about sexual selection….but about…umm…… awe.
I want another book….Wades work integrated with what we are learning about SBH….I think…the fusion of SBH(social brain hypothesis) and cognitive anthropoly is going to reveal a lot….many secrets in District 9.
lol.
I thought the letters of Paul predating the life of Jesus, yet following in the new testament….. analogous to the Meccan Suras coming at the end of the Qur’an.
Given our recent discussion of Ashura I find Wade’s historical explanation of Muawiya as a christian to be …umm…bizarre?
But the border of the quantum and classical worlds is still sirr (mystery).
In maarifa, the invisible world.