Fwd: Edge 212: Jerry Coyne, Gino Segre, Werner Heisenberg

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Edge 212
JUNE 6, 2007

(10,400 words)

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THE THIRD CULTURE
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DON'T KNOW MUCH BIOLOGY
By Jerry Coyne

Whether he knows it or not, Brownback's forthright declarations, denying
any possibility that empirical matters of fact might differ from those
assumed by his creed, amount to nothing less than a rejection of the
whole institution of science. Who is "we", and where did "our"
conviction and certainty come from? Would Brownback believe these
"spiritual truths" if he hadn't been taught them as a child, or brought
up in the United States instead of China?

According to Brownback, we should reject scientific findings if they
conflict with our faith, but accept them if they're compatible.  But the
scientific evidence says that humans are big-brained, highly conscious
apes that began evolving on the African savannah four million years
ago.  Are we supposed to reject this as "atheistic theology" (an
oxymoron if there ever was one)?

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FAUST IN COPENHAGEN
By Gino Segre

The contrast between the two [Bohr & Pauli], the affection felt for both
of them, and the affection they felt for each other, is manifest in a
skit put on by the young physicists at the April 1932 Copenhagen
meeting. That year was the hundredth anniversary of the death of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, the passing of the man, both humanist and
scientist, widely regarded as the last true universal genius. As
commemorations marking the occasion took place all over Europe, this
small band of physicists at the annual informal gathering decided to
have a celebration of their own. It took the form of a sketch, a
tongue-in-cheek adaptation to the world of physics of /Faust, /Goethe's
great drama. In the script, written primarily by Delbr¸ck, noble Bohr
was identified as the Lord, sardonic Pauli as Mephistopheles, and
troubled Ehrenfest as Faust. As in Goethe's version Mephistopheles has
the wittiest lines, but that was of course true of Pauli's real-life
speech as well.

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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
By Werner Weisenberg


"It's all bound to end in tears." - Wolfgang Pauli

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THIRD CULTURE NEWS
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THE NEW YORK TIMES - SCIENCE TIMES
June 5, 2007

Essay
The Universe, Expanding Beyond All Understanding
By Dennis Overbye

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#nytdo

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NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
JUNE 14, 2007

The Other Einstein By Lee Smolin

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#nyrb

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ENTELECHY
summer/fall 2007 no. 9

The Biology of the Imagination
by Simon Baron-Cohen

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#ent

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
June 3, 2007

TTHE WEEK IN REVIEW

6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!
By Amy Harmon

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#nyt

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THE OBSERVER
June 3, 2007

Beggars belief
Robin McKie on The God Delusion

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#to

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THE INDEPENDENT
June 2, 2007

Tim Lott's Week: Scientists need to use their imagination

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#ind

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THE WASHINGTON POST
June 1, 2007

Honey, I'm Gone
Abandoned Beehives Are a Scientific Mystery and a Metaphor for Our
Tenuous Times
By Joel Garreau

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#wapo
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NATURAL HISTORY
June, 2007

REVIEWS
Darwin in Court

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#nh
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THE GUARDIAN
May 29, 2007

Scientists divided over alliance with religion
By Alok Jha, science correspondent

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#guardian
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NATURE
May 24, 2007

Celebrity genomes alarm researchers
Scientists slam sequencing as elitist.
By Erika Check

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#nature

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BBC NEWS
May 15, 2007

HAPPINESS WINS SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#bbc

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THE COLBERT REPORT
May 15, 2007

WALTER ISAACSON

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http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge212.html#colbert

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