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		<title>A Ramble Through Rationalism</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/12/06/a-ramble-through-rationalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last thing I expected at a history talk with Stephen Fry was a discussion on the relative merits of rationalism and empiricism. But that&#8217;s what we got for part of the time at the Harper Collins Annual history Lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects last month.   And for some reason, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galileo: Genius &#8211; just don&#8217;t ask him how his telescope works</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/11/06/galileo-genius-just-dont-ask-him-how-his-telescope-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=4256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Aspects of the lives of  famous people inevitably get magnified, diminished, distorted or simply lost with the passing years. That&#8217;s why we need respected scholars with the learning and gravitas of  Professor William Shea who, speaking recently at the Royal Geological Society, took us &#8211; somewhat teasingly but with due respect &#8211; beyond the accepted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/09/25/creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=4046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The film Creation went on general release in the UK today, and as I&#8217;m just back from a lunchtime viewing, here are a few thoughts on the movie while it&#8217;s still fresh in my mind. To cut to the chase: enjoyable film, with great performances from Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Diversity on Twitter</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/08/28/religious-diversity-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=3996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somebody has put a survey up on Twitter asking people to declare what religion they belong to.  The classifications are listed below.  It&#8217;s not a brilliant graph, but you can see some sort of distribution.  I&#8217;m including this in a science flavoured blog because there seems to be an ongoing debate about science and its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin &#8216;Hat-Trick&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/05/09/darwin-hat-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 22:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=3335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Short note on my &#8216;Darwin Hat-Trick day&#8217; last Wednesday.  Nothing too profound -  but some nice pics! We set off at 5 a.m., and by the end of the day had visited: (a) the supposed final resting place of Darwin&#8217;s Beagle at Paglesham, (b)the newly refurbished former home of Darwin, &#8216;Down House&#8217;, in Kent, (c) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin, Dennett and Dumbo&#8217;s Magic Feather</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/03/29/darwin-dennett-and-dumbos-magic-feather/</link>
		<comments>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/03/29/darwin-dennett-and-dumbos-magic-feather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=3043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I  posted this blog, the BHA have issued a video of the whole event. So for a summary &#8211; read the blog; for the whole smash&#8230;here it is! Disney&#8217;s Dumbo the Elephant got rid of his magic feather.   He realised it was  just a temporary crutch that gave him the courage to be all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secularist Of The Year</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/02/08/secularist-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Secular Society’s annual award for Secularist of the Year has been awarded jointly to Dr Evan Harris MP and Lord Avebury, for their success in getting blasphemy laws abolished.  I joined the event this afternoon, which was also a celebration of Charles Darwin&#8217;s 200th anniversary, at the Imperial Hotel in central London. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Cultures</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/02/03/two-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=2252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a scientist, or more of an artistic person?   Or maybe you&#8217;re a bit of both?  Do you care?  And does it matter? It mattered to CP Snow in 1959, when he wrote the essay ‘The Two Cultures’.   Snow saw society split into two groups, or cultures: the artistic intellectuals and the natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Over From Behind By A Bus</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/01/28/run-over-from-behind-by-a-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=2271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Run over from behind by a bus.  That&#8217;s how physicist and skeptic Professor Robert Park wants to go when his time is up. I joined Bob Park at the Royal Institution this evening to hear him talk about his  new book &#8211; &#8216;Superstition: belief in the age of science&#8217;. To be candid, I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs Are Spies From Venus</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/01/17/dogs-are-spies-from-venus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, dogs are in fact spies from Venus.  So maintained University of London philosopher Steven Law at today&#8217;s Centre for Inquiry London &#8216;Weird Science&#8217; event at Conway Hall. In doing so, he applied the same faultless logic and interpretation of evidence used by young earth creationists, defending their belief that the universe [...]]]></description>
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