Richard Dawkins Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson at Hayden Planetarium. Richard Saul Wurman. Career[edit] Wurman chaired the IDCA Conference in 1972, the First Federal Design assembly in 1973, and the annual AIA Conference in 1976. He is perhaps best known for having cofounded and chaired the TED conference from 1984 thru 2002, bringing together various thinkers in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design. He also created the TEDMED conference (1995-2010) and the e.g. conference in 2006. In 1976, Wurman coined the phrase "information architect" in response to the large amount of information generated in contemporary society, which is often presented with little care or order.
In 1978, he served as the Dean for the Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design.[2] Wurman created the Access series of travel guidebooks, which incorporated idiosyncratic efforts to dissect mapping content and present it in fragmentary form, arranged by neighborhood (along with other, more arbitrary, "systemic" criteria). Education and awards[edit] Wurman received both his M. Neil deGrasse Tyson Again Proves How Awesome He Is. Neil Tyson talks about UFOs and the argument from ignorance. 14 Things We Can All Appreciate About Neil Degrasse Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson likes to dance. Richard Dawkins. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Dawkins. Il acquiert la consécration avec son livre de 1976 intitulé The Selfish Gene (en français : Le Gène égoïste), qui popularise la théorie de l'évolution centrée sur les gènes et introduit le terme de « mème ».
En 1982, il développe cette théorie dans son ouvrage Phénotype étendu puis publie en 2006 The God Delusion (en français : Pour en finir avec Dieu), vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires et traduit en 31 langues. Il est reconnu comme un ardent défenseur du rationalisme, de la pensée scientifique et de l'athéisme. Il est aussi l'un des principaux critiques du dessein intelligent, du créationnisme, des religions et des pseudo-sciences dans le monde anglo-saxon.
Il s'est rendu célèbre aussi pour sa controverse amicale, mais ferme, avec son collègue Stephen Jay Gould sur la question des équilibres ponctués. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Jeunesse et éducation[modifier | modifier le code] Notre-Dame de Fátima. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Notre Dame de Fátima sur le blason de la ville. Notre-Dame de Fátima est le vocable sous lequel est invoquée la Vierge Marie telle qu'elle serait apparue à trois enfants à Fátima, petit village du centre du Portugal, à six reprises au cours de l'année 1917. Ces apparitions, dont le message porte sur la prière et les fins dernières, ont d'abord été l'objet de méfiance, aussi bien de la part des autorités civiles que des autorités religieuses. Puis, dès 1930, le succès populaire de ce qui devient un grand centre de pèlerinage est accompagné de la reconnaissance de ces apparitions par l'Église catholique romaine. La fête de Notre-Dame de Fátima a été fixée par le Saint-Siège en 2009, à la date du 13 mai[1], jour anniversaire de la première apparition, le 13 mai 1917.
Contexte[modifier | modifier le code] La situation au Portugal[modifier | modifier le code] La Première Guerre mondiale[modifier | modifier le code] Situation géographique. Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence. NOTE: For real proofs of the nonexistence of any god, see "Why Atheism? " For other evidence, go to Atheists of Silicon Valley debate page . Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence Formerly: Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence Originally adapted from a forum on the Internet Infidels .
TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. PRESUPPOSITIONALIST (I) (1) If reason exists then God exists. (2) Reason exists. (3) Therefore, God exists. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. . (1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause. (2) I say the universe must have a cause. (3) Therefore, the universe has a cause. (4) Therefore, God exists. (1) I define God to be X. (2) Since I can conceive of X, X must exist. (1) I can conceive of a perfect God. (2) One of the qualities of perfection is existence. (1) God is either necessary or unnecessary. (2) God is not unnecessary, therefore God must be necessary.
ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN, a.k.a. . (1) Check out the world/universe/giraffe. . (2) Only God could have made them so complex. The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. The equation was written in 1961 by Frank Drake not for purposes of quantifying the number of civilizations,[1] but intended as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at the world's first SETI meeting, in Green Bank, West Virginia. The equation summarizes the main concepts which scientists must contemplate when considering the question of other radio-communicative life.[1] The Drake equation has proved controversial since several of its factors are currently unknown, and estimates of their values span a very wide range.
This has led critics to label the equation a guesstimate, or even meaningless. History[edit] In September 1959, physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published an article in the journal Nature with the provocative title "Searching for Interstellar Communications. The equation[edit] The Drake equation is: where: Murray-Hill riot. The Murray-Hill riot (also known as "Montreal's 'night of terror'") was the culmination of 16 hours of unrest in Montreal, Quebec during a Montreal police strike. Police were motivated to strike because of difficult working conditions caused by disarming separatist-planted bombs and patrolling frequent protests. Montreal police also wanted higher pay, commensurate with police earnings in Toronto. As the police were on strike on October 7, 1969, a crowd of disgruntled taxi drivers congregated around the Murray-Hill garage in Griffintown, protesting against Murray-Hill’s monopoly at the Dorval International Airport.
Attempts by the Sûreté du Québec to stop the procession towards the garage were stopped by striking Montreal policemen. During the melée, Sûreté corporal Robert Dumas was killed by shots fired from the roof by security guards and the owner’s son. As the riot was ongoing, the National Assembly of Quebec passed an emergency law forcing the police back to work.