Around the Blogosphere 3/29/07

http://telicthoughts.com/macneill-is-religion-adaptive/#more-1451

Cornell lecturer Allen MacNeill announces a summer course entitled Evolution and Religion: Is Religion Adaptive?

http://realphysics.blogspot.com/2007/03/discovering-purpose-in-world.html

A reminder from Lawrence Gage that purpose pervades the universe.

http://mindfulhack.blogspot.com/2007/03/non-materialist-neuroscience-watch-new.html

Neuroimaging studies and implications for materialism.

http://mindfulhack.blogspot.com/2007/03/theories-of-everything-theory-of.html

From this blog entry: "Physicists believe that the theory of everything is hovering right around the corner, and yet consciousness is still largely a mystery, and physicists have no idea how to explain its existence from physical laws."

http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/the-evolution-of-the-long-necked-giraffe-a-preview/

A new look at the sufficiency of evolutionary explanations for the giraffe's neck.

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/more-reasons-paleoanthropology-has-a-bad-reputation-and-id-continues-its-advance/

Did Leakey manipulate his apelike “Skull 1470” to give it a more human appearence?

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/freeman-dyson-comments-on-id/

Intelligent design is compatible with science according to Freeman Dyson

http://www.newcreationism.org/2007/03/cells-use-noise-to-make-cell-fate.html

Harnessing stochastic fluctuations to drive gene circuits.