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Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong,... - http://www.cofe.anglican.org/darwin...
Ricardo Vidal and A Roy liked this
In which a mild mannered CoE cleric stumbles into the open warfare between YECs and students of evolutionary theory and manages to trot out some old, well-worn lies about "social Darwinism".
- Chris Edwards
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The Great Beyond: For and against Templeton - http://blogs.nature.com/news...
Björn Brembs liked this
Note comments about level of discussion on science blogs (a science blog). Nice use of Wordle in the post.
- Maxine
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I find it curious that so many scientists attack Templeton, while preferring to pass over in silence the vastly larger sums of money coming from military and similar sources.
- Michael Nielsen
That aside ;-), I was quite interested in the way that Wordle had been used here (the gt beyond post) as a way to assess the quality of debate in the comment thread. So often one sees a 50+ comment thread (not on my blogs!), and it is going to take at least 10 mins to read it through even quickly-- so I don't bother (unless someone has specifically pointed me there). Is Wordle a good...
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- Maxine
from the wordle image alone - would you be able to tell what's going on? IMHO, it can only be used to bolster a case, but not to find the case to begin with.
- Björn Brembs
The Wordle image only worked here because the blog post put it in context - they mainly drew attention to the pile-on on Max (who was a bit deluded). I find tag and word clouds are like the hub-and-spoke diagrams from many gene-interaction studies. Luis Serrano called them at ICSB "the big hairy monsters": they look impressive but don't actually tell you much about what's going.
- Chris Edwards
Ok, so you have to actually read it all then, no short cuts. Hmmmmm ;-)
- Maxine
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