RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-07 Thread Brandon, Paul K
esday, April 07, 2010 3:44 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy ?Paul Brandon writes: >Minor point: >'Natural Selection' is a process; Lamarckian transmission is a >

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-07 Thread Allen Esterson
cturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --------------------------- RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy Brandon, Paul K Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:29:31

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-06 Thread Brandon, Paul K
n Esterson [allenester...@compuserve.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy ?One thing at a time! I was answering Paul Brandon's saying that "Darw

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-06 Thread Allen Esterson
ompuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -------------------- Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy Christopher D. Green Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:30:55 -0700 Allen Esterson wrote: > Paul Brandon wrote: >> Darwin

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-05 Thread Christopher D. Green
Allen Esterson wrote: > Paul Brandon wrote: >> Darwin himself relied on Lamarck for a mechanism underlying >> natural selection, since he wasn't aware of Mendel's work. > > On the contrary, the theory of natural selection was in *opposition* to > Lamarck's theory of the inheritance of acquired ch

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-05 Thread Allen Esterson
because he had problems with inheritance, and with the estimations of the age of the earth at that time. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ----------------- Re: [tips]

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-05 Thread Christopher D. Green
_\ > /\"If you want to > climb mountains,\ /\ > _ / \don't practice > on mole hills" - > > ---------------------------- > &

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Brandon
@yorku.ca] > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 10:14 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, > Astronomy, History, and Tragedy > > Louis Schmier wrote: > The Nazi T-4 plan was an application by “m

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-05 Thread Louis Schmier
aching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy Louis Schmier wrote: The Nazi T-4 plan was an application by "men of science," however perverted, of Herbert Spencer's social Darw

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Green
Louis Schmier wrote: > > The Nazi T-4 plan was an application by "men of science," however > perverted, of Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, which, in turn, > twisted Darwin's Theory of Evolution. > Just for the record, Spencer was a published evolutionist BEFORE Darwin was. After Darwin p

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread William Scott
>>> "Louis Schmier" 04/04/10 8:42 PM >>> "As a member of said race?" As a spokesman in this region of the United States on many an occasion for my religion, not to mention a scholarly resume of some professional repute on this subject, I can attest that Judaism is not--I repeat, is not--a race.

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread John Kulig
Mike et al Thanks for all the information. Interestingly, NEXT year will be similar. Eastern and Western Easter again fall on the same day (24 April 2011), at the end of Passover (25 April), just like this year. On the topic of music, let me add one more to your terrific suggestions: hearts of

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Louis Schmier
"As a member of said race?" As a spokesman in this region of the United States on many an occasion for my religion, not to mention a scholarly resume of some professional repute on this subject, I can attest that Judaism is not--I repeat, is not--a race. I'm outta here on this one. Make it

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
It must be nice to never be wrong. Original message >Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:14:02 -0400 >From: "Louis Schmier" >Subject: RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, >History, and Tragedy >To: "Teaching in th

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread sblack
OK, can't take it any more, especially as I've been accused of being "diplomatic" with my pesach post. Dipomacy, be damned. On 4 Apr 2010 at 18:14, Louis Schmier wrote: > I accept your apology, but not your qualifications or back door vindications. Let's have a reality check. I believe the ho

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Louis Schmier
nt to climb mountains,\ /\ _ / \don't practice on mole hills" - -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:33 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subje

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Mike Palij
Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:09:03 -0700, Louis Schmier wrote: >Mike, New Yawker or otherwise, Chris, droll or otherwise to some, but >nevertheless still disrespectful. I'm sorry that you feel that way because I did not intend to be disrespectful and apologize to anyone to anyone who thought I was being d

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Louis Schmier
Mike, New Yawker or otherwise, Chris, droll or otherwise to some, but nevertheless still disrespectful. Make it a good day.   --Louis-- Louis Schmier    http://www.therandomthoughts.com Department of History   http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org   

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Mike Palij
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:27:50 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Mike Palij wrote: >> But let me ask the fundamental question: >> >> What makes this year (2010) different from other years? > >Note the spoof on the Passover seder question. Very droll Mike. What can I say? I'm a New Yawker! ;-) -M

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher D. Green
Mike Palij wrote: > But let me ask the fundamental question: > > What makes this year (2010) different from other years? > > Note the spoof on the Passover seder question. Very droll Mike. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 4