{"id":1006,"date":"2014-03-26T04:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2014-03-26T04:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:58:04","slug":"news-bits-pinker-and-goldberg-chaotic-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/03\/26\/news-bits-pinker-and-goldberg-chaotic-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"News Bits, Pinker and Goldberg, Chaotic Inflation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein have a conversation on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uk7gKixqVNU\">The Long Reach of Reason<\/a>.&#8221; Excellent history, excellent philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite new podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/nontheology.com\/\">Non-Theology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something to pull out during your internet debates: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2014\/03\/21\/how-to-argue-like-stalin\/\">How to Argue Like Stalin<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/30545\/its-time-to-end-rape-culture-hysteria\/\">To end &#8216;rape culture&#8217; hysteria<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/w-l-craig-as-pick-and-choose.html\">Excellent post<\/a> from Hector Avalos on William Lane Craig, &#8216;Selective Supernaturalism,&#8217; and how to reason about historical evidence. Once again, this is well worth keeping in &#8220;My favorites&#8221; for reference during debate.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a very good discussion on the ethics of abortion with a reader of mine, Ann, in the comments section of my post &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/01\/17\/abortion-beating-hearts-and-bacteria\/\">Abortion, Beating Hearts, and Bacteria<\/a>.&#8221; We disagree on some things, but I think she&#8217;s very intelligent and I respect her position. I may blog a little more on abortion in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/03\/140317125850.htm\">Cosmic inflation has now been confirmed<\/a>. I&#8217;ve written a post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/03\/26\/chaotic-inflation-the-logic-behind-the-science\/\">philosophical implications of this.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein have a conversation on &#8220;The Long Reach of Reason.&#8221; Excellent history, excellent philosophy. My favorite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,205,41,206,114,116],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-cosmic-inflation","tag-epistemology","tag-hector-avalos","tag-steven-pinker","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}