Science, Myth Or Magic?: A Struggle for ExistenceAllen & Unwin, 2000 - 210 páginas This work attempts to define what is science and, more importantly, what is not science. Tony Barnett faces superstition, magic and charlatanry, political platforms masquerading as scientifically-based programmes and pseudobiology, and gives rational responses to them based on authentic science. He shows how scientific methods can be applied to specific everyday problems and scientifically scrutinizes a number of popular but erroneous beliefs, from the repellent to the absurd. |
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... held to presage disaster . I do not know whether those herbs were gathered by the light of a full moon but , obviously , the old woman's remedy was an example of magical practices and primitive superstition - the opposite of science ...
... held to presage disaster . I do not know whether those herbs were gathered by the light of a full moon but , obviously , the old woman's remedy was an example of magical practices and primitive superstition - the opposite of science ...
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... held in Canberra . The thrilling program included walking on water as well as the usual telekinesis and animal telepathy . The winners would get gold medals . Presumably the gold would be produced by alchemy . In the world of the occult ...
... held in Canberra . The thrilling program included walking on water as well as the usual telekinesis and animal telepathy . The winners would get gold medals . Presumably the gold would be produced by alchemy . In the world of the occult ...
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... held in London . Those who attended were told that they could , among other things , have an out - of - body experience , release their psychic energy and have their auras photographed . It was a profitable venture with plenty of ...
... held in London . Those who attended were told that they could , among other things , have an out - of - body experience , release their psychic energy and have their auras photographed . It was a profitable venture with plenty of ...
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... held to influence , even to predict , wars and other political events ; and the pattern of the heavens at the moment of birth ( the horoscope ) was believed to identify a person's abilities and prospects , including the outcome of ...
... held to influence , even to predict , wars and other political events ; and the pattern of the heavens at the moment of birth ( the horoscope ) was believed to identify a person's abilities and prospects , including the outcome of ...
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... held to represent bestiality and even subversion . In sixteenth century England , according to Keith Thomas , a witch ' was likely to possess a familiar imp or devil , who would take the shape of an animal , usually a cat or dog ...
... held to represent bestiality and even subversion . In sixteenth century England , according to Keith Thomas , a witch ' was likely to possess a familiar imp or devil , who would take the shape of an animal , usually a cat or dog ...
Índice
STRUGGLE | 33 |
Intermezzo on Instinct | 63 |
Genes and Clones | 71 |
Human Destiny | 82 |
THE IMAGE AND THE REAL | 107 |
EXISTENCE | 119 |
A Bridge Passage | 135 |
Science and Sums | 141 |
Fire From Heaven | 160 |
The Times to Come | 178 |
Glossary | 188 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 204 |
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Science, Myth or Magic?: A struggle for existence Samuel Anthony Barnett Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |
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Página 8 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Página 39 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Página 72 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Página 3 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
Página 82 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 181 - But when his own great work is but begun, What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage of Pride ; Deduct what is but Vanity or dress, Or Learning's luxury, or Idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole, or lop th...
Página 10 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Página 121 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.