Physics 206 - Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt-Fall 2007

Instructor

Prof. Marshall Onellion
Email: onellion@wisc.edu

Syllabus (PDF)

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Chapter 1 (text file)

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• The views of one Muslim apostate. (MO)
• One view of monism and dualism. (MO)
  
• Hitchens' view on religion. (MO)
• What Did Muhammad Say? Who Knows?
  
• A view from the articulate atheist camp on religion in general. (MO)
  
• Contrasting views about religious belief. (MO)
  MILITANT IDEOLOGY ATLAS
  
• The Matthew Effect in Science: The reward and communication systems of science are considered
  
• One view on how intellectuals view capitalism. (MO)
  
• One survey on comparing different religious groups in the U.S. (MO)
  The Will to Win
  
• Stealing Al-Qa’ida’s Playbook
  
  

Chapter 2 (text file)

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• Muslim women are the key to change
• Chaotic world of climate truth
• The Perfect Surrender
• One Last Thing | Post-9/11 conflicts rooted in history
• Liberalism v Islamism
• ELEMENTS OF A NEW THEORY OF DIVINITY
• Muslims must come forward
• When Not Seeing Is Believing
• Debate or denial: the Muslim dilemma
• The West Needs To Fight Islamofascists With Big Ideas
• Camus' Catch: How democracies can defeat Totalitarian Political Islam
• Jihadists don't care about logic: Islamists don't want to persuade; they want to coerce
• Europe, Radical Islam & Secularism
• Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East
• Oriana Fallaci Has Enrolled in the Society of Jesus
• The Genesis of the Moore Method
• Proving a negative
• Europe's Politics of Victimology

Chapter 3 (text file)

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• The Sacrifice of Reason
• Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East

Chapter 4 (Text File)

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• One view of Islamic theology
• God's dupes: Moderate believers give cover to religious fanatics -- and are every bit as delusional.
• An Evening with Christopher Hitchens
• Jihad and European Multiculturalism
• Pope sacks astronomer over evolution debate
• The Will to Win
• Fact or “Islamophobia”?
• The Peace Racket: An anti-Western movement touts dictators, advocates appeasement—and gains momentum.
• "The case of the flying Imams"
• When Science Teaching Becomes A Subversive Activity
• MASTER PLANNED
  

Chapter 5 (Text File)

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• Religion in a Globalizing World
• The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity
• Open letter to Tariq Ramadan
• THE CAGED VIRGIN
• The Rise of Early Modern Science: A Reply to George Saliba
• Science and Metaphysics in the Three Religions of the Book
• Seeking the Origins of Modern Science?
• Finding Design in Nature
• al-Taqiyya/Dissimulation (Part I)
• Taquiyya
  

Chapter 6 (text file)

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• Natural History report

Chapter 7

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• The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Stage Through Which the Umma Will Pass
• A Free-for-All on Science and Religion
• Hitchens vs. Hedges; Atheist vs. Believer Clash Ignites Audience
• Religiousness, Religious Fundamentalism, and Quest as Predictors of Humor Creation

Chapter 8

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• My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror
• Radical Outreach: Bush coddles American apologists for radical Islam
• Muslims 'about to take over Europe'
• This discusses Prof. Lilla's view on religion in the majority of the world. It is in contrast to how religion is viewed in the West, according to Prof. Lilla. (MO)
• God's Country?
• Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?
• How Muslims Compare With Other Religious Americans: In Intensity of Religious Identity, Not Unlike Evangelicals
• MUSLIMS IN EUROPE: ECONOMIC WORRIES TOP CONCERNS ABOUT RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
• The Car Bomb Jihad: Is Britain seeing clearly?
• Europe and Islam: Crescent Waxing, Cultures Clashing
• William Dembski's treatment of the No Free Lunch theorems is written in jello
  

Chapter 9

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• Salman Rushdie: His life, his work and his religion
• Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism
• Self-consciousness, self-agency, and schizophrenia
• Future Tterrorism Mmutant Jihads

Chapter 10

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• Of Ancients and Moderns: Religion in America
• Future Tterrorism Mmutant Jihads
  

Chapter 11

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• I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
• Deroy Murdock: Taking Islamofascists at their word
• We all have to stand up to Islamists and their apologists
• When Students Turn to Terror:Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses
• Airport taxi flap about alcohol has deeper significance
• Debate or denial: the Muslim dilemma
• Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism
• Brown-Waite Letter
• AMERICAN THINKER
• Head-in-the-Sand Liberals: Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists
• DeMos: Khader: “We are Facing an Incognizable Enemy from Within”
• THE CLASH:The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
• Sayyid Qutb’s fiqh al-waqi'i, or New Realist Science
• THE THOUGHT OF SAYYID QUTB
• Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword
• A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic
• What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove
• Science Peace: Replies
• Pseudoscience and Postmodernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travelers
• Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
• A Lesson In Hate: How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
• ILLUMINATING BLACK BOXES: THE BEGINNINGS AND ENDS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Chapter 12

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• Is There Anything Good About Men?
• Winds of War: Iran is making a mistake that may lead the Middle East into a broader conflict.