[debatewiserrt] Re: Rapid Response Team Questions
- From: "Michael Knowles" <michael-knowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:19:20 +0100
Dear Rebecca,
I am very interested in how you tackle this. I look forward to reading what you
will write.For me there just shouldn't be any conflict between S and R, just as
there should be no scientific objection to the argument for God from design.
Evolution and creationism are compatible. But I won't go on. I am just very
interested to see your paper.
Mike Knowles.
PS
I have been writing on religion, philosophy and politics for the past 40years.
(99% of it privately, just the occasional bit getting published. Recently
completed a 25,000 word treatise entitled 'Sex, Death and Religion in Philip
Pullman's Trilogy His Dark Materials'.
Curious to know how you will tackle R and S
----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Jackson
To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: [debatewiserrt] Re: Rapid Response Team Questions
Hi,
I'll take does science and religion need a truce if thats ok.
Thanks
Rebecca
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [debatewiserrt] Rapid Response Team Questions
To: debatewiseRRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 11:21 AM
Hello Everyone on the Rapid Response Team,
This is debatewise’s new list for the Rapid Response Team. As it is
an email group if you email debatewiseRRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx saying which topic you
wish to do everyone will get it so avoiding RRT members treading on each
other’s toes. N.B. you need to use the email that is registered on the list
(the one you get this email from ;))
I am taking over charge of sending out our weekly list of possible
debate titles from David. I intend to keep sending them out on Tuesdays
(usually around 5:30-6 just before I head home). As I have been in charge of
deciding the debate titles for a few weeks the style will not change i.e. I
give you a title and a short background to the debate (that you can use for the
introduction/background if you wish but don’t have to) and then some links to
the relevant story and anything else relevant I have come across.
As always please don’t feel constrained by the topics we send out,
they are merely the big topics of the week or more interesting questions we
have noticed.
Any questions, complaints or suggestions can be sent either to the
group or to me directly at alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I hope you enjoy writing our debates.
Regards
Alex Helling
Questions/Topics for the week
Illegal downloaders should be cut off from the internet
The UK is considering a crackdown on internet file sharing. File
sharing damages the creative industries that Britain has a lead in. However
cutting off people who download is an extreme reaction that will limit freedom
of expression.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/25/internet-file-sharing-digitalbritain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/25/file-sharing-internet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8219652.stm
Will the conservatives win the next election
A new ICM poll in the Guardian is putting the conservatives 16 points
ahead of labour. Labour is also losing ground on the issues. The British people
no longer think the conservatives will destroy the NHS. Can labour fight back
or are the conservatives a shoo in for the next election.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/24/labour-icm-poll-summer-fightback
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/17/labour-general-election-poll
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/5240568/William-Hague-Conservatives-will-win-the-next-election.html
Tourism is a curse
Tourism is one of the world’s biggest industries, it brings much
needed money into the third world and poorer areas of the developed world.
However in an age of mass tourism too many people are drawn to the ‘must see’
sights that then get many more visitors than they can manage. Ancient heritage
is put at risk by this honeypot effect. Elsewhere many picturesque places get
swamped by development to cater for tourists thereby destroying the beauty they
are coming to see.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/6082363/Pharaohs-tombs-commentary-tourists-take-their-toll.html
http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e080712.html
Africa should power Europe
Africa needs investment to boost its poor economies while Europe
needs power, particularly green power. Africa is potentially a massive supplier
of solar power from the sahara and hydro electricity from the Congo rives. Can
such gigantic infrastructure projects really work?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-big-question-should-africa-be-generating-much-of-europes-power-1776802.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7232328.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5887597.ece
A Marshall Plan for Pakistan
While Afghanistan and Iraq have received all the attention in the war
against terror Pakistan has had the main burden of fighting the war. The
Pakistani army has launched campaigns on its own soil but is a poor country.
Should the west pay for rebuilding a country whose destruction we had little to
do with?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6082365/Britain-and-US-back-Marshall-Plan-for-Pakistan.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20clinton.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/27/pakistan.usa
Does exercise help us to lose weight?
We all assume that one sure way to lose weight is to exercise more.
After all you burn those calories off. However this may not be the case. Diet
(in terms of what you eat rather than dieting) could mean more than exercise.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6083234/Health-warning-exercise-makes-you-fat.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html
should there be prosecutions of CIA interrogators?
As more information about CIA interrogation techniques comes out
there is increased pressure on the attorney general Eric Holder to reopen the
possibility of launching criminal investigations against CIA interrogators who
used tactics that could be torture. But is it time to keep the line that was
drawn earlier this year by Obama to avoid allegations of partisanship taken to
extremes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8217414.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8006597.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302038.html
Do Science and Religion need a Truce?
A letter published originally in the LA Times has found it's way into
the Guardian. Written by the co authors of the book Unscientific America it
calls for a truce over evolution between Christians and atheists but is a truce
necessary or should it be survival of the fittest where there can only be one
theory at the top of the tree?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/aug/24/atheism-dawkins-science-evolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28essa.html
Is the widespread use of CCTV justified?
Closed Circuit Television is something that is omnipresent in a lot
of UK town centres but only one crime is solved for every 1000 camera's each
year in areas that fall under the metropolitan police’s remit. Is this a case
of value for lost privacy or should there be more limitations on closed circuit
cameras?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cctv-cameras-help-to-solve-one-in-every-1000-crimes-1776678.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7384843.stm
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors252.pdf
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