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David Rea - Biography - AOL Music (278 words) |
 | Rea's debut solo album, Maverick Child, released in 1969 and produced by Pappalardi, marked him as a promising folk-pop performer. |
 | As a result, Rea was presented with a Gabriel award for excellence in broadcasting. |
 | Rea's most recent album, Shorty's Ghost, was released on his own label, Gistu, in 1996. |
| Defending Naturalism as a Worldview: A Rebuttal to Michael Rea's World Without Design (15020 words) |
 | Rea is aware his sources might simply be wrong, mischaracterizing their own worldview by failing to think things through or word themselves carefully (a problem ethnographers are familiar with, and Rea's activity here is ethnographic and should be informed by the methods of that science). |
 | Rea argues that "we cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch the fact that a rabbit cannot survive being flattened by a steamroller" because "we cannot perceive the fact that the resultant mess is not the same object as the rabbit, just in a different form" sic (105). |
 | Rea notes "the mere fact that it is convenient for us to think and act if [certain] beliefs are true is no evidence for their truth" (145), yet scientists seem to treat convenience as evidence of truth. |