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How the Godless and Believers Celebrate Christmas Together
My mother-in-law is is one of the kindest, most open-minded persons I know. A retired elementary school teacher who taught for four decades in a gritty urban district, she radiates intelligence and...
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The Poisoned Debates Between Science, Politics and Religion
Two long-running debates involving the supposed purity of science have flared anew. A recent editorial in the UK’s New Statesmen that cautioned against the politicizing of science (using climate change...
View ArticleThe Missionary Zeal of Some Atheists
What do you think happens at death? This I don’t know, but I don’t think everything is resolved with the destruction of the body. What science has to say seems to me insufficient and unsatisfying. This...
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People Who Live in Glass Houses
This exquisitely designed house would be perfect for PZ Myers and Jerry Coyne. I’ll expand on that (and more) in the New Year (later this week). Meanwhile, here’s something from Margaret Atwood that...
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Science and Religion Join Together?
This tweet from the NYT green blog caught my eye: At a Protest, Science and Religion Team Up nyti.ms/13AWQo3 — NYT Green Blog (@nytimesgreen) January 16, 2013 What? Have the atheist police been...
View ArticleWhy Science Can't Replace Religion
In her book Doubt: A History, the scholar and poet Jennifer Hecht writes about having awe for the universe without being religious. She talked about this during a radio interview: It seems that if you...
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Real Freethinkers Don’t Try to Close Down Debate
Every movement has a discourse that is shaped by people who are passionate, committed, and forceful. Some feel so certain in their rightness that they try to control the discourse and purge those...
View ArticleThe World According to Intolerant Atheists
This tweet and blog post headline is really something: Islam Apparently behind Boston bombing It’s from Jerry Coyne, the evolutionary biologist who apparently would blame environmentalism for Ted...
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Jerry Coyne’s Crusade
In my previous post, I took issue with how Jerry Coyne crudely indicted an entire religion (Islam) based on the murderous actions of a few adherents. (And that was a perversion of the faith’s tenets,...
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Reconciling Traditional and Religious Beliefs with Western Medicine
When a science-minded crusader in India was murdered in August, it made international headlines. As the New York Times reported: Narendra Dabholkar traveled from village to village in India, waging a...
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