Godless Academia

Is Our Children Learning Atheism?
If, during this U.S. Presidential election, candidates fight over who is less elitist, pay attention.  I see the problem as being one of anti-intellectualism seeking to justify horrific public policy decisions that turn out to be disastrous.  One candidate is accused more often than the other of being the elitist favorite, [...]

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Suppose they gave a culture war and nobody came?

Design and the Intelligent Design movement (IDM) will probably come up regularly on this blog, and in fact I am eager to discuss the concept of design with the other bloggers here. But it’s almost impossible to bring up “design” without bringing to mind the IDM, and that’s unfortunate, because the IDM is contaminated [...]

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ID on NOVA

Strict creationism is one of the most contentious issues facing those trying to balance science and religion. NOVA has an enlightening series that may help to clear things up: Intelligent Design on Trial. It includes coverage of the Dover trial, multiple interactive features, and a special professional development course. Some of the best parts include [...]

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Science and Religion on Gay Marriage

Science has established that homosexuality is based in biology, and is not a “choice”.  Genetics and brain development show that there are definitive differences between homosexual and heterosexual humans. Social science tells us that family stability and a close parent-child relationship are important in any family, and that these are much more important to child [...]

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Creationism as an Easy Target

The Rhetorical War Over Evolution
Are creationists stupid or willfully ignorant? Is that a loaded question? I personally don’t think that creationists are stupid, because they come up with incredible gems of twisted logic. They expend quite a bit of effort and time to create justifications for their beliefs, and come up with [...]

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Evolution and Creation in Presidential Politics

What do you think of a president who says this?

If the clip does not play, you will have to go to the YouTube home page to watch it.
By posting this, you can probably tell that I like it. About the only thing that put me off in Obama’s response was [...]

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Religion and… aliens?

Brandon Kiem of Wired Science posted two articles today about religion and aliens that were amusing yet thought provoking: Will Aliens Destroy Earthly Religion? and The Surprising Spirituality of SETI. I find them especially interesting now because I just finished rereading an old favorite: Rama II. It’s not the best SF book, but there is [...]

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Anastasia Bodnar on Clashing Culture

Hello, I’m Anastasia, author of Genetic Maize. I suppose I’ll dive right into these questions.
1. What does science mean to you? Science is everything, everything is science. It is how we investigate, understand, and manipulate the world around us. Without scientific thinking, we’d still be scrounging on the savannah.
2. How do you interact [...]

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Rationality and Religion

No One is Purely Rational
One of the chief complaints I have against my fellow atheists is the smug position they claim on rationality. We are the sane, we are the rational, we are the perfectly rational. It’s part of the reason that I could never bring myself to adopt the term “Bright.” [...]

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Clashing Culture Post Featured in Christian Carnival

At Ancient Hebrew Poetry
Well, we’ve already gathered a small bit of attention.  One of our posts was featured in Christian Carnival CCXXVII (I think that means 227.)  It is at Ancient Hebrew Poetry.  Check it out.  I personally don’t find many of the posts’ topics all that fascinating but I am sure that [...]

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