Is this is your brain on God?

A series on NPR examining the science of God brings up a lot of interesting points, focusing primarily on brain chemistry and structure. Titled Is This Your Brain On God?, the series has five parts, each with accompanying articles and multimedia. The part that I found the most interesting was The God Chemical. Evidence has [...]

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Theistic embryology: the next science-faith debate?

Well, no, of course not.  But why not?
When I was on Atheists Talk with Mike last year discussing theistic evolution, it struck me that many if not all of the questions I faced were about belief and not about theistic evolution per se.  Nothing wrong with that, of course, in fact it was fun and [...]

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Journalist Ambushes Creationists!

If you follow the creation-evolution debate, you’ve no doubt encountered the name Ken Ham.  He’s the CEO of Answers in Genesis, the multimillion dollar organization that built the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky a few years back.  (The same museum I once visited, but did not enter, but still wrote about elsewhere.)  Back to Ham, [...]

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Jesus is the reason for the season?

I haven’t had cable for quite some time, but we decided to get it again a few days ago. I’ve noticed a ridiculously large number of shows, especially on the science-type chanels, about things like “The Science of the Bible” and “The Science of Jesus”. I can sort of understand why a person might feel [...]

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Role of science literacy in society

What makes for a healthy society? In today’s world, critical thinking and understanding of basic science must be at the top of the list.  It seems reasonable that people with a higher degree of science literacy would have better prospects regarding jobs and such, but perhaps that isn’t so important. I think that people with [...]

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How evolution can inspire faith

It is understandably typical for Christians to consider evolution as something that confronts and challenges faith. To say that North American evangelicals consider evolution to be largely incompatible with Christian belief is to state the painfully obvious. An evangelical who will just admit that common descent might be true is a progressive thinker, and much [...]

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Skeptical Parent Crossing #1

A New Carnival
I am sure that soon there will be a rash of original posts here at Clashing Culture, but that is the drag of a secondary blog.  In the meantime, we hope that you enjoy this link to a new carnival.  One of the posts that originated here has been included in “Skeptical Parent [...]

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The Carnival of Evolution

Welcome to Clashing Culture
For those of you new to Clashing Culture, this is an experiment in cooperation among bloggers who have a common interest in science, religion and their interactions with society at large.  Check out the profiles on the right for more about us.  We all four share in common an interest in teasing [...]

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We’ll Gather ‘Round A Four Stone Hearth

It’s about time for another edition of Four Stone Hearth.  It’s an honor to host the carnival here at Clashing Culture because anthropology is one of the main areas where discussion about religion and culture is founded in scientific method.  I’ll be compiling the best entries from anthropology blogs over the past few weeks, but [...]

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I Am Only a Mortal, Like You

(cross-posted from Tangled Up in Blue Guy)
More Book Hysteria
Stephanie has an alert on a book being pulled from the presses based on a review by a scholar in Texas.  The book hasn’t even hit galleys yet, only reached advanced preview copy stage and already calls have been placed by people who haven’t read the manuscript [...]

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