I Have No Need of That Hypothesis

Reconciling Science and Religion
I think that in this year when Charles Darwin will get a hunk of press for the dual celebrations of the bicentennial of his birth and the sesquicentennial of the first edition of his book, the question of the conflicts between science and religion will be discussed by a great many thinkers [...]

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Religion and Politics

Is It a New Poison?

Feel free to disagree with me, but in my opinion the North Carolina Senatorial campaign between Kay Hagan and Elizabeth Dole has brought out the worst in both politics and religious discourse in the United States.  Religion has been used as a sword against The Other by one of the major [...]

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AAAS Response to “Expelled”

Religion and Science
I don’t personally agree with all of the viewpoints, but I think that this video, thanks to The Panda’s Thumb, helps to illustrate Stephen’s position.  Intelligent Design is a misdirection to try to show that science is an attempted refutation of a Creator, when in reality science is a method for exploring nature [...]

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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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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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