Religion:
It took a century to build the St.Sava Cathedral. I remember playing on its foundations as a kid - a great fortress to play in. But the enterior has just begun to be worked on - I am not sure...
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...Savior or Satan?...
Posted on March 28, 2008 8:02 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hristos Vaskrese...
Posted on March 23, 2008 3:45 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Seminar on Secular Parenting Coming to Raleigh, March 15 Presented by Dale McGowan Editor/co-author, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion * How does moral development really work? * My mother-in-law wants our kids baptized. How can...
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A guide to hiring women. Obsolete technical skills (I have them all except #11!) The social source of religion. Charles Barkley for President!...
Posted on February 18, 2008 12:22 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've never before seen a picture that better fits the description used in the title of this post: You may have to read the story here to see how well the title fits. Hat-tip: Mark...
Posted on December 18, 2007 12:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This weekend, with 70 degrees F in Chapel Hill, it would have bin a sin to remain indoors. So I didn't. But in the end, at twilight today, my daughter and I went to see Golden Compass, the movie whose...
Posted on December 10, 2007 2:57 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Archy reports that the papal official astronomer said so: Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in...
Posted on December 7, 2007 1:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This year I have no time to follow even the Democratic primary race (in which I am interested) and am certainly not going to waste my time on the GOP race. I took a brief look once they all announced...
Posted on December 7, 2007 11:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No comment: Thanks, Rick, for this enlightening piece.......
Posted on October 13, 2007 1:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I had a great pleasure recently to be able to interview Senator - and now Democratic Presidential candidate - John Edwards for my blog. The interview was conducted by e-mail last week. As I am at work and unable to...
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July 1st through July 4th. Here are the detailed instructions how to participate....
Posted on June 29, 2007 2:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The second blogswarm will be held July 1-4th....
Posted on June 25, 2007 12:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why didn't I hear about this before? Why is it not in the media? On blogs? Lindsay reports on the new book "Steeplejacking" that documents how the Religious Right, hand-in-hand with the hawkish conservative Democrats, systematically, over the past couple...
Posted on June 8, 2007 8:55 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carnival of the Godless #67 is up on Letters from a broad......
Posted on May 28, 2007 2:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Amanda Marcotte, that is. And there are two way to look at her from the 'other side' or 'not-as-well-known-side' or 'what-really-happened-side': the first is BlogPac Hero: The Amanda Marcotte Story You Haven't Heard by John Javna and the second is...
Posted on May 19, 2007 3:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A must-read by Sara Robinson. You can use it to understand the persistence of Creationism. Or the lack of Internal Locus of Moral Authority in people belonging to Moral Majority....
Posted on May 17, 2007 9:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I never thought that I would link to Razib approvingly, but his recent series of posts about evolution of religion are right on the mark. You can start with today's post and follow the links back to his older posts....
Posted on April 23, 2007 10:15 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Great discusssion on Pandagon....
Posted on April 17, 2007 11:23 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carnival of the Godless #64, brilliantly hosted and edited by TNG is up on Neural Gourmet. Enjoy....
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the latest dust-up over framing science, an unfortunate frame is emerging that I want to nip in the bud, that 'appeasers' in the big culture war against religion are the same as 'framers' in the current debate, and likewise...
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:26 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you know, the last several days saw quite a flurry of blog posts about framing science. I posted my thoughts here and I keep updating my post with links to all the new posts as they show up (except...
Posted on April 11, 2007 11:44 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, the Orthodox and Catholic Easter fall on the same day this year....
Posted on April 8, 2007 1:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here, have a go at it. Even better, if you can get the actual paper and dissect it on your blog, let me know so I can link to that. Have fun! Good Behavior, Religiousness May Be Genetic: A new...
Posted on April 8, 2007 2:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Neural Gourmet and Blue Gal are organizing a massive blogospheric Blog Against Theocracy weekend: I'd like invite you all to Blog Against Theocracy. This is a little blog swarm being put together by everybody's favorite panties blogger Blue Gal for...
Posted on April 5, 2007 11:05 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...someone (guess who?) will feel persecuted: .... One student objected that I was singling out Christianity. Another objected to what I was implying about the religion. I'm not sure I even used the word "Christian" in my description of the...
Posted on April 4, 2007 9:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Or, to tell the traditional Passover joke: A Jewish physicist in the UK was about to get knighted by the Queen. There was a long line of recepients waiting for the ceremony and they were all instructed what to say/chant...
Posted on April 3, 2007 8:16 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ed Cone's today's column addresses the changes in the way we talk about religion, particularly in the sphere of politics: from James Dobson to Pete Stark, from Mitt Romney to Amanda Marcotte - The last taboos in politics: But there...
Posted on March 25, 2007 11:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When a newspaper publishes a column about religion (in their Religion section) that takes into account only the Christian point of view, someone is bound to object. When the newspaper rectifies the error by publishing an article by an atheist,...
Posted on March 24, 2007 4:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The case is made by an atheist, of course - Amanda - but the important part of the post is the explanation of why is it impossible in the current educational system in the USA and why is the current...
Posted on March 19, 2007 9:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am always late for The Buzz. I just can't blog on command. Jason, Jason again, Mike, Mark, PZ and their numerous commenters have chimed in on time. But the "sprituality" buzz is long gone and I am only now...
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Posted on March 16, 2007 2:55 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And you don't even have to believe in dinosaurs to share their fate. From here. And the preceeding paragraph? Another great quote: "You know how taking so long to end slavery is a shameful part of our history, and how...
Posted on March 5, 2007 11:41 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Geocentrism: the True Believers...
Posted on February 18, 2007 6:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Remember this, and use it next time you are debating religion, politics or pseudoscience: "....someone wearing nothing but a Peter Gibbons-esque cheerful smile and having nothing but kind words for anyone will always be wrong if he says 2 +...
Posted on February 15, 2007 10:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and "Breaking The Spell" by Daniel Dennett a couple of months ago, could not bear to slog all the way through "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris, and am still...
Posted on February 15, 2007 11:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Litbrit (also check the comments on the re-post here) tells it beautifully: That is why so many of us have spoken out--we don't want government telling us what we should believe and how we should run our private, personal lives...
Posted on February 15, 2007 9:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ah, why do I have to be so busy on a news-filled day (no, not Anna Nicole Smith)? I barely saw the computer today. I'd get home, have about 5 minutes before I have to go out again and so...
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Posted on February 9, 2007 1:27 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lance wrote a brilliant post - An alien anthropologist discusses marriage with the Pope - which reminded me of an old (April 24, 2005) post of mine, which, perhaps, stood the test of time after all......
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Posted on February 6, 2007 11:28 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Continuing with the last week's topic (originally posted on March 11, 2005 - click on the spider-clock icon to see the comments, including by Mark O'Connell - who I subsequently met and blogged about, on the original post)...
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Posted on February 2, 2007 10:56 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[Pushed to the top of the page due to interesting updates...] Ah, the perils of growing traffic! I get e-mail. Usually those are nice questions about sleep disorders, or requests for link exchanges. But today I got a christianist. Oy...
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Posted on January 30, 2007 3:01 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are also more responses to the U of California lawsuit described by Sara Robinson the other day. See what Amanda and PZ Myers have to say about it. Edit: and Mike...
Posted on January 27, 2007 2:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mormon Missionaries knocked on a wrong door earlier today. I think their heads are still spinning......
Posted on January 24, 2007 4:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
*N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences /Downtown Raleigh/ **Thursday, January 18 "Flock of Dodos" screening with filmmaker, Randy Olson 7:00 p.m. Museum Auditorium Free *Filmmaker and Evolutionary Ecologist , Dr. Randy Olson, presents his new film */Flock of Dodos/*: /*The...
Posted on January 16, 2007 9:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Praying Online Helps Cancer Patients, Study Suggests Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research that...
Posted on January 4, 2007 9:06 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you do not know who Roper is, read this, this and this. A total fundie wingnut in charge of a large teaching hospital! Oy vey! I did not know that fact when I originally wrote this post, but this...
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Posted on January 3, 2007 10:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A cool animation: "How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world's most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods...
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Posted on December 24, 2006 1:05 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, why do Creationists and other quacks try so hard to sound all 'scienc-y'?
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Posted on December 22, 2006 11:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Somehow I feel that I've been tagged by Janet for this meme, because it is public that we celebrate Hannukkah. But we really make it low-key, family-only, and have only been doing it for about a dozen years so far....
Posted on December 20, 2006 6:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I know you know this, but it is worth repeating every now and then (May 18, 2005):...
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Posted on December 19, 2006 10:58 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Of Religion and Morality (December 02, 2005)...
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Posted on December 12, 2006 11:05 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Or the Carnival of the Godless? You can mine this site for ideas. Ooooh, scientific materialism! Scary! Papa Jeebus, protect me, please, because I am a coward!...
Posted on December 8, 2006 2:21 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While all this was going on I was wondering where Jason Rosenhouse would stand on all of this. He is back from a break and has two posts on the issue here and here. Update: Chris Rowan wrote an intriguing...
Posted on November 29, 2006 9:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am sure glad that others have started parsing the numbers of the new report on 'The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science'. Duane Smith takes a close look at a couple of tables in...
Posted on November 26, 2006 2:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Love for animals, even the dead ones, can sometimes go too far, dontcha think?...
Posted on November 25, 2006 1:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I admire actors who completely immerse themselves in the characters they play. But nobody has reached the hights of dedication as much as Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 16-year old actress playing Virgin Mary in an upcoming movie - she is pregnant!...
Posted on November 25, 2006 3:44 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am still sleepy from all that tryptophan in turkey meat and the Evolution wine, so I don't think I have the energy to write a big post now - I'll leave much of my thoughts on the matter for...
Posted on November 24, 2006 12:26 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Imagine an ecosystem in which all the players are groups defined by their religion: fundies, liberal believers, apathetics, atheists, etc. Then, use the ecological and evolutionary priniciples, e.g., competitive exclusion, niche-construction, arms-races, parasitism, camouflage, symbiosis, etc. to model the interactions...
Posted on November 19, 2006 11:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yikes! This was here in my neighborhood, in Winston-Salem, NC! Poor guy - did he get an education! What does he think about America now? My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists: When Polish student Michael Gromek, 19, went to...
Posted on November 14, 2006 6:27 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yikes! I hope nobody gave you this candy last night! Is that just sand inside? I'd like to see someone do a chemical analysis of "Jesus' Blood" From this child-terrorrizing site, via Mr.Sun....
Posted on November 1, 2006 2:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger question is: A reader asks: Is severely regulating your diet for a month each year, as Muslims do during Ramadan, good for you? There is no way I can get out of this one! As...
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Posted on October 18, 2006 2:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carnival of the Godless #51 is up on The Greenbelt....
Posted on October 16, 2006 8:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Great catch by Radical Russ,Thursday night on Scarborough: O'DONNELL: Is there anyone on this panel who believes that every Jew on earth is going to burn in hell forever if they do not accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior?...
Posted on October 13, 2006 10:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thus, you should not be blogging if you are a good Christian child. Because blogging promotes thinking! (Hat-tip: Justin in the comments here)...
Posted on October 11, 2006 5:04 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Except that getting elected for office is not a right and saying that a Creationist is not to be trusted with governing is not bigotry. (Hat-tip: Lindsay)...
Posted on October 10, 2006 11:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
These three are best read together, one right after another: Amanda, Dave and Pam....
Posted on October 3, 2006 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pam found the link to this article from LA Times in which Rev.Jerry Falwell compares Hillary Clinton with the Devil: "I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate," Falwell said, according to the recording. "She has $300 million so far....
Posted on September 25, 2006 8:48 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Holy Smoke: Burning incense, candles pollute air in churches: Incense and candles release substantial quantities of pollutants that may harm health, a detailed new study of air quality in a Roman Catholic church suggests. Even brief exposure to contaminated air...
Posted on September 16, 2006 2:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An interesting new study of religiosity in America: One God, four views: "Not all Americans see the powerful old man in the sky" Really? The authors suggest religion may most successfully motivate individuals through what it can offer them in...
Posted on September 16, 2006 12:49 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why are religious people religious, in two parts: Why do religious wingnuts think the way they do? Part I and Why do religious wingnuts think the way they do? Part II Why are creationists creationists, in three parts: Why are...
Posted on September 12, 2006 10:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
