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March 31, 2008
Category: Religion
Well, it turns out that there isn't a handy-dandy reference for the numbers for various religions in the past. Mark Kirkorian over at The Corner linked to my earlier post where I expressed skepticism about the contention by the Vatican...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:33 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Religion
The Islamic Republic of Harvard?: But the decision put Harvard in the awkward position of having to arbitrate what constitutes legitimate religious practice. Marine claims there was a "moral and ethical responsibility" for the administration to act on this request,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:04 AM • 6 Comments •
March 30, 2008
Category: Genetics
Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has the details. Some of the stuff coming out of genomics reminds me a lot of what you see with social science; lots of sexy studies which turn out not to be as significant upon...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:56 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Religion
Update: Follow up post with some numbers and logic laid out. Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican: Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:22 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Culture
At my other weblog a long post on religion: On the most recent bloggingheads.tv you can watch Paul Bloom explaining why he thinks the propensity for theism is an innate bias of our species. Several years back Bloom wrote a...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:37 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I have a review copy of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; but I'm not planning on reading it at this point. See John Hawks for why. Sometimes interdisciplinary work sheds new light on old questions because...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:09 PM • 0 Comments •
March 28, 2008
Category: Blog
Just an FYI, but Kat photos will be delayed by a day or so this week. But if you are interested in katage, check out this week's South Park....
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:53 PM • 2 Comments •
Greg Laden has Gene Genie #24 up. I'll be hosting #30 at the end of April.......
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:28 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religion
Michael C. Moynihan has a article up at Reason, In Defense of Geert Wilders: In response to the controversy surrounding Fitna, Wilders' website was knocked offline by his American host, Network Solutions; he has been repeatedly denounced by the government...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:41 PM • 63 Comments •
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