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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Culture
Relative to atheists, and conventional religious people (though conventional religious people are more delusional than atheists). Tom Rees has more: Overall, the New Agers were more delusional than the Religious. That was particularly true for belief in witchcraft and telepathy...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:56 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Religion
Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity: We hypothesized that religiosity, a set of traits variably expressed in the population, is modulated by neuroanatomical variability. We tested this idea by determining whether aspects of religiosity were predicted by variability in regional cortical volume....
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Category: Culture
I remember back in the early 1990s that there was some talk about the United States going from a plural majority Protestant nations, to a Roman Catholic one at some point in the early 21st century. This in itself wouldn't...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:15 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Religion
I hear that a Muslim Bollywood star was detained at an American airport, Shah Rukh Khan (there is some confusion here, and a possibility that this is a publicity stunt related to a film about profiling which he is promoting)....
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:57 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Religion
Heather Mac Donald reviews Robert Wright's The Evolution of God....
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:32 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religion
Due to the nature of following current international events I've been checking out YouTube more than I usually do, and one thing led to another and I ended up on a video of prayer services at a Zoroastrian temple in...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:19 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Religion
My friend Joel Grus has a book out which some readers might be interested in, Your Religion Is False. You can get it on Amazon. FYI, Joel is responsible for the banner on this weblog, which he cooked up in...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:26 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Blog
So claims Ali Eteraz: Most people in the world, including some Pakistanis, live under the illusion that the country is secular and just happens to have been overrun by extremists. This is false. Pakistan became an Islamic state in 1973...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:49 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Religion
The blog of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle has responded to my post that Buddhists generally believe in God. Some of the comments also brought up some semantic issues which are real in how Buddhists view God, and how it might...
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:51 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Religion
As noted by a reader the 2008 GSS just came out. I noticed this variable, ANSCITST: Scientists should be allowed to do research that causes pain and injury to animals like dogs and chimpanzees if it produces new information about...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:12 AM • 9 Comments •
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