Religion:
Here is a statement: The Red Sox are the greatest single franchise in any sport in history. Is this a scientific statement? Should it be? How can you tell whether it's scientific or not?...
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Posted on May 2, 2008 7:56 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Mad Biologist is mad at Chris Mooney, but his anger is misplaced.
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Posted on April 30, 2008 10:38 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via the Zeitgeist, the Templeton Foundation has asked a bunch of famous smart people "Does science make belief in God obsolete?" I wouldn't ordinarily note this, but if you scroll down a little, you'll find my thesis advisor, Bill Phillips,...
Posted on April 29, 2008 11:32 AM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Expelled exposed, Left Behind, atheist churches, and civil debate.
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Posted on April 27, 2008 8:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's just no getting away from science-and-religion. Yesterday's (snail) mail brought a flier from the Williams College Society of Alumni, giving the schedule of events for my upcoming 15th (!!) college reunion. The very first item on Thursday's list of...
Posted on April 19, 2008 7:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Pope, Francis Collins, (social-)scientific proof that science and atheism are distinct, and an atheist origin story.
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Posted on April 19, 2008 9:48 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm not sure whether he's making some kind of obscure point, or just trolling, but John Scalzi gave a recent installment of his "Big Idea" series over to the witterings of "Vox Day," talking about his book The Irrational Atheist....
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Posted on April 10, 2008 8:36 AM • 228 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Am I really pushing a moderate view of religion and politics, or am I just apathetic?
Posted on April 7, 2008 9:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stealing a post-generating method from Brad DeLong, Bill Tozier posted and interesting comment that I wanted to highlight: I've often wondered why people place me (a moderate in a lot of polarized debates) "in the middle". I think I'm orthogonal,...
Posted on April 6, 2008 1:54 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why don't I speak out more to promote a moderate view of the science and religion conflict?
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Posted on April 5, 2008 10:24 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's the cost of not framing? Me, and people like me.
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Posted on April 4, 2008 9:17 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How religions are like Greek organizations on campus, and how to deal with both.
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Posted on March 21, 2008 10:51 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why, when you apparently are an agnostic or atheist, did you get married in a church? And are you going to baptize your baby?
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Posted on March 18, 2008 11:49 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Myers: There are atheists who look on a tragedy and cry, "There is no god," in despair. But we are atheists who look on beauty and complexity and awesome immensity and shout out, "There is no god!" and we are...
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Posted on January 6, 2008 9:55 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the alternately entertaining and depressing things about the culture wars in the US is the existence of a sort of parallel academic universe, in the form of vanity universities like Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones University, and Jerry...
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Posted on December 12, 2007 7:43 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a good deal more synmpathy for the plight of religious scientists than most of my fellow ScienceBlogs bloggers. For example, I'm willing to believe that people can both have sincere religious faith and be practicing scientists, without assuming...
Posted on December 11, 2007 9:34 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
