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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn't decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain once called these men "agents...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 6:43 PM • 7 Comments •
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, promotes legal exceptionalism through the recognition of sharia law
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Posted on February 8, 2008 6:54 PM • 8 Comments •
Who needs facts when you've got such a damn good-looking book?
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Posted on July 19, 2007 6:32 AM • 42 Comments •
Our lab received a copy of the
Atlas of Creation too!
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Posted on July 18, 2007 9:08 AM • 2 Comments •
In a recent interview published in New York Magazine, writer Christopher Hitchens is asked "Has anyone in the Bush administration confided in you about being an atheist?". His answer: Well, I don't talk that much to them--maybe people think I...
Posted on April 29, 2007 1:09 PM • 9 Comments •
As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today's Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of their empty rhetoric. Romney, who is expected to...
Posted on February 13, 2007 4:30 PM • 0 Comments •
This won't be news to anyone from Texas, but our governor, Republican Rick Perry, is a walking disaster. From The Dallas Morning News: SAN ANTONIO - Gov. Rick Perry, after a God and country sermon attended by dozens of political...
Posted on November 6, 2006 6:40 PM • 4 Comments •
Wherein the Southern Baptists and I agree... sort of....
Posted on September 7, 2006 7:37 AM • 3 Comments •
They're all sort of related, so here goes....
Posted on August 15, 2006 5:10 PM • 7 Comments •
Now here's an experiment I would have liked to take part in. Researchers from Johns Hopkins systematically test the psychological effects of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, and the results are pretty positive. Not only that, but a significant number of participants rate the experience as the single most meaningful one of their lives!
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Posted on July 14, 2006 7:45 AM • 8 Comments •
Although Francis Collins' goal of improving relations between science and religion is probably a worthy one, he seems to be all too willing to sacrifice his own scientific ideas when they contradict his religious views.
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Posted on July 13, 2006 10:45 AM • 5 Comments •