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Monthly Archives: January 2009
RNC Threatens David Frum for Asking, “Where’s Sarah’s Clothes?”
Conservative David Frum, of NewMajority.com is taking serious heat from the RNC for asking where Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe has ended up: The RNC repeatedly has been asked for its own version of events, but has rebuffed all questions about the location … Continue reading
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Tagged conservatism, David Frum, Politics, religion, Republican, Republican party, rnc, Sarah Palin
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In the Third Millenium, Enlightenment Rationality is Often Being Met with Yawns of Indifference, and Even Hostility. Should It Be?
In a 1998 book, Psychology and Religion at the Millenium and Beyond, is an essay by Gloria Orenstein, who was then a professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. For all I know, she may … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, ecofeminism, feminism, gloria orenstein, Hinduism, Islam, literature, reason, religion, skepticism, the Enlightenment, USC
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Evolution is “much more about mergers and collaboration than change within isolated lineages”: Has NEW SCIENTIST Just Crucified Charles Darwin on the TREE OF LIFE?
Charles Darwin’s “Tree of Life” metaphor for evolution is wrong. So says NEW SCIENTIST this month in a clearly written, startling article that seems to undermine one of Darwin’s central insights. The problem is HGT (horizontal gene transfer). Instead of … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, Charles Darwin, creationism, evolution, Genesis, intelligent design, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, religion, Richard Dawkins, science
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Obama Boxed In?
William Greider, of the Nation, paints today the bleakest economic picture that I’ve seen, suggesting that Obama’s stimulus package of 800 billion dollars is too small by at least HALF. He also suggests that Obama will need to nationalize the … Continue reading
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Tagged China, debt, economy, Great Depression, Great Depression 2.0, Hugh Hewitt, Politics, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, wall street, william greider
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A Blow to Free Speech?
Richard Dawkins’s “There’s probably no God” bus ads got complaints (in Britain) to the Advertising Standards Authority, and it ruled that the ad campaign can continue: The Advertising Standards Authority said it assessed 326 complaints. Some claimed the wording was … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, England, free speech, Hinduism, Islam, John Locke, Judaism, offensive speech, speech codes
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Social Policing and Trust Building in Groups: Two Things That Religion is Good For?
Jesse Bering, in Scientific American, reports on a small academic workshop on religion that he attended in Edinburgh, Scotland last week. He offers a brief synopsis of some of the speculation surrounding the evolution of religion that the academics kicked around. Here are two … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, apologetics, Charles Darwin, creationism, Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, philosophy, religion, science, social psychology, sociology
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
A beautiful filmic rendering of T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”:
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Tagged literature, modernism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, T.S. Eliot
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Quote of the Day: Obama Acknowledges Non-Believers as Part of America’s “Patchwork Heritage”
As an agnostic, I was moved to hear (in Barack Obama’s inauguration speech today) a contemporary American president finally acknowledge the full range of our religious diversity: “For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, david hume, James Dobson, John Macarthur, philosophy, religion, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson
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