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Daily Archives: November 26, 2009
Dissent in New Atheistland: Jerry Coyne Takes After Michael Shermer!
At Jerry Coyne’s blog today, Coyne takes after Michael Shermer for being a little too cozy with religion: It always amuses me when an accommodationist tells the faithful that no, there is no conflict between science and religion, at least not if they … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheist, atheists, Christianity, God, jerry coyne, Michael Shermer, philosophy, religion
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Is Genesis 1 in Accord with Scientific Observation?
Yes. A very particular scientific observation, in fact. The author of the first chapter of Genesis clearly based his narrative on something that he had empirically observed: the world appears to be composed of two things: stage elements (light, darkness, … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, creationism, evolution, Genesis, God, Islam, Jesus, religion, science, the Bible
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The Ending of Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”
The film version: Notice, at the very beginning of the clip, the strategic placement of the tree, and Tommy Lee Jones crooking his neck ever so slightly, not blinking, as if his fate is to, as it were, be dangled by … Continue reading
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Tagged a still small voice, cormac mccarthy, death, endings, fathers and sons, film, God, Jesus, life, literature, silence, stillness
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Prometheus Unbound 