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Daily Archives: May 30, 2010
This religious epidural is brought to you by Francisco Ayala
Geneticist Francisco Ayala, introduced with some soothing piano and string music, takes on the manner of a family physician, assuring his jittery audience of nonexperts that everything is just fine; there is no conflict between science and religion (and we can … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheist, biology, Charles Darwin, evolution, francisco ayala, intelligent design, jerry coyne, Nietzsche, NOMA, science, stephen gould
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Nietzsche’s checkmate: does atheism lead to totalitarianism?
A.C. Grayling, an atheist author that I tend to otherwise love, calls the idea that atheism gave birth to communism and fascism a theist “canard.” But, as an agnostic who has been doing a good deal of Nietzsche reading lately, I’m not … Continue reading
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Tagged a.c. grayling, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, Communism, contingency, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, postmodernism, totalitarianism
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Should community college professors watch what they say?
If community college professors are any indication, United States citizens, who normally pride themselves on their freedom of speech, are not quite as free to speak their minds as they might like to believe. Academe Online says community college professors are … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st amendment, college, community college, free speech, freedom, life, Politics, professors, speaking my mind, speech, teachers
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Clothing police in Muslim Indonesia: for women, no jeans or short skirts
Indonesia is a country with 200 million Muslims, some of them relatively moderate in their religious practices, some conservative. And in a district within Aceh province, some are really, really conservative, instituting aspects of Shariah law (such as stoning for adultery). … Continue reading
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Tagged Allah, conservatism, equality, feminism, freedom, Islam, lesbian, Muslims, religion, shariah, women's rights
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