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Thoughts on Science and Religion
Read and comment on my blog. I’ve always had an interest in science. Even as a very young child, I can remember puzzling over day and night. How does the sun get back to the east to rise? What are the stars? I remember imagining that the night sky was really a huge inverted colander. […]
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Evolution Survey
While the process is certainly unscientific, I would like to get an idea of the range of views on evolution and how they intersect with belief in spiritual reality. The survey is anonymous. Please comment. [SURVEYS 2]
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American Unreason
Reading Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason made me very uncomfortable. The book chronicles the history of anti-intellectualism in American culture from the Revolutionary period to the present. It’s an excellent book, well-written, carefully researched, intelligent, and witty. Jacoby, a self-avowed secularist and freethinker, is evenhanded in her treatment of what she calls “junk […]