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HuffPo Columnist Tries to Link Darwin to Hitler

By Lauri Lebo

…Huffington Post, perhaps a bit sensitive at being criticized for their anti-science views by name, changed the wording to read: Creationists do a poor service to the memory of Holocaust victims by using their deaths in a politically motivated attack against science. David Klinghoffer, his fellow creationists, and those who give them a platform should be ashamed of themselves for pushing and allowing a tactic rejected by a US federal court judge as…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…traditions of combatting expert, mainstream knowledge by developing counter-experts and counter-institutions and alternate information ecosystems predates substantially the 1960s origin Andersen construes. Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained, as it were, not in the postmodernist hermeneutics of suspicion, but in the fundamentalist he…

Protesting the Pope’s (Not Yet Released) Environmental Encyclical? Check Your Doctrine

By Kevin M. Lowe

…ch’s preferential option for the poor will extend in his new encyclical to creation as well. After all, creation is suffering right alongside humanity. Although humans have a responsibility, stemming from Genesis, to oversee and guide creation, the church teaches that creation cannot be sacrificed for economic gain, especially in political and economic systems that already privilege the wealthy few over the poor many. How many Catholics would be s…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ions spearheading up the drive to pass Proposition 8 in California—the anti-same-sex marriage initiative—has issued its 2008 Voter guide. Not too extensive in its coverage, the “Voter Issue Guide” for the 2008 Presidential Race is divided into three sections: “Homosexuality”; “Sanctity of Life”; and “Other Key Issues.” Each area contains five points. Homosexuality: Federal Protection of Traditional Marriage—Limiting marriage to the union of one ma…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…threat that The Family poses won’t sink in. So—how do we interrupt business-as-usual and provide an alternative to the reigning narrative? JS: The single most valuable point made in Empire, the paradigm-shifting argument by political theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, is that the days of what might be called hard empire—enforced occupation armies and viceroys and gunboats—have given way to a form of soft empire that “presents itself not as…

Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?

By Eric Reitan

…der this confusion a bit more carefully. The heart of ID theory is that neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is fundamentally inadequate to account for the development of life, because it can not be used to explain at least some features of living organisms; to account for them, we need an intelligent designer. This particular design argument is premised on the failure of evolutionary theory. Not every design argument is premised on such a failure. I…

Noah, Cosmos Controversies Not About Biblical Literalism

By Dan Mathewson

…the authority of God’s Word,” which, in his mind, describes a literal seven-day creation about 6000 years ago. It’s evolution that must be discarded. Of course, Ken Ham represents the far extreme wing of religious conservative views on evolution today; many other conservative Christians find ways of reconciling the findings of evolutionary science with traditional biblical truth, distressing to Ham as this may be. What unites Ham with the other re…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e media attention this week after a poster on Reddit said his wife’s father-in-law was leaving his family to join BLGM, as he calls himself. The self-proclaimed messiah says former Pope Benedict “planned to officially proclaim him the second coming in March, 2013, only to have the announcement foiled by Pope Francis, who he refers to as ‘the anti-Christ.’” His Facebook page announces that he is also “ Sri Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead…

‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood

By Cathleen Falsani

…I’ve got God’s ear now,” he deadpans. If Frank had had some momentary come-to-Jesus epiphany, it would have rung false. His lack of belief doesn’t make him a better or worse man, but his utter disdain and the sheer hatred that projected his spit bespeak the heart of the matter while harkening back to the Roman soldiers who spat at Jesus on Golgotha. This was Frank’s’ third conversation with God in three seasons of House of Cards. While it was the…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…omeone back from the dead. Here, it is not so much an act of creation as re-creation. This is also a theme in science fiction (think about A.I. and Astroboy as two examples) where a sense of profound loss—in all three cases, that of the father of a dead child—leads them to technological breakthroughs and the creation of alternative life forms. I was most taken though by the plight of Adama’s daughter, who is brought back from the dead not through…