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Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?

By Eric Reitan

…God. Is Aversion to Slavery Just Cultural? Let’s consider 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…

Weird Testament: The Bible Gets the R. Crumb Treatment

By Gabriel Mckee

…t supervision recommended for minors.” The boards themselves, which show only a stately, gold-embossed title that mixes gothic blackletter and Crumb’s own underground-comix typography, is a bit truer to the nature of the contents. Despite the moderate interpretive philosophy behind the adaptation, there’s no doubt that this is a Crumb comic. His Eve is a typically zaftig seductress, and his panel illustrating Rachel’s “comely features” is as rear-…

How Did the Buddha Become a Medieval Saint?

By Peter Manseau

…are remade through association with new forms of religious tradition—but only a bit. They also serve the important purpose of reminding us that the very word “tradition” tends to sanitize stories whose original power was their immediacy and relevance to unsanitized lives. Such details, especially when they appear in stories considered sacred, surely had something to do with the quality we think of today as virality. It was precisely their surprisi…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…box—think phone booth—but it’s bigger on the inside than the outside, can fly, and may actually be a living creature. He adventures through time and space, usually accompanied by one or more human companions who assist him in righting wrongs, liberating the oppressed, fighting alien menaces, and averting unspeakable disasters. His alien origins give him a sharp mind and extraordinary longevity, but his main superpower—and the concept with which th…

Can Atheists Simply Ignore Theology?

By Eric Reitan

…tion. It is a question which, in fact, will probably never be answered wholly or fully. But we cannot ignore the question, because which worldview we adopt makes a big difference for how we live our lives. And so we must struggle to assess the relative merits of the alternatives available to us—something that we simply cannot responsibly do by ignoring those thinkers who, as part of a rich traditional of rigorous inquiry, attempt to construct plau…

Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?

By Kate Blanchard

…e, something more easily found among Buddhists than Christians. I desperately need just to sit, mindfully, with others doing the same. But I feel ashamed of asking for this at church, where I fear—and Daniel’s book seems to confirm—that people will see me as a lazy couch-potato, never doing enough. But while Daniel has not provided an obviously warm welcome for those who may be trying to figure out a way to be in religious community, it is pos…

The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

By Elizabeth Drescher

…that there’s much in this impulse that repeats itself in the drive to quickly, decisively, and narrowly categorize the growing population of the religiously unaffiliated—Nones. On the one hand, there are (mostly) Christians who want to see Nones as lapsed from one denomination, but who can be won back somehow. On the other, are some atheists, secular humanists, and so on who want to claim a population of people who largely are not unbelievers as a…

Why I Fear The Post-Trayvon Martin Sermon

By Elizabeth Drescher

…my own purse if need be. The parable, thus, is not the “love everyone equally” message that we usually enjoy hearing because, in the end, it asks very little of us. Rather, it sets a clear priority that makes those of us who benefit most from American cultural and market systems uncomfortable: from each according to [their] ability, to each according to [their] need. I’m not meant to feel good at the end of the story, to feel comforted. I’m not me…

Rebooting the Universe: Doctor Who part X, Season Finale

By Gabriel Mckee

…d of storytelling that could drive its viewers nuts, if not handled carefully—ultimately, every story relies on a deus ex machina (or, picking up from James’ suggestions about the Doctor’s limited divinity, a machina ex deo). But that’s precisely where much of the show’s charm and drive and sense of sheer wonder come from—the ingenuity of the Doctor, and the ingenuity of his writers in making us believe the impossible. So what happens in “The Big…

Water Water Everywhere

By Amina Wadud

…o be on the safe side. The greater ablution, known as the ghusl, which really only means a bath. This one is needed after sexual intercourse, nocturnal emissions, or any major bleeding, like menstruation. This involves a full body wash from head to toe, and the sunnah wudu’ somewhere in the process. After years of this ritual it becomes second nature, and I always shower and end with the wudu’, washing my feet last and then stepping out of the tub…