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The Search For Proofs For God’s Existence

By Gordon Haber

…’s launch in early 2008. His new book, God In Proof, is the story of “the search for proofs for God’s existence”—how dozens of world-historical thinkers have applied logic and reason to questions of faith. Schneider summarizes the arguments put forward by ancient Greeks, early Christians, medieval Muslims and Jews, and the grand figures of the Enlightenment, in addition to more recent arguments, like Intelligent Design and the surprising rise of…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng to boycott Google in favor of Bing, Microsoft’s latest venture into the search engine business. They might want to rethink that move, too, since Microsoft was one of the first companies to include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policies and actually offers “partial coverage for transgender surgery (effective in 2006) to its existing coverage of other transgender-specific health benefits.” In the words of Homer Simpson, “D’oh!” Two…

A Secret Family History Shows “Regular” Life Under the Reich: Sarah Wildman on Paper Love

By Sarah Posner and Sarah Wildman

…ars though! A year, maybe. but six? No. In part that was the nature of the search, methodical at times, chaotic at others, a flood at times, a trickle or a dead end at others. All your memories of your grandfather were of a cosmopolitan, successful, happy, and above all, “lucky” man, who got out of Europe in the nick of time, ending up in western Massachusetts with a successful medical practice. But you discovered, through your indefatigable sleut…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…to understand all the new people they were meeting, trading with, and sometimes enslaving. The first 11 chapters of Genesis offer a fairly comprehensive account of human diversification. The text shows how and where people originated (Eden), describes the lineages of early humans (all those begats), explains the origin of languages (Babel), and mentions the dispersal of people after a catastrophic event (The Flood). Most importantly, there’s Ham,…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mands articulated by Kılıçdaroğlu during the rally yesterday show that the search for justice is also a search for democracy. This, in turn, reflects the effort to bring together the masses which it is believed can never stand together. Yet democracy is an issue which cannot be left to the hands of the politicians. At this critical point in this country, all of us need to do our share for democracy and liberties. The best case in hand is perhaps L…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y whose existence seems like some kind of cultural milestone, the New York Times reported on California-born Pakistanti-American Ali Mushtaq competing in the International Mr. Leather competition. The Times’ Erik Piepenburg called Mushtaq’s presence “a big leap out of the pitch-black closet for Muslim men who are not only gay but also into leather fetish.” Issa Arden, a member of the social media team for I.M.L., said that having Mr. Mushtaq compe…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…articularly tough this year because of the “tickepocalypse”: for the first time ever, the event sold out. Scalpers hawked tickets for hundreds of dollars over their purchase price and artists who had been working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glan…

Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…d water.) The search for life on other planets has been ongoing for a long time, starting with the founding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in 1959. Today, SETI is funded by private money and NASA funds an extensive Astrobiology research program. In its 2008 Roadmap, this program states the following as its first goal. Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the universe. Determine the p…

With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…rals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record (2010), a New York Times bestseller featuring the testimonies of military personnel who report aggressive engagements with UAPs. The Foreword, written by former White House Chief of Staff and Presidential Counselor John Podesta, forms, perhaps unwittingly, a specific framework for interpreting witness testimonies. He writes: “I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that governme…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…“doing it right.” It’s clear in the song that Pigpen’s search for a viable number is, at best, a futile proposition. Still he dials the telephone operator to try find that lost landline. Problem is, he’s not even sure which direction she went. “I think she’s somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge,” Pigpen begins, but then changes his mind. “She could be hangin’ round the steel mill, working in a house of blue lights, riding a getaway bus out…