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Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars

By Paul Wallace

…-friendly space for his co-religionists. 9. Jon Huntsman, US Ambassador to China, former Governor of Utah, candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination for president, for decoupling conservative politics and creationism You know it’s bad when a candidate draws attention to himself for openly trusting scientists to do science. But that’s the kind of year the GOP’s having. This year’s field of Republican presidential candidates has distinguished its…

2011’s Best Books—
Or Just a Great Reading List

By Haroon Moghul

…rison industry that sees America incarcerate more people, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of its population, than almost any other country in the world, including China. Chew on that for a few minutes. But for all his willingness to think outside the box, I found a truly disheartening passage in his conclusion. After spending pages describing the cruelty of our justice system, he makes the offhand point that at least what he is sugges…

Creationists and Dawkins Agree: Science Rules Religion

By Paul Wallace

…minal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don’t respect human rights. As a general court we should be concerned with criminal ideas like this and how we are teaching it… Columbine, remember that? They were believers in evolution. That’s evidence right there. Zimmerman does an admirable job pointing out the problems with Bergevin’s bizarre proposal, so I’ll merely suggest, as I noted above, that th…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…th stories claim that Hvistendahl’s extensive research on sex selection in China, India, and Korea (countries where sex-selective abortion is an actual problem) supports a ban on abortion in America. I contacted Hvistendahl about her work. She seems frustrated with the way sex-selection abortion is being leveraged in America for political gain. She told me via email, “It’s a shame that anti-abortion activists in the U.S. are coming at this with th…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…d this numeric tone scale, and I studied that. Lord knows where he got the numbers from, but 1.0 on the tone scale is fear, 1.1 is covert hostility, which is the tone level of all Suppressive Persons. 1.5 is anger. He said all you have to do to bring someone “uptone”—or put them in a better mood—was to speak half a tone to a full tone above the other person. Any higher, they won’t listen to you. Any lower, they’ll be really bummed out. And I thoug…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…on radically different from what passes for a family today. From Israel to China, generations of our ancestors memorized the names of their fathers’ fathers, chanted them, worked them into poems. Genealogies are a window into the alien minds of our forebears. But we cannot use them to get rich or thin. Wilkinson’s verdict: “boring!” Or consider the words of another megapastor, Joel Osteen, in his bestselling Your Best Life Now: “If you are struggl…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…e-ground, was a full-scale replica of the Buddhist Potala Temple in Jehol, China. Here, a religion was presented that was too different from the ones that were gracefully consumed in the “universal” Temple of Religion. Less popular than the main attraction, the mock-temple featured a show with nude female models in order to draw more visitors. *** Religious images were also gathered the 1867 International Exposition in Paris. The program book, whi…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…e approximately 100 million Christians just beginning to worship freely in China. Peterson remarks that understanding everything from “the nuances of Islam’s views on women, the role of Christian doctrines in colonialism, and how the Reformation continues to influence trade relations” is integral to developing new approaches in areas like international development, conflict resolution, and economic growth. And for those who might argue that a surv…

Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…on the length between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger. Ancient China, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and other cultures independently made the forearm a standard of measure. And why not? It’s convenient and ubiquitous. When you lift a hammer, it’s already sitting at the end of a cubit. We chose this humble unit for two reasons. First, the cubit is an intersection; it’s where the human body meets the material world. In the Bible, it’s…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntrast, Canada’s consul general in Hong King Jeff Nankivell told the South China Morning Post that if Hong Kong would recognize marriage for same-sex couples, “it would signal to the international community that the city welcomed a diverse group of people, enabling access to a larger pool of global talent.” Separately, Brian Leung Siu-fai, chief campaigner of local gay rights group Big Love Alliance, questioned why Hong Kong could not recognise sa…