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Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…t Stephen Jay Gould famously called “non-overlapping magisteria”—come into contact. As useful as the data can often be, Ecklund’s interpretations and prescriptions often strain to “depoliticize” the sites of conflict, as if it’s even possible to depoliticize an issue like climate science in the United States. Her reasons are numerous, no doubt, but the factors that distort public discussion, money and power, are the kinds of forces that can warp r…

Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous

By Joseph Laycock

…s blacklisted him from many clubs and internet forums. Individuals who had contact with Paige Brewer through vampire Web sites offered information to police in Minnesota. Others contacted Sharkey’s current paramour and tried to persuade her to return to her family. Sharkey responded to this rejection by sending an email to prominent vampires with the subject line “You are ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS,” in which he warned that he has requested a meeting…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Religious Vote of the Future, with a Pickle

By Jeff Sharlet

…drawn to heal whatever ails you. This belief was borrowed from the Native Americans who preceded the Spanish priests who claimed to first make this discovery, and it’s maintained by a priest who trucks in 25 tons of garden-variety dirt a year to keep the sweet spot forever full of magic earth. Quick—who’s he voting for? The editor would have none of that. “I am looking,” he wrote, “for someone to say: this is the religious vote of the future.” (I…

When Atheists Cry “Heresy!”: Sam Harris Condemns Obama Pick for NIH

By Eric Reitan

…xperiences of an astonishing kind, experiences which seem to bring us into contact with something extraordinary, something wondrous beneath the empirical surface of things. Faith is about the decision to follow the hope gestured toward in religious experience, rather than dismissing such experience as delusional, as nothing more than neural misfirings in the brain. Living in such a hope is not incompatible with accepting the scientific facts as th…

Stop Debunking Climate Change Deniers

By Michael Schulson

…gs tend to form and reinforce beliefs in a communal way. And it’s personal contact that changes minds, not just good ideas. Diplomacy, in other words, might be a lot more effective than debunking. “Sometimes democracy is less a matter of thinking well,” Shulevitz writes, “than of choosing your friends wisely.” In that diplomatic spirit, there’s a whole movement of thinkers devoted to environmental theology, and other reconciliations between enviro…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Hontiveros introduced legislation aimed at curbing street harassment of women and LGBT people. Reports Gay Star News: The Bill would outlaw catcalling, wolf-whistling, cursing, leering, groping, persistent requests for name and contact details. It will also be illegal to use derogatory words about a person’s actual or perceived sex, gender expression, or sexual orientation and identity including sexist, homophobic and transphobic slurs in public…

Capricology: A Robot is Being Tortured

By Henry Jenkins

…torturer, her tormentor; yet in the process, she has been discovering her contact with the machine, relying on what the machine knows (such as the weight of the gun with a blank vs. with a bullet) to survive the way her father deploys what he knows about her. It feels like we are witnessing the personal trauma which might ultimately set the cylons against the humans: originating not in the inhumanity of the machine, as we were first presented wit…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…damentalism, their way of warfare follows another kind of science: that of American big business, keeping profits high and accountability low. In a conversation with Bousquet in London, architectural theorist Geoff Manaugh noted that, in the war on terrorism, “we find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between states of peace and war.” Manaugh spoke of the Conquistadors as a model we should expect to see again in the chaoplexic age: self-org…

Degrees of Separation

By Amina Wadud

…) the library and the office. This means that women need to have access or contact with the men’s side or the main section for many of the functional matters of just being in the mosque, let alone iftar. On the women’s side are classrooms — and these were overflowing with women and children when I came for iftar last Sunday. I can see a kitchen door to the outside when I enter the courtyard and parking lot. It is in between the women’s entrance an…

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

By Sarah Posner

…seph Smith,” although Peterson noted that he didn’t know how Smith came in contact with teachings about Islam or what he read about Islam. There are critics, said Peterson, who “think we’re too friendly with Muslims.” Such critics, particularly evangelicals, he said, think “we should be condemning Islam as the religion of the devil, and because we’re not, that goes to prove we’re not real Christians.” While the Church has, said Peterson, avoided t…