Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?
In a recent article in the New Republic psychologist Paul Bloom charges that the evangelical scientist is using the same logic as those who push ID. Is he right?
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Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing
While Jewish foodies frequently use “traditional cultures” to critique everything from the cruelty and impact of modern agribusiness, to the lack of pleasure and meaning we derive from our food, they flout their own tradition when it comes to eating pig meat to the detriment of their greater goals.
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Climate Change is a Sin—Here’s How to Repent For It
The mistake isn’t that progressives don’t see climate change as a sin. We do, even if we don’t call it that. The mistake is that we respond to it the wrong way.
Read MoreIn Defense of Richard Dawkins, Awe-Full Scientist
Rather than having fights online my hope is that his new memoir will bring out more of the Dawkins that so many came to respect and admire before he was made most famous for his atheism.
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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet
There are other senses in which the Muslim world, by and large, has not ‘excelled,’ and for that perhaps we should be grateful, not caustic. For you cannot claim the planet and eat it too. Nothing the Muslim world has accomplished can possibly compare to the harm done by Western technologies and modes of consumption.
Read MoreThe Explanation for Everything
Ten questions for the author of a novel inspired by a landmark Intelligent Design case discusses what it’s like to create a Darwinian blowhard, and more.
Read MoreRichard Dawkins, New Agnostic
The typically strident atheist reveals a softer side.
Read MoreThe Battle To Define ‘Avatar Spirituality’
A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.
Read MoreStop Debunking Climate Change Deniers
If you don’t want a culture war, don’t act like a culture warrior.
Read MoreUsing Science to Diss Religion
Makes good headlines, but shouldn’t it be sound?
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