Katie Couric, Reincarnated
As quack-ish doctors and bold religious repackaging goes, Couric’s reincarnation episode doesn’t seem so bad.
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Bill Nye Gets Religulous with Bill Maher
America’s science teacher throws religion under the bus.
Read MoreCreationists Portray New Science Standards As “Big Government”
There are only two significant problems with that charge.
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Do Intelligent People Need Religion?
A new analysis of decades of studies concludes that religious people tend to be less intelligent, while a new book by Eastern Orthodox intellectual David Bentley Hart suggests that “the absolutely convinced atheist” is not an uncompromising intellectual, but rather “someone who has failed to notice something very obvious.”
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Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy?
When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”
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Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster
With a PhD in philosophy of science from Cambridge, the author of the latest argument for intelligent design isn’t your typical creationist hack, but he is something of a huckster; the flaw in his argument is difficult to spot because it is so blatantly obvious.
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Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul
The neurophilosopher, whose latest book argues that the brain is all we are, discusses yoga, her awkward talk with the Dalai Lama, the soul and what makes her want to tell someone to just “bugger off!”
Read MoreNew Study Claims to ‘Explain’ Near-Death Religious Experiences
And more importantly: do rats have souls?
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It’s All In Your Head: Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve
In her latest book Patricia Churchland eschews the simplistic reductions of popular media in favor of nuanced and self-consciously incomplete explanations, but it does share one shortcoming that plagues her peers.
Read MorePat Robertson Flip-Flops On Climate Change Denial
“I understand the temperature on Mars is going up, and we don’t have any SUVs there.”
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