Easter in the Mountains: Christianity vs. The Call of the Wild
Can a This-Worldly and an Other-Worldly faith be friends?
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Freeman Dyson, American Heretic
When science moves from observation and description to assigning value, it veers into the sacred.
Read MoreDouble Helix: Stress, Religion and Your “Real” Age
Can religion help you stay young? Can staying young win you the White House?
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Stem Cell Chronicles: Why Politics and Science Most Certainly Should Not Be Separated
While the politicization of science in the Bush era was damaging and dangerous Obama is wrong to suggest that the two can ever be fully separated—take the bail-out for instance…
Read MoreThe Culture War is (Not) Over
New atheist Daniel Dennet joined Charles Taylor and a host of others gathered at the New School Conference on the religious/secular divide, predicting a complex future for the culture wars.
Read MoreObama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Restrictions, Time to Step Up
While this shift represents a major step away from junk science, the refusal of many denominations to take a clear position will work in favor of conservatives as federal funding guidelines are set.
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Let Them Be
Prostitutes, mail-order brides, dancers and bar girls: the radical mission of Sister Sol.
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RDBook: Darwin and Slavery
Darwin’s abhorrence for slavery, and his determination to counter the wrongs being done in the name of science, was a spur to his research on evolution. He was committed to proving that humanity had a common ancestor.
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RD10Q: Believing in the Bible, Not God
In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.
Read MoreDarwin: A Muslim Perspective
The question of whether Muslims believe in evolution is a knotty one. Here’s some background.
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