Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer
But what is the question?
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Where Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?
For the research subjects’ sacred values, the ones they wouldn’t give up on for any amount of money (they could ‘auction off their value’ for up to $100), what lit up in the brain were areas known to be involved in right-wrong decisions, not in cost-benefit/utilitarian parts of the brain. That is, we naturally go to right-wrong thinking in making sacred value decisions.
Read MoreID, Please Come Out
Another week, another piece of anti-science legislation.
Read MoreCreationists and Dawkins Agree: Science Rules Religion
New anti-evolution legislation reiterates this odd agreement.
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Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars
This year has marked, I believe, the beginning of the end of the war between science and religion. Creationism cannot last. The New Atheists are now old (or departed). And between these camps the middle ground continues to expand. Indeed, many folks have been hard at it, doing a new kind of peace work. Some have done it intentionally, some have not. Outliers, both atheist and religious hardliners, continue to wage battle but they look increasingly irrelevant.
Read MoreAtheist Scientists in Church
Or, homebrew scientism…
Read MoreEven Richard Dawkins is Right Sometimes
Time to bid the historical Adam & Eve a final farewell.
Read MoreGod Versus Mega-Aliens
A science writer and a science fiction writer walk into a bar and debate science and human origins.
Read MoreScience of Little Help with Personhood Issues
Science just doesn’t do purpose.
Read MoreOkay, So ‘Quantum Theology’ Might Need a Bit of Explanation
It’s all about destabilizing our certainties, whether theological or scientific.
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