Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science
A visit with Barbara Forrest, philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana U. and co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse.
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A Religious History of American Neuroscience
On the “God-spot,” the psycho-phone, and mapping the mystical brain.
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Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory
New theories hold that aspects of human culture—religion, art, and economy—have an impact on our evolution as a species. And we’re changing fast.
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Evolution and Creation Fight to the Death: What Emerges from the Ashes
You have to look long and hard in the public-square discussion today to find bilateral calls for complementarity and partnership. Yet why should the relations between evolution and creation constitute a zero-sum game?
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You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness
Science tells us that our minds, our consciousness, our very selves, reside in our physical brains. But what if this model, relying as it does on a seventeenth century understanding of mind and matter, is outdated? Philosopher Alva Noë proposes a revolutionary alternative.
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Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield
From thermodynamic war, to cybernetic battle, to the emergence of the “chaoplexic,” a new book by Antoine Bousquet explains what war means in the modern era.
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Are God and Aliens Compatible?
A recent statement by a Vatican astronomer opens a theological can of worms…
Read MoreBen Stein’s Intelligent Design Film Fans Flames
Get ready for more of the hoary old “raving evangelicals” vs. “atheist scientists” cant. Note to scientists: This is no time for smugness.
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Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science
A scientist/professor in an experimental program teaching science to the Dalai Lama’s monks explains why this project is so much bigger than this one program, bigger even than working to reconcile religion and science. Think: globalization.
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Would Manny Ramirez’s Clone Use Steroids?
Unless you are a geneticist the answer may surprise you. The ethical problems with cloning turn out to be the result of some confusion about what cloning is, and isn’t.
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