Category: Religion
Shroud of Turin continues to baffle researchers
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
That’s science working as it should. No fatuous claims are dredged up to explain it away. If we don’t know, we don’t know. Maybe some day we will know all. more
Religion: Your team’s inner coach?
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, News, Religion |
What you won’t ever see there is a thesis on how man evolved to be capable of a revelation of the divine. All the knives would be out against that one. more
He said it: Charles Murray on the fact that middle class people, including scientists, often go to church, …
| April 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Religion, Science |
” Of the academics and scientists in the GSS sample, only 16 percent said they had no religion. ” more
Dalai Lama wins latest Templeton Prize
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
The last Templeton winner was a guy fronting the multiverse, so … maybe they are back on their meds now? more
Science explains religion? Not. “True religion isn’t natural, sin is natural”
| March 18, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
But one can turn that around as well: true science isn’t natural, junk science is natural. more
ID friendly Oxford math prof on God and science, on BBC radio
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
Part of a Lenten series. more
From The Best Schools: Churches just want your money, that’s all! Or is it?
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Religion |
Strikingly, residents of nearby fashionable Belmont were more likely to go to church (than residents of working-class Fishtown). more
Best Schools: John Gray on the Cult of Unbelief
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Religion, Science |
“It is not even clear he is really a friend of traditional theistic religion. But he is even more opposed to the religious pretensions of science.” more
Gallup Poll of 676,000 shows the most religious Americans have highest well-being
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Medicine, News, Religion |
“The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.” more
From The Best Schools: US prez hopeful Rick Santorum’s religious language
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, language, Religion |
“Why, then, as an atheist, am I not offended?” more
Bill Dembski on young vs. old Earth creationists, and where he stands
| February 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
“There’s a mentality … in conservative Christian circles that one can never be quite conservative enough. This has really got me thinking about fundamentalism and the bane it is.” more
John Gray, in New Statesman: “Religion has caused a lot of harm but so has science”.
| February 21, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
“To insist that religion is peculiarly malignant is fanaticism, or mere stupidity.” more
Free Darwin praise books from the National Academy of Sciences
| February 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion |
This offer may be time limited. more
A well-read Catholic responds to claims that “The Pope believes in Darwin!”
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News, Religion |
“I recommend people read JPII’s statement in full. It is a nuanced careful statement that identifies key places where Darwinism cannot be compatible with the Church’s understanding of who we are as human beings.” more
What Catholics didn’t like about Darwin – and still don’t
| February 5, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Religion |
Darwinism is now a sea of nonsense and contradiction, and fighting the sea is not a day’s work. more
Study: Religion helps people gain self-control
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News, Religion |
“Until now, I believed religion was a matter of faith; people had little ‘practical’ use for religion,” more
Religious people only have self-esteem in religious societies?
| January 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Religion |
Most studies of religion have focused on harder measures like religion and health. Surviving a serious illness is hard to fake. more
Psychotherapist discovers gratitude – and God
| January 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Religion |
“I now think it makes a difference if you send your gratitude toward God, or if you simply send it out to the universe hoping it doesn’t get hijacked by a sunspot or asteroid.” more
Memo to BioLogos: Most Protestant pastors diss Darwin
| January 10, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion |
“From my view, I was surprised and intrigued that so many Protestant pastors hold a young earth view. ” – Stetzer more
Darwinism blesses a slovenly mass of sentimentality while denying objective right and wrong
| January 8, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Religion |
Get enough Darwinists together on the same illusion, and they are a mob in power to be reckoned with. more