Category: Flashback

The mighty do not fear free speech as an abstract idea but as the beginning of the end of their privileges.

Jonathan Bennett on Huck, Himmler, and Jonathan Edwards, and the relationship between sympathy on the one hand and bad morality on the other.

Because the most energetic religions tend to be the ones most invested in keeping women subordinate, women in particular have nothing to gain from the burgeoning involvement of religion in the public sphere.

Talking to Bill Moyers around…1988?

Conflicts over who is authorized to produce and disseminate knowledge are conflicts between science and religion.

She promotes, as frequent guests, people who preach views that are medically worthless and in a few cases can even lead to death.

The strategy is to gain the support of a core group, which decides to abandon the practice then helps mobilize enough people to facilitate a tipping point.

Behe likens himself to Newton, Einstein, and Pasteur, but claims that a defensive band of evolutionists blocks his ascendancy to the pantheon. Such declarations of unrecognized genius are a diagnostic feature of crank science.

The statistical studies that supposedly demonstrate that religion has a positive influence in charitable giving do not hold up when examined carefully.

The aim is to warn against certain tendencies to pass off a belief as science.

Renouncing Islam is a choice offered to everyone and anyone has the right to do so.

CCR Legal Director explains, but his characterization of Awlaki is incomplete.

Set the cat among the pigeons.

A classic.

People buy high and sell low. They believe their horoscope. They supersize their fries and order diet Coke. They text while driving.

Dan Bye finds that McGrath frequently recycles his own writing.

Any organization that challenges superstition and religion in India must make an effort to break established patterns of gender inequality.

Ideas die in a culture when it becomes embarrassing to hold on to them.

Problems that arise when common sense conflicts with the science-based view that we inhabit a purely physical, mechanistic, deterministic universe.

“In expounding this thesis, Teilhard becomes more and more confused and excited and finally almost hysterical.” Mind 1961.