Monthly Archives: July 2009

Robert Wright takes on the “New Atheists”

Author Robert Wright (The Evolution of God) posted an essay over the weekend at Huffington Post that’s causing quite a stir: “Why the ‘New Atheists’ are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy.”  This is something Wright touched on in the latter half … Continue reading

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“The Family” creeps me out

I’m not sure I’d ever heard of “The Family” until a couple of days ago when I saw something about it on the Rachel Maddow Show. Apparently the Family is a creepy fundamentalist Christian organization with aspirations to power that … Continue reading

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What does Francis Collins mean for the NIH?

You may have heard the news that the president has named Francis “Three Waterfalls” Collins to head the National Institutes of Health.  By all accounts Collins is a competent bureaucrat and respectable as a researcher (he was one of the … Continue reading

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Mr. Deity and the Magic

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Mass. sues US over gay marriage

This is an interesting development.  Massachusetts (one of the few states thus far to legalize same-sex marriage) has sued the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act, in which Congress defines marriage as only between a man and a … Continue reading

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Harry Potter is an atheist?

Well, now.  Not only is Harry Potter a wizard and the bane of self-appointed morality police who storm their local PTAs and school boards, he’s an atheist to boot.  Daniel Radcliffe, who has starred in the blockbuster Harry Potter movies, … Continue reading

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Podcast #58 – Robert Wright

We interview Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God and one of the founders of the pundit-driven website bloggingheads.tv.  In The Evolution of God, Wright lays out a convincing case that the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are … Continue reading

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The Evolution of God

Review by John C. Snider Did God make man in His image, or was it the other way around?  Despite millennia of religious tradition, most scholars are convinced it was the latter–but exactly how and why man’s conception of God … Continue reading

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Snowflakes in July

Well, it’s July 1st, and that means that a whole passel of new laws go into effect here in Georgia, including one that will allow frozen embryos stored in fertility clinics to be adopted.  Since embryos are nothing less than … Continue reading

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