1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

...ion,  “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.”  In contrast to this, the views of two influential thinkers...

2. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...3, 1923) Reincarantion and evolution are the recurring “truths” throughout his work: a divine cosmic plan, beginning on the planets, the moon and Atlantis, and culminating in a mighty war ...

3. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
(Religion/General)

...ugh lies; it was a crushing impression," he later wrote. In his later years he referred to a "cosmic religious feeling" that permeated and sustained his scientific work. In 1954, a ye...

4. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...s too rich for many philosophers’ blood. Yet a diluted version of the idea — if not a list of cosmically inscribed Thou-Shalts, then at least a few If-Thens — is not crazy. Two featu...

5. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...n at a distance through thought alone — whether through the intervention of a deity or through some cosmic force — is real, can be manifested, and connects us to the cosmos and everything ...

6. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

... the realm of individual galaxies: clusters of galaxies, gravitational lenses, large-scale structure, the cosmic microwave background, and more, while MOND is completely silent on these issues (there ...