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

...job. This applies as much to the start of the expansion as to any other event. If the explanation is not forthcoming at once, the scientist must suspend judgment: but if he is worth his salt he will a...

2. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ast and writing fellow at The Nation Institute, whose book, Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books), is forthcoming in Spring 2009. Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.   Reposted from : ...

3. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

...me amount of attention. And he's concerned only with the three big monotheisms here: Hinduism and so forth are presumably beneath comic attack, or perhaps they don't require sending up to an A...

4. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...Wolverine has come to life, as a frog. When the comic book warrior faces a fight, metallic blades spring forth from his hand. A new study concludes that certain African frogs are similarly equipped, h...

5. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

...s, the true importance of global warming, the effects of farming genetically modified food crops, and so forth. Even now, in the U.K., the relatively dangerous disease of measles is becoming endemic...

6. Prince Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'
(Religion/General)

... minorities and by my desire to include other faiths, such as Islam, in the celebrations surrounding the forthcoming Millennium. In an attempt to show how much we share in common and how much we can l...

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

...alluring reductionist schemes to explain the inner workings of the mind — schemes increasingly set forth in the ambitious wake of Descartes’ own famous attempt, some four centuries years a...

8. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ary time, more and more parts that were once merely beneficial become necessary. This idea was first set forth by H. J. Muller, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, in 1939, but it’s a familiar p...