1. Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai
(Religion/General)

...hilosophy journal Time and Mind. The religious ceremonies of the Israelites included the use of psychotropic materials that can found in the Negev and Sinai, he says. "I have no direct proof o...

2. View from the lab: creationism
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ults, but inaccurately, with some gaining new errors that let them multiply faster. These prevailed. The raw materials of nucleic acids stuck to the mass of clay and they proliferated. Finally, those ...

3. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology
(Religion/General)

... technology. Nanotechnology is a branch of science and engineering devoted to the design and production of materials, structures, devices and circuits at the smallest achievable scale, typically in ...

4. Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells
(Science/General)

...uld be able to tell he has been through such a procedure," she said.   She added, the team used no materials from animals -- preventing the risk of transmitting viruses than can be hidden in...

5. Homeopathy gives you Aids
(Medicine/Homeopathy)

...ics is confirming resonance works on all levels of existence,” he says. The Society’s conference materials are gushing. “He [their lecturer] observed that in just a few days or weeks...

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

...God is by no means the only mechanism for explaining this apparently-unlikely state of affairs; a completely materialst scenario is provided by the well-known anthropic principle. Imagine that what we...

7. Former bishop against blasphemy laws
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... a letter in the Daily Telegraph today. Other signatories include Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Ricky Gervais, the comedian who created the BBC comedy The Office and Ri...