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RELIGION
New Poll on Evolution Acceptance Finds Troubling Trend
The latest Pew poll finds that more conservatives than ever reject evolution.
Review: Getting the Reformation Wrong
This handy distillation addresses some of the common misreadings of the Reformation that so abundantly reside along the shoals of modern Protestantism.
What Would Convince You?
In this essay I present 20 conditions that would prompt me to surrender my atheism in favor of theism.
Review: The God Delusion
In the 2006 The God Delusion, Dawkins assumes a two-pronged approach: his thesis is that a supernatural God almost certainly does not exist and that society would be better off without the religions that have congealed around these ideas.
Review: God Behaving Badly
The Old Testament God has a bad reputation. What are we to make of a book that depicts God as an ally to slavery, genocide, misogyny, and prodigious violence? I explore a theologian’s answer to these questions in the 2011 book God Behaving Badly.
A Congressman Proposes National Darwin Day
An official resolution to commemorate the birth date of Charles Darwin has been proffered by Congressman Rush Holt in collaboration with the American Humanists Association.
Evolution, Theism and the Dissonance Which Lies Between
Christian fundamentalism notwithstanding, is a contemporary understanding of evolution at odds with the popular conceptions of God?
Hysteria and 7th Century Literature
The recently uploaded anti-Muslim video is a squalid piece of amateurish videowork to be sure, but the reactionary measures proliferated throughout the Muslim states have shown just how dangerous certain beliefs can be.
Review: The Doors of the Sea
D.B. Hart’s treatise is a rejoinder to a problem perhaps as ancient as humanity itself: the philosophical problem of evil.
Review: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Part textbook, part creationist’s worst nightmare, Prothero delivers an accessible resource for understanding both evolution and the ideology of its detractors.
Ten Common Misconceptions About the Bible
Irrespective of one’s views concerning divine origin or the cultural value we should assign these texts today, the Bible’s stamp on history is palpable and deserves to be engaged responsibly with deference to its ancient setting.
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