Speaking of Inconvenient Truths . . .
It’s probably old news by now, but as I write this, the one-man assault on Discovery Channel’s Maryland headquarters that ended in the killing by police of hostage-taker James Lee is literally...
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Ground Zero Mosque In his eagerness to bash Islam, Christopher Hitchens (“The Mosque at Ground Zero,” FI, October/November 2010) misses the point. Meaningless ritual and incantations—if they are OK...
View ArticleGlenn Beck: Icon of Irrationality
Investigative journalist Alexander Zaitchik is the author of the new book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010). A freelance journalist living...
View ArticleSecular Humanism: Its Scope and Its Limits
Secular humanism is a comprehensive, nonreligious lifestance. It is comprehensive because it touches every aspect of life, including issues of value, meaning, and identity. Presumably, th e two...
View ArticleWhy I Am Not a Luddite
It’s a Tuesday afternoon, and my eleventh-grade students are booting up the computers in my school’s computer lab to begin research for a recently assigned paper. They chat with one another casually...
View ArticleThe Unmaking of Wisdom
How We Compromised Reason’s Capacity to Transform the Human Condition, Part I: How Rationalism Lost Its WayAndy Norman One hundred generation s ago, a curious character from Athens, Greece, staked...
View ArticleScientists and Religious Faith
My focus in this article is not on science and religion in the abstract but on scientists and their particular religious views. In secular circles, mention of sc ientists and religious faith typically...
View ArticleStrong Believers Beware
Si comprehendis, non est Deus. (If you can understand it, it is not God.) —St. Augustine It is easy these days to feel marginalized if you do not believe in an Abrahamic God. When among such...
View ArticleCan the Brain Decide Whether God Exists?
Science studies nature, and our brains are part of nature. Brains naturally produce beliefs—lots of them. Some of those beliefs are about nature, and others are about God. God is unnatural, yet...
View ArticleIntroduction
It was a great love-hate story, a truly grand narrative. Science and Religion, ever entangled yet estranged, always going in opposite directions yet returning to collide again and again. Somehow they...
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