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December 2007

December 30, 2007
I recently finished Mark Lilla's intellectual history of the separation of politics and political theology...
December 30, 2007
After complaints from religious villagers for forty years, Reeves, Louisiana's telephone prefix has been changed...
December 29, 2007
I thought for a moment I was reading The Onion, but this story is from...
December 28, 2007
There is a slightly irritating genre of religious writing in which a faithful person takes...
December 28, 2007
Australia's Daily Telegraph ran a story "Christ-miss for atheist celebs" on Christmas eve which features...
December 26, 2007
The year-end issue of The Economist has three articles of interest regarding religion. One article,...
December 23, 2007
OK, so the Problem of Evil is one of the oldest and most prominent reasons...
December 20, 2007
I just read The Cube and the Cathedral, by conservative Catholic theologian George Weigel. Silly...
December 14, 2007
The paperback edition of Science and Nonbelief is out! I don't expect it will be...
December 12, 2007
I just read avery good article by Andrew F. March, "Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism,...
December 10, 2007
Looking at survey data sociologists present about religion and secularity, I find the gender differences...
December 09, 2007
I just got my copy of the greatly revised and updated edition of John Beversluis’s...
December 07, 2007
I've just received my author copies of the paperback edition of Science and Nonbelief. This...
December 03, 2007
I just finished reading through The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief,edited by Tom Flynn. OK, it's...

November 2007

November 29, 2007
The publisher of the Turkish translation of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion might run into...
November 26, 2007
One unfortunate consequence of being a physicist is that occasionally someone inclined toward New Age...
November 25, 2007
In a recent New York Times opinion piece, physicist and Templeton Laureate Paul Davies revisits...
November 13, 2007
Taner’s post on the argument that the “laws of logic” require a transcendent ground (i.e.,...
November 13, 2007
Some intelligent design proponents have begun to object to the way the relationship between biological...
November 10, 2007
November 09, 2007
Was Tony Flew’s “conversion” book ghost written by a religious apologist? It wouldn’t surprise me...
November 08, 2007
I'll be giving two talks on "Science and Religion in Islam" in the Los Angeles...
November 08, 2007
Anyone interested in a more complete picture on Antony Flew's recent book, which he didn't...
November 07, 2007
As far as I'm concerned, Katha Pollitt is the best columnist in the United States....
November 04, 2007
Philosopher Antony Flew has a new book out titled There Is A God: How the...
November 04, 2007
CNN reports that the Church of Scientology is partnering with Christian churches in low-income areas...
November 04, 2007
I'd normally ignore it as too crazy even for creationists, but I've encountered this argument...
November 02, 2007
Here's a snippet from the end of Paul Kurtz's lead editorial/article in the last Free...
November 01, 2007
My mind is on intelligent design today, probably because I've just started teaching about it...
November 01, 2007
A very common charge against creationism and intelligent design is that not only is this...
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