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The Emperor’s New Nakedness
Image from http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2011/01/on-copper-etfs-emperors-and-new-clothes.html Two decades ago, I wrote a book proposal for a volume to be titled The Atheist’s Bible. It was embraced...
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Made of Mud
I was much moved by today’s New York Times “quotation of the day,” from Halima Mohammedi, an Afghan teenager in love with another teenager, a relationship that set off a lethal riot in their village:...
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Finally a religion I can get behind, one that believes Sex is a holy, sacred and divine healing force at the core (of) our beings. Once we embrace this force instead of deny it, we become successful,...
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Occupying the Catholic Church
St Paul's offers sanctuary to the Occupy movement--but what if churches were the target? As the occupy movement flashed to 1,500 cities across the globe this weekend, police repression intensified. At...
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A Double Dose of Dysfunctionality
One perspective on "the creation" (from Wikipedia) I must confess that I don’t regularly read the excellent blog “why evolution is true” maintained by fellow evolutionist and atheist Jerry Coyne,...
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Darius’ Dictum and Religion’s Reign
Alice and the White Queen (who reputedly believed in six impossible things every day before breakfast). Illustration for the fifth chapter of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (1865) by John...
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Evo-Bio of Religion: the Viral Meme Hypothesis
Schematic of a typical bacteriophage virus injecting its genome into a bacterium; could religions be doing this to us? (Wikipedia) One hypothesis for the evolutionary basis of religion doesn’t rely on...
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Back to the Evo-Bio of Religion: the Overshoot Hypothesis (Part 1)
Reverse side of the New Hampshire quarter, featuring the Old Man of the Mountain. “We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds,” wrote David Hume in The Natural History of Religion. Memes...
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Evo-Bio of Religion: Overshoot Hypotheses, from HADD to ToM
Renowned "Face on Mars" photographed by an early Viking mission, and later shown to be an illusion caused by local geology and the sun's angle (Wikipedia) I’ve previously explained my contention that...
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