Consilience and Religious Belief

It's not so much that beliefs clash, but that the basis for believing clashes between those who embrace extradinary religious claims and those who don't. Over at Daylight Atheism, Ebonmuse illustrates this topic well, asking why the extraordinary events of the Bible, many of them allegedly witnessed by thousands, fell…

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Obama to Bush: You don’t have our support for a war against Iran

The following is an excerpt from a speech Barak Obama is scheduled to give today in Iowa: We hear eerie echoes of the run-up to the war in Iraq in the way that the President and Vice President talk about Iran. They conflate Iran and al Qaeda. They issue veiled…

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