I have already read about 15 of these short essays published by Edge. It's hard to stop, because the answers are especially thoughtful and well-articulated. Daniel Dennett's response is representative of the quality of these responses. Here is an excerpt from Dennett's response, entitled: "The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique…
“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms,” no. 25 (1825)
A friend of mine recently gave me a disturbing scenario: what if Iraq has descended into civil war because Bush and his neo-con puppetmasters want it that way? What if Bush's repeated failures to end the violence aren't failures at all, but rather the desired result? Consider: the continued violence…
Not after reading this article about pig-farming in Rolling Stone. This is the teaser at the top of the article: America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to…