You can now “attend” a “Free-for-All on Science and Religion”

Science Network, an educational organization based in California, recently sponsored a La Jolla, California conference entitled “Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival.”  According to this article, the conference rapidly escalated into an invigorating intellectual free-for-all.”  You can watch videos of the sessions here. The speakers were numerous well-credentialed scientists…

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Dawkins on religion:”the process of non-thinking called faith”

Here is a link to a 2006 documentary called "The Root of All Evil? - Part I," narrated by Richard Dawkins.  In this elegantly written and presented documentary, Dawkins does not mince words.   He explores the seductive beauty of religion, as well as the damage that religion, especially fundamentalist religion,…

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What It Reminds Me Of

Watching the furor generated over Erich's post about Bart Erhman's book has been awesome.  I mean that in the strict meaning of the word.  It is awe-illiciting.  After watching the average responses to our posts rise and fall around five to ten each, with a few fetching somewhere in the…

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Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy committed to science, reason, and secularism as critical building blocks of American Democracy.

In an article entitled, "Think Tank Will Promote Thinking," the Washington Post informed its readers about the new wing of the Center for Inquiry: The goals of the new group are to establish relationships with sympathetic legislators, provide experts to give testimony before Congress, speak publicly on issues when they…

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