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• Link An evolutionary biologist on religion: Spirit level

  WHEREVER their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere. And in the final lines of his densely but skilfully packed account of faith from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology,…

  March 7 2010, 4:52pm | Comments

• Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

  February 24 2010, 6:28am | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

  January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Link Divine Wilderness

  PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the…

  January 8 2010, 10:02am | Comments

• Link Theology for atheists

  Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself…

  January 8 2010, 3:29am | Comments

• Wikipedia Profanity The original meaning of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not belonging to the church, e.g. "The fort is the oldest…

  November 30 2009, 8:12am | Comments

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• Link Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful

  A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of…

  October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments

• Link Atheism: class is a distraction

  For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes…

  October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments

• Link Must science declare a holy war on religion?

  This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new…

  September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments

• Link How to fake science, history and religion

  One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of…

  August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments

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• Link Is Star Trek A Religion?

  Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the…

  July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments

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• Blog Post Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

  May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge

  Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions…

  April 20 2009, 3:11am | Comments

• Link If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube

  Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

  April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments

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  March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments

• Link Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever…

  Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision…

  March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments

• Writing for 3quarksdaily Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief

  As a British citizen I watched the inauguration speech of America's 44th President with a warm but distanced interest. But as someone who was…

  January 26 2009, 12:52am | Comments

• Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."…

  January 20 2009, 12:40pm | Comments

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