The quote here from 20th Century physicist/mathematician Paul Dirac reminds us of the hundreds of attempts to reconcile faith and reason, religion and science, call it...
Neuroscientist/atheist/author Sam Harris says, and I paraphrase, that what perturbs him the most about religion is that one person suffering a delusion is thought to be...
I’m not sure I would say that this is the true horror of religion, but it’s certainly in the top five. If there is another public...
This from Norm Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C., conservative think tank. Good for a conservative to put science in...
Our local National Public Radio affiliate broadcasts a weekly radio program called “The Reluctant Therapist,” in which the host interviews experts on subjects related to mental...
Re; the meme here, a reader notes: Modern science is religion. If you know what the scientific method entails and how the method is used, you...
Even as a small boy, I was tough sell on religion, but the concept of a Devil whose work is to pull us away from Christ...
At left is what Bertrand Russell said perhaps a century ago. My take on this may be slightly different, in that I call religion our prescientific...
With all the media coverage of the vicious terrorist attack on Israel, it’s weird that no one seems to mention religion as the proximate cause of...