Stephen Jay Gould

Analytic Thinking Erodes Religious Belief

Rob Brooks | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Religion, Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic, Rationality, Science, Evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Faith, Religion and Science, Religion News

Although there is considerable disagreement about whether education kills religious faith, people's chances of identifying as religious believers declines with scientific education and education in rational thinking.

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How Should We Talk About Science And Religion?

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Jennifer Wiseman, Non-Overlapping Magesteria, Stephen Jay Gould, Abaraham Joshia Heschel, Science and Religion, Religion and Science, Judaism, Religion Science Debate, Religion News

As someone who loves both religion and science, I often struggle with how they interact. Are they in opposition to each other? Do they need to be reconciled? What happens when new scientific knowledge challenges the tenets of my faith?

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WATCH: Are We Not Apes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Video, Bonobo, Chimpanzee, Human Sexuality, Talk Nerdy to Me, Frans De Waal, Make Love Not War, Great Apes, Stephen Jay Gould, Animal Sexuality, Education News

Although chimpanzees and bonobos are practically equivalent to humans in terms of our shared DNA compliment, they are not the same species by any stretch.

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Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice?

Matt J. Rossano | Posted 12.03.2011

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The more we understand evolution, the less it seems like either the bogeyman creationists fear or the universal God-dissolving acid some atheists crave.

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Life Without Religion

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Religion and Science, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, William Blake, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, World News

There is a great divide in this country where none should be. I'm talking about the perceived rift between science and religion. There's no real conflict, just one manufactured by manipulative ideologues.

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Evolution And Christianity: Did We Arrive By Chance?

Michael Ruse | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Darwinian Evolution, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Human Nature, Simon Conway Morris, Religion and Science, New Atheism, Christianity and Evolution, The Pope and Evolution, Dinosaurs, Religion News

It is important to see if any shade of modern thought about the evolution of humans suggests that our appearance was inevitable. And I think Christians have still got a problem here.

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Evolution And Catholic Theology

Michael Ruse | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Intelligent Design, Richard Dawkins, Human Evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Charles Darwin, Pope Benedict XVI, Science Religion, Catholic Church, Religion Science, Religion and Science, Religion News

As things stand at the moment, there is a flat-out contradiction between the claims of modern biological science and the theology of the Roman Catholic Church.

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A Kabbalistic View Of Evolution

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Karl Popper, Zohar, Melanie Phillips, Michio Kaku, Charles Darwin, David Stove, Evolution, Kabbalah, Stephen Jay Gould, Sarah Yehudit Schneider, Religion News

It is widely supposed that Charles Darwin's theory of the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection is as correct and certified as the laws of g...

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The Quest For Inclusion In The Science And Religion Debate

Michael Ruse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comparative Religion, New Atheists, Philip Kitcher, Religion and Science, Stephen Jay Gould, Science Religion Debate, New Atheism, Agnosticism, Religion News

We need all the friends we can get and it is stupid to alienate the liberal Christians who may disagree with us about the true status of their religion but who share our cultural and social values.

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Prediction: Things Will Unravel Faster Than You Think

Chris Martenson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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By my analysis, we are not yet on the final path to recovery, and there are one or more financial 'breaks' coming in the future. Underlying structura...

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Open Your God Account Now, and Get a Free Gift!

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Religion, Westboro Baptist Church, Megachurches, Christianity, Islamic Extremists, Mark Twain, Stephen Jay Gould, Religion News

It used to be that religions proselytized with promises about the hereafter. If there was a present-day benefit to be gained, it was generally something like not being tortured or put to death. But all that has changed.

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The Power of Books in Prison

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first time I read Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward I was in the hole for inciting a riot. At the time, I'd served only the first ten years of my life without the possibility of parole sentence.

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