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Category: Physics
A big and important argument about religion and science has flared up again on Twittter. It occurs to me, though, that nobody has taken the obvious step of polling people about their actual beliefs, so let's see if we can't...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:04 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There's been a lot written in the last day or so about this Pew Foundation Survey on who knows what about religion. Like most such surveys these days, they have a really easy online quiz version that you can take...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:54 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I've never thought of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. I haven't had to, since I don't live in The City, so about all I remember about him is that his choice of party back when he was first running...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:23 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I've said before that I think Fred Clark of Slacktivist is the very best blogger writing about religion and politics in America today. It's not even close. His recent series on things the government ought to be doing to help...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There are lots of reasons why Josh Rosenau is one of the few writers blogging about science-and-religion issues that I still read. This morning's post on what you ought to do to determine effective approaches is an outstanding example: Rather...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 8:57 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Josh Rosenau makes an excellent and important point regarding prayer meetings and the Gulf oil spill: that the point is not so much that God will stop the oil gushing into the Gulf, but that religious groups are a key...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:54 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Sean Carroll is miffed about a science-and-religion panel at the World Science Festival: The panelists include two scientists who are Templeton Prize winners -- Francisco Ayala and Paul Davies -- as well as two scholars of religion -- Elaine Pagels...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:13 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Thinking from Kansas, Josh Rosenau notices a correlation in data from a Daily Kos poll question on the origin of the universe: Saints be praised, 62% of the public accepts the Big Bang and a 13.7 billion year old universe....
Posted by Chad Orzel at 10:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
The National Science Board made a deeply regrettable decision to omit questions on evolution and the Big Bang from the Science and Engineering Indicators report for 2010. As you might expect, this has stirred up some controversy. I wasn't surprised...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 11:38 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean's been taking a beating over his negative comments on an atheist anti-Christmas sign. There's no small irony in this, given that Sean is a vocal atheist. His sentiments, which basically boil down to "it's good...
Posted by Chad Orzel at 9:29 AM • 76 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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