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Science and Religion Aren’t Friends?

Jerry A. Coyne is not one to pull punches. A professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, Coyne is an ardent defender of evolution and an equally ardent opponent of any "friendship" between science and religion. ...

October 11, 2010

Four Views of God? Another Look at the Baylor Study

Does America worship four different gods? Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today gives considerable attention to a recent study undertaken by two sociologists at Baylor University. The professors, Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, report their findings in ...

October 8, 2010

The Briefing

What Americans believe about God... Hate speech faces a Supreme test... Abortion re-emerges on the campaign trail... Britain faces the facts... Jews debate same-sex marriage ...

October 8, 2010

Yahoo, Yoga, and Yours Truly

Well, you never know what a day holds. This morning, Yahoo put the Associated Press story about my article on yoga on its front page. The rest, as they say, is history. My mail servers are exhausted. Messages have been coming in at a rate of about a ...

October 7, 2010

The Briefing

A terrorist is sentenced... A surge in Brazil's evangelicals... The Democratic Party considers inhaling... and going green just might mean going loud ...

October 7, 2010

The Briefing

The Nobel Prize goes to In Vitro Fertilization... A Hate Speech in the Netherlands... Britain Cuts the Welfare State... How we remember our Misdeeds... Digital Readers Bend the Curve... And why Hand Writing is Still Important ...

October 6, 2010

The Briefing

A retied justice speech... Playboy goes after a female market... Religion in a public education... The end of the Post Office... But no end to procrastination ...

October 5, 2010

The Briefing

Las Vegas hits the Skids... A Medical Horror Story in Guatemala... Stem Cells are back in the News... Tallying the Rallies in Washington... And why Teenagers just won't Grow Up ...

October 4, 2010

Between the Boy and the Bridge — A Haunting Question

By all accounts Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old young man who was excited to be a freshman in college, gifted as a violinist, and looking forward to the future. All that changed last week when he walked out onto the massive George Washington Bridge ...

October 4, 2010

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