This is true by definition. Religion is based on faith, not reason. If it were provable, it would be science. In most cases, I don’t have anything against this. People who believe they’re going to see their grandparents in heaven …
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Religion and Science
Good advice to religious leaders: Don’t promote the mutual exclusivity of faith and reason. Go back to the good old days where religion and science were compatible. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz were collectively known as the “rationalists.” Good times! Do …
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Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science
There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition. At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard …
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Religion and Science
One Jim Palmer wrote an essay on the meme here that begins: Theology isn’t the free search for truth, but rather a defense of an already held position. No Jewish rabbi will come to the conclusion that the Hopi are …
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An Exercise in Alternative Science
There seems to be some sort of detente between religion and science at this point in Western Civilization, largely brought on by the arrival of Pope Francis on the scene, with his high-impact humanism, one that borders on the secular.
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