MRBlog | Sticking to Your Convictions: The Brain and Belief
By Sarah E. Rollens Most of us like to think that our worldviews result from our own careful navigation through life’s
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Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
Samuel Loncar on Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion, and Jerry Coyne’s Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.
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The Modern Mosaic of Science and Religion – by Donovan Schaefer
Donovan Schaefer on Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion Are science and religion doomed to clash? Are they irreconcilable — a
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First Impressions #90: Erik Hammerstrom on the Science of Chinese Buddhism
Chinese Buddhists saw modern science as an effective means for the investigation of knowledge but critiqued its underlying social ethic. Kristian Petersen talks
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First Impressions #89: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? The more fundamental divide is between how media elites and ordinary Americans
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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner
Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,”
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Belief Is Not Dead: Science, Theology, and Culture in Graham Ward’s Unbelievable – By Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane on Graham Ward’s Unbelievable The topic of belief can seem an awkward guest in contemporary discussions of epistemology. Tacitly or openly
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Religion Evolves – By Patrick Arnold
Patrick Arnold on J.L. Schellenberg’s Evolutionary Religion One of the most radical implications of the evolution of life on earth comes with the
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The Paradox of wu-wei – By Andrew B. Irvine
Andrew B. Irvine on Edward Slingerland’s Trying not to Try Almost all the arts of life are enhanced when performed with unselfconscious spontaneity
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