Today at HuffPost: Intelligent Design is dead
I’ve a new piece up today at the Huffington Post. It is the reworking of an essay I wrote a few years ago about Johannes Kepler and Intelligent Design. Here’s a teaser: Kepler reminds us that religious people do not need to shrink from science and its naturalistic methods, because they more than others have [...]
War is over: top ten R&S peacemakers of 2011
The billboard came before the song. This NYC photograph is from December 1969; “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” was released two years later. Image source: The Rock File I’ve a new article up at Religion Dispatches. Here’s the lede: This year has marked, I believe, the beginning of the end of the war between science [...]
Believing in Johnny Cash
I’ve a new piece up at Religion Dispatches. Here’s a taster: Several days ago I was in the car, listening to songs shuffled at random. Just as I pulled into the parking lot I heard the opening lines of “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer,” recorded at one of Cash’s famous 1968 Folsom Prison shows. [...]
What we have lost
Michael Bailey, Looking Back From Image via I Think I Believe: We are god-obsessed because we have lost God or we are running from God or we are hopelessly seeking Him, and maybe all of these at once. We are god-obsessed the way a child snatched from his mother will always have his heart and [...]
From the Dept of Too Funny to Not Share: Jon Stewart on atheists’ Ground Zero suit
It’s a few days old, but still plenty funny. We can’t believe that Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, said that atheists might want to install a symbol of an atom at Ground Zero “because we’re all made of atoms.” Susan Jacoby, an atheist of a less publicity-seeking kind, wonders if he’s being deliberately obtuse. [...]
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Farewell to an era
STS-135 lands during the predawn hour yesterday morning at Kennedy Space Center. Despite the problems with the shuttle program, its demise makes me a bit wistful. Image source: NASA Well, that’s it for the Space Shuttle. The first one launched in 1981, when I was 13. Now I’m 43, and no one can say where [...]
Is it showtime for the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
They have the deity. They have the art. Will the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster make it to prime time? Image source: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Unlike some Christians, I have always found great humor in Pastafarianism, the faux (or not) religion centered on the mythology of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM). [...]
