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Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?
The children in the first group - the completely unsupervised kids - by far cheated the most. But what was surprising was the behavior of the second group.
The children who were under the impression that Princess Alice was in the room with them were just as likely to refrain from cheating as those ( Read more... ) -
Sunday morning sermon.
As an evangelical apostate, I should be cheering for Franky Shaeffer, but his latest article really rubs me the wrong way. The whole thing amounts to...
"How dare those backwards hicks call me elitist!"
Over and over he speaks of religious conservatives as being not part of America. Even anti-American.
The kindly liberal reasonable bubble of an ( Read more... ) -
I didn't know I was helping reduce the costs of health care...
...By promoting atheism.
Religious Belief Linked to Desire for Aggressive Treatment in Terminal Patients
Terminally ill cancer patients who drew comfort from religion were far more likely to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care in the week before they died than were less religious patients and far more likely to want doctors to do everything ( Read more... ) -
Big surprise.
Atheists are mentally healthier.
Of course, as I responded there, I think it's an effect rather than a cause.
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Progress!
More Americans say they have no religion
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no ( Read more... ) -
Cartisian Dualism vs. Cardiac Dualism.
It looks like the creationists and mystics are taking a new-or rather, old-approach in their attack on science.
Creationists declare war over the brain
"YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, "how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely ( Read more... ) -
"Heaven, heaven is a place where nothing, nothing ever happens."
Why did Heaven sound like Hell?
Eternal penance. You can never stop-like North Korea. In North Korea, they have compulsory worship from dawn until dusk. That's all there is, everything is praise. So now I know what it would be like. I know it must be the most proximate place we have on Earth to being in Hell. But at least you can die and get out ( Read more... ) -
666.
Wow, this is a a blast from the past. Degarmo & Key. A little-known Christian rock band. Video's actually not too horrible, given the inevitable level of '80s cheese.
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