While I was in the shower and attempting to reconcile Christianity with theories of evolution and abiogenesis* (which is actually an incredibly easy procedure, especially when you consider that Catholicism suggests God can create a soul in anything he likes at the moment of conception so who's to say that dinosaurs didn't have souls, and Thomas ( Read more... )

Nice argument by David Sloan Wilson, an expert on the evolutionary-biological study of religion, on why Dawkins is wrong (about selfish genes, group selection, memes, and evolutionary explanations for religion - Dawkins overemphasises selfishness and denies the possibility of group selection). Dawkins has denied that religion has any advantage for ( Read more... )

( Karl Popper, and the Pope accused of coquettry )