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| Science vs. Religion in the Washington Post My review of Elaine Howard Ecklund's Science vs. Religion is online and will be in the print edition of your Washington Post this Sunday. I'm unaccustomed to reviewing books in 300-400 words, so there's a bunch I'd have liked to say but couldn't, and I felt like I should wait to blog the book until the Post review was out.
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| Scientists' views on the relationship between science and religion Elaine Howard Ecklund has a new paper out, building on her survey of scientists' views on religion, research she reported in a book last year, and in a series of papers over the last few years. In this paper (press release for those of you who haven't got access to the journal), she looks specifically at how scientists perceive the relationship between science and religion.
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| Science and science policy in unexpected places I'm super-excited for the panel I'm organizing at this year's Netroots Nation conference. As you may know, Netroots Nation is an annual gathering of progressive bloggers, policy wonks, policymakers, activists, and groupies. It's an amazing event, featuring senior officials in the Democratic party, and fascinating discussions of the movement's future, not to mention serious partying.
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Science Denial and Science Policy brief recap  Of the assembled luminaries of the science/science policy world, guess who dropped the f-bomb?
And guess who was quoting RFK to do that, so it's totally cool?
Anyway, shorter panel: You don't have to be a scientist to defend science, and you do need to get involved. Schools matter, and politicians need to hear from you from the White House to the school house.
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| What is religion? PZ is unamused. I criticized his criticism of prayer vigils in the Gulf, and he responds:
It's strange how the people who most advocate sympathy and rapprochement with religion are blind to what religious people really think. Here's another case where Josh Rosenau complains that I misunderstand what the faithful were trying to do with their prayers for the Gulf?and then goes [..] |
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| Evolution and religion, yet again [Attention Conservation Notice: About 3,500 words on the factual, scientific, and philosophical problems of a paper which was surely not intended to be taken seriously as science or philosophy. Nick Matzke comes at it from a different angle at The Panda's Thumb, and more briefly.]
Evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne has an article coming out in the journal Evolution, in which h [..] |
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| Is the Disco. Inst. agreeing that ID is religion? Disco. vocalist Rob Crowther wonders What Part of "shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine" do his opponents not understand? Writing about SB 733, a creationist bill winging its way to Governor Bobby "The Exorcist II" Jindal, Crowther points out that:
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| Religion people oppose torture Tom Rees reports on a smart new study which tests the effect of religiosity on attitudes toward torture in the US. Using two different large surveys, the researchers first simply examined the correlation between religiosity and support for permitting torture. Realizing that conservative political ideology can also induce greater support for torture and can itself be driven by religiosity, the [..] |
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El Shaddai preview: Confusing my religion  El Shaddai is the most bizarre possible amalgam of seemingly random elements: simple, casual-friendly controls, exciting action, thoroughly abstract visuals, side-scrolling platforming ... oh, and Bible stories. And pants. I don't know what p [..] |
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Cursed Mountain First Look: Religion Is Scary [Impressions] ![Click here to read Plants Vs Zombies 2 Guaranteed To Ship In Next Decade, Not In 2010 - Plants Vs Zombies 2 Guaranteed To Ship In Next Decade, Not In 2010 [Sequels]](http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/04/160x120_pvz.jpg) Before my first look at Deep Silver Vienna's Cursed Mountain, I always thought of Buddhism as an optimistic celebrity religion where you didn't go to Hell. Now I think it's the second-scariest religion ever. That's not to say that developer Deep Silver has misrepresented Bud [..] |
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Rock Band Weekly: The Stooges, Bad Religion 
The only problem with The Stooges being added to Rock Band's DLC offerings next week is that it's going to make a real mess of our living room. We like to get into character, after all, and what good is an authentic Igg [..] |
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| Suicide bombing is not about religion, it's about foreign occupation The opening of Sam Harris's End of Faith, like several essays he wrote at HuffPo, focus on suicide bombing. He argues that suicide bombing is absurd, and only exists because of religion. A footnote to EoF acknowledges that suicide bombing was first deployed on a large scale by the Tamil Tigers, who were not fighting a religious war, but rather were part of an ethnic and nationalistic [..] |
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Science denial and science policy panel: Ask my panel your questions  At 3 o'clock today (Eastern), I'll be on a panel about ways that scientists and nonscientists alike can improve the use of science in policymaking, the use of policy to boost science, and ways to keep denialists from derailing that process.
We've got Susan Wood, a professor of public policy at George Washington University with a doctorate in biology. She made news in 2005 when she resi [..] |
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Jean Kazez, a philosopher at SMU, blogs a nice critique of the bone I picked with Jerry Coyne. She sees in my argument:
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