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... of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Sep 9 2009 - 9:23am - 0 attachments

Your Thoughts Needed on Blogs, Big Physics, and Breaking News

... of science in newspapers; the  interference of superstition and religion; the need for qualified writers which are hard to ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2009 - 8:43am - 0 attachments

On Miracles

... of the human mind is probably chiefly responsible for superstition, mysticism and eventually the roots of organized religion. If ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 2 2009 - 4:58pm - 0 attachments

"Framing Science" - A New Skin For The Old Ceremony?

... its limits, we find ourselves surrounded by pseudoscience, superstition and religion. Reason simply isn't welcome here, and even the ...

Article - Timothy Erickson - Apr 9 2007 - 7:10pm - 0 attachments

Explanation part one

... are effective and what parts are appendage tradition and superstition. When we extract the useful ingredients the ...

Blog Post - Delian Valeriani - Feb 8 2009 - 4:58pm - 0 attachments

Science, Religion And The Problem Of Evil

My colleague at the University of California-Irvine, Francisco Ayala, has been interviewed recently by the  New York Times  about his views on science and religion. Ayala is particularly suitable for the task, being a former Dominican priest and one o ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 14 2009 - 4:59pm - 0 attachments

Medieval Medicine - Possession, Ritual And Miracles But Not All Wrong

... with the sick, but today we tend regard most of them as superstition. “Our own reaction to disease and healing, such as for ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2007 - 9:35am - 0 attachments

Edward O. Wilson On Darwin 'The Revolutionary'

Edward O. Wilson is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and Harvard research professor emeritus and has pioneered seminal works in evolution of social behavior and organization; and a commitment to conservation that has shaped the face of science, philosoph ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2008 - 1:00am - 0 attachments

Stanley Fish, Wrong Again

I have taken issue before ( here  and  here ) with the writings of Stanley Fish in the New York Times, and I’m about to do it again. Fish is a professor of law at Florida State University, and often writes reasonably on a variety of topics in the NY ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 16 2008 - 11:29pm - 0 attachments