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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Belief and criminal offending
Here’s some data that at first glance supports the “religion as social prophylactic” argument. When asked to state their religion, 46.5% of the 20,000 or so mostly low-level offenders who cycle through the Grand Rapids county jail each year (which … Continue reading
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Evolution & morality
The American Scene points me to two Will Wilkinson posts where he attempts to move beyond vulgar evolutionary psychology in adducing proper morality. I learn toward the sentiment. The naturalistic fallacy is less fallacious when one conceptualizes human moral intuitions … Continue reading
Marriage-lite
I happen to think that gay marriage will be a very high-risk social experiment, with consequences that we can’t begin to foresee. But the compromises devised in the hope of placating the modern non-discrimination principle have huge unintended consequences as … Continue reading
The Origins of Morality?
While no-one who has read Demonic Males: Apes and The Origins of Human Violence can view chimpanzee society as a model of entirely good order, the research described by the Daily Telegraph below (which builds on earlier work showing pretty … Continue reading
Civility and order
Peggy Noonan argues that faith will hold the United States together during the recession: Tuesday I talked to people who support a Catholic college. I said a great stress is here and coming, and people are going to be reminded … Continue reading
New Mysterian Plants Marker
Goodness, Heather, you do stir ’em up, don’t you? Look at that comment thread! Perhaps it all hinges on belief in the Afterlife. If you can swallow that, the rest of the God business goes down pretty easily. Thinking about … Continue reading
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Theology and belatedness
Anyone who has not read evolutionary theorist Jerry Coyne’s essay on science and religion in the New Republic is missing a tour de force. Under review are two books attacking creationism and intelligent design. Their authors–a physicist at Eastern Nazarene … Continue reading
Please explain
Will Bill O’Reilly or anyone else who saw the hand of God in the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 this January please explain why God chose not to save Continental Connection Flight 3407, which plunged into a house … Continue reading
Giving science its due?
Nadya Suleman’s publicists refer to her “eight tiny miracle children,” which we should celebrate because they will be raised in a “Christian, caring environment.” I assume her PR team means a medical miracle. Taxpayers’ potential bill for the octoplets continues … Continue reading
Pythagoras Meets the Talmud
My 2003 review of Kevin MacDonald’s book The Culture of Critique is still generating a dribble of emails. I just got a rather good one from a Talmudic scholar. It touches on some of the things we talk about here. … Continue reading
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