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I’ve said quite a bit about my agnosticism in regard to religion or the supernatural. I’ve pointed out what I believe is irrefutable evidence that, throughout history, organized religion has been responsible for some of the largest offenses to humanity . Yet, on a personal level I have seen many examples where religion has helped people. [...] I had a conversation recently. The subject was the curious nature of what bothers people. It seems odd to me, particularly in regard to the public at large, the things that do and do not bother people. I read an article this morning, Stumbled to me by my wife’s long time friend Sarah. The article is [...] I was recently thinking about my days as a music student in Jackie McLean’s African-American Jazz Studies department at Hartt. I’m not sure why exactly. It might have something to do with recently reviewing my transcripts in the process of applying to graduate school (not for music). A great deal of the non-music education in [...] Believe it or not… Nearly 50% of American adults believe God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years… I guess I’m glad at least a third are at least trying to reconcile creationism with the science that has been staring us in the face since Origin of Species was first [...] This is Susie Neunmalklug – also known as Susie Smartypants. In German, her name means “Nine Times Clever”. Susie is the character in a children’s book on Evolution by Michael Schmidt-Salomon and Helge Nyncke. See the link for more information. Here, Susie gives us an explanation of her experience challenging her teacher Mr. Hemplemann’s explanation of [...] Kristin loaded the DVD, which arrived from Netflix after much anxious anticipation… An intelligent and satirical look at fundamentalist religion… A focus on the politics of religion… What could be better? Since this is MY blog – and I reserve the right to say whatever I want – I’ll tell you, briefly, what my own feelings [...] What would you do if you lived in a geographic area somewhere, and one day an influx of people from some particular ideological, religious, or political group began to move in? Maybe you don’t like them too much. Maybe they don’t like you too much. Maybe you’d fought for many hundreds of years – maybe [...] Religion is dangerous topic. For me, I like the book of Genesis and I like science. We are all comprised of the same atoms that existed at the beginning of time. We are made of stardust. In this sense quite literally we are a chip off the same block. Whatever was before the Big Bang, [...] Every morning I ride the subway to work. It is about a forty-five minute trip more or less—mostly a monotonous, and monochromatic blur as I endure the smells, the screeches and the gross violations of personal space we New Yorkers come to slough off as part of the cost of living in the Great City. At about [...] |
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