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Paul Wallace

Paul Wallace is a freelance writer who is currently teaching physics at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. He recently received his MDiv with a concentration in historical theology from Emory University. Formerly a department chair and professor of physics and astronomy at Berry College in Rome, GA, Paul lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children. He blogs at psnt.net.

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Religion Dispatches
The Dalai Lama was just in Atlanta, visiting Emory University’s “Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.” There he spoke about the easy relationship between Buddhism and science. When you whittle it down to its essence, Buddhism is very simple and amenable to Enlightenment types.
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Religion Dispatches
Skepticism means having the courage to suspend one’s set of beliefs long enough to take another set of beliefs really seriously. That is, real skepticism means disbelieving. So be as skeptical as possible but as open as possible, and remember that if one refuses to investigate religion in this way, then that is known as contempt prior to investigation—and is the death of the life of the mind.
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Religion Dispatches
As you probably know, a couple of weeks ago the pope was in England smack-talking the atheists. What is generally less known is that, at the same moment that pope was having his say with the UK’s radical non-believers, Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno, also in England, was busy talking…
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