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Religion Dispatches
For the rest of us, the announcement that many humans possess Neanderthal DNA is fascinating news.
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Whatever the Texas governor might say, that oil rig accident was an all-too-human failure.
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Readers in the New York City area have an opportunity to attend a unique performance of evolution’s premiere hip hop act Baba Brinkman, who will be giving a special performance in the Village Thursday and Friday night.
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The judge issues a mixed bag of early rulings leaving most of the larger issues to a jury.
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When their son Zachary came home from science class with a cross burned on his forearm It was not the religion that bothered his parents, but the injury to their child. They sued, and brought science v. creationism back into the courts for another round.
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Reformed Theological Seminary forces out professor who suggested evolution is not incompatible with evangelicalism. A sign of fundamentalist retrenchment?
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Rapping rationalism.
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As the half-season closes on this sci-fi epic, we take inventory on where the show has gone, and gone wrong. Among the robots, avatars, and people who love them, there are a lot of big ideas, but not enough story.
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Religion Dispatches
The Enlightenment was not, as is often assumed, exclusively secular. In fact, religious Protestants, Jews and Catholics played a key role in imagining a tolerant, but believing, society.
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