atheism

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The Ban on Rupert Sheldrake’s TED Talk

Scientist Rupert Sheldrake’s recent work lays bare many of the unexamined assumptions common in mainstream science. I was very pleased to find that the first online comment on “A Question of Faith,” my interview with Sheldrake…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

More Fun with the Pew Report

More fun religious factoids from the new Pew Report via Beliefnet: 21% of atheists believe in God (What was th exact phrasing of this question?) and 74% of Americans believe in heaven while only 59% believe…

By Tricycle

David Brooks on “neural Buddhism”

David Brooks discusses the “militant materialism of some modern scientists” then says: Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hard-core materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. It does not…

By Tricycle

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