Posted in Natural Sciences, Religion on Mar 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I came across this BBC article today:
“Dividing Science by God”
….relating to “The Science of Believing” New York Times article from recently. It asks some good questions, although I think the NYT article still tops it….
Posted in Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, Religion on Mar 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
Darwin’s God
Posted in Emotion, Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, Religion on Dec 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
I am on a roll… posting, just in case you are planning to stay up late tomorrow night and get bored at some point.
Anyhow: An NYT article on how religious belief and piety promote self-control.
Posted in Emotion, Religion on Dec 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
If you have been reading the news, you might be aware of the recent ’shoe-throwing incident’. I don’t want to go into the politics of that, but we can learn something about cultural practices and beliefs from it. Slate nicely does us the favour of listing the significance of shoes and feet across a range [...]
Posted in Religion on Dec 8th, 2008 No Comments »
As reported elsewhere, this week’s cover article in Newsweek is on gay marriage. This issue is currently a hot topic in the US, due to the passing of Proposition 8 on November 4th. The link above challenges Newsweek’s main argument, which you can read about here. I haven’t yet read the Newsweek article, nor read any [...]
Posted in Emotion, Ethics, Religion, Science, Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2008 No Comments »
California’s Proposition 8
Posted in Human Sciences, Politics, Religion on Nov 26th, 2008 6 Comments »
Two academics, Richard N. Rosecrance and Ehud Eiran, make the interesting proposal that Israelis and Palestinians should become Europeans – that is, should join the European Union. The article does not say where the authors are from, though the first name seems to be Jewish, and the second either Jewish or Arabic (I tend towards [...]
Posted in Politics, Religion on Nov 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I know you are starting to get sick of me tonight, but you have my permission to ignore any of my posts that are not of your interest. I actually have several more intriguing articles, but I will resist – except that I couldn’t with this one asking “So When Will a Muslim Be President?”. [...]
Posted in Ethics, Language, Natural Sciences, Religion on Nov 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Intriguing, brain cell stimulating articles of the day:
“When the Deity Knows You’re Dead”: The question raised is, how do different religions define death? How do we know when someone is dead? (Opposite the usual “When does life begin question” – though it does relate back to the entry I posted on Organ Harvesting, except that [...]
Posted in Politics, Religion on Nov 7th, 2008 No Comments »
(Photo by Annie Tritt for the New York Times
Two articles, related to religion (but on rather distinct topics):
Among Young Muslims, Mixed Emotions about Obama
Does Religion Make You Nice? Does Atheism Make You Mean?
Posted in Natural Sciences, Religion on Oct 9th, 2008 No Comments »
In F-Block today I mentioned a recent controversy in England related to creationist and evolutionist views. If you are interested in reading about this issue, take a look here:
Call for creationism in science
‘Creationism’ biologist quits job
Posted in Emotion, Ethics, Religion on Oct 4th, 2008 No Comments »
MSNCB posted a very discussable article today about “parents…peeved about yoga”:
Yoga at School Causes Stress among Some
The article is quite interesting – but please don’t dismiss it as “nonsense” right away. Rather, try to consider why some people might find yoga inappropriate to be taught at school. What WoKs are relevant here? And which AoKs [...]
Posted in Math, Natural Sciences, Religion, Sense Perception, Technology on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Every day I peruse newspapers and magazines online, just to keep myself properly informed about happenings in the world. Frequently I encounter articles for ToK – and quite often these relate to the sciences. There are many, many absolutely intriguing articles on scientific progress out there and I would highly recommend you start reading some [...]
