I sat down today to write on this topic, then remembered that
I wrote about it nearly two [three!] years ago. Topics of religious tolerance have been very much on my mind recently. In part because of the uproar over Richard Dawkins, but probably more because
we’re having a baby. And people seemed to really [...] Read more »

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It’s Monday and everyone’s hung over from the long Thanksgiving weekend, so it seems suitable time to revisit “this clumsy illustration”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/11/22/science-religion/ on the relationship between science and religion. More after the jump: Read more »

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I don’t have much time this morning, but
jbruno wants to know what we get out of combining science and religion. I tend to think religion and science are complimentary, not competing, ways of viewing the world. Religion gives us an approximate framework responding to the world around us. Science gives us a detailed but [...] Read more »

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Just in time for halloween comes this “back-of-the-napkin math”:http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2006/10/so-what-about-chupacabra.html disguised as academic paper proving there are no vampires:
bq. Let us assume that a vampire need feed only once a month. This is certainly a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film. Now two things happen when a vampire feeds. The human population decreases by [...] Read more »

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Here’s something interesting: like leeches and maggots but far less icky, the medicinal use of honey is making a resurgence:
bq. Abandoned with the advent of antibiotics in the 1940s and subsequently disregarded as folk quackery, a growing set of clinical literature and dozens of glowing anecdotes now recommend it. Most tantalizingly, honey seems capable of [...] Read more »

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