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What’s the Best Answer to Evangelical Extremism?

December 5th, 2011

How should Americans respond to evangelical extremism in the United States? Some liberal commentators think that evangelicals need to start thinking about their nation's interests. Continue Reading »

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Why Should Church and State Be Kept Separate?

November 16th, 2011

By now many of us are familiar with the right-wing argument that religion and government are inextricably intertwined, that the two have always mixed and can never be completely separated. Continue Reading »

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Weddings Go High-Tech–But Is It Enough?

October 16th, 2011

With the flurry of new gadgets flooding the market, it is only a matter of time before high technology completely transforms the way weddings are held. Continue Reading »

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Christian Professor: “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?”

October 15th, 2011

A speech titled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" addresses the conflict between Christian theology and the potential discovery of life on other planets. The speech asks, if Jesus exists, did he die for aliens? Continue Reading »

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The God Particle Revisited

October 4th, 2011

Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have made some discoveries that could rattle the world of physics as we know it. What is the God Particle? Continue Reading »

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Are Well-Educated People Really Less Religious?

August 15th, 2011

The divide between secular, well-educated people on one hand and religious, poorly-educated people on the other may not be as stark as some think, at least according to new data. Continue Reading »

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Hebrew Bible Written By Humans, Computer Scientists Say

July 13th, 2011

The accelerating pace of technological advancement is almost mind-blowing. Modern day computers able to beat human beings at chess and determine who probably wrote the Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible. Continue Reading »

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ULC Minister Authors Book on Life and Consciousness

July 12th, 2011

ULC minister Robert Donald Tonelli makes the claim that the universe itself is a process characterized by the evolution of consciousness in his book Science of Spirit. Continue Reading »

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Can The Internet Be Considered A Religion?

July 5th, 2011

Religions seem to spring forth from the vacuum of space itself—there are religions founded on conspiracy theories, alien abduction, redneck culture, and body modification. But can the Internet be considered a religion? Continue Reading »

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A Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

December 22nd, 2010

A group of doctors in Berlin have announced that they may have cured an HIV-infected man with leukemia by using stem-cell transplants. Is it possible we will soon have a stem-cell cure for AIDS? Continue Reading »

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