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Does religion produce an evolutionary advantage?
February 23rd, 2008 by Dale Fincher
Is it possible to study religious belief scientifically? It all depends on what you mean by it. The John Templeton Foundation will be spending $4 million to answer this question: Is there “evidence about whether belief in God confers an evolutionary advantage to humankind”? You’ll find this in a recent British article published by Ekklesia, [...]
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A New Approach to ID: Ben Stein’s "Expelled"
February 18th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
I feel like the last to hear about this… While it seems some of the Intelligent Design (ID) dialog has been kept out of public discourse through the courts, media, and the academic esbalishment, Ben Stein is taking the idea to the streets in his new documentary-movie, Expelled. His approach is ‘free speech.’ The theory [...]
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