Pre-Columbian Native American Influx into Europe

Fascinating post by Razib over at Gene Expression about new evidence of a probable influx of native American genes into Europe – primarily in Iceland. The evidence indicates that this influx took place prior to 1700, probably centuries earlier. (i.e. pre-columbian) Razib speculates that the influx may have come from Viking incursions into America bringing [...]

Anselm’s Ontological Argument and the Problem of Evil

Bill Vallicella has up a great post from tying Anselm’s ontological argument (in its strongest form) to the problem of evil. I kind of enjoy some of the other ways to read Anselm though. My favorite is the reading that doesn’t take Anselm as considering the “greatest conceivable being” but “a greater than which can [...]

Liberty vs. Equality

This fall has been even more ridiculous than my already insanely busy summer. So I’ve not been able to write much. However Bill Vallicella has up two posts that caught my attention. They are on Liberty vs. Equality. (Part 1 and Part 2) As regular readers know I’ve not done much in philosophical ethics – [...]

Evolution and Global Warming

Razib over at Gene Expression put up a great post on the correlation between doubters of evolution and doubters or global warming. I’d wanted to post on it but I’ve been out of town on work for some time. Surprisingly (at least to me) there really isn’t much of a relation. Yes, as expected, evolution [...]

Nibley, Heidegger and the Goods of First and Second Intent

Enowning had up a link to an interesting interview with Ken Golberg who mentions a class on technology he teaches with Hubert Dreyfus. …technology is really a “mode of being,” a sort of attitude or culture we are immersed in. It’s not something we can consciously adopt. It’s all around us, we’re engulfed in it. [...]

Mormons and Education

So I should be doing a bunch of financials but instead I got interested in something Razib said about in his religious literacy post related to mine from yesterday. I’d speculated atheists, Jews and Mormons knew the most about religion because we had a higher than average education level. This had been frequently reported. (See [...]

Mormons and Atheists Most Knowledgeable About Religion

Interesting Pew survey out which has been receiving a lot of discussion. It’s Pew’s US Religious Knowledge Survey. Atheists, Mormons and Jews appear to be the most knowledgeable about religion. Of course it’s just from answering 32 religious questions (not all Christian) correctly. It’d be interesting to see the questions to try and figure out [...]

Evolution, Religion and Voting

Razib has an other great post at Gene Expression. This one is on voting and belief in Creationism. An important point frequently overlooked: I think mocking someone for this belief in a political context is somewhat strange: the survey literature is pretty robust that Americans are split down the middle on opinions about evolution. More [...]

Gen X More Loyal to Religion

Interesting story at Science Daily I had missed. Apparently Gen-X are more loyal to their religion than prior generations. This isn’t to deny the increasing rise of the non-religious or the like. It’s just that the authors think that the trend may be leveling off. Although Gen-Xers are relatively likely to be raised with no [...]

Leaving Your Religion Unhealthy

Interesting study discussed over at Science Daily on how “people who leave strict religious groups are more likely to say their health is worse than members who remain in the group.” It’s not clear to me what they mean by strict, but LDS is included in that group by the researchers.

Philosophy and Religion

Interesting discussion up at Prosblogion about philosophers and religion that arose from

Mormonism, Grace and Works

The other day there was a rather longish set of comments in response to a post about misunderstandings of grace in Mormonism. As I tried to make clear I’m anything but an expert in Protestantism. In the comments though one of the interlocutors, Darrell, seemed to attack the Mormon concept of grace precisely because it [...]

Beck, Mormonism and Evangelicalism

I don’t listen to Glen Beck. Talk radio isn’t my thing. (Too much inflammatory hyperbole and strawmen) However an Evangelical blog, Heart Issues, had up an interesting post suggesting Beck speaks more like an Evangelical than a Mormon. They link to what I’d consider an anti-Mormon site which had what seemed an odd article. The [...]

Mormon Divorce

Interesting page at Religious Tolerance someone posted at LDS-Herm. It’s about the Mormon divorce rate. I suspect most have heard the oft quoted 6% divorce rate for temple marriages among Mormons. The page notes a problem with this statistic. Most Mormons who have their marriage sealed in a temple ceremony and who subsequently divorce do [...]

Pluralism and Religious Epistemology

This post was prompted by a very interesting blog post over at the Huffington Post. (Not the normal place for this sort of discussion) They brought up the following oft noted issue in epistemology. You can have a collection of beliefs, each one you believe and yet also believe that at least some of the [...]

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