John Wilkins takes Larry Moran and PZ Myers to the woodshed. I wrote: “As an accommodationist, I think that whether or not science and religion should be treated as compatible, in fact they are, or as compatible as any potentially competing set of beliefs may be, such as the belief that science is the only… Continue reading

Nice interview with Teresa Nielsen Hayden and John Scalzi on managing an online community.

At last it’s official. I’ll be going to Cambridge University in the UK in June and July: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 25 – Ten prominent journalists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and China have been selected for the sixth annual Templeton–Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science & Religion.  Inaugurated in 2004, the fellowships include a… Continue reading

James Corum: One wonders how much longer the Obama Administration can get by without experienced diplomats. Despite the acclaim that America’s mainstream media has heaped on Hillary Clinton over the years, her foreign policy background and experience before becoming Secretary of State was to accompany her husband on foreign trips and preside over “first wives”… Continue reading

The temple begat the city. Göbekli Tepe—the name in Turkish for “potbelly hill”—lays art and religion squarely at the start of that journey. After a dozen years of patient work, Schmidt has uncovered what he thinks is definitive proof that a huge ceremonial site flourished here, a “Rome of the Ice Age,” as he puts… Continue reading