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Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship, Part 1
[The 21 st ] century will be defined by a debate that will run through the remainder of its decades: religion versus science. Religion will lose. – John McLaughlin, TV talk show host Former priest John McLaughlin is hardly alone in his pessimism about religion’s future. A spate of bestsellers— The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ; The End of Faith by Sam Harris ; and God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by the late Christopher Hitchens—argues that religion, as we’ve known it, no longer serves the needs of people with a modern education and a global awareness. Books like these have spelled out religion’s shortcomings and I see no point in piling on.
¿Dios es real o sólo un amigo imaginario? Neurólogos daneses realizan controversial hallazgo Imagen: C Jill Reed (CC) Si perteneces al amplio grupo de personas que se definen cristianas, la ciencia tiene una buena y una mala noticia para ti. La buena, es que un equipo de neurólogos de la universidad Aarhus en Dinamarca, pudo demostrar empíricamente cómo el cerebro se “ilumina” al momento de rezar. Esto lo lograron midiendo la actividad cerebral de un grupo de cristianos, identificando 4 áreas comprometidas mientras se comunicaban con Dios.
¿Dios es real o sólo un amigo imaginario? Neurólogos daneses realizan controversial hallazgo
From Tribalism to World-Citizenship
Between the rockets from the Gaza strip and the endless debate about Iran, last week I participated at an event that showed where Israel could be heading—the first Israel Singularity Convention held at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil and the space entrepreneur Peter Diamandis founded the Singularity University five years ago at the NASA Base in the Silicon Valley. Its mission is "to assemble, educate and inspire a new generation of leaders who strive to understand and utilize exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity's grand challenges." Research and Development are speeding up at an exponential pace; yesteryear's science fiction becomes tomorrow's reality. As entrepreneur Yanki Margalit, who initiated the convention, said, the cost of mapping the genome was phenomenal in the 1990s—and now you can get your genome mapped for a few hundred dollars.
Sharia ( Arabic : شريعة šarīʿah , IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa] , " legislation "; sp. shariah , sharīʿah ; [ 1 ] also قانون إسلامي qānūn ʾIslāmī ) is the moral code and religious law of Islam .
Sharia
Depending on where you live, criticisms of religious beliefs could yield a range of consequences ranging from social scorn to outright execution. Are people living in the West free to criticize religion in general, and all religions with equal alacrity? Regrettably, the answer to both questions is a resounding no. Polite society dictates certain rules of conduct, one of which is to avoid criticizing someone's religious views in too "frontal" a manner.
Freedom = Criticism of ALL Religions Is a Fundamental Right
What Nonbelievers Believe
So strong is the concept of God-belief in our culture that the words "believer" and "nonbeliever" are understood as referring to only one thing: belief in a divinity. This can lead to some distorted thinking, such as the idea that "atheists don't believe in anything," a notion echoed even by high-profile politicians who should know better, such as Senator John Kerry . If this is conventional wisdom , it's little wonder that disbelief is often associated, incorrectly, with nihilism and moral breakdown.
The Myth of Militant Atheism
Nine bullets fired from close range ended the life of Salman Taseer last month, making the Pakistani governor the latest high-profile victim of religious violence.
