Global’s 16X9 will be airing an episode about the Lev Tahor sect that I posted about earlier. There is more information at the link to under the veil of Lev Tahor, Jewish sect accused of abuse and the episode will air Saturday at 7pm. I’ve had people ask, how do you deal with an outrageous group like this… Read more »
Physicist Sean Carroll will be debating William Lane Craig tonight at 8pm EST, 5pm PST. The event is live streamed via this link on the topic of God and cosmology. If you’ve followed atheist/theist debates, you’ll know that William Lane Craig is a very good debater but Sean Carroll is no slouch when it comes to explaining… Read more »
My first and second posts about the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion” discussed Haidt’s claims that morality is largely intuitive rather than rational and that moral intuition is based on six “foundations” that Haidt calls “Care/Harm”, “Fairness/Cheating”, “Loyalty/Betrayal”, “Authority/Subversion”, “Sanctity/Degradation” and “Liberty/Oppression”. I… Read more »
For those of you who have been following the current situation with science research programs in Canada being shut down and data being lost (see Fifth Estate Documentary, Silence of the Labs), you may be interested in the live streamed March 5th public lecture at Dalhousie University with Dr. Scott Findlay. From the event’s abstract: Scientists… Read more »
The New York Times editorial “Los Angeles’s Costly Lesson for the Vatican” ends, The misconduct of numerous diocesan leaders wielding near total power in the abuse scandal must be confronted in Rome and remedied. Evading this will dim the great hopes for the church that Pope Francis has stirred. Obviously the writer is not talking… Read more »