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His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

Your story asks, "Did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?" As an atheist turned agnostic turned theist turned Christian, I find myself embracing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 2004 | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ? Cheesy Imitations News that a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich purported to bear an image of the Virgin Mary (pictured) drew a bid of millions on eBay spawned a rash of copycat snacks. Available for cyber-bids: a replica Virgin Mary sandwich; a festive Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

Is Hamer really guilty of such simplification? Could claims for a so-called God gene be merely the thin end of a secular wedge, one that risks prying spirituality away from God altogether? Or, assuming the gene exists at all, could it somehow be embraced by both science and religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Is God in Our Genes? | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

The Catholics around me, afflicted by disease and sadness, have faces full of hope. While they clutch the wheelchairs of elderly, infirm parents in one hand and their rosaries in the other, they are thinking only of the good that religion might do. Only I am moved to cry?...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, | Title: Unblind to Faith | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

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