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...when we perceive it. I don't believe in the Big Bang any more than I buy the parting of the Red Sea. The supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that might never be answered. Richard Thomas Rowlett, Texas...
...statement comes from the recommendations made by the President’s appointed committee of leading faculty which is chaired by Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, a former Harvard professor who has been working towards its proposal since fall 2005. Also on the committee was Princeton religion professor Cornel R. West ’74, who taught at Harvard for eight years but left in 2002 following a spat with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers.The committee suggested a plan to offer an African American studies major within five years. For the past 37 years, Princeton has offered students...
...Pontiff Has a Point His take on Islam, however clumsy, raises tough truths about reason and religion...
...faith he preached," the Pope explained, does not "in any way express my personal thought." And he refers offended Muslims to a previous apology by the Vatican Secretary of State, who said that Benedict had meant only "to undertake... certain reflections on the theme of the relationships between religion and violence in general...
...Forced Argument on Forced Conversions Viewpoint: Kidnapped journalists converting at gunpoint. The Pope quoting a 14th century Byzantine emperor. The sudden focus on forced conversions to Islam reflects a fundamental misreading of that religion's history