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...Friday the 13th. Again. While some Harvard students may spend their day avoiding ladders, mirrors and stray black cats at all cost, the Harvard Secular Society (HSS) will hold an "hour-long superstition bash" in front of the Science Center...
With an audience composed of skeptics and avid fans of "The X-Files," the Harvard Secular Society's presentation "Skeptics vs. The X-Files: The Paranormal and the Media" drew mixed responses from a crowd of 50 last night in the Science Center...
...mission of the Harvard Secular Society, a group of atheists and agnostics, already closely matches that of the skeptics, however...
Derek C. Araujo '99, president of the Harvard Secular Society, explained, "like the skeptics, the Secular Society is interested in critical thinking. We regard uncritically accepted ideas of the paranormal to be similar to those of religion. We were interested in what Mr. Nisbet had to say about the potentially harmful effects...
...More remarkable than what he said is the fact that the pontiff chose to engage with the prevailing secular intellectual currents. "This pope cares about ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...