MySpace Deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World. Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content. Early this month, MySpace again deleted the “Atheist and Agnostic Group” in response to complaints from religious bigots. read more | digg story
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through scientific investigation), I will argue that in practice they diverge” A rather prolix scientific paper about religion and science. read more | digg story
Physicists are confounded about how time actually fits into the universe. One theory is that “time may be an approximate concept that emerges at large scales—a bit like the concept of ‘surface of the water,’ which makes sense macroscopically but which loses a precise sense at the level of the atoms.” read more | digg [...]
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