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• “Religion” in China

  

  It has been a few years since I proposed “The China Rule” which would require that any general theory or universal claim about religion be subjected to testing... Read more

  The 30 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Aboriginal Dandyism

  

  Traditional Australian Aborigine societies were, from a material and technological standpoint, relatively simple. This relative simplicity has blinded many to... Read more

  The 05 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Links Without Any Intended Unifying Theme

  

  Image sourceRichard Nixon in an undergrad paper at Whittier College in 1933:In making a short study of English philosophers during the past year I became an... Read more

  The 17 March 2014 by   Praymont
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• Repetition & Ritual

  

  Repeat after me or do as I do, again and again and again. This is mimesis and it depends on repetition. In Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the... Read more

  The 07 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Catholic Magic

  

  According to early evolutionary anthropologists, magical thinking is supposed to be the province of “primitive” or traditional societies. Read more

  The 11 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Challenging the Blind Watchmaker

  

  “The only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics…the blind unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the... Read more

  The 24 March 2014 by   Stuart_gray
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• Spirits of Orality

  

  As university students today well know, power-point obsessed lecturers have internalized the idea, drawn from evolutionary biology, that the primary mode of... Read more

  The 28 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Orthodoxy and Atheism

  

  Over at The Atlantic, Emma Green bemoans the “intellectual snobbery” of New Atheists. While evangelical atheists certainly have their issues, including... Read more

  The 14 March 2014 by   Cris
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• Evangelistic Apologetics – The Church Under Attack (Part 10)

  

  Here’s an understatement - “the Bible is a very interesting Book.”If you believe there is a God and that the Bible is God’s special Revelation to humanity (whic... Read more

  The 30 March 2014 by   Mmcgee
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• Invisibility: Spirits & Science

  

  Those familiar with Robin Horton’s thesis that traditional religious thought is closely related to scientific thought will want to read Philip Ball’s Nautilus... Read more

  The 19 March 2014 by   Cris
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