Tag: Noma
My God Problem
by Natalie Angier May 3, 2011.
Print: Free Inquiry magazine
New York Times science writer Natalie Angier’s 2004 essay about scientists trying to accommodate religion.
Science and religion need a truce
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum August 24, 2009.
Print: Guardian.co.uk
Atheists are attacking the idea that science and faith can be compatible, but confrontation won’t spread the truth of evolution
A Grand Bargain Over Evolution
Robert Wright August 23, 2009.
Print: New York Times
An uninspired re-hashing of NOMA (Non-Overlapping Magisteria), that attempts to use Intelligent Design to prove the existence of God.
Can We Ever Be Right About Right And Wrong?
Sam Harris May 21, 2009.
Video: The Science Network
Sam Harris speaks about the rational basis for morality at the 2008 Beyond Belief conference at the Salk Institute. He argues that science should not cede the territory of morals and values to religion. He predicts that just as religion used to be the authority on medicine, science, and physics before science pushed it aside, religion’s monopoly on ethics will also get pushed aside as science makes progress on questions of morality. This lecture is intellectually very significant because it attacks the prevailing “non-overlapping magistera” split between science and religion.
