Continuing last Monday’s Musing (http://inewp.com/?p=5268) here are six more areas in which our developing “hard” sciences replaced or marginalized religion in Western cultures (the first four have strong family resemblances): 7. Symbols and metaphors were replaced by scientific literalisms and facts. If scientists had nothing more exact than symbols and metaphors,...

The Huffington Post’s surprising posting on July 2nd of what all liberals probably regard as Creationist propaganda can at least open the door for an acknowledgement of how deep and serious this issue is for Creationists, and why their intuition – as often – is more deeply right than they may know.   As many biblical literalists maintain, evolution says there...