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‘Magical Thinking?’ Tu Quoque, David Remnick

New Yorker editor David Remnick says Obama needs to make dealing with global warming his priority of the second term: But Obama must now defeat an especially virulent form of magical thinking, entrenc... read more

New Atheist Magical Thinking

What are your thoughts? I think that atheists like your friend really need to break free of fundamentalist magical thinking and learn to read books written by and for grownups. It’s curious to me that ... read more

Atheist Memes We Need To Throw In the Trash

Isn’t magical thinking adorable? The development of modern scientific inquiry took place in a certain historical and cultural context. I keep saying that it’s not like we discovered the scientific met... read more

Here’s what real science says about the role of CO2 as Earth’s preeminent climatic thermostat

Whenever I post something here at ImaGeo involving climate change, it’s a good bet that I’ll get a spectrum of critical responses in the comments section. These range from skepticism about the urgency ... read more

Water in California: Too Scarce, or Just Underpriced?

You may have heard—and if you don't live out here you may not have cared—that "California has just one year of water left." Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution blog has a good roundup on why people t... read more

Debunking 10 Popular Christian Principles for Reading the Bible

Paul is rejecting the imperfect physical body and sees it perfected in the spiritual equivalent. While this was popular Greek thinking at the time, it was eventually rejected by the Christian church. ... read more

Queen is a religious entity following its religion

Linda Burgess complains that, under the direction of the diocese, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a Catholic hospital, is now tightening its rules on tubal ligations, in accordance with Catholic t... read more

Stephen Hawking Settles the God Question Once and For All

Stephen Hawking has a new book coming out (The Grand Design, with Leonard Mlodinow). Among other things, he points out that modern physics has progressed to the point where we don’t need to invoke God ... read more

How to treat conservative delusion?

Perhaps the only difference is that this way of thinking is chosen, whereas full insanity appears to be more involuntary. Along with this pattern, is an aversion to comparing different abstract groupi... read more

The Atheism of the Gaps and Its Sacramentals

Atheists can do it too. Case in point, the Shroud of Turin. Only True Believers in the Atheism of the Gaps buy the claim that the image on the right above "reproduces" the image on the left. Anyone wi... read more

Bernie Sanders Links Political Rhetoric to Violence When ‘Right-Wing,’ Not When Perpetrated by His Own Volunteer

Nobody can honestly express surprise that such a tragedy finally occurred. […] Congresswoman Giffords publicly expressed concerns when Sarah Palin, on her website, placed her district in the cross-hai... read more