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Jerry Coyne rocks :-)

In which [he] refuse an invitation to the World Science Festival on grounds of accommodationism.

The second consideration is that the festival is being supported by The Templeton Foundation. I absolutely believe you when you say that there are no strings attached, and that the Foundation is not exercising any editorial judgement. But this [...]

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JTF & B d’E

Si on cherchait des indices indirects de l’approche foireuse de la John Templeton Foundation, on peut regarder qui a obtenu leur grand prix cette année : Bernard d’Espagnat
Si on cherchait des indices indirects de l’approche foireuse de Bernard d’Espagnat, on peut regarder qui lui a attribué son grand prix cette année : la [...]

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Seeing and Believing

Seeing and Believing
The never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed to fail.
Jerry A. Coyne, The New Republic
Jerry Coyne signe un essai pas mal construit, une attaque à l’acide darwinien face aux essais (pitoyables IMO) pour réconcilier Science et Religions. Appuyé sur deux des productions de la John Templeton Foundation, [...]

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Atheism is science’s only contribution to the ideas of religion

I suspect that the title in Nature an editorial choice : Atheism could be science’s contribution to religion, based on the final phrase of Cobb’s and Coyne’s letter (below the fold and link):
In reality, the only contribution that science can make to the ideas of religion is atheism.
That’s quite different, I mean “religion” and “ideas [...]

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John Templeton Foundation censorship

update added at the end of this post

Honorable people doesn’t practice censorship and/or heavily truncate comments left on their website.
John Templeton Foundation’s people practice censorship and/or text truncation
John Templeton Foundation’s people aren’t honorable

A couple of days ago I posted a commentary to JTF’s website, at the “Does science make belief in God obsolete?” page. [...]

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Does science make belief in God obsolete?

There is a conversation at JTF’s website, one of those “Big Questions” that replaced the “Science & Religion” slogan : Does science make belief in God obsolete?
Well, that smells like “Science & Religion” after all, isn’t it? For the short version, click the image. For the long one, continue the reading here.

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