Tag Archives: religion and science

Tablet Magazine Response to Coronavirus (Make Brooklyn Great Again)

Posted on August 31, 2021 by zjb

It is not just the this or that one-off, but the gamut of Covod related content that suggests that Tablet Magazine is a MAGA Jewish outfit. I’m offering below titles, subtitles, and links to what I think is a representative … Continue reading →

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(Notre Dame) It’s Moral To Risk Human Life (Coronavirus & Religion)

Posted on May 26, 2020 by zjb

We are in our society regularly willing to take on ourselves or impose on others risks — even lethal risks — for the good of society. We send off young men and women to war to defend the security of … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus and the Ontological Garden Path in Religious Studies (Robert Orsi & Shaul Magid)

Posted on May 4, 2020 by zjb

What do we say about empirically false claims that religious faith and practice will protect people from all kinds of ills in this world? For instance the Christian woman who will go to Church, secure in being washed in the … Continue reading →

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Science and Judaism (Fertility) (Judith Shulevitz on Fresh Air with Terry Gross)

Posted on January 18, 2013 by zjb

(Kazmir Malevich, Black Square and Red Square 1915/Cindy Sherman, Untitled #183, 1988) So on the commute home from Syracuse I caught Judith Shulevitz, the science editor at the New Republic, talking about her latest article on what may be the bad … Continue reading →

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Musing (Genesis 1 Outer Space)

Posted on July 25, 2012 by zjb

I’m liking the mediations in the popular press between science, technology, and religion-spirituality. I found this at the Atlantic Magazine website a couple of weeks back. Its basic point is that “the scientific work of space exploration can’t escape religion.” … Continue reading →

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Ga-ga and Cynical? (The Ersatz Religion of Popular Science Writing — Higgs)

Posted on July 11, 2012 by zjb

About science I don’t know much at all, but I have a pretty good nose for smelling out the manure in a bad argument. I’m of three minds about this article from the NYT Science section:  It’s either ga-ga, cynical, … Continue reading →

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“Spirituality,” Consciousness-Science, & New Atheism (Sam Harris)

Posted on June 30, 2012 by zjb

  Sam Harris, one of the leading new atheists must have hit his head on something at his blog. Or to shift metaphor only slightly, Harris has gone out on a big limb here. His protestations notwithstanding, all this talk … Continue reading →

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Aesthetic Religion (Plato’s Cave before Plato’s Cave)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by zjb

A couple of weeks back there was an article in the NYT Science Times about the flute found at the Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, which they now date back 42,000 to 43,000 years, not 35,000. That’s really old. I … Continue reading →

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Science and Myth (Henri Atlan)

Posted on February 29, 2012 by zjb

(page from Stéphane Mallarmé, “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance”) (found at: http://kottke.org/10/08/active-passive-or-playing Just finished reading Henri Atlan’s The Sparks of Randomness, vol1, Spermatic Knowledge.  Among the author’s many titles and honors, an incomplete list of Atlan’s … Continue reading →

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Art Science Religion

Posted on February 3, 2012 by zjb

Two weeks ago, I streamed Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World. It follows our intrepid filmmaker on a walkabaout in Antarctica. No mere documentary, although, yes, it is sort of that, the movie is a complex reverie … Continue reading →

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