World religions - numbers over time.... permlink
Category: Religion
Well, it turns out that there isn't a handy-dandy reference for the numbers for various religions in the past. Mark Kirkorian over at The Corner linked to my earlier post where I expressed skepticism about the contention by the Vatican...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:33 PM • 5 Comments •
The accommodation of religion permlink
Category: Religion
The Islamic Republic of Harvard?: But the decision put Harvard in the awkward position of having to arbitrate what constitutes legitimate religious practice. Marine claims there was a "moral and ethical responsibility" for the administration to act on this request,...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:04 AM • 6 Comments •
Why genome wide scans aren't all that permlink
Category: Genetics
Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has the details. Some of the stuff coming out of genomics reminds me a lot of what you see with social science; lots of sexy studies which turn out not to be as significant upon...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:56 PM • 2 Comments •
More Muslims than Catholics...again permlink
Category: Religion
Update: Follow up post with some numbers and logic laid out. Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican: Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:22 PM • 17 Comments •
Impersonating Dan Dennett on religion permlink
Category: Culture
At my other weblog a long post on religion: On the most recent bloggingheads.tv you can watch Paul Bloom explaining why he thinks the propensity for theism is an innate bias of our species. Several years back Bloom wrote a...
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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence permlink
Category: Evolution
I have a review copy of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; but I'm not planning on reading it at this point. See John Hawks for why. Sometimes interdisciplinary work sheds new light on old questions because...
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Category: Blog
Just an FYI, but Kat photos will be delayed by a day or so this week. But if you are interested in katage, check out this week's South Park....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:53 PM • 2 Comments •
Greg Laden has Gene Genie #24 up. I'll be hosting #30 at the end of April.......
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Geert Wilders & defaming Islam permlink
Category: Religion
Michael C. Moynihan has a article up at Reason, In Defense of Geert Wilders: In response to the controversy surrounding Fitna, Wilders' website was knocked offline by his American host, Network Solutions; he has been repeatedly denounced by the government...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:41 PM • 63 Comments •
