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This section features wide-ranging, thought-provoking articles in English on any subject under the sun. Its objective is to present new, mind-changing ideas as well as to show to serious students of English how the various tools of the language can be felicitously harnessed to report a momentous or life-changing finding or event, to espouse or oppose an idea, or to express a deeply felt view about the world around us.
The outstanding English-language expositions to be featured here will mostly be presented through links to the websites that carry them. To put a particular work in better context, links to critiques, biographical sketches, and various other material about the author and his or her works will usually be also provided.
I hope you’ll enjoy the new selections that will be presented here each week.Joe Carillo
The Perils of Strongly Polarizing Evolution and Religion
The two coauthors of a new book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, suggest in their article in the August 11, 2009 issue of the Los Angeles Times that it might be counterproductive for the so-called New Atheists to be attacking the view of some people that science and religious faith are actually compatible.
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, in their article entitled “Must science declare a holy war on religion?”, argue that while its valuable for evolution to be articulated by staunch advocates like Richard Dawkins, the standing of science may in fact be undermined by this unending polarization between evolution and religion. They think that that there might be wisdom in the initiative of some moderate organizations of making frequent alliances with religious believers who also support the teaching of evolution, in the hope of forging a broad coalition that could beat back the advances of religious fundamentalists who want to weaken textbooks or science standards.Read “Must science declare a holy war on religion?” in the Los Angeles Times now!
