Aaron Saenz at Singularity Hub writes a thoughtful review of 100+: What would you do with another 75 years on this Earth? Not as a pain wracked wizened elder in a nursing home, but as a vibrant super-centenarian with the energy of a 30 year old? Sonia Arrison is here to tell you it’s not [...]

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In his Easter homily, Pope Benedict argues that attempting to prolong life is not a goal worthy of our efforts. Here’s how he put it: Modern medical science strives, if not exactly to exclude death, at least to eliminate as many as possible of its causes, to postpone it further and further, to prolong life [...]

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From Fox News: “Brain scans showed that participants fell back on higher thought patterns when reacting to religious statements, whether trying to figure out God’s thoughts and emotions or thinking about metaphorical meaning behind religious teachings. That suggests that religion is not a special case of a belief system, but evolved along with other belief [...]

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Here’s new polling data that shows that 15% of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990. America is still a relatively religious country, but the numbers are dropping. Interestingly, the Muslim proportion of the population grew, from 0.3 percent in 1990 to 0.6 percent [...]

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In an eloquent piece published in the WSJ, Tony Woodleif writes about how Richard Dawkins believes that fairy tales promote “anti-scientific” thinking among children. Dawkins has a point, but Woodleif’s point was just as strong, if not stronger. Such tales also teach children to believe in the impossible. If humans didn’t believe in the impossible, [...]

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This is an interesting column by David Brooks (NYT registration required). He argues that because of the current scientific revolution, a cultural effect will take place in religious circles, but not the one you expect. Everyone expects to see the God vs Atheism debate, but he says it will more likely be the God vs [...]

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