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Scandinavia’s Take on Religion

March 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Much has been made of a number of Scandinavian countries’ cultural and social state, as an example of the “least religious nations in the world”. Can a culture be stable, secure, safe… without a religion? Karl Marx suggested you need good socio-economics in a nation for it to be non-religious. Likewise, Christians suggest “people tend [...]

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Evolution… of Language, Culture, Technology, and Religion

June 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments

There are various uses of the word “evolution”. Some talk about “Stellar Evolution” when referring to the development of stars. (Carl Sagan does this.) Others complain the word is too widely used, and is losing its meaning, suggesting we should only use it to refer to biological evolution. (I’m under the impression that Stephen Jay [...]

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