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What does religion tell us?

This is the second of three posts on ‘religion’. The first describes how seventeenth century thinkers developed ‘religion’ as a new concept: a self-contained feature of society, a private matter to do with beliefs about God and life after death … Continue reading

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Good religion, good science

The recent Hay Festival included a debate between three scientists about religion. Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, argued that science is under attack and needs as many allies as it can get. ‘If we give the impression that science is … Continue reading

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